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
↑ 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.
Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. I ,Ancestors , page 245
Swayze Genealogy , p 9
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel:
Joyce, A Henry Sweazy/Swayze has been attached as a son of Sweezey-81 who will be merged with Reverend Samuel Swayze, the son of the above Judge Samuel Swayze, who took his parishioners to settle in Mississippi / British West Florida. Numerous family trees on Ancestry show Henry as a son of Reverend Samuel Swayze, but the family histories of the Swayze family do not list a son, Henry, for him and Henry was not attached as his son on his Wikitree profile.
Do you have any idea if Henry Sweazy / Swayze could have been a son of Reverend Samuel or whose son Henry might have been?
Do you have any idea if Henry Sweazy / Swayze could have been a son of Reverend Samuel or whose son Henry might have been?
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