Samuel Swartwout (bef. 1726 - 1816)

Born before 23 Jan 1726 in Wicopee, Fishkill, Dutchess County, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Pudney) Swartwout — married 16 Apr 1750 in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York

Descendants

Died 1816 after age 89 in Oppenheim, Fulton County, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Swartwout Name Study.

Zamuel was born (according to his marriage record) at Fishkill, New York, and baptized on 23 January 1726 by a domine of the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, recorded as the child of Jacobus Swartwout and Gieletjen Nieuwkerk. Witnesses were Zamuel Swartwout and Rebekka du Bois.^[1] "Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families" identifies his parents as Jacobus Swartwout and his wife Gilles Newkirk.^[2]

He married Phebe Pudney, daughter of John Pudney of Rombouts, New York,^[2] on 16 April 1750 in the Dutch Reformed Church of Fishkill, New York. The marriage record calls them Samuel Swartwout, y. m., of (born at) Fishkill and Feebie or Febie Poedne, y. d., of Long Island. Both were living at Fishkill; they had published banns on 25 March 1750.^[3]

Seven children were born (at Rombouts) to the marriage of Samuel Swartwout and Phebe Pudney:^[2]

1. Jacobus, born 1750^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}
2. Johannes, baptized 15 February 1753^{[9][10][11][12]} Died 1823. married Aaltje Bedell.
3. Gieletjen, baptized 28 December 1757
4. Phebe, baptized 1 June 1760
5. Elizabeth, baptized 20 July 1762
6. Jacomyntje, baptized 10 August 1765
7. Jannette, baptized 12 August 1767
8. Thomas.
   

   Private Samuel Swartwout served with Dutchess County New York Militia during the American Revolution.
   

   Samuel Swartwout is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A111687.

Samuel served for Dutchess County New York in the Revolution where he signed the Association Test. ^[13]

Samuel died in 1816.^[14]

Research Notes

LNAB is Swartwout, the name recorded for the father at this child's baptism. Smith-62120 23:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Samuel was born about 1725. He passed away about 1787. ^[15]

Sources

1. ↑ Hoes, page 161, baptism #3438.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ancestry.com database: Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families from the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Volume II: Hinman-Sotcher. page 28.
3. ↑ "Marriages of the Dutch Reformed Church of Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 83, issue 2 (April 1952), page 96, and Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Hopewell, Fishkill and MarbleTown, Book 14, accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/28852:6961. Note: "Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families" gives the year of the marriage as 1749, but the date in the church's chronological register is more reliable. Perhaps the marriage date was adjusted in the family genealogy to increase the time between marriage and birth of first child.
4. ↑ John Alden Swartwout NSSAR application , accepted 3 Dec 1947.
5. ↑ Frank Austin Swartwout, NSSAR application, accepted 22 Feb 1900.
6. ↑ Abraham Lincoln Swartwout, NSSAR application , accepted 13 Jan 1910.
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls
8. ↑ DAR application for a restricted-visibility descendant
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} The Swartwout Chronicles p 177 (199 in the PDF) ... the two sons of Samuel, Jacobus and Johannes ...
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} The Swartwout Chronicles p 239 (261 in the PDF) ... the fifth (Beekman Precinct) regiment was also in active service, and on duty with it was Captain Isaac van Wyck's company, of which Jacobus (Jabez), son of Samuel and Phebe Pudney Swartwout, was second lieutenant, and in which his brother John was a private ...
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} The Swartwout Chronicles p 236 (258 in the PDF) ... Among the companies belonging to the battalion was the one of which George Brinckerhoff was captain, and of which Jacobus, son of Samuel and Phebe Pudney Swartwout, was appointed ensign, on June 25, 1778, and in which his brother John was a corporal ...
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} The Updated Swartwout Chronicles. Jacobus is person 301; Johannes is person 302 and their father Samuel is person 127.
13. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Samuel Swartwout", Ancestor # A111687.
14. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116260747/samuel-swartwout , database and images (accessed 25 May 2018), memorial page for Samuel Swartwout (23 Jan 1726–1816), Find A Grave Memorial no. 116260747, citing Chatsey Cemetery, Fulton County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Deb Hayes-Wolfe (contributor 46811474) .
15. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Janice (Jeffries) Rusch.

• Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.

Acknowledgments

• Swartwout-404 was created by Pam Wright through the import of stephen schoonover.ged on Jul 5, 2016.