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Descendants of Thomas Olney

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS¹ OLNEY¹ was born June 06, 1600 in St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England^1,², and died Aft. June 16, 1682 in Providence, RI ^3,⁴. He met MARIE ASHTON⁵ September 16, 1629 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England^5,⁶, daughter of JAMES ASHTON and ALICE. She was born Abt. August 25, 1605 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England ^7,^8,⁹, and died Bef. 1659 in Providence, RI ^10,¹¹.

Notes for THOMAS OLNEY:
One of the founders of Providence, RI.
First treasurer of the Colony.
Thomas Olney, born in. Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, which city formed a part of St. Alban Parish, the seat of one of the most ancient monasteries and long celebrated in English history as the center of spiritual influence. Of his early life we know nothing.
He received a "Permit to Emigrate to New England" April 2, 1635 and came to Salem, Massachusetts by the ship Planter. He was appointed surveyor in January 1636, and granted 40 acres of land at Jeffrey Creek, now known as Manchester, near Salem. He was made freeman the same year and early associated with Roger Williams. With a number of others, he was excluded from the colony. They formed a new settlement at the head of Naragansett Bay which they named Providence in grateful remembrance of their deliverance from their enemies. They thus became the "Original 13 Proprietors of
Providence" having purchased their rights from the Indians. In July 1639, he and his wife and their companions were excluded from the church at Salem, "because they wholly refused to hear the church, denying it, and were re-baptized."
His prominence in the Colony is shown by the various duties he was called to perform:
In 1638, he was chosen the first treasurer.
In 1647, was chosen to form a town government.
In 1648, was chosen assistant for Providence and held the office continuously until 1663.
In 1665 with Roger Williams and Thomas Harris, he was chosen a judge of the Justices Court.
In 1656 was chosen to treat with Massachusetts Bay about the Pawtuxet lands.
In 1663, the name appears among the grantees of the Royal Charter of Charles II.

He was one of the founders of the First Baptist Church in Providence, and at one time acted as pastor. He was the leader of a schism in the church upon the question of "laying on of hands" about 1652-1654.
He was evidently a man of stern and decided opinion, who did not hesitate to advance his views among his neighbors. Of him, in his occupation as surveyor, it is said, "as he entered upon the surrounding lands with his field book, chain, and compass, and mystic words, with the peculiar dignity of official characters of that day, he may well have inspired the Indians with profound awe, and led them to feel that no Indian could henceforth dwell upon that part of their tribal property again."

from: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Olney an Original Proprietor of
Providence, RI, Who Came From England in 1635. by James H. Olney of Providence,
RI, 1889.

Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1640' Peter W. Coldham, p.128 22 Mar-11 Apr 1635; The following passangers, having taken the oaths, are to be embarked in the 'Planter', Mr. Nicholas Travice, bound from London to New England.; 'With certificate from St. Albans parish, Herts.; Thomas Olney, shoemaker 35, Marie Olney 30, Thomas Olney 3, Epenetus Olney 1.

'Passengers to America - Founders of New England' by M. Tepper p16-17
2 Aprilis 1635 Theis vnder written names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Planter Nic: Trarice Mr bound thither the p'ties have brought Certificate from the Minister of St Albons (St.
Albans) in Hertfordshire, and Attestacon from the Justices of peace according to the Lords Order. Tho: Olney Shoemaker 35, Marie Olney 30, Tho Olney 3, Etenetus --
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Shoemaker. THO: OLNEY 35
The Original Lists OF PERSONS OF QUALITY
[Regi]ster of the names of all ye Passinger wch Passed from ye Port of London for on whole yeare Endinge at Xpmas 1635.

MARIE OLNEY 30
The Original Lists OF PERSONS OF QUALITY
[Regi]ster of the names of all ye Passinger wch Passed from ye Port of London for on whole yeare Endinge at Xpmas 1635.

THO: OLNEY 3
The Original Lists OF PERSONS OF QUALITY
[Regi]ster of the names of all ye Passinger wch Passed from ye Port of London for on whole yeare
Endinge at Xpmas 1635

EPENETUS OLNEY 1
The Original Lists OF PERSONS OF QUALITY
[Regi]ster of the names of all ye Passinger wch Passed from ye Port of London for on whole yeare Endinge at Xpmas 1635.

