Sally's
great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grandparents:
"emigrated 1635 in
"Elizabeth and Ann"
William Swaine ca 1585 - ca 1653
| his
parents
of England,
Watertown, Mass. &Wethersfield
& Branford. CT.
This is my working hypothesis - the way I see
it as of this moment!!
1635 -- William Swaine, "gentleman," aged fifty years,
came from London, in the "Elizabeth and Ann."
Received a
grant of sixty acres at Watertown, Mass.
May 1636 - He was made a freeman and served
as representative in Massachusetts in
Sept. 1636 - he held court in the new colony of Wethersfield, where he had
acquired "adventure lands."
1637 - He was a member of the Court which tried the
first offender; enacted the first law, and declared war against the
Pequots
1639 - He was appointed with Roger Ludlow
and Andrew Ward as commissioners to govern the people until the adoption
of the constitution.
Becoming involved in "divers grievances"
pertaining to the adjustment of church differences, he was one of the
foremost projectors of the scheme of removal from Wethersfield.
1644 - His name
appears prominently in the purchase of the plantation of Totokett, where
he settled. He was successively deputy, juror, and magistrate.
During the Pequot war, two daughters of William Swaine were captured by
the Indians and taken to Pequot, now New London. Here they were rescued by
a Dutch trading vessel and transferred to the care of Lion Gardiner, then
in command at Saybrook, at a cost of £10 to the latter, who writes in
1660: "I have yet to have thanks for my care and charge about
them."
His daughter Mary married in New Haven, name not known.
Mr. Swaine held an
estate of 435 acres in Branford, which he did not occupy long,
ca 1653 - his
death must have occurred in the first years of settlement of the colony,
when his name disappears from the records.
Robert
Atwater Smith 1902 "Supplementary Hist. and Personnel of the Colony
of New Haven"
Children of William Swaine:
1. Samuel Swaine ca 1625 - 1681/82 Newark, NJ
married Joanna ? ca 1625 - 1694
Newark, NJ
2. Daniel Swaine - ca 1690
Branford, CT
married Dorcas Rose dau of Robert
3. Mary Swaine lived New Haven, CT
married
a member of the Roxbury Church and went to New Haven
4. another daughter as
TWO of his daughters captured by the Pequots ca 1637
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