742. Richard Swan
From Forrest King:HE CAME TO AMERICA WITH 5 OR 6 CHILDREN AND THEN
REMOVED TO
ROWLEY.
From book The Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles H. Pope - 1900.
Richard, husbandman, Boston, adm. chh. 6 (11) 1638, frm. May
13, 1640.
He was dismissed to the gathering of a chh. at Rowley 24 (9)1639.
His first
wife Ann was bur. April 4, 1658; and he m. Marcg 1, 1658-9, Ann
widow of John
Trumble. She deposed 30 March, 1675, ae. about 60 years. Ch. John
bapt. at Bo.
13 (11) 1638, Robert, (deposed in 1662, ae. 36 years,) Mercy b. 4
(5) 1640,
Faith b. 30 (1) 1644, Sarah, (name written and crossed out in 1647.
He was bur. May 14, 1678. Will dated 25 April, prob. 23 May,
1678, beq. to
wife Ann, as by mr. contract; to son Robert and his son Richard; to
son-in-law
Joseph Boynton, his wife Sarah and ch. Elizabeth. Samuel and Sarah
B.; to daus.
Frances Quilter, Jane Wilson, Dorothy Chapman and Mercy Warener. The
widow Ann
made will 4 July, prob. 24 Sept. 1678; beq. to daus. Abigail Bayley
and Mary
Kilborne; to son Calab Hopkinson a chest that father Gott made; to
sons John
and Jonathan Hopkinson; one book to John Trumble.