Francis Swann, (died young)

Origins

The children of Colonel Thomas Swann and his fifth wife Mary were:

(11). MARY SWAN(N), born 5 October 1669. She married Richard Bland of Jordan's Point (born 11 August 1665 at ‘Berkeley’, Virginia), the son of Theodoric Bland andAnne Bennett, daughter of Colonel Richard Bennett. John Bland, a grocer of London (1573-1632), was the founder of this family, and was interested in the Colony of Virginia in its early times. He left a large family, and also a large personal estate. Amongst his children were four sons who emigrated to Virginia [Adam Bland, John Bland, Edward Bland and Theodoric Bland]. Theodoric Bland was the fourth such son, and fifteenth child. He was the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1659-1660, and a Member of the Council (1666). He had two children, Theodoric Bland of Westover and Richard Bland.

Mary Swan Bland died possibly around 1700.

(12). FRANCIS SWAN(N) [twin], born 14 December 1670 and died on 14 April 1676.

(13). THOMAS SWAN(N) [twin], born 14 December 1670. He married Eliza(beth), daughter of William Thompson, whose will was dated 18 April 1686 and bequeathed his daughter 300 acres in Surry. They moved to Nansemond, as Thomas Swann appears as a Burgess for Nansemond from 1702 to 1704. He was a Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Surry in 1693, 1695, 1696, 1698 and Sheriff of Surry in 1697. Thomas Swann, Jr., died in 1705. His wife appears to have married, secondly, John Lear of Nansemond, Burgess for that County 1718-1722 (Virginia Historical Magazine, 44, p. 199).