Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 51

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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second wife: 2. Isaac, born April 17, 1658; died October 9. 1659. 3. Samuel, born Sep- tember 3, 1659. 4. Isaac, born December 23, 1661 ; died 1739. 5. Nathaniel, born Novem- ber 30, 1663. 6. Thomas, born December 6, 1665.

(III) Lieutenant John (2), son of John ( 1) Stearns, was born in Billerica, Massachu- setts, and recorded there in May, second week, 1654. He married (first) September 6, 1676, Elizabeth Bigelow, born June 15, 1657, died April 18, 1694, daughter of John and Mary (Warren) Bigelow, of Watertown; (second) April 22, 1696, in Malden, Mrs. Joanna (Call) Parker, widow of Jacob Parker and daughter of Thomas Jr. and Joanna (Shepherdson ) Parker. He was much respected and had

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much influence among his townsmen. He died October 26, 1728, and his widow died December 4, 1737, aged seventy-eight. He was lieutenant of the Billerica militia com- pany. Children: I. Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 23, 1677, in Watertown; married, May 22, 1707, Samuel Rogers. 2. John, born January 22, 1679-80, in Billerica ; died April 4, 1679-80. 3. Sarah, born March 21, 1681-2; married June 16, 1702, Samuel Hunt, and died September 1, 1708. 4. Mary, born July 23, 1684; married May 28, 1705, Samuel Bar- ron, of Chelmsford. 5. John, born November 16. 1686; died August 2, 1776; married, 1715, Esther Johnson. 6. Isaac, born May 1, 1689; shipwrecked and lost in expedition to Port Royal, 17II. 7. Abigail, born August 22, 1691 : married, October 23, 1712, Sergeant William Wyman. 8. Samuel, born January 8, 1693-4; mentioned below. Child of second wife: 9. Joanna, born June 24, 1697.

(IV) Samuel, son of Lieutenant John (2) Stearns, was born in Billerica, January 8, 1693-4, and died before 1730. He married Rachel Crosby, born April 18, 1695, daughter of Joseph Crosby. She married (second) Thomas Wyman. Children: I. Rachel, born June 6, 1720; married Nathan Hutchinson. 2. Eliabeth, born April 3, 1722; married Cap- tain Jonathan Wilson, who was killed in the Lexington fight, April 19, 1775. 3. Prudence, born March 30, 1724; married, January 21, 1742, John Needham. 4. Samuel, born June I, 1726; mentioned below. 5. Mara, born July 1, 1728. Bond adds Benjamin, who chose Thomas Miriam as his guardian in 1737.

(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Stearns, was born in Billerica, June 1, 1726, and died July 23, 1801. He married (first ) October 3, 1749, Elizabeth Hutchinson, who died March 12, 1749-50; (second) Hannah Trask, died December 7, 1801, aged sixty- eight. Children: I. Samuel, baptized April I, 1750; died young. 2. Elizabeth, born June 20, 1751 ; married Henry Jefts. 3. Hannah, born October 3, 1752; married, May 4, 1779, Joseph Spalding, of Chelmsford. 4. Nathan- iel, born March 29, 1754. 5. Samuel, bap- tized September 28, 1755; married, June 2, 1785. Alice Stearns. 6. Jonathan, born May 9. 1758; mentioned below. 7. Josiah, born May 16. 1760. 8. Joseph, June 27, 1763. 9. Molly, April 12, 1765; married, April 13, 1803. Jonathan How. 10. Issacher, April 3. 1767: married, September 16. 1790, Dolly Page. of Bedford. II. Alice, March 4, 1770;

married, September 29, 1789, David Trull. 12. Elijah, March 29, 1774.

(VI) Jonathan, of SON Samuel (2)

Stearns, was born at Billerica, May 9, 1758. He served in the revolution, in the Seventh company, under Lieutenant Colonel D. Whit- ing, Sixth regiment, under Colonel Thomas Nixon, from January to May, 1780. He mar- ried (first) July 1, 1784, Molly Wright, from whom he was separated in 1789. She married ( second ) Davis, and removed to Gouldsborough. He married (second) Betty

Children of first wife: I. Samuel, born 1785; mentioned below. 2. Elcy, born 1787; removed to Gouldsborough, married Moody Hunt ; settled in Bucksport, Maine. 3. Daniel, born December 19, 1788. Children of second wife: 4. Jonathan, born September 6, 1798. 5. David, January 15, 1800. 6. Otis, August 20, 1804. 7. Charles, October 31, 1806. 8. Dorinda, May 4, 1808. 9. Clarissa, April 12, 1810.

