Joseph Swett

The known children of John Swett and Phebe Benton were:

7. Joseph Swett [Stackpole #3], son of John Swett, was baptized 21 January 1621 in Wymondham Parish, Norfolk, England. m. Elizabeth Taylor, (2) Mrs. Mary (Baxter) Buttolph.

http://swett-genealogy.com/04Joseph.html

The life of Joseph Swett isn't well documented. He and his first wife, Elizabeth, may have left Boston and lived somewhere else, possibly in New York or Maryland. Additional research is needed to find when and where she died, and whether they had any children who were not born in Boston. The lives of his sons Joseph, Jr. (1658) and Benjamin (1673) are almost entirely unknown.

Stackpole

Joseph Swett (John1) married, Oct. 1651, as church record says, Elizabeth Taylor. Newbury confirmed to him a grant of six acres on Deer Island in 1655. Removed to Boston. Married (2) after 1671, Mary, widow of Thomas Buttolph and dau. of Nicholas Baxter. His will, made in London, Eng., 20 Aug. 1689, was probated there 24 Jan. 1695. It names no children. Her will, 12 Jan. 1711-12 -- 10 Apr. 1721, "widow, of Boston, being very aged and weak," names son, Nicholas Buttolph, dau. Mary wife of Robert Gutteridge, dau. Abigail wife of Joseph Belknap, all probably children by her first husband. Her will makes no mention of her children by Joseph Swett. He is called a mariner.

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