Joseph Swett

Joseph Swett, tanner, son of Joseph (Benjamin) & his first wife Hannah. An army lieutenant during the Indian Wars. Married Hannah Sayward. Children: Mary, Susanna, Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Esther and Samuel Swett.

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LT. JOSEPH SWETT (Joseph 3, Benjamin 2, John 1), born in Hampton, N. H., married Hannah, dau. of John and Mary (Rishworth) Sayward of York, Me. She was born 21 June 1688 and died 15 Nov. 1761. He lived a few years at Hampton Falls and removed thence to York, Me. The church record at Hampton Falls says, "Hannah Swett wife of J. S. Jr. Dism. York (gone this region)." Three children recorded at Hampton, the rest in York. He married (2) 26 June 1762, Patience, widow of Ebenezer Nowell of York. Tate's Journal says that he died 2 Aug. 1776.

Children

• MARY b. 5 March 1715; m. 22 Nov. 1730, Dr. Alexander Bulman of York.
• SUSANNA b. 7 May 1716; m. 12 June 1736, John Hovey.
• ELIZABETH b. 15 Sept. 1718; m. (I) 12 April 1735, Dr. Mark Prime, (2) Capt. Thomas Wallingford of Somersworth, N. H. She d. 3 Dec. 1810.
• 43. JOHN b. 31 March 1719; m. Sarah Plaisted.
• JOSEPH b. 3 Feb. 1723; drowned 12 June 1750.
• ESTHER b. 3 Aug. 1725; m. James Arbuckle. Pub. 18 Jan. 1755.
• 44. SAMUEL b. 8 March 1728-9; m. Lydia Moulton.

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• page 80 of American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia By Mary Ellen Snodgrass
• page 344 of Families of Western New York By William Richard Cutter
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/e/y/Laura-E-Seymour/WEBSITE-0001/UHP...
• http://greenerpasture.com/Ancestors/Details/44873
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nhmerrim/families/swettfamily.htm