Chapter 186

6/27/2008

Ch 186 Olmsted Roots                                    before potatoes it was Beantown                             

1630's camping trip to Boston

Going back before there were American States United or even States at all, the first Olmsteds came from England to Boston establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original 13 colonies. Yes, Grandma spent years tracing our ancestry back 10 generations before me to Richard Olmsted who landed at Charlestown Sep 16, 1632 aboard the Lyon. I've now done the same thing in a few mouse clicks, sorry Grandma.  Richard settled into Quincy (then called Mount Wollaston) before moving to Cambridge (then called New Town). Thereafter, moved to Hartford, CT and Norwalk, CT.

After much research and digging on the internet, I was able to come up with an actual pre-digital historic image of perhaps the earliest native American Olmsted ever on these colonial waterways. This, and the fact that my brother has "gone home to Boston" and re-established family roots there tells me it was all predestined.

Olmsted Genealogy sources and links: ... pilloried, whipped, branded, slit in the nostrils and deprived by successive mutilation of his ears... traveled more than a hundred miles through a hideous and trackless wilderness... no guide but their compass...over mountains through swamps... drove with them a hundred and sixty head of cattle...

a trip like the Mayflower voyage

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