A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameMajor Jeremiah Swayne 
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13BurialOld Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts2667
Occupationphysician, selectman, justice of the peace, representative, assistant to the Governor, captain, major, etc.
FlagsFrench and Indian Wars
FatherJeremiah Swayne (-1658)
MotherMary Smith (1621-)
Spouses
Birth15 Nov 1648, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony, BCA11
Death1714, Reading, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay, BCA11 Age: 65
BurialLaurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts2668
FatherCapt John Smith (1621-1706)
MotherCatherine Morrill (~1635-1662)
Notes for Major Jeremiah Swayne
Born 1 Mar 1642/3 and baptized 1 Mar 1643/4 in Charlestown, Massachusetts (VR Charlestown). Married Mary Smith 5 Nov 1664 in Reading, Massachusetts (VR Reading). Death record: SWEYEN.. Jeremiah, Maj., Esq., Aug. 13, 1710, in his 69th y. Vital records of Wakefield, Massachusetts.
"SWAIN, Jeremiah, major and doctor, son of Jeremiah and Mary, b. 1643; m. 1664, Mary Smith, and succeeded to his father's homestead; was physician, selectman, justice of the peace, representative, assistant to the Governor, captain, major, etc. ; had the command of a regiment that was sent against the Eastern Indians; was a brave and talented officer and an able man. He d. 1710, aged 67. Genealogical history of the town of Reading, Mass., p. 115-116.
"Major Jeremiah Sweyne, born in 1643 was a doctor and was at one time assistant to the Colonial Governor. In 1688 Major Swayne was Commissioned as Commander-in-chief of all Colonial forces in an expedition against the Kennebec and Eastern Indians and their French confederates." The five meeting houses and early parsonages of the first parish of Old Reading, now Wakefield, Massachusetts, p.5.
"SWAINE (SWAYNE), MAJOR JEREMIAH, 1643-1710, Reading, Mass. Wounded in Narragansett Fight. Lieut. and Capt. in King Philip's War. Major and Com.-in-Chief, Expedition against Kennebec and Eastern Indians, 1689. Representative. Governor's Assistant." An index of ancestors and roll of members of the Society of Colonial Wars" 1922, p. 460
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"SWAIN, Jeremiah, major and doctor, son of Jeremiah and Mary, b. 1643; m. 1664, Mary Smith, and succeeded to his father's homestead; was physician, selectman, justice of the peace, representative, assistant to the Governor, captain, major, etc. ; had the command of a regiment that was sent against the Eastern Indians; was a brave and talented officer and an able man. He d. 1710, aged 67. Genealogical history of the town of Reading, Mass., p. 115-116.
"Major Jeremiah Sweyne, born in 1643 was a doctor and was at one time assistant to the Colonial Governor. In 1688 Major Swayne was Commissioned as Commander-in-chief of all Colonial forces in an expedition against the Kennebec and Eastern Indians and their French confederates." The five meeting houses and early parsonages of the first parish of Old Reading, now Wakefield, Massachusetts, p.5.
"SWAINE (SWAYNE), MAJOR JEREMIAH, 1643-1710, Reading, Mass. Wounded in Narragansett Fight. Lieut. and Capt. in King Philip's War. Major and Com.-in-Chief, Expedition against Kennebec and Eastern Indians, 1689. Representative. Governor's Assistant." An index of ancestors and roll of members of the Society of Colonial Wars" 1922, p. 460
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