Henry Swift

(Created March 6, 2017 by Thomas W. Mitchiner)

Lineage of Henry Swift:

*1 William Swift (b. April 15, 1589 Bocking, Essex County, England and d. March 7, 1643 Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA) Burial: Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA) Married (1) Sarah. Married (2) Joane Session, widow of Roger Dimbleby. He had four known children by Sarah and three by Joane.

Note: FROM THE SWIFT GENEALOGY “William Swift came from Bocking, Essex County, England, in the great Boston immigration of 1630-1, and settled at Watertown, Mass., where he was a proprietor in 1636.

In the Great Dividends of Town Lands, July 25, 1636, William Swift drew No. 14, being a forty-acre lot. In 1636-7 he drew a five-acre lot at "Beaver Brook Plowlands." In 1641, he sold and moved to Sandwich, Mass., the farm he bought there was the largest farm in Sandwich, was owned in 1887 by his lineal descendant, Shadrach Freeman Swift.

William Swift married Joane Sisson; he died in 1643-4; she survived him about twenty years. Her will, dated November 26, 1663, bequeathed to Daniel Wing's two sons, Samuel and John, and to her grandchildren, and others; her son William was made executor.”

An inventory of William Swift's estate was exhibited at court on 29 Jan 1642/3. On 7 March 1642/3, letters of administration were granted to his wife Joane.

**2. William Swift (b. March 11, 1619 Bocking, Essex County, England and d. December 26, 1705). Married Ruth Allen Toby (b.1626, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA and d. 1706 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA) in 1645. They had eleven children. William Swift, son of William, born in England, came to the New World with his parents and settled at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA. In 1654-55 he subscribed fifteen shillings toward building a new meeting house, one of the largest subscriptions on the list. On the February 23, 1675, his name is recorded among the freemen of Sandwich. He represented his town in the General Court, 1673, 1674, 1677 and 1678.

He made a will Dec. 15, 1705, which was probated Jan. 29, 1706, and in it he names his wife Ruth, his sons William, Ephraim, Samuel, Josiah, Jirah, and her daughters Mary, Temperance, Esther and Dianah.

***3. Jireh Swift (b. 1665 Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA and d. April 17, 1749 Wareham, Plymouth Co., MA). Burial: Agawam Cemetery, Wareham, MA. Married Abigail Gibbs (1677 and d. 1740 on November 19, 1741). They had twelve children. His Will is dated March 29, 1744 and was presented at court in Wareham, May 1, 1749.

Note: See Richard Warren, Mayflower Pilgrim descendants, great grandfather of Abigail Gibbs.

****4. Jabez Swift (b. March 16, 1700 Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA and d. November 2, 1767 Kent, Litchfield Co., CT). Married Abigail Pope (b. August 2, 1710 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA and d. September 2, 1776 Kent, Litchfield, CT) on October 9, 1729. They had eleven children.

*****5. Rev Job Swift (b. June 17, 1743 Sandwich, Barnstable MA and d. October 20, 1804 Enosburg, Franklin Co., Vermont), Burial: Enosburg Cemetery, Franklin Co., VT. Married Mary Ann Sedgwick Swift (b. 1749 and d. 1828). Occupation: Congregational Clergy. They had ten children.

From the “Catalogue of Officers and Students if Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1800-1915” comes the following sketch of Job Swift:

"REV. JOB SEIFT, D.D., SON OF Jireh and Abigail Swift. Born in Sanddwich, Mss., June 17, 1743. Student Yale. (graduated 1765) Studied theology with Rev. Bellmay, bethleham, Conn. Ordained 1767. Pastor, Congregational church, Richmond, Mass., 1767-1774; Amenia, N.Y., 1775-1782; Manchester, Vt. 1783-1785; Bennington, 1786-1801; Addison, 1801-1804. Chaplain in Revolutionary Army. Trustee, Dartmouth College, 1788-1801; Williams College, 1794-1802. Married Mary Ann Segwick, Nov. 6, 1769. Children: Samuel; Benjamin; Noadiah; Heman; Job S.; Samuel;Serenus A.B. Yale, 1765; A.M. Yale, 1790; D.D. Williams, 1803. Died in Enosbury, Vt. Oct. 20, 1804.

After his death his sermons were published as Discourses on Religious Subjects, Middlebury, Vermont, Printed by Huntington and Fitch, Nov, 1805. The book also contains a sketch of Rev. Job Swift. A reprint of the book can be found on Google Books because, "We believe this work is culturally important..."

