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REMEMBER: In North America, the month of September 1752 was exceptionally short, skipping 11 days, when the Gregorian Calendar was adapted from the old Julian one, which didn't have leap year days.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Happy birthday to Joseph and Elisabeth Swasey

I've already posted earlier this year HERE about Joseph Swasey II, my 7 times great grandfather (1653-1710).

His wife Elisabeth Lambert Swasey (1653-1711) has the same birthdate given on my ancestry tree, Sept 12.  She could have been born in 1653 or 1657.  So the only documentation that I can attest to is their wedding in 1678, and details of Joseph's probate that are included in a book about the Swasey family.

They had 3 children, with the daughter Elisabeth not living beyond her 19th birthday.  Sons Samuel and Joseph III did live longer and each married and had children.

Salem Massachusetts

It is also interesting to consider that the Swaseys lived in Salem Massachusetts at the time there were witch trials.  We don't know what Joseph did for his livelihood, though the Swasey book suggests that he might have been a fisherman like his father.

Whatever his life was like, or that of his wife Elisabeth, they both died within a year of each other, he in 1710 and she in 1711.


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