Obadiah Swift

1638 - 1690  (52 years)

• Name	Obadiah Swift  [1]
  Birth	16 Jul 1638	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Dec 1690  [2]
  Person ID	I34641	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Swift,   b. Abt 1605   d. 4 May 1675, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Capen,   b. Abt 1610   d. 26 Jan 1678, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1630	Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset, England   [3]
  Family ID	F20368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rest Atherton,   b. Bef 26 May 1639   d. 3 Nov 1708 (Age > 69 years)
  Marriage	15 Mar 1661	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Obadiah Swift,   b. 28 Jan 1671, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 20 Jan 1747 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F20367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was a blacksmith. Dorchester constable in 1662. With Timothy Mather he administered the estate of his father-in-law, Gen. Humphrey Atherton.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S5562] The Memoirs of Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift by Joseph Gardner Swift, To Which Is Added a Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Swift of Dorchester, Mass., 1634 by Harrison Ellery. 1890. [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.