******6. Serenus Swift (b. May 27, 1774 and d. March 30, 1865) Burial: Dellwood Cemetery, Manchester, Bennington Co., VT. Married Rachel Buckley Swift (b. December 13, 1782 Wethersfield, CT and d. February 21, 1856 Manchester, VT) They had ten children. Occupation: lawyer.

From “Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college, from the first graduation in 1771 to the present time, with a brief history of the institution comes the following sketch of Serenus Swift:

"ALUMNI 1791: Serenus Swift, the son of the Rev. Dr. Job and Mary Ann (Sedgwick) Swift, was born at Richmond, MA, May 27, 1774, and died at Manchester, Vt, Mar. 31, 1865. He taught at Pittstown, N. Y. in 1791 and 1792; read with Judge Noah Smith at Bennington, Vt, and the Hon. Thomas Raggles Gold of Whitesborough, N. Y. opened an office in Manchester in Feb. 1797, and there passed his long and useful life, the last survivor of his class. He married Rachel, dau. of Major Edward Bulkley of Wetherstield, Ct, Aug. 11, 1805. Samuel Swift, D. C. 1800, was his brother.

The town forty years ago boasted of a large and able bar…. Of the notable men of that period 1844 to 1854 was Theodore Swift who was not only a man of genius but endowed with a fund of serviceable talent. A New Englander by birth Swift took his course southward tried the common expedient of school teaching in Virginia and then came to Mississippi to devote himself to the study and practice of law. He took up his abode at Monticello Lawrence county and belonged to the middle southern circuit which including Scott county extended to the seaboard. In learning he was a well furnished lawyer with a fine and ready perception of legal principles and had great facility in composition and in speaking. His literary taste was excellent and refined the cultivation of reading and mastering the English classics admit of such attainment. He employed this advantage with great success in addresses to the court and jury and in conversation. In that day the circuit judge and the lawyers rode the circuit in a body and provided themselves with the miscellaneous materials for jolly feasting comprehended in the term spondulicks. The midday rest at the wayside spring or brook were occasions of lively enjoyment and Swift was the chief contributor. His humorous travesty of the Lady of the Lake served many a circuit campaign and his audacious handling of Greek Mythology is preserved in the memory of his surviving associates. Swift presents an instance not uncommon where the humorous faculty is made to overshadow the greater powers. His imitations, his jokes and sallies are remembered by the many while the serious displays of his fine powers are preserved by few It is a matter of surprise that this remarkable man was not more widely known and appreciated. He lacked the spur of ambition and gave up too much to the enjoyment of the moment. It is a melancholy reflection that when his name is mentioned there comes to the lips the words of Hamlet, I knew him Horatio a fellow of infinite jest of a most excellent fancy. Nevertheless his humor fine as it was but the superfluity of a capacious strong and exquisitely toned mind."

*******7. Theodore Seramus Swift (b.February 16, 1813 Manchester, Bennington Co., VT and d. February 15, 1869 Dalton, Whitefield, GA). Married Minerva M. Hannon (b. 1821 Dalton, GA and d. 1873 Campbell, Hunt Co., TX). Occupation: Lawyer. Source: 1840 US Census Neshoba, MS, 1850 US Census Mississippi. Their eight children are Frances Cordel, Juliet, Elizabeth, Edward, Jane, Henry Theodore Fred and Mary. (To view the genealogy of all the children and grandchildren of Theordore and Minerva go to SWIFT TX FAMILY.)

