Sarah Swann

Sarah Drummond Swann BIRTH 2 Mar 1654 DEATH 18 Apr 1696 (aged 42) North Carolina, USA BURIAL Swann's Point Cemetery Surry County, Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 135332452 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 3 Sarah is the daughter of William & Sarah Drummond. WiIliamwas the first Govenor of North Carolina. Scottish born and passing in Abermarle Co., VA For more concerning him, please see: https://books.google.com/books?id=XHcXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA34&dq=william+d...

She and Samuel married in 1673

"My dearly beloved wife, Sarah, daughter of William Drummond, Esq., was born the 2nd March, 1654, being Friday, about two of the clock in the morning. My dearly beloved wife, Sarah Swann, departed this life to a better on Saturday, the 18th of April, 1696, about 8 o'clock in the morning, in North Carolina, and was buried at Swann's Point, in Surry County, at her own mother's feet, on Friday, the 28th of the same month, being forty-one years, one month and sixteen days old, having been married to me twenty-two years, and as much as from the 24th of March to the 18th April aforesaid." - Samuel Swann

Family Members Parents Photo Sarah Drummond

Spouse Photo Samuel Swann 1653–1707

Children Sarah Swann 1682–1683

Thomas Swann 1686–1686

Photo Thomas Swann 1689–1733

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"At the expiration of Drummond's term in 1667, he returned to his home in Virginia, which perhaps he had never abandoned, and for some years passed out of public view. Some eight years later many of the people of Virginia, following the leadership of Bacon, rebelled against Berkeley's administration, among them being Governor Drummond, ahd it is said that his wife, Mrs. Sarah Drummond, was an enthusiastic promoter of the rebellion. She passed about the country encouraging the doubtful and cheering the hopeful, her constant exclamation being, "We shall do well enough," and "The child that is unborn shall have cause to rejoice at this rising of the country.".....Before Lady Berkeley's marriage with Governor Ludwell, Mrs. Drummond brought suit against her for some of the lands and goods which had been seized as the property of her husband, and recovered a verdict in the courts. Mrs. Drummond's daughter Sarah afterward became the wife of Colonel Sam Swann, who afterward moved to Albemarle and married for a second wife a daughter of Major Alexander Lillington. Colonel Thomas Swann of Albemarle was a descendant of Governor Drummond, but Speaker Sam Swann, of the next generation, was a grandson of Major Lillington. The name of Albemarle's first governor, the unfortunate martyr to the cause of liberty, has been perpetuated by calling the lovely lake in the heart of the great Dismal Swamp Lake Drummond. "

from https://archive.org/details/cu31924092215437/page/n361/mode/2up?vie... "A Biographical History of North Carolina: William Drummond."