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The American Genealogist, Vol. 20, Number 4, April 1944, page 228: 'Thomas Olney. His wife was not Marie Small but Mary Ashton; their marriage was recorded in the register of St. Albans Abbey, Herts, on 16 Sep 1629. She was baptized there on 25 Aug 1605, the daughter of James Ashton who was buried on 27 May 1651.'
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ANCESTORS OF ADELBERT P. THAYER, FLORINE THAYER MCCRAY, AND GEO. BURTON THAYER,
CHILDREN OF JOHN W. THAYER AND ADALINE BURTON.
COMPILED BY GEO. BURTON THAYER.
ALSO, REMINISCENCES OF A CHRISTMAS EVE AT WINDERMERE AND SOME EARLY EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF THE WRITER.
EDITION LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES.
PRESS OF THE PLIMPTON MFG. CO., HARTFORD, CONN., 1894. IN HONOR OF MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER AND IN MEMORY OF OUR HOME AT WINDERMERE, AND OF OUR OLD DOG, "BRUISER,"
THIS WORK WAS DONE.
Bibliographic Information: Thayer, Geo Burton. Thayer and Burton Ancestry. Hartford Conn: Press of the Plimpton MFG. Co. 1894

[Thomas Olney]
...He died at Providence in 1682. During the early settlement of New England it was claimed in Connecticut that if a man was too bad to live with in Massachusetts, they sent him to Rhode Island, and when they found one a little too good, they sent him to Connecticut, while the remainder of tolerable and average orthodoxy and respectability were allowed to remain undisturbed.
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More About THOMAS OLNEY:
Citizenship: English, arrived on the "Planter, 1635 ¹²
Life's Work: Shoemaker¹²

Children of THOMAS OLNEY and MARIE ASHTON are:

2.	i.	THOMAS² OLNEY, b. Abt. January 06, 1631/32, St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England; d. June 11, 1722.
3.	ii.	EPENETUS OLNEY, b. Bef. February 14, 1633/34, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England; d. June 03, 1698, Providence, RI.
	iii.	DISCOVERED OLNEY, b. Abt. 1635.

Notes for DISCOVERED OLNEY:
Of age by 6 February 1664/5 when he witnessed a statement with James Olney and Thomas Olney (Early Records of the Town of Providence); not seen hereafter.
[Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell; Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn; NEHGS 1992]

Perhaps his name was actually Discovery, as there are Olneys given this name in later generations. The story passed down in the family by oral tradition was that Discovery was born at sea as the family was approaching the American shore. I found this story in a county history of Madison County, Ohio, where one of the Olneys was named Discovery.

	iv.		NEDABIAH OLNEY¹², b. June 27, 1637, Salem, Essex, MA^12,¹³; d. Aft. July 15, 1659, Providence, RI ¹⁴.
	v.		STEPHEN OLNEY¹⁵, b. Abt. 1640, Providence, Providence, RI¹⁵; d. Abt. 1689, Providence, Providence, RI¹⁵.

Notes for STEPHEN OLNEY:
Died unmarried.
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ID: I25252
Name: Stephen OLNEY 1 2 3 4 5 6
Sex: M
Birth: 1639 in Providence, Providence, RI 5 6
Death: 1689 in Providence, Providence County, RI ? 2 3 6
Burial: 1689 6
Note:

[Alice Keene Olney Genealogy.GED]

Stephen was appointed constable of Providence, Rhode Island in 1659.