From "A History of Mississippi from the Discovery of the Great River" by Hernando Desota, 1891, pp. 515-515, Lowry and McCardle comes the following sketch of Theodore Seramus Swift: "The town forty years ago boasted of a large and able bar. Of the notable men of that period 1844 to 1854 was Theodore Swift who was not only a man of genius but endowed with a fund of serviceable talent. A New Englander by birth Swift took his course southward tried the common expedient of school teaching in Virginia and then came to Mississippi to devote himself to the study and practice of law. He took up his abode at Monticello Lawrence county and belonged to the middle southern circuit which including Scott county extended to the seaboard. In learning he was a well furnished lawyer with a fine and ready perception of legal principles and had great facility in composition and in speaking. His literary taste was excellent and refined the cultivation of reading and mastering the English classics admit of such attainment. He employed this advantage with great success in addresses to the court and jury and in conversation. In that day the circuit judge and the lawyers rode the circuit in a body and provided themselves with the miscellaneous materials for jolly feasting comprehended in the term spondulicks. The midday rest at the wayside spring or brook were occasions of lively enjoyment and Swift was the chief contributor. His humorous travesty of the Lady of the Lake served many a circuit campaign and his audacious handling of Greek Mythology is preserved in the memory of his surviving associates. Swift presents an instance not uncommon where the humorous faculty is made to overshadow the greater powers. His imitations, his jokes and sallies are remembered by the many while the serious displays of his fine powers are preserved by few It is a matter of surprise that this remarkable man was not more widely known and appreciated. He lacked the spur of ambition and gave up too much to the enjoyment of the moment. It is a melancholy reflection that when his name is mentioned there comes to the lips the words of Hamlet, I knew him Horatio a fellow of infinite jest of a most excellent fancy. Nevertheless his humor fine as it was but the superfluity of a capacious strong and exquisitely toned mind."

********8.Henry Swift (b. October 10, 1853 Dalton, Whitfield, GA and d. March 20, 1920 Merit, Hunt Co., TX) Burial: Merit Cemetery, Hunt Co., TX. NPE: Susan Mitchiner (b. abt. 1865 Tallapoosa Co., AL. and d. before 1889 Hunt Co., TX) They had one child, Ross Clarence Mitchiner. Henry's maternal grandmother was Elizabeth (Wright) Hannon (b. 1790 GA and d. 1859 AL). She married John Henry Hannon (b. 1783 MD and d. 1843 GA). She was the daughter of Mary "Polly" (Hayes) Wright (b. 1792 NC and d. 1876 NC) and Lt. James Wright (b.1755 NC and d. 1840 NC). (Note: John McCain, US Senator, also descends from Lt. James Wright on his mother's side.) Married Virginia California Alderson (b. February 14, 1953 VA and d. March 24, 1941 AZ) on May 6, 1882. She had one child by prior marriage.. Occupation: Teacher, Superintendent of Public Schools, Hunt Co., TX. Source: 1850 US Census Lawrence Co., MS; 1860 US Census Whitfield, GA; 1870 Census Hunt Co., TX; 1880 US Census Hunt Co., TX; 1900 Census Hunt Co., TX; 1910 Census Hunt Co., TX; 1920 Census Hunt Co., TX.

In 1875 David Rumph, uncle of Henry’s son Ross Clarence Mitchiner, sold to Henry and his brothers Edward and Fred his last tract of land in Hunt County which was one hundred and forty acres out of the Levi Loyd Survey for one thousand dollars cash. Ed was a dry goods merchant and Fred a stock farmer.

Chickasha Daily Express (Indian Territory): V. 11, No. 148 Ed., Sunday, June 15, 1902 reported, "Prof. Henry Swift, formerly superintended of schools of Hunt County, Texas, is looking over Chickasha."

Tribute to Henry Swift

Greenville (Texas) Messenger, Fri, 9 Apr 1920, page 5, TRIBUITE TO HENRY SWIFT.
"Prof. Henry Swift, who died recently at his home near Merit, was one of the best citizens who ever lived in Hunt County.  Prof. Swift served many years as an educator and for the past several years had been engaged in farming and was successful as a farmer.
He was a pioneer of Hunt County and wielded an influence for good throughout a long period of years, and in his death Hunt County has last (sic) one of the best citizens who ever lived in our midst.  - A Friend."

Grave Marker, Merit Cemetery, Hunt Co., Texas


Henry Swift Grave Marker                    Henry Swift Grave Marker

Richard Warren, Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants

Ye Compacte
Signed in Ye Cabin of Ye Mayflower
Ye 11 of November Anno Dominie 1620


In ye name of God, Amen.
We whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjects of our dread and soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Frand, and Yreland king, defender of ye faither, &c., haveing undertaken for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour to our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in ye presense of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering& preservation & furtherance of ye ends afordsaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions & offices from time to fime, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall goode of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. Yn witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye 11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France, & Yreland ye eighteenth, and Scotland ye fiftie fourth, Ano: Dom. 1620

