Person:Thomas Swift (3)
Thomas Swift
b.Bef 1605
d.4 May 1675 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Thomas SwiftBef 1605 - 1675
Spouse and Children
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m. 18 Oct 1630
  1. Joan Swift1631 - 1663
  2. Thomas Swift1635 - 1717/18
  3. Obadiah Swift1638 - 1690
  4. Elizabeth Swift1640/41 - 1657
  5. Ruth Swift1643 -
  6. Susanna Swift1651 - 1732
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Thomas Swift
Gender Male
Alt Birth? 1600 Rotherham, Yorkshire, EnglandCitation needed
Birth[3] Bef 1605 Based on date of marriage.
Marriage 18 Oct 1630 Dorchester, Dorset, EnglandHoly Trinity
to Elizabeth Capen
Emigration[3] 1634 Mary & John.
Residence[3] 1634 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[3] 6 May 1635 Freeman.
Will[3] 26 Apr 1675
Death[3] 4 May 1675 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Death[3] 30 May 1675 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[3] 18 Jun 1675 £459-10-03; £363-05 in real estate.
Probate[3] 30 Jul 1675 Will proved.

Thomas Swift was one of the petitioners in Dorchester, MA 19 Oct 1664.

There was a Thomas Swift in Dorchester in 1681: "The town this year gave liberty to Thomas Swift Sr. of Milton... to catch fish at Neponset below the mill, and to make a stage for this year, provided they do not any way obstruct or hinder the antient cart way over the river.... (History of Dorchester, p. 241-2)

References
  1. ↑ Worcester County (MA) Memoirs
    p. 159.
  2. ↑ Swigart, Edmund K. (Edmund Kearsley), and Richard Andrew Pierce. An Emerson-Benson saga: the ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the struggle to settle the United States : including 194 allied lines : major families: Barrows, Besse, Blanchard, Bloss, Booth, Chittenden, Ford, Freeman, Hafford, Hall, Johnson, Joslyn, Lewis, Lord, Lyman, Merrill, Moulton, Perry, Rogers, Safford, Shaw, Spear, Stevens, Sumner, Woodward and Younglove. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, c1994).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Thomas Swift, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    6:621-626.

    ORIGIN: Dorchester, Dorset.
    MIGRATION: 1634 on the Mary & John (on 24 March 1633/4, "Thomas Sweete" was enrolled at Southampton as a passenger for New England on the Mary & John [Drake's Founders 70]).
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship. "Thomas Swifte" and his wife were admitted to the second Dorchester church about 1637 [DChR 3].
    FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 [MBCR 1:370].
    DEATH: Dorchester 4 May 1675 [SPR 5:261; DVR 28 (as "Thomas Swift Senior")]. (According to an inscription in Dorchester cemetery, "Thomas Swift Aged 75 Years Died May the 30 1675" [NEHGR 4:166]).

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