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Ruth (Swain) Upham (1695 - 1775)

Ruth Upham formerly Swain aka Coffin
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1717 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Baymap
Wife of — married 1728 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 80 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Nantucket Founders and Descendants
Ruth (Swain) Upham descends from John Swain, a Nantucket founder.
Ruth Upham
Maiden Name: Swain
Death Age: 80
Birth Date: abt 1695
Death Date: 8 Feb 1775
Death Place: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Father: John Swain
Mother: Experience Swain
Spouse: Jonathan Upham
  • Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Ruth Swaine
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1717
Marriage Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Father Name: John Swaine
Mother Name: Experience Folger
Spouse Name: George Coffin
  • Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). [1]
Ruth COFFIN
Marriage 1728
Location Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Original Text Ruth and Jonathan Upham, Oct. 21, 1728.* [Ruth (second w.), wid. George, d. John Swain Jr. and Experience (Folger), P.R.38.]
Town Info Nantucket
Volume Name Nantucket - V3 Page 308
  • Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). [2]
Ruth UPHAM
Death 1775
Location Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Original Text Ruth, second w. Jonathan, wid. George Coffin (s. James Jr. and Ruth), d. John Swain Jr. and Experience (Folger), 8th, 2 mo. 1775, a. 80, P.R.38.
Town Info Nantucket
Volume Name Nantucket - V5 Page 594 * http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=20194044&pid=758

Sources

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850




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Swain-225 and Swain-18 appear to represent the same person because: 2nd marriage was to Jonathan Upham after death of George Coffin. See Barney Genealogical Records: http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p246.htm#i7372
posted by Michael Dunn

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