John Carver --- William Bradford
Edward Winslow --- William Brewster
Isaac Allerton --- Myles Standish
John Alden --- Samuel Fuller
Christpher Martin --- William Mullins
William White --- Richard Warren
John Howland --- Stephen Hopkins
Edward Tilley --- John Tilley
Francis Cooke --- Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker --- John Rigdale
Edward Fuller --- John Turner
Francis Eaton --- James Chilton
John Cracston --- John Billington
Moses Fletcher --- John Goodman
Degory Priest --- Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow --- Emond Margesson
Peter Brown --- Richard Britterige
George Soule --- Richard Clark
Richard Gardiner --- John Allerton
Thomas English --- Edward Doty
Edward Leifter

*1. Richard Warren (b. abt 1580 London, Middlesex, England and d. abt. 1627 Plymouth, MA). Married Elizabeth Walker (b. abt. 1580 and d. October 2, 1673) daughter of Augustine Walker, on April 14, 1610, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire.

 

Note: Richard came from London on the Mayflower in 1620 as part of a group of about 100 Puritan Separatist Pilgrims.  The first winter in Plymouth 45 Pilgrims perished.

 

Richard appears to have been a merchant, who resided in London, and became associated with the Pilgrims and the Mayflower through the Merchant Adventurers. The Merchant Adventurers were the group of English investors whose capital funded the Pilgrims voyage on the Mayflower. Richard is not named as an investor but apparently worked for the investors as a "Purchaser".

 

Richard Warren participated in several of the early explorations made by the Pilgrims in 1620, while looking for a place to settle. He appears by land records to have been fairly well-to-do. His wife, Elizabeth, came with their five daughters in 1623 to Plymouth, MA aboard the Anne.  They had two sons born in Plymouth, Nathaniel and Joseph.

 

The May 22, 1627 Division of Cattle names Richard Warren, wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniel Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren, and Abigail Warren.

Richard Warren died about 1628 at Plymouth Colony, MA. This was just five years after his wife had arrived. In a deed dated September 28, 1629 the land which Thomas Clarke sold to William Bradford was bounded on one side by land of "widow Warren."

In 1633, five years after her husband’s death, she lost title to a piece of land because she had failed to build on it. It was relinquished to someone else who promised to build on it within five years. She had put a fence around the piece of land and she was compensated for her expense.

In 1635 Elizabeth was sued by Thomas Clarke. He said that she had taken his boat and subsequently lost it on the Eele River when a big storm came and carried it away. The jury found that she had actually borrowed the boat and had returned it, leaving it in a usual place where it would have been fine if not for a freak storm. They decided she was not negligent. He had requested 15 pounds to pay for the boat but they only awarded him 3 shillings for his trouble.

That same year she told one of her servants, Thomas William, “fear God and doe his duty”.  He responded that “he  feared neither God nor the divell”.  He was taken to court for his blasphemy but was let off with a warning when he apologized for his words. The court decided that he had spoken “in passion & distemper’ and could therefore be forgiven without any physical beating.

On March 7, 1636/37 at court it was agreed that Elizabeth Warren, widow, the relict of Mr. Richard Warren, deceased, was to be a "Purchaser" as she had performed the bargain after her husband's death.

From 1637 to 1652 Elizabeth not only acquired more land but generously gave several pieces of property to her married daughters and their husbands. Her eldest son, Nathaniel Warren, was 27 years old. He thought as the eldest son all of her land was his inheritance.  Along with his wife, Sarah, and his wife’s grandmother, Jane Collier, he brought suit against his mother. He claimed his mother, Elizabeth Warren, had no right to have given away the property of his deceased father to his sisters and their husbands.

Their dispute was turned over to arbitration. They each selected two people to represent their viewpoints, and agreed to abide by their agreement. Elizabeth chose William Bradford and Captain Willett to represent her. Nathaniel and Jane chose Thomas Prence and Captain Myles Standish.

The committee determined that there were three categories of land. There was a section that Nathaniel owned outright. Then there was a section that Elizabeth had use of all of her life, but that would become Nathaniel’s after her death. And finally there was a section that belonged to Elizabeth, with which she could do as she pleased, including giving it away or selling it. This area of land included the property she had already given to her daughters and sons-in-law. Elizabeth in effect won the court case.

Her estate at the time of her death was worth 365 pounds, 14 shillings, a sizable amount.  Unlike most women of that era, her death was recorded in the Colony records, stating that “having lived a godly life, she came to her grave like a shock of corn, fully ripe” (a reference to a passage from the bible, Job 5:26).