Father: Thomas OLNEY , Jr. b: 6 JUN 1600 in St.Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Mother: Marie (Mary) ASHTON b: 25 AUG 1605 in St.Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Sources:

1.Title: Olney Family Information provided by Tony A. Hettler - Thettler@juno.com; 5/7/2000
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Page: Imported June 17, 1999 from Robert Kluckhohn
2.Title: World Family Tree Vol 7 - Ed. 1
Author: Br�derbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: October 17, 1996
Note: Customer pedigree.
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Tree #3182
Text: Date of Import: Aug 2, 1999
3.Title: "Genealogy of The Descendants of Thomas Olney 1889" by James H. Olney; Information provided
by Robert Kluckhohn; 8/2/1999
Author: James H. Olney
Publication: originally published in 1889
Note: family genealogy
Note: Excellent
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Text: Date of Import: Aug 2, 1999
4.Title: Ancestral File (R) - GEDCOM download - For Sabin Ancestory; 12/6/1999
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Repository:
Note: NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
Call Number:
Media: Book
5.Title: OLNEY check.ged
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Dec 5, 1999
6.Title: Alice Keene Olney Genealogy.GED
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: 9 Sep 2000

More About STEPHEN OLNEY:
Important Family: Born 1639-1640¹⁵

4.	vi.		MARY OLNEY, b. 1643, Providence, RI; d. Abt. 1676, Providence, RI.
	vii.		SERGT. JAMES OLNEY¹⁵, b. Abt. 1644, Providence, RI¹⁵; d. October 17, 1676, Providence, RI¹⁵.

Notes for SERGT. JAMES OLNEY:
Emily Jane Angell:

The only member of the [Olney] family who "staid and went not away" during the burning of Providence" [in King Philip's War]; died unmarried.
(This apparently not true as I have found the same statement regarding others of the Olney family.)
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ID: I25253
Name: James OLNEY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sex: M
Title: Sergeant
Birth: 1641 in Providence, Providence, RI 10 8 9
Death: 17 OCT 1676 in Providence, Providence, RI 2 8 9
Burial: 20 OCT 1676 Providence, Providence, RI 3 4 6 9
Change Date: 21 JUN 2000 7 8 9
Reference Number: 2087
Note:

[Alice Keene Olney Genealogy.GED]

James died at age 35, unmarried.

When James died he left a cow for the three children of John Whipple. James's father, Thomas (I),
left the cow in the care of the Town Council. The Town Council, in turn, put the cow in the custody
of Epenetus Olney. On March 13th, 1683 - Thomas (II) requested a Town Council meeting to
considered the matter of a cow and her increase.

Father: Thomas OLNEY , Jr. b: 6 JUN 1600 in St.Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Mother: Marie (Mary) ASHTON b: 25 AUG 1605 in St.Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Sources:

1.Title: Decendants of Thomas Bryant of Chester County, Pa. by Miriam L. Luke & Frances L. Ferguson
Page: Page 221
2.Title: Olney Family Information provided by Tony A. Hettler - Thettler@juno.com; 5/7/2000
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Jun 17, 1999
3.Title: World Family Tree Vol 7 - Ed. 1
Author: Br�derbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: October 17, 1996
Note: Customer pedigree.
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Tree #3182
Text: Date of Import: Aug 2, 1999
4.Title: "Genealogy of The Descendants of Thomas Olney 1889" by James H. Olney; Information provided
by Robert Kluckhohn; 8/2/1999
Author: James H. Olney
Publication: originally published in 1889
Note: family genealogy
Note: Excellent
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Text: Date of Import: Aug 2, 1999
5.Title: Ancestral File (R) - GEDCOM download - For Sabin Ancestory; 12/6/1999
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Repository:
Note: NAME Family History Library
ADDR 35 N West Temple Street
CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
Call Number:
Media: Book
6.Title: OLNEY check.ged
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Dec 5, 1999
7.Title: Olney.ged
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: May 18, 2000
8.Title: Olney Family Information provided by Ruby Parkensen Olney - File name - Ruby Parkensen.FTW;
5/18/2000
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: May 18, 2000
9.Title: Alice Keene Olney Genealogy.GED
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: 9 Sep 2000
10.Title: "A Genealogy of The Descendants of Thomas Olney, An Original Proprietor of Providence, R.I.,
Who Came From England in 1635, by James H. Olney 1889
Author: James H. Olney
Publication: E. L. Freeman & Son, Providence, Rhode Island, 1880
Note: Excellent
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Book
Page: p13; had no issue

More About SERGT. JAMES OLNEY:
Grave Location: October 20, 1676, Providence, RI¹⁵

viii.

LYDIA OLNEY, b. 1645, Providence, Providence, RI; d. September 09, 1724, Providence, Providence,RI.

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