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Lee de Forest

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Rowland Swift

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Lee de Forest — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Jireh Swift 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Gibbs   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Mar 1721/1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Feb 1795 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Dexter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Dec 1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Zephaniah Swift

  Barzillai Swift (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for Rowland Swift

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74, 387.
  • ² Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison . . ., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son (1864), 517.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 175.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 3, Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 106.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Zephaniah Swift", (accessed 07/26/2016).