(VII ) Samuel (3) Sterns, son of Jonathan Stearns, was born in 1785, and died in 1842. He removed to Brewer village, Maine, and was a prominent citizen there for many years. He was a tanner and currier, manufacturer of boots and shoes, dealer in lumber and ship builder. He was a man of undoubted integ- rity, free from every corrupting influence or motive, especially with reference to dealings between men in fulfillment of contracts and other business obligations. He spelled the name Sterns, because of the tendency of his neighbors from Cape Cod, to insist on pro- nouncing the name Starns. He married, in 1805, Emma C. Billish, of Brewer. He died there November 7, 1842. Children, born at Brewer : I. Samuel Jr., 1806 ; died August 17. 1827. 2. William Shaw, 1808; married Try- phena K. Nickerson, died July 22, 1853; (second) December 27, 1855, Martha Doak. 3. Charles Gordon, April 3, 1811; mentioned below. 4. Clarissa Richardson, October 15, 1813 ; married June 20, 1835, Benjamin Good- win, of Brewer; she died April 4, 1894. 5. John, 1816: died young. 6. Eliza Ann, 1818; married, January 8, 1837, Benjamin Fowler, of Brewer; she died October 22, 1886. 7. John Warren, 1820; died September 4, 1871. 8. Hannah Jane, June 29, 1823 ; married, De- cember 29, 1842, Willis Patten. 9. Harriet, 1826; died 1827. 10. Mary M., married Oli- ver H. Harriman, of Brewer.

(VIII) Charles Gardner Sterns, son of Samuel (3) Sterns, was born in Brewer.

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Maine, April 3, 1811, and died July 16, 1889. He settled in Bangor, Maine, and was a dealer and manufacturer of lumber and tim- ber. The first mill was at Brewer. He was a man of great foresight and enterprise, and amassed a considerable fortune. His business was continued under the name of the Sterns Lumber Company, after his death, by his sons. He married, October 5, 1836, Margaret Lunt, born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, of an old Essex family, died in 1899, at Brewer, Maine. Children: I. Samuel, born June 10, 1838; mentioned below. 2. Ezra Lunt, born December 19, 1841, in Brewer; died March 28, 1909; married, February 9, 1866, Lucia Hilferty, who was associated with her brother Samuel in the Stearns Lumber Company, op- erating lumber mills on the Penobscot and owning ice houses with a capacity of thirty thousand tons. 3. Charles G., born 1846, died 1847. 4. William, born 1850, died 1852. 5. Emma Johnson, born November 9, 1853; mar- ried, December 14, 1876, Arthur Hopkins; children : i. Charles Sterns Hopkins, born Au- gust 4, 1880; ii. Charlotte Sanderson Hop- kins, November 13, 1885.

(IX) Samuel Stearns, son of Charles Gardner Sterns, was born June 10, 1838. He was educated in the public schools. He was associated with his father in the lumber and ice business, and since his father's death has been in partnership with his brother, Ezra Sterns, in the Sterns Lumber Company of Brewer and Bangor, Maine. He had a no- table business career and is one of the most substantial merchants and manufacturers of the state. He resides at Bangor. He mar- ried, July 15, 1863, Louisa Hincks, born 1841, at Brewer, died there in 1893. Children: I. Josephine Cutler, born November 1, 1864; married, March 28, 1898, Charles Louis Swan (see Swan). 2. Fannie Louise, born April 29, 1868; married, December 18, 1894, Harris Osborne Poor.

SWAN The family of the surname Swan (Swann, Swanne, Swayne or Swain), is very ancient. Swain, a Dane of noble ancestry, early settled in the southeastern part of England. The Swans have been possessed of landed property in the counties of Kent and Derby since the time of the Conqueror (1066), when we find their names occur twice in Domesday Book as land owners, and as early as the reign of Richard II they wrote themselves "gentlemen" as ap- pears from ancient deeds.

