Mary Swearingen

Mary Morgan

• Birth: 1717 in
• Death: in Berkeley County, WV
• Father: Richard Morgan b: ABT 1690 in Frederick County, MD
• Mother: Jane Taylor b: ABT 1695 in Frederick County, MD

Marriage Thomas IV Swearingen b: 14 DEC 1735 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV Married: ABT 1757 in Berkeley County, WV

Children

1. Thomas V Swearingen b: ABT 1758 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV
2. Van Swearingen b: ABT 1760 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV
3. Andrew Swearingen b: ABT 1762 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV
4. Drusilla Swearingen b: ABT 1757 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV
5. Lydia Swearingen b: ABT 1759 in Swearingen Ferry, Jefferson, WV

Notes

Probate: 6 Dec 1763 Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia Will Book Vol. 3, page 159: Last Will and Testament of Richard Morgan d. 1763, probated Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia 6 December 1763.

Item: I give to my daughter Mary Swearingen one hundred acres of land lying and being in Frederick County and Coll. (sic.) of Virginia, a tract adjoining my home Plantation on the West. ...

Item: I do appoint my son William Morgan & my son in law Thomas Swearingen executors of this my last Will and Testament revoking Disallowing all other Wills, Legacies or Testaments by me before.

From NCTC Cultural History - Timeline

1734 Survey near Terrapin Neck - Robert Brooke completed several other surveys for the Hites in the area the same year (copies of these surveys are located at the Berkeley County Historical Society’s Belle Boyd House in Martinsburg, WV). In April, he surveyed 210 acres for Richard Morgan just north of present-day Shepherdstown. (This parcel was purchased by Van Swearingen 10 years later, and Thomas Swearingen, Jr. would eventually marry Morgan’s daughter). ...

1744 - The newlywed Van Swearingens bought a 210 acre Hite-surveyed, patented tract from Richard Morgan for 110 pounds just north of the Pack Horse Ford community (now part of the Cress Creek development), which became their first family residence in Virginia (FCDB 1, p.116). The deed refers to Richard Morgan as a “Gentleman”, while Van is described as a “Farmer”. Van’s older brother Thomas would acquire an adjacent 478 acres from a Fairfax grant six years later, site of a conspicuous circle of raised earth used by the native Indians sometime in the past (Kercheval 1833), that later became known as the Bellevue property. Local folklore includes the tale of a Delaware Indian chief who was supposedly captured in the vicinity by enemy Catawba Indians, and buried alive near the spring on what became the Swearingen estate. The spring on the property spurts instead of flows, according to the tale, because of the beating heart of the buried chief (Heatwole 1995). Thomas established a ferry across the Potomac on this property by 1755, and eventually owned plantations on both sides of the Potomac River.

Sources

1. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chafinmarsh/miche...

Links

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