Captain James Swann, Jr

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 26 May 1708, St. Marys Co, Maryland
• Other-Begin: 3 Apr 1710, St. Marys Co, Maryland

Notes:

Will:
Capt. James Swann 28.217 A SM £86.19.11 £45.17.
4 May 26 1708
Payments to: Ellinor Butler, Ezechea Bussee, Jonathon White, Joshuah Holdsworth, Clement Hill, John Briscoe, William Turner, Phillip Briscoe, Thomas Low, Thomas Persons.
Administratrix/Executrix: Judith Swann
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&id=I016183

Other-Begin:
Capt. James Swan 31.85 A SM £79.6.3 £104.4.7 Apr 3 1710
Received from: Edward Gillian, John Rose.
Payments to: John Parry, Mr. John Coode, Mr. William Coode, John Shanks, William Butler (his of estate of John Butler).
Administratrix: Judith Swan (widow).
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&id=I016183

Family/Spouse: Judith Compton. Judith (daughter of John* C Compton, Sr. (immigrant) and Mary* Rebecca Clarke) was born about 1670 in Maryland; died in 1736 in St. Marys, Charles Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Bef 1648, (possible immigrant)
• Property: Abt 1676, St. Marys Co, Maryland

Notes:

1658: Charles County Circuit Court, Liber B, 10 May 1663, Page 113 - 114
Patent: John Lewgar, Sec'y of the Province, transported many persons into the province grants unto James Walker, assignee of John Lewgar a parcel of land lying on the west side of the Wicokomoco, River and Walker's Run containing 200 acres 17 Aug 1658; /s/ Josias Fendall

Endorsement on back: James Walker assigns rights to Edward Swan; dated 27 Jan 1658; /s/ James Walker; wit. Robert Hickes (mark), Richard Granger (mark)
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1658: Charles County Circuit Court, Liber A; 26 October 1658, Page 22
John Piper demands warrant against John Villaine in action of the case; subpoena to warn John Courts, Edward Swane and Hew Neale to testify

1662: Charles County Circuit Court, Liber A; 22 Apr 1662, Page 201
Edward Swan presents Elisabeth Ireland; judged to 17 years old
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Charles County Circuit Court, Liber B, 28 Jul 1663, Page 125
John Piper and Samuell Dobson bind themselves never to trouble nor molest Edward Swan of a parcel of land containing 100 acres which the said Swan was possessed of before any of us had any relation to the one half of the said land; 14 Jan 1662; /s/ John Piper (mark); Samuell Dobson; wit. Susan Swan (mark)
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Piccawaxen or Wm&Mary: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 291-23: PROMISE: 140 acres; Possession of - 100 Acres - Bayly, John : Surveyed Sept 1673 for John Dent at a bound oak and bound tree of Edward Swann and William Marshall, Bounding upon Swan N.W.:

Surveyed 10 July 1665 for John Nevitt Adjoining to the land of Edward Swan

1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Surveyed 10 June 1682 for Wm Ward near the head of Wicomico river at the East Bound of the land late of Edward Swan
Rent Rolls Charles County Md: Possession of - 250 Acres - Wilson, John: Surveyed 16 Jan 1664 for Richard Watson in the woods adjoining to the land of Edward Swann called EAGLETON: Other Tracts Mentioned: EAGLETON; WILSONS CHOICE
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1706: ===
Charles County Land Records, Liber C#2 Page 7
Recorded at request of Thomas Stonestreet, Jr.:
11 Jun 1706; Indenture from Thomas Stonestreet, Sr., planter of Prince George's Co., to Thomas Stonestreet, Jr., of Prince George's Co., younger son of Thomas, Sr.; for natural love and affection and 5s; part of a tract called Birth Denn formerly in St. Mary's now in Charles Co.; bounded by Richard Morris and Edward Swann; laid out for 150 acres; /s/ Thomas Stonestreet (mark); wit. William Stone, Edward Chapman, Cornelius White; ack. in open court 11 Jun 1706

Property:
19 Jun 1725; from Philip Briscoe of St. Mary's, physician, to Samuel Swann of Charles County, carpenter; all that tract formerly belonging to Edward Swann, Sr., being part of Egglestone; given to his [Edward's] dau. Susannah in consideration of her marriage; containing 80 acres; ack. Philip Briscoe and Elizabeth his wife (CCLR L#2.231
(Susannah m Briscoe about 1676)

Edward* married Susannah* Heath about 1649 in Charles Co, Maryland. Susannah* was born about 1628 in of, Virginia; died after 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1663: Charles County Circuit Court, Liber B, 28 Jul 1663, Page 125
John Piper and Samuell Dobson bind themselves never to trouble nor molest Edward Swan of a parcel of land containing 100 acres which the said Swan was possessed of before any of us had any relation to the one half of the said land; 14 Jan 1662; /s/ John Piper (mark); Samuell Dobson; wit. Susan Swan (mark)

Notes:

From Rootsweb site: "Contact Angela DiBlasi adib102684@aol.com; updated 8/14/04 - "Major surnames: Creasy, McKee, Collins, Walker, Swann, Dyer, Tate, Goslee, Greenley and more."
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One of the first Swann's in Virginia was William Swann of Southfleete, Kent. William was born at Gravesend, Kent in 1586, the son of Samuell Swann and a descendant of Baron John Swan of Kent. William Swann married Judith Greene, the widow of William Austen, at St. Dunstain's Church, Middlesex, England on April 16th, 1612. William came to Jamestown, Virginia in 1616 and had a son, Thomas, there and then went back to England. William was a stockholder in the Virginia Company and was appointed Royal Customs Collector of Virginia. The Swanns finally settled permanently in Virginia in 1635. William served as Land Registrar and Royal Customs Collector of the Virginia Colony until his death in 1638.

William was granted 1200 acres of land across the James River from Jamestown in Surry County. He purchased a farm which was Jordan's Point and named it Swann's Point, built tobacco plantation, which is still on the maps today. This plantation later was repatented in Colonel Thomas Swann's name after William's death. William and Judith are buried there in the family graveyard. The Swann family Coat of Arms is engraved on the tombs of William and Thomas Swann at Swann's Point and these Arms trace themself back to 1533 when they were granted to Sir Francis Swann of Wye, Kent.
Virginia was going to build a bridge across the James River at this point, but a few relatives persuaded the State to turn Swann's Point into a wildlife reserve. Thomas, the eldest son, inherited the land and became a member of the Virginse of Burgesses. Tom's younger brother, Edward, was granted land in St. Mary's Co., MD and moved there in the 1650s. Col. Edward Swann married Susannah Heath and had 10 children. Edward had plots of land all over St Mary's/Charles County, and is presumed to have died after 1666.
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Swann's Point at the mouth of the Nansemond and near the mouth of the James river, Virginia.
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http://users.htcomp.net/benny/d107.htm#P1658
States parents were William Swann and Amy Deering.
siblings listed as: George, Sir Frances, Muriel, and Margaret.

William* married Judith* Greene on 16 Apr 1612 in St. Dunstain's Ch, Stephney, London, Middlesex, England. Judith* was born on 5 Feb 1589 in Kent, England; died on 16 Sep 1680 in Swan's Point, Surrey, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://users.htcomp.net/benny/d107.htm#P1658
lists children: Thomas, Matthew, Samuel, John, and Edward.