Asa Swan

Family

Sources

1. R. A. Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington (1900), Avery Family pp. 199-201: "2. Capt. James Avery, the only child of Christopher, was born in 1620 ... He m. 1st, Nov. 10, 1643, Joanna Greenslade, b. about 1622 ... He m. 2nd, Mrs. Abigail (Ingraham) Chesebrough, widow of Joshua Holmes, July 4, 1698 ... CHILDREN: 3 HANNAH, b. at Gloucester, Oct. 11, 1644, m. Ephraim Miner, June 20, 1666, (No. 15) that family." Matches hannah-avery-miner-bsb.

   R. A. Wheeler, "History of the Town of Stonington" (1900), Swan Family pp. 611-612: "Asa Swan (No. 25) and his brother John lived on adjoining farms in North Stonington ... He m. Marvin Holmes, sister of his brother William's wife, Nov. 19, 1740 (No. 27), that family. CHILDREN: 53 ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 8, 1741 ... 55 ASA, b. Sept. 12, 1747. 56 JABEZ, b. May 21, 1751, m. Mehitable Wheeler; he m. 2d, widow Lucy Wheeler." Matches jabez-swan-bsb: birth day 21 May 1751; 1st wife Mehitable Wheeler; 2nd wife Lucy Wheeler.

2. Beers, Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1903), p. 543, Ralph B. Swan sketch: "(V) Jabez Swan, son of Asa, was born May 21, 1751. On June 17, 1772, he married (first) Mehitable Wheeler, and for his second wife he wedded Lucy Wheeler. In 1777 he sold his property in Stonington... invested in a farm near Millington green, in East Haddam, and on May 22, 1777, moved there. Jabez and Mehitable (Wheeler) Swan had the following named children: Hurlburt, Mehitable, Jabez, Jr., ... By the second wife, Lucy (Wheeler), there were two children... (VI) Hurlburt and Hannah (Esterbrook) Swan, the paternal grandparents of Ralph B., were farming people of East Haddam". Independently, Davis, The New England States (1897) p. 332: "Jabez Swan, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1750, and removed to East Haddam, Conn., in 1776... Hurlbert Swan, son of Jabez". Matches hurlbert-swan: wife Hannah Estabrook (both sources); East Haddam (both); father of Diodate L. Swan Sr.

   Beers (1903) p. 543: "(III) John Swan, son of Robert, born August 1, 1668, married, August 1, 1699, Susannah Wood, daughter of Philip Eastman and widow of Thomas Wood ... In that year [1707] they came to Stonington ... (IV) Asa Swan, son of John, was born in Stonington ... married Marvine Holmes."

3. R. A. Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington (1900), Avery Family pp. 199-201: "2. Capt. James Avery, the only child of Christopher, was born in 1620 ... He m. 1st, Nov. 10, 1643, Joanna Greenslade, b. about 1622 ... He m. 2nd, Mrs. Abigail (Ingraham) Chesebrough, widow of Joshua Holmes, July 4, 1698 ... CHILDREN: 3 HANNAH, b. at Gloucester, Oct. 11, 1644, m. Ephraim Miner, June 20, 1666, (No. 15) that family." Matches hannah-avery-miner-bsb.

   R. A. Wheeler, "History of the Town of Stonington" (1900), Swan Family pp. 611-612: "Asa Swan (No. 25) and his brother John lived on adjoining farms in North Stonington ... He m. Marvin Holmes, sister of his brother William's wife, Nov. 19, 1740 (No. 27), that family. CHILDREN: 53 ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 8, 1741 ... 55 ASA, b. Sept. 12, 1747. 56 JABEZ, b. May 21, 1751, m. Mehitable Wheeler; he m. 2d, widow Lucy Wheeler." Matches jabez-swan-bsb: birth day 21 May 1751; 1st wife Mehitable Wheeler; 2nd wife Lucy Wheeler.

4. R. A. Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington (1900), Avery Family pp. 199-201: "2. Capt. James Avery, the only child of Christopher, was born in 1620 ... He m. 1st, Nov. 10, 1643, Joanna Greenslade, b. about 1622 ... He m. 2nd, Mrs. Abigail (Ingraham) Chesebrough, widow of Joshua Holmes, July 4, 1698 ... CHILDREN: 3 HANNAH, b. at Gloucester, Oct. 11, 1644, m. Ephraim Miner, June 20, 1666, (No. 15) that family." Matches hannah-avery-miner-bsb.

   Wheeler, History of Stonington (1900) pp. 610-611: John Swan (No. 16) "m. Mrs. Susanna Wood Aug. 1, 1699, daughter of Philip Eastman and granddaughter of Roger Eastman ... came to Stonington in the year 1707, locating himself on what is now known as Swan Town Hill, North Stonington ... He d. May 1, 1743, aged 75; she d. Dec. 20, 1772, in the hundredth year of her age. CHILDREN: ... 25 ASA, b. at Stonington June 4, 1712, m. Marvin Holmes." Matches asa-swan-bsb: Stonington birth; wife Marvin Holmes (m. 1740).