Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

William Swain

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Thomas Edison — 9th Generation
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  • AFT 27 May 1657 
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  Mary Swain

  Samuel Swain (Ahnentafel No:146 )

  Daniel Swain

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  • William Swain's surname is also seen as Swaine.

• Sources for William Swain

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 325.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 103, 618-621.
  • ³ Wheeler, William Ogden, The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his . . ., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1907), 44.
  • ⁴ Whittemore, Henry, The Heroes of the American Revolution and their Descendants: Battle of Long Island, The Heroes of the Revolution Publishing Company (1897), 21.