John Swan, of Southfleet, county Kent, sat as baron for the borough of Sandwich in the reign of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. The family held large possessions in county Kent, including the manors of Swans- combe, Densted, Sutton and Denton. The chief seats of the Swan family were Hook Place in Southfleet, the residence of the elder branch, from which Swan of Baldwinstown claims descent ; and Lydd and afterwards Wye and Denton Court, the places of location of the younger branch, which intermarried with the Derings, Boys and Twisdens, all fami- lies of high extraction and great antiquity in county Kent. Both these branches have be- come extinct, the former in the person of Ed- ward Swan, son of Sir Francis Swan, of Den- ton Court, who died without issue in 1643. Joseph Percival Swan, the possessor in 1858 of Baldwinstown, representative of the Irish branch, claims to be also a representative of the Southfleet Family, being lineally descended from the John Swan of that place above men- tioned, who acquired the manor of Swans- combe and died in 1490. His son, John Swan Jr. presented the large bell to the church at Southfleet, and died in 1550, leaving a son Thomas, who left at his decease in 1561, two sons ; the eldest, Sir William Knight, was of Hook place, county Kent, and the younger, John, founded the Irish line, going to Ireland in a military capacity under the Earl of Essex, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The coat- of-arms of the present Irish branch of this lineage is: Azure on a fess wavy, argent be- tween three swans displayed proper, unguled and crowned or, a trefoil vert. Of the various coats-of-arms of past families in Kent, all were similar in that they used the swan as an emblem, indicating doubtless the origin of the name. The oldest coat-of-arms, borne by the Kent family, easily recognized by its simplic- ity, is: Azure, a swan proper. Motto: Sit nomen decus.

(I) Richard Swan, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1600, and died in Rowley, Massachusetts, in May, 1678, and was buried there May 14. He settled in Boston be- fore 1638 and was a husbandman there as early as February 6, 1638 and admitted freeman May 13, 1640. He was dismissed from the Boston church to the gathering of a church at Rowley, November 24, 1639. He held va- rious town offices in Rowley, and was deputy to the general court 1666 to 1674. His wife Ann was buried at Rowley, April 4, 1658, and he married again, March 1, 1658-9, Ann,

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widow of John Trumble. She deposed March 30, 1675, that she was aged about sixty years.

His will, dated April 25, 1678, proved May 23 following, bequeathed to wife Ann accord- ing to marriage contract; to son Robert and his son Richard; to son-in-law Joseph Boyn- ton and his wife Sarah, and to children Eliza- beth, Samuel and Sarah Boynton; to daugh- ter-in-law, Quilter, and his daughters Jane Wilson, Dorothy Chapman and Mercy War- rener. His widow Ann made her will July 4, 1678, proved September 24,1678, bequeath- ing to daughters Abigail Bayley and Mary Kil- borne; to son Caleb Hopkinson a chest that his father made; to sons John and Jonathan Hopkinson; one book to John Trumble. Children : I. Richard. 2. Dorothy, married a Chapman. 3. Jane, married Wilson. 4. Frances, married Quilter. 5. Rob-

ert, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan. 7. Susan, married Samuel Stickney, of Rowley (may be daughter of Richard Jr.). 8. Sarah, married Joseph Boynton. 9. John, born in Boston, baptized February 13, 1638. 10. Mercy, born at Rowley, July 4, 1640; married Warrener. II. Faith, born at Rowley, March 30, 1644-5.

(Il) Robert, son of Richard Swan, was born in 1626, in England, according to his de- position in 1662, giving his age as thirty-six years. He died February II, 1697-8. He married Elizabeth Acie, of Rowley, died 1681 ; (second) April 1, 1690, Hannah Russ. He lived in Andover, and in 1650 settled in Haver- hill, in that part afterward set off and incor- porated as the town of Methuen, where many descendants have lived. He took the oath of allegiance November 28, 1677. Children : I. Elizabeth, born September 30, 1653. 2. Sarah, August 10, 1655. 3. Robert, May 30, 1657; was a deputy to the general court; married Eliza Stone. 4. Ann, March 2, 1658. 5. Rich- ard, February 24, 1660. 6. Timothy, March 12, 1662-3 ; died February 1, 1693. 7. Doro- thy, November 8, 1666. 8. John, August I, 1668 ; married Susannah Wood. 9. Samuel, April 11, 1670; died young. 10. Samuel, Oc- tober 24, 1672 ; mentioned below. II. Joshua, September 13, 1674 ; married, January 6, 1701, Sarah Ingalls, at Woburn. 12. Caleb, June I, 1676; died young.

