Ancestry of Sir
Hiram Maxim

Machine Gun Inventor

William Swift

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Hiram Maxim — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 70 
  • Father:
  • William Swift 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • from 17 Jun 1700 to 1 May 1701 
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  • Elizabeth -----
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  Benjamin Swift

  Joseph Swift

  Joanna Swift (Ahnentafel No:35 )

• Sources for William Swift

  • ¹ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, Vol. 1, p. 384.
  • ² Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal, Family Records of Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, Prescott, Smith, Neal, Haley, Lock, Swift, . . ., Rockford, Illinois: Unknown (1915), 285-286.
  • ³ Swift, George H., comp., William Swyft of Sandwich and Some of His Descendants 1637-1899, Millbrook, New York: Round Table Press (1900), 5.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 175.