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William Swift

Male Bef 1596 - Bef 1643  (< 47 years)


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  • Name William Swift  [1
    Alternate birth Abt 1590  Bermondsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Alternate birth Abt 1593  [3
    Birth Bef 1596  [4
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 29 Jul 1643  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Person ID I3765  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 1 Jan 2024 

    Family 1 Sarah   d. Bef 24 Aug 1625, Bermondsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1618  [3
    Children 
    +1. Hannah Swift,   b. Abt 1620, Bermondsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1665, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 45 years)
    Family ID F2316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jun 2018 

    Family 2 Joan   d. Between 12 Oct 1662 and 25 Dec 1663 
    Marriage 3 Jan 1626  St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
    +1. William Swift,   b. Bef 25 Apr 1627   d. Between 15 Dec 1705 and 29 Jan 1706, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 78 years)
    +2. Esther Swift,   b. Bef 28 May 1629
    Family ID F9286  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Citizen and leatherseller of London; received his freedom as a member of the Company of Leathersellers on 26 Sep 1620.

      Emigrated 1634, with his second wife Joan, widow of Roger Dimbleby (himself also a citizen and leatherseller of London). First at Watertown, then Sandwich 1639. In England midsummer 1637, back in New England by 27 Mar 1638.

      Fined in 1660 for attending Quaker meetings.

      William Swift (~1593-1643) = Joan (d. ~1663)
      Esther Swift (b. 1629) = Ralph Allen (1615-1659)
      Jedediah Allen (1647-1712) = Elizabeth Howland (d. >1711)
      Mary Allen (b. 1681) = Thomas Smith (~1672-1732)
      Anthony Smith (1723-1810) = Lydia Willets (b. 1726)
      Judith Smith (1751-1836) = Jacob Burdg (1743->1797)
      Jacob Burdg (1783-1862) = Miriam Matthews (1786->1860)
      Oliver Burdg (1821-1908) = Jane M. Hemingway (1824-1890)
      Almira Park Burdg (1849-1943) = Franklin Milhous (1848-1919)
      Hannah Milhous (1885-1967) = Francis Anthony Nixon (1878-1956)
      Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1993)

      William Swift (~1593-1643) = Joan (d. ~1663)
      William Swift (1627-1706) = Ruth (d. >1705)
      Jireh Swift (~1673-1749) = Abigail Gibbs (~1677-1740)
      Nathaniel Swift (1708-1790) = Abiah Tupper (1713-1782)
      Nathaniel Swift (1749-1825) = Sarah Thomas (1751-1835)
      Julius Swift (1792-1876) = Lydia Hawkins (1818-1894)
      Charles Julius Swift (b. 1845) = Josephine Reno (1848-1920)
      Archie Dean Swift (1877-1961) = Bernice Maude Thompson (1882-1979)
      Archie Dean Swift (1914-1998) = Rose Baldi Douglas (1920-1994)
      Scott Kingsley Swift (1952- ) = Andrea Gardner Finlay (1958- )
      Taylor Alison Swift (1989- )

  • Sources 
    1. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    2. [S158] Rootsweb tree of The Wing Family of America.

    3. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    4. [S677] Jane Fletcher Fiske, "William1 Swift, Citizen and Leatherseller of London, and Planter of Sandwich, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 77:161, July 2002.