Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Zephaniah Swift

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• • Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Rowland Swift 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Dexter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Feb 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Sep 1823 
  • Death Location:
  • Warren, Trumbull, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucretia Webb
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Mar 1795 
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  • Child:

  Lucretia A. Swift (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut

• Additional marriages for Zephaniah Swift

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  • Spouse:
  • Jerusha Watrous

• Sources for Zephaniah Swift

  • ¹ Hooker, John, Connecticut Reports: Being Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Error of the . . ., Vol. 31, Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Company (1864), 225-240.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74-75.
  • ³ 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), 517-518.
  • 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).