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             Husband: Zephaniah SWIFT (1)
                Born: 1771 in Wilmington, VT (2 3)
             Married:
                Died: 07 FEB 1848 (4)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (5 6 7)
              Father: Chipman SWIFT
              Mother: Mary LAINE
             Spouses: Lydia
                Wife: Sarah PACKARD (8)
                Born: l 1772 in Vermont (9 10)
                Died: 27 SEP 1840 (11 12)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (13 14 15)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Theodosia SWIFT
                Born: 06 JUN 1794 (16)
                Died: 18 FEB 1845 (17 18)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (19 20)
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Lucy SWIFT (21)
                Born: 01 MAR 1796 (22)
                Died: 15 AUG 1818 (23)
             Spouses: Josiah HOLBROOK
03               (M): Chipman SWIFT
                Born: 15 JAN 1798 (24)
                Died: 23 OCT 1819 (25 26)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (27 28)
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Zephaniah SWIFT
                Born: 31 DEC 1799 (29)
                Died: 13 APR 1817 (30)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (31 32)
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Joseph Packard SWIFT (33 34)
                Born: 23 SEP 1801 (35)
                Died: 1891 (36)
             Spouses: Mary G.
06               (F): Samantha SWIFT
                Born: 17 JUL 1803 (37)
                Died: 29 NOV 1804 (38)
             Spouses: 
07               (F): Polly SWIFT
                Born: 25 MAY 1805 (39)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
08               (F): Samantha SWIFT
                Born: 28 JUL 1809 (40)
                Died: 03 DEC 1822 (41)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (42 43)
             Spouses: 
09               (F): Persis SWIFT (44 45 46)
                Born: 21 JUL 1811 (47)
                Died: 28 FEB 1899 (48)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (49 50)
             Spouses: 
10               (M): Samuel SWIFT
                Born: l SEP 1812 (51 52)
                Died: 30 MAR 1816 (53)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (54 55)
             Spouses: 
11               (M): Urbane Hitchcock SWIFT (56 57 58 59)
                Born: 24 MAR 1814 (60 61)
                Died: 29 MAR 1893 (62)
             Spouses: Charity W. BOOTH

Footnotes

  1. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
    ... m. Sarah Packard, sister of the first Congregational minister in Wilmington, Vt., before he settled in Roxbury, Conn ...
  2. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  3. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 658.
  4. Ibid., 768.
  5. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  6. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Rev Zephaniah Swift | born at Wilmington Vt | 1771 graduated Dartmouth College | 1792 | Installed as pastor of the | Congregational Church on Roxbury Ct | 1796 and dismissed in 1813 | settled over the first church in this | Town in 1813 in which relation | he continued until his decease | Feb 7 1848.
    Eminent for his virtues and usefulness in | all his relations to mankind while he | lived he was universally revered and | loved and being dead | his memory is Blessed.
  7. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem25943.html.]
  8. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
    ... m. Sarah Packard, sister of the first Congregational minister in Wilmington, Vt., before he settled in Roxbury, Conn ...
  9. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  10. 1880 Derby Census.
    [Son Urbane has both parents listed as born in Vermont.]
  11. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  12. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  13. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  14. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Mrs Sarah | wife to | Rev Zephaniah Swift | died | Sept 27 1840 | on the 68 year | of her age.
  15. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem25944.html.]
  16. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  17. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  18. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
    d. Feb. 15, 1845.
  19. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  20. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Theodosia Swift | daughter of Rev Zephaniah and Sarah Swift | died | Feb 15 1845 | in the 50th year of her age.
  21. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 12.
  22. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  23. Ibid., 768.
  24. Ibid., 768.
  25. Ibid., 768.
  26. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  27. Ibid., 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  28. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Chipman Swift | son of Rev Zephaniah | died Oct 23 1819 | aged 21 years | and 9 months.
    A member of the Medical Institution in Yale College.
  29. Ibid., 768.
  30. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  31. Ibid., 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  32. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Zephaniah Swift | son of Rev Zephaniah | and Mrs Sarahy Swift | died April 13 1817 | aged 17 years | and 36 months.
  33. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 246.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan246.html.]
  34. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 811.
    Robert Gates | son of Joseph Packard | and Mary Swift | died | June 13 1834 | aged 12 years | and 9 months.
  35. Ibid., 768.
  36. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 191.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan191.html.]
  37. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  38. Ibid., 768.
  39. Ibid., 768.
  40. Ibid., 768.
  41. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  42. Ibid., 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  43. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Samantha Swift | daughter of Rev Zephaniah | and Mrs Sarah Swift | died Dec 3 1822 | aged 13 yrs.
  44. 1850 Derby Census.
    [Living w/ brother Urbane and family.]
  45. 1860 Derby Census.
    [Living w/ brother Urbane and family.]
  46. 1870 Derby Census.
    [Living w/ brother Urbane and family.]
  47. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  48. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 250.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan250.html.]
  49. Ibid., 250.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan250.html.]
  50. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem25954.html.]
  51. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  52. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
    ... b. Sept. 26, 1807; d. Mar. 30, 1816.
  53. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  54. Ibid., 245.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan245.html.]
  55. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Samuel | son of Rev Zephaniah | and Sarah Swift | died Mar 30 1816 | æ 8 yrs and 6 mos.
  56. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 12455.
    ... of Derby ...
  57. 1850 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  58. 1860 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  59. 1870 Derby Census.
    Farmer.
  60. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 768.
  61. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 249.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan249.html.]
  62. Ibid., 249.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan249.html.]

Revised: 04-Dec-08
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