Person:Willam Swain (1)

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Willam Swain
b.Cal 1585
d.Aft 27 May 1657
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m. Bef 1620
  1. Samuel SwainBef 1624 - Bef 1692
  2. Daniel SwainEst 1628 -
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Name[1][2] Willam Swain
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1585
Marriage Bef 1620 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Mary).
to Unknown Unknown
Emigration[1] 1635 On the Elizabeth & Ann.
Residence[1] 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1636 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Other[1][3] 3 Mar 1635/36 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Willm Swayne")..
Residence[1] 1644 Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] Aft 27 May 1657
The Elizabeth and Ann (1635)
The Elizabeth and Ann, also known as the Eliza and Ann sailed in the spring of 1635. The passengers are found scattered amongst a number of entries in Hotten's Emigrant Ancestors.
Sailed: May? 1635 from London, England under Master Roger Clapp
Arrived: July? 1635 at Boston, Massachusetts

Passengers:
~100 		Joseph Alsop - Thomas Alsop - Baker family - Gamaliell Beomont - John Birden - Grace Bulkley - Robert Carr - Sara Cartrack - Clement Chaplin - James Cobbet - Josias Cobbet - William Courser - Henry Curtis - Thomas Dane - Eaton family - Joseph Faberr - Elizabeth Fabin - Richard Goard - Amivell Hall - O. Halsey - Robert Hans - Robert Hawkins - Thomas Hedhall or Hedsall - John Holloway - Thomas Hubbard - Percy King - Henry Jackson - Robert Jefferies family - Thomas Lord family - Morecock children - Oldham children - George Orris - George Parker - Thomas Pond - Vincen Potter - William Read - William Samond - Richard Sanpson - Nicholas Sension - Robert Standy - Christopher Stanley - William Swayne - M. Swynden - Jo. Thomson - John Whitney family - Washburn family - Edmund Weston - Richard White - Andrey Whitton - Henry Wilkinson - George Wylde - John Wylie
Resources: Transcription of records from Hotten Founders of New England (NEHGR)

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 William Swain, 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)
    6:618-21.

    "ORIGIN: Unknown …
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann (on 17 April 1635 'W[illia]m Swayne,' aged 50, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Elizabeth & Ann [Hotten 69])."
    "OCCUPATION: Magistrate.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 3 March 1635/6 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 3 March 1635/6 (third in a sequence of three Watertown men) [MBCR 1:3711."
    "BIRTH: About 1585 (aged 50 on 17 April 1635 [Hotten 69]).
    DEATH: After 27 May 1657 [NHCR 2:215]."

  2. ↑ William Swain, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:235-236.

    "William (Swain), Watertown, came in the Elizabeth and Ann, from London, 1635, aged 50, was adm. freem. at the Gen. Ct. 3 Mar. foll. when he was appoint. with Ludlow, and others, commissnrs. to rule the new settlem. at Conn. serv. as rep. 1636, May in Mass. and in Sept. held Court in the young Col. next yr. he contin. to act as Assist. perhaps under the Mass. delegat. but not in 1638, when the inhab. of Conn. took the whole admin. of their own affairs, tho. their formal constitut. was not adopt. bef. Jan. 1639. He sat down at Wethersfield, of wh. he was rep. 1641-3; soon aft. being chos. again Assist. 1644, he rem. with s. Samuel and Daniel to the W. and lighted on or near Branford 1644, there prob. d. His d. Mary, early a mem. of Roxbury ch. m. and went to New Haven says the rec."

  3. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:94.
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