Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

First Generation 189
In 1666, he was appointed to run line between Fairfield and Norwalk.
In 1667, he was sent to Rye to procure a minister, and hire him for ^"40
a year.
May 13, 1669, he was granted 60 acres of land, where he could find it.
1669 to 1675, Selectman in Norwalk.
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In 1670, he was appointed to survey lands, at the charge of Norwalk,
Stamford, Greenwich and Rye.
Nov. 26, 1673, he was appointed Muster Master for Fairfield County.
In 1675, at a meeting of the Council he was appointed one of two, to sign
bills for the payment of the soldiers. (King Philip's War.)
He was Commissioner for Norwalk, with magisterial powers, from 1668
to 1677.
His Military Services
He was a soldier in the Pequot War, May, 1637, and had a grant of land
for his services in the " Soldiers' Field."
Appointed Sergeant, May 21, 1653, to a company of 65 men, and allowed
to exercise the soldiers at Norwalk and to view the arms, and to make return
to the Court of the defects. He was also appointed Sergeant to a company of
65 men to be raised in the several towns of the Colony.
Lieut., May 19, 1659.
He was a soldier in King Philip's War, fiom June, 1675 to 1676.
Capt. in 1680, commissioned for the next 6 years.
In 1681, Capt. Richard Olmsted was appointed one of the Committee
to order and dispose of the affairs of the plantation
(now Bedford, in Westchester County, N. Y.).
upon the Hop Ground
From all this it appears, that in conjunctions of special difficulty and
danger, requiring great intrepidity, integrity and sound judgment, he had
the confidence of the Colony and his townsmen to a high degree.
Richard Olmsted was in 1659 one of a Committee of four, appointed by
the General Court, to lay out 80 acres on Golden Hill, in Bridgeport, Conn., as
a permanent dwelling place for the Indians. His wife was in Hartford in
July, 1672, being sick with fever and ague, as appears from a letter from
John Winthrop, Jr., to Waite Winthrop, Esq.
Richard Olmsted's Will^
To all Christian People to whome these p^'sents shall come greeting, etc.
I Richard Olmsted of the towne of Norwalk, in the County of Fairfield, in the
Colony of Connecticott, Aged seventy six yeers, or thereabout, being (by the
hand of God upon mee) at p''sent, infirme & weake of body, yet (through the
mercy of the most high) of perfect understanding & memory, doe make appoint
manifest & declare, this to bee my last Will and Testament.
Inprimis I doe comitt my soule into the hande of God, my Creator, that
hath made it & of my Deare Redeem"^, Jesus Christ that hath bought it, and
my body I bequeath unto the dust from whence it was, to bee decently interred
& buryed in hopes of a happy & glorious resurrection at the last day. And as
for that temporall estate which God hath pleased to endow mee withall, I
doe will & dispose as followeth, viz.
1- The original is preserved in the probate records of Fairfield, Conn.