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xii Olmsted Family Genealogy
To James Hampstead, my third son, land called Broomes Croft, in the
tenure of one Huckerbye and other landholders of the same maner.
To Nicholas my fourth son a free tenement called Beeves als
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Bells in
the ph of Braintre.
To John my fifth son, a messuage called Mair and a house in Halfieldwick
in Terling.
To my daughter Mabel, £40.
To my daughter Elizabeth, £40 when 21 or married.
[Signed] James Holmestede,
Witnesses: wife Jane extrix.
Thomas Hubbard Richard-Hyde.
Robert Turner.
Thomas Tannack.
Proved 8th January, 1594-5, *
Commissary of London 214, \Qth May, 1627
Will of Nicholas Holmsted of Much Parrendon (Parndon) Co: Essex.
To my son John 2 tenements in Braintre called Beers als Bells now in
occupation of John Corby and Burnham.
To Mary, my daughter, £60, when 18 or married.
To John my son, when 21, £40.
To John, my brother Richard's son, 20s.
To Elizabeth my eldest brother's dau., 20s.
To Nicholas, my brother James' son, 6s. 8d.
To my sister Mabell, 10s.
To my brother John, 10s.
My wife Rachel to keep and educate my brother Richard's son, John
Wife Rachel exor.
William Wood, the elder, of Rye Hill and my brother James to be over-
seers.
Witnesses
William Wood.
Thomasine Wall, et al.
Proved at Stortford, 7th March, 1627-8, Invent: £147: "01: "08.
The wife Rachel had had for first husband Thomas Graves, the younger,
of Stansted Abbott, County Herts. She claimed his share in the " Red Lion"
Inn and involved Nicholas Olmsted in a lawsuit (in 1610 or so) which was
decided in her favor. He prays in his will that his son John shall have
the Inn.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 2 Brundenell, ith August, 1634
Will of Thomas Slany of London, haberdasher.
Abstract
Estate to be divided into 3 parts according to the Custom of London.
One third to wife Elizabeth.
*The Rev. J. J. Manning, late Rector of Fairsted, thought that the farm called
Rank's Green, in that parish, was the one occupied by James Olmsted, the emigrant.
This was in 1894 held by Henry Homsted Speakman. Mr. Speakman did not know
how he came by his middle name, which is so like Olmsted.
The name of Olmsted under the form of Holmested is still known in Braintree,
County Essex.