Samuel Swayze Esq (1689 - 1759)

Born 20 Mar 1689 in Southold, Long Island, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Penelope (Horton) Swayze — married 14 Feb 1710 in Southhold, Suffolk, New York

Husband of Susannah Huntington — married 20 Apr 1747 in Southfold, Long Island, NY

Descendants

Died 11 May 1759 at age 70 in Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey

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Biography

Judge Samuel Swayze was the father of Reverend Samuel Swayze and Richard Swayze who led their families and a number of the members of the Congregational Church in New Jersey to settle near Natchez, Mississippi in British West Florida in 1773. They became known as the Jersey Settlers.

"Samuel Swayze, great grandson of John Swayze, sr., was born on 1 jul 1689. He was at Southhold Long Island and then moved to Roxberry Twp., Morris County, New Jersey, in 1737. He married firstly Penelope _____ and secondly Susannah Huntingdon. Samuel was a large landowner and willed nearly 1000 acres to his children ^[1]

Tombstone Inscription:

Here lies the body of Samuel Swayze, Esqr., who was born in Southold, Long Island, March 20, 1689, and removed from thence to Roxbury, May 17, 1737, where he continued to reside until he departed this life May 11, 1759, aged 70 years 1 month and 11 days.

Sources

1. ↑ R. Robert Mutrie,’The Yeager Family Album (Simcoe: Second Avenue Printing Ltd., 1989, 292; citng Annals of the Forty, published by the Grimsby Historical Society [which Murtrie notes requires further research.

• Abstract of Will (see image)

• FindAGrave

• Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. I ,Ancestors , page 245

• Swayze Genealogy , p 9