(III) Samuel, son of Robert Swan, was born October 24, 1672, and died November 28, 1751. He lived at Haverhill, where he mar- ried, March 8, 1693-4, Dorothy Ames. Chil- dren, born at Haverhill: I. Timothy, men- tioned below. 2. Caleb, born May 8, 1695.

(IV) Timothy, son of Samuel Swan, was born in Haverhill, December 1, 1694. He was a joiner by trade. He settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he married, November I, 1715, Mehitable Austin. She was admitted to the church July 26, 1741. According to her gravestone in Charlestown burial ground, she died March II, 1754, aged sixty. He was taxed in Charlestown from 1637 to 1642. He was grantor and grantee in numerous deeds. He mortgaged a hundred acres of land at Haverhill, called the Harris land, adjoining land of John Swan, in 1715-6, and later sold it to S. Cary. Children, recorded at Charles- town: I. Timothy, born October 9, 1716. 2. Abigail, baptized July 19, 1719. 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. Caleb, born November 5, 1727.

(V) Samuel (2), son of Timothy Swan, was baptized October 8, 1720, at Charlestown, and died August 6, 1808. He was a barber by trade, and lived in Charlestown. His house in Charlestown Square was burned by the British at the battle in 1775, and he removed to Concord until the British

evacuated Boston in March, 1776, when he returned, rebuilt his house, and lived there the rest of his life. As. late as 1798, we are told, he was urged by a lawyer of high standing in Cambridge to prove his claims to lands in Haverhill and Methuen, being the sole heir to a large property. He de- clined to take action. The sheriff of the county offered to buy his rights, but he refused to sell, and no attempt was made to recover the property from those in possession. He married (first) (intention dated March 5, 1745-6) Joanna Richardson, of Woburn. She was admitted to the church January 4, 1756. He married (second) July 4, 1796, Anna Whittemore. He died October 12, 1797. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Samuel, born August 6, 1747; died September 7, 1749. 2. Samuel, born January 17, 1749-50. 3. Daniel, born October 4, 1752. 4. Caleb, born July 6, 1754; mentioned below. 5. Joanna, born March II, 1756; died December, 1791. 6. Mehitable, baptized July 31, 1757 ; died March 10, 1759. 7. Dr. Timothy, born December 21, 1759. 8. Mehitable, born 1764; baptized January 20, 1764. 9. Joseph, baptized August 24, 1766 ; died November, 1767.

(VI) Caleb, son of Samuel (2) Swan, was born in Charlestown, July 6, 1754. His father deeded the store on the west side of Main street and other lands to him. He was a mer- chant and goldsmith, living in Woburn and

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Charlestown, and bought and sold much real estate in Charlestown and vicinity. He mar- ried (first) Sarah Burt; (second) Sarah Semple, who was a native of Belfast, Ireland. Her father was a ship-owner and ship-builder. Children : I. Caleb, mentioned below. 2. Ben- jamin Burr, married, at Charlestown, Decem- ber 17, 1799, Abigail Ridgway. 3. Joan, mar- ried French. 4. Sally, married Amos Newton.

