On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:32:33 -0700 "Sue Maxwell" <[email protected]> wrote: > They were the parents of Ebenezer who married Lydia Ellis. >Unfortunately I > have misplaced the photocopies I made of the book, Swains of >Nantucket, > Tales and Trails, but go the basic information in a different >manner. I will > have to go up to Slake to rephotocopy. > > Their son Ebenezer and Lydia Ellis had the following children- >Ebenezer ( > Jan 11 1772), Lydia (April 26 1774- 1812), Moses ( April 18 1776), >Shubael( >Feb 1778- Jan 10, 1808), Phebe(June 5, 1782-died 9 Oct 1849) and >Valentine( > > 5 Oct 1782-Jan 10-1808). It is Shubael and Valentine who are >reported as > having "died at sea" in 1808. Their Shubael married Sally of New >York. My > Shubael married Sarah Turner but died in 1849. I have looked at all >of the > Shubael Swains that I can find and this is the only family he fits, >as his > year of birth is around 1777, and theirs was born 1778. Mine died >Sept 20 > > 1849 at age 72. So many things fit except this died at sea problem. > > Sue Sue, I went to books.google.com and searched for <"ebenezer swain" nantucket> and found a citation on page 390 of /Nantucket Lands and Landowners/ by Henry Barnard Worth. It gives an extract of Ebenezer Swain's 1813 will. Names wife Lydia, children Ebenezer and Phebe, and grandchildren Stephen and Mary West. So it would appear that in 1813, the father of this family did not believe his son Shubael was alive, or that he had any surviving children to take their father's share of the estate. -- Dan Treadway P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105 [email protected] http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/