Bowen in his first volume of Early Rehoboth relates, "The town of Swansea was founded on the basis of a class division of inhabitants that existed nowhere else in New England." (up. 26) The founders of Swansea, an area in Rehoboth, were Thomas Willet, Stephen Paine, John Brown, John Allen and John Butterworth. Willet was Brown's son-in-law. The area was originally going to be part of Rehoboth. However religious differences made for a new town. Basically the individuals above were going to make themselves manor lords and assign lesser men small pieces of the property. This was March 1667/8. BC