(VII) Dr. Caleb (2) Swan, son of Caleb ( I) Swan, was born in Charlestown, Septem- ber 22, 1793. He attended the public schools of his native town, and in 1811 entered Har- vard University, graduating with distinction in 1814. Among his classmates was Dr. James Walker, later president of the college, and William H. Prescott, the historian. At the age of twenty-one he began the study of medi- cine under the instruction of Dr. Jonathan Wales, Jr., of Randolph, and after obtaining his degree settled in Easton, Massachusetts, in 1816. He continued in active practice there for fifty-four years, never interrupted for more than a week or two by sickness or travel. He built up a medical practice that gradually extended beyond the limits of the town, and was often called in consultation in cases of serious illness for many miles around. In his later years he showed decided tendencies toward the practice of homeopathic methods, and for this reason his name was dropped from the membership of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which he had joined in 1833. He was one of the founders of the Bristol North District Medical Society in 1849, and was president of the society in 1852. Many young men were prepared for their doctor's degree under his teaching. In the temperance movement of 1826 and afterwards he was an active participant, and made public addresses in behalf of the cause, which were vigorous and able discourses. He also made addresses on behalf of educational enterprises, and served with efficiency on the school committee of Easton. In 1840 Dr. Swan was an earnest supporter of General Harrison for president of the United States, declaring that if Harri- son were elected he would join the Liberty party, afterward known as the Free Soil party. This he did, and became a very pronounced anti-slavery man. He was a candidate on that ticket for representative to congress, his prin- cipal opponent being Artemas Hale, of Bridge- water, who after several elections resulting in no choice was finally chosen. On the same party ticket he ran for governor against N. P.

Banks. In 1865, as a Republican, Dr. Swan served as representative to the general court, and in 1867 as state senator. He was intensely opposed to the Know-Nothing movement, and his knowledge of the proceedings of their secret meetings was most suprising and mysterious. Although a genial and companionable man, he never yielded in discussion or action in matters of political principle. In religious views he was a Swedenborgian. In 1839 his brother-in- law, George W. Johnson, of Buffalo, New York, wrote of him: "His heart is in his pro- fession. Like most others of his profession he possesses great knowledge of men, and tact in managing their weaknesses. He possesses also a placable and generous temper, is fond of wit and humor, which he has displayed from a child, and has few or no enemies. His mind delights in the investigation and dis- covery of truth. He rejects no theory till he has sounded it and found it wanting, examin- ing everything for himself. Yet he is no visionary. His mind is characterized by activ- ity, love of research, and caution. I believe he has one of the best of hearts."

Dr. Swan died March 18, 1870. He mar- ried ( first ) October 3, 1816, Ruth Barrell, of East Bridgewater, who died January 13, 1830. He married (second) February 14, 1831, Louisa Johnson, of Enfield, New Hampshire, born September 27, 1793, died Septem- ber 6. 1860. He married ( third) Mrs. Hay- ward. Children of first wife: I. Ruth Bar- rell, married, September 17, 1851, Hon. Justin S. Morrill, late United States senator from Vermont. 2. Dr. James Caleb, born June 2, 1828; studied medicine with his father, and attended lectures at Harvard Medical School and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia ; settled at Cocheset Village, West Bridgewater, with an office also in Brockton ; married, June 9, 1850, Harriet A. Copeland, who died De- cember 7, 1880; married (second) Ada Her- vey ; three children. Children of second wife : 3. Louisa S., born March 14, 1834. 4. Dr. George W. J., born September 8, 1836 ; studied at Exeter Academy and took several courses of lectures at Harvard Medical School and Jefferson Medical College ; settled at Easton ; married, November 13, 1856, Elizabeth E. Hayward, who died December 6, 1880 ; he died January 10, 1870. 5. Charles L., born Febril- ary 2, 1840; graduated at Harvard College, 1859, aged nineteen, fifth in rank in a class of one hundred ; studied law in Harvard Law School, graduating with second prize in 1862; read law in the office of Ellis Ames, and settled

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in Stoughton, where he was appointed trial justice and commissioner of insolvency ; prom- inent Free Mason; died November 29, 1865. 6. William E. Channing, born June 14, 1842; mentioned below. 7. Dr. Jesse Johnson, born December 14, 1849; studied at Bristol Acad- emy, Taunton, and at Stoughtonham Institute, Sharon : studied medicine two years with his father and brother Channing, and took lectures at Harvard Medical School and Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago, from which he graduated in March, 1882; settled in Easton in 1872, where he is still in practice. Two children. William and Nathan, died in infancy.

