Mary Clark

Family

Jeremiah Swain (Sr.) (born before 1620 - died 2 Apr 1658 after age 38 in Reading, Massachusetts) married Mary (unknown).

Marriage 1642, Charlestown / Reading, Mass. where Jeremiah/Jeremie? Swain (- 2 Apr 1658) & Mary unknown (-living in 1709) were married. She m. 2nd Thomas Clark in 1658. [3] [4] Charlestown and Reading boundaries touch.

Children

1. Jeremiah, Jr., b. 1 Mar 1643, succeeded to his father's homestead. Active in King Philip's war, made Maj.; m. Mary Smith, Reading, Mass; he was also a physician, town selectman, etc.; he d. Reading, 13 Aug 1710.
2. John, b. 1645; lived in Charlestown, Mass; was possibly the father of Ensign John Swain of the quota of town of Reading, 1702.
3. Mary, b. 1647; m. 1st in 1658, Thomas Clark; 2d in 1665, Edward Marshall. ("There is evidently a mistake here, prob. in date of birth. I find in one record that she was born in 1647 and in another that it was prior to 1643. The latter is more prob. correct.")
4. Elizabeth, b. 1651; d. 1656
5. Sarah, b. 29 Jan 1654/5

Death Jeremiah Swain (Sr.) died 2 April 1658, Reading, Massachusetts. [5]

Probate Taken from Middlesex county, miscellaneous records, 1658; pg.398. [1] "This court doth order that the estate of Jerem. Swayne of Redding, lately deceased, shall be divided in manner following:

unto his relick widow, y now wife of Thomas Clarke, 2/7 part of the whole estate, to be & remain here unto her proper use and dispose, and

unto the Eldest sonne of the sd Jeremiah Swayne, 2/7 of the sd estate,
and to the other three children, 1/7 part each.

The inventory of his estate mentions his house and Homelot valued at L40, 20 acres of meadow, the total value, with personal property L159:1:6."[6]

Probable Children of William Clarke with his First Wife

1. 2. Thomas was born about 1618 and died at Reading, Massachusetts on September 12, 1693. He married (1st) "Ealse" (_____) who died at Reading on June 28, 1658. He married on August 31, 1658 (2nd) Mary (_____) Swain who died at Reading on July 30, 1688. Mary was the widow of Jeremiah Swain who had died at Reading on April 2, 1658. [2] Estate valued at more than L200. [3]

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Mary Swain, daughter of Jeremiah Swain & Mary, was born about 1647 in Reading, Massachusetts.

She was married (1) to Thomas Clarke 31 Aug 1658 [NO - that was her mother] in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was married (2) to Edward Marshall 9 Jun 1665 in Reading.

Pope305 and Moriarty278 all give Mary's birth as 15 Apr 1647, but Swain finds either 1647 or before 1643, while Baldwin62 saynd that the decade was supplied by the compiler from other sources. Torrey reports the first birth in this family as 1642. Since her first marriage was in 1658, her birth year was more likely 1642, and so I show her birth as being in Charlestown, where her parents were living at the time. (It was a common practice to enter the births of existing children into the record of a new town to which the early settlers moved.) In both of her marriage records Mary's name is spelled Swayne.

References

• http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Smith/FrancisSmith1.html
  • 2. ????, Genealogical History of the Town of Reading,, [ReadGen], 111.
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paulrswan/Swain_Lineage.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swain-108
• Swain, William Chester. Swain and Allied Families (Swain & Tate Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1896) Page 6 < GoogleBooks >

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clarke-4474
2. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LRX6-STD