Elizabeth also raised cattle. At one point she purchased the services of a bull cow from Stephen Hopkins for twenty shillings. She apparently kept the bull in her pasture so he could have access to her cows, and was going to pay him the 20 shillings when the “dates” were over and the bull returned. Stephen left notice in his will to his son Giles to collect the bull and the money from Mistress Warren.

On March 4, 1673/74 Mary Bartlett, the wife of Robert Bartlett acknowledged she had received full satisfaction for her share of the estate of Mistress Elizabeth Warren, deceased; and John Cooke in behalf of all her sisters testified to the same. The court settled the remainder of the estate on Joseph Warren, her youngest son." Source: Mayflower Quarterly, Vol 69, No. 2, June 2003, page 214-219, "A Woman of Valor: Elizabeth Warren of Plymouth Colony," by Peggy M. Baker


Children of Richard Warren and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren:

 

Mary Warren (b. abt. 1610 and d. March 27, 1683). Married Robert Bartlett.
Anna Warren (b. abt. 1612 and d. after February 19, 1675/76). Married Thomas Little.
Sarah Warren (b. abt. 1614 and d. abt. 15 Jul 1696). Married John Cooke.
Elizabeth Warren (b. abt. 1616 and d. March 9 , 1669/70). Married Richard Church.
Abigail Warren (b. abt. 1618, d. a 3 Jan 1691/92). Married Anthony Snow.
Nathaniel Warren (b. abt. 1624 and d. October 21, 1667). Married Sarah Walker.
Joseph Warren ( b. March 22, 1626/27 and d. May 4, 1689). Married Pricilla Fauce.

 

**2. Nathaniel Warren (b.. abt. 1624 and d.  October 21, 1667). Married Sarah Walker (b. October 11, 1622 and d. November 24, 1700), daughter of William Walker on November 19, 1645. Burial: Plymouth, MA.

 

Note: Nathaniel Warren was born at Plymouth, and according to his desposition, in 1624. His home was at Eal River, and he had land in the vicinity of the present Summer Street, Plymouth, near what was formally called "Prence's Botton," and bounded by the Town Brook and the ministerial lands. The last mentioned land is possibly that granted to him, June 5, 1662 in consideration of being one of the first born children in the colony.

 

After his death this land became the property of his son James. He was also the owner of lot number five (5) in the Namasket or Middleborough purchase; had rights in Punckateesett on Seconnett River, now in Rhode Island, as well as grants at Agawam and Manomett Ponds. He was a member of the Plymouth militia in 1643; was chosen surveyor of highways in 1654, and selectman in 1667, and representative to the General Court of Plymouth Colony, 1657-1660, 1663-1665.

 

His will, executed June 29, 1667, with codicil thereto July 16, 1667, named wife Sarah and "children, diverse of them being young," mother Mistress Elizabeth Warren, sister Mary Bartlett, Sen., Ann Little, Sarah Cooke, Elizabeth Church and Abigail Snow, and appointed Captain Thomas Southworth, brother Joseph Warren and Lieutenant Ephraim Morton supervisors.

 

The inventory of his estate was taken October 21, 1667, and exhibited at Court the 30th of the same month, on the oath of Sarah Warren, his widow. Richard Warren, Nathaniel Warren, Jabez Warren, Elizabeth Green, Sarah Blackwell, Thomas Gibbs and Alice his wife, Jonathan Delano and Mercy his wife, conveyed lands formerly owned by their father Nathaniel Warren, deceased, unto their brother James Warren on January 9, 1689/90. Sarah, widow of Nathaniel Warren, made a similar conveyance to the said James Warren the same day. The Will of Nathaniel can be found in Google books.

 

Children of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah (Walker) Warren:

 

Richard Warren (b. 1646, and d. January 23, 1697). Married Sarah.

Sarah Warren (b. August 29, 1649 and d. after March 4, 1692/93). Married John Blackwell.

Hope Warren (b. March 7, 1651 and d. circa 1689).

Jane Warren (b. December 31, 1652 and d. February 27, 1683). Married Benjamin Lombard.

Elizabeth Warren (b. September 15, 1654 and d. after January 10 1689/90). Married William Green.

Alice Warren (b. August 2, 1656 and d. after March 4, 1692). Married Thomas Gibbs.

Mercy Warren (b. February 20, 1658 and d. November 1727). Married Jonathan Delano.