(VIII) Dr. William E. Channing Swan, son of Dr. Caleb Swan, was born in Easton, June 14, 1842, and died November 1I, 1903. He studied at Thetford Academy, and attended lectures at the Harvard Medical School, re- ceiving his diploma March 8, 1865. Two years earlier, however. in 1863, he had settled in Stoughton, where he had a large practice. He married, November 27. 1866, Estelle Iris Parker, born 1847, died 1891. Child: I. Charles L., mentioned below.

(IX) Dr. Charles Louis Swan, son of Dr. William E. Channing Swan, was born at Stoughton, Massachusetts. December 17, 1867. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and graduated at Boston Latin School in 1887, where he pre- pared for college. He graduated from Har vard College in 1891, with the degree of A. B., received the degree of M. D. in 1894 from Harvard Medical School, and then went abroad to study in the medical schools and hospitals of Europe. After a year he returned and established himself in practice at Stoughton, where he has become one of the leading physi- cians. He is a Republican in politics, and was a member of the school committee of the town of Stoughton. He is a member of Blue Hill Lodge of Free Masons, the Royal Arch Chap- ter, Bay State Commandery, Knights Templar. He married, December 28, 1898, Josephine Cutler Stearns, born November 1, 1864, daugh- ter of Samuel and Louisa (Hincks) Sterns ( see Stearns). Children : 1. Channing Stearns, born March 18, 1898. 2. Charles Louis, Au- gust 16, 1900.

(For early generations see preceding sketch).

(III) John, fourth son of Robert SWAN and Elizabeth (Acie) Swan, was born in Haverhill, now Methuen, August 1, 1668, died at Stonington, Connecti- cut, May I. 1743. In 1705 he was granted

permission to set up a sawmill on Little river. He went to Stonington in 1707, locating on what is now known as Swantown hill. North Stonington. He married in Haverhill, Susanna, daughter of Philip and granddaugh- ter of old Roger Eastman, the founder of the Eastman family. She had previously wedded Thomas Wood, who and their child Susanna were killed by the Indians, March 15, 1697. She was a heroic woman. Haverhill was ex- posed to frequent attacks by the Indians, and they appeared at the Swan house which stood in the field now called the White lot. Mr. Swan and his wife saw the deadly foe stealth- ily approaching. They placed themselves against the door, but the invaders being the more powerful were too strong for the in- vaded, and Mr. Swan, being of a timid dis- position, was inclined to let them in. Not so Mrs. Swan whose courage was equal to the occasion. The savages had succeeded in open- ing the door and were proceeding to enter. Acting quickly, she seized her baking spit which was nearly three feet in length, and with superhuman strength thrust it through the body of the foremost. This was a recep- tion they had not reckoned with. Thus stub- bornly repulsed they retreated and did not molest them again. The fortitude and fore- thought of this noble wife and mother saved herself and children from an untimely and horrid death. Emblazoned on the escutcheon of this family should be an uplifted spit, ready to descend on the wily and insidious foe placed in the hand of this heroic mother of the race, than whom these of whom we write had never been. Children of John and Susan: John, Ruth, William, Nathaniel, Asa, Elizabeth, Ann, Timothy.

(IV) Asa, fourth son of John and Susanna (Eastman) Swan was born in Stonington, June 4, 1712. He married Marvin Holmes. Children: Elizabeth, Susannah, Asa, Jabez.

(V) Jabez, youngest son of Asa and Mar- vin (Holmes) Swan, was born in Stonington, May 21, 1751, died in East Haddam, Connecti- cut, in 1824. He removed to East Haddam in 1776 and the farm on which he lived is still owned by his posterity. He was a man of substantial character and quite wealthy. His wife before marriage was Mehitable Wheeler, whom he married, June 17, 1772. He mar- ried a second time Lucy Wheeler. By the first marriage he had James, Hurlbut, Thomas Wheeler, Asa, Rufus, Betsy, Mehitable, Polly and Cynthia. Lucy (Wheeler) Swan was the mother of William and Cyrus.

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(VI) Hurlbut, second son of Jabez and Mehitable (Wheeler ) Swan, was born in East Haddam. He was engaged in cutting ship timber to supply the various ship yards which in the prosperous days of river navigation were scattered along the banks of the Con- necticut. He married Hannah Estabrook, by whom he had twelve children.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 51

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008