This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swaim, Tanton, Taunton, Turner, Earl Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oQB.2ACE/857.3.1 Message Board Post: According to a Wells County biography of Col. Wm. Swaim, his grandfather, William Turner, fought in the American Revolutionary War from New Jersey. William Turner's widow, Hannah is listed in a later census, but I have been unable to confirm her maiden name. She could have been related to Tanton Earl and to Tanton Turner, but not sure.