Mary Warren (b. March 9, 1660 and d. before 1690).

Nathaniel Warren (b. March 19, 1662 and d. October 29, 1707). Married Phebe Murdock.

John Warren (b. October23, 1663 and d. before 1690).

James Warren (b. November 7, 1665 and d. May 29, 1715). Married Sarah Doty.

Jabaz Warren (b. circa 1667, d. April 19, 1701).

 

 

***3. Alice Warren (b. August 2, 1656 Plymouth County, MA and d. after March 4, 1692). Married Thomas Gibbs (b. March 23, 1646/47 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA and d. January 7, 1731/32), son of Thomas Gibbs, on December 23, 1674 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA.

 

Note: She and Thomas Gibbs consented to sell land to James Warren on March 4, 1692. The Inventory of Alice Warren was taken by John Ellis, Mordecai Tupper and Obadiah Butler on 23-Jan-1723.

 

Thomas's left a will on June 23, 1725 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co. MA. His estate was proved January 12, 1732/33.The Inventory of Thomas Gibbs was taken John Ellis Mordecai Tupper & Obadiah Butler took the Inventory of the personal estate "of Mr. Thomas Gibb Sr. of Sandwich, lately deceased, who has left his person all Estate Intestate" The son, "Thomas Gibbs, exhibited the above presented inventory February 1, 1732/3" on January 23, 1732/33. His Will can be found on Google Books.

 

Children of Alice (Warren) Gibbs and Thomas Gibbs:

 

Bethia Gibbs (b. December 10, 1675 and d. before June 23, 1725).

Abigail Gibbs (b. abt. 1677 and d. before November 19, 1741).

Thomas Gibbs (b. January 28, 1678/79 and d. between March 28, 1744 and May 9, 1745). Married Joanna Swift.

Sarah Gibbs (b. abt. 1683 and d. October28, 1716). Married Isaac Cushman.

Warren Gibbs (b. abt. 1684 and d. after February 25, 1764). Married Abigail Hilliard.

Ebenezer Gibbs (b. abt. 1685 and d. June 1725 at sea).

Jabez Gibbs (b. abt. 1689 and d. 1725 at sea).

Cornelius Gibbs (b. abt, 1691 and d. December 31, 1748).

 

****4. Abigail Gibbs (b. about 1677 in Sandwich, MA and d. after 1741). Married Jireh Swift (b. 1665 Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA and d. April 17, 1749 Wareham, Plymouth Co, MA) in 1782 in Acushnet, MA). Jireh is buried in Agawam Cemetery.

 

Note: See Linage of Henry Swift for continuation of line of descent from Richard Warren, Pilgrim ancestor and great grandfather of Abigail (Gibbs) Swift, to Ross Clarence Mitchiner.

 

Children of Abigail (Gibbs) Swift and Jireh Swift (In all there were 12 children):

 

Alice Swift (b. July 23, 1698 and d. July 15, 1783.) Married James Crocker.

Susannah Swift (b. July 6, 1699 and d. July 4, 1745). Married Joseph Isham.

Jabez Swift (b. March 16, 1700 and d. November 2, 1767). Married Abigail Pope.

Zephaniah (b. March 6, 1703 and May 9, 1781). 

William Swift (b. July 5, 1704 and d. October 2, 1748).

Nathaniel Swift (b. March 14, 1707 and d. March 13, 1790). Married Abia Tubber.

Jireh Swift (b. November 23, 1709 and March 16, 1782). Married Deborah Hathaway. 

Job Swift (b. October 3, 1711 and d. February 1801.)

Silas Swift (b. August 2, 1713 and d. September 24, 1794).

Abigail Swift (b. July 26, 1715 and d, January 31, 1796.) Married Antipas Hammond.

Isaac Swift (b. May 3, 1720 and d. November 22, 1811).

Roland Swift (b. march 24, 1721 and d.  February 13, 1795).

 

Some Notable Descendants of Richard Warren

Because all seven of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker's children survived and had families, they have very many descendants today. Some notable descendants include:

 

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and noted Civil War General

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States

Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska

Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter

Orson Welles, noted American actor, director, writer, and producer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator

Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, poet, and author

Alan Shepard, American astronaut

Richard Gere, American actor

Gary A. Kowalski, American author

Jeffrey Evans, American Voice Actor

Sue DiCicco, American artist and author

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