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Thomas Swift

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: January 26, 1718 (82)
Milton, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Milton, Norfolk County, MA, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Swift
Husband of Elizabeth Swift and Sarah Elizabeth Swift
Father of Thomas Swift; Elizabeth Pratt; Rev. John Swift; Anne Swift; William Swift and 3 others
Brother of Joan Baker; Obadiah Swift; Elizabeth Danks; Ruth Greenough; Mary White and 2 others

Occupation: yeoman
Managed by: Tammy Lu McKee
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About Thomas Swift

https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofd00dorc#page/86/

After Elizabeth died Thomas married Sarah Clapp who died Feb 4, 1717/18.

He owned a lot of acreage in Milton and Dorcester, including 19 3/4 acres left to him by his father in law Thomas Vose, 16 acres he bought from his father that was in Dorcester, and an allotment he received of 42 acres in the Six Divisions in Dorcester (now Stoughton). He also bought 3 acres from George Badcock by Milton Hill, and in 1693 bought from nathaniel Pilcher 5 acres, of which he later sold 3 acres, which was the dwelling of Deacon Thomas Swift.

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Thomas Swift's Timeline

1635
April 17, 1635
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1645
February 18, 1645
Age 9
Wing, Bucks
1659
July 30, 1659
Dorchester (Present Boston), Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1662
August 21, 1662
Milton, Norfolk County, MA, United States
1678
March 14, 1678
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1683
December 10, 1683
Milton, Norfolk County, MA, United States
1718
January 26, 1718
Age 82
Milton, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts
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