Mathias
Swaim
Born about in Frederick County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Mathias Swaim
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Abigail (Hedges) Swaim
— married
about 1768 in Frederick County, Colony of Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Swaim) Richeson and John Swaim
Died before
before about age 85
in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Jan 2019
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Biography
Mathias was born about 1740, the son of Mathias Swaim of Staten Island, New York.
He married Abigail Hedges in 1768. According to family legend, her father didn't care for Mathias, so she climbed out of an upstairs window and the couple eloped.[1]
When Mathias and Abigail Swaim moved from Virginia to Ohio, they settled in Mount Pleasant in Jefferson County, a town founded by Quaker abolitionists and their allies seeking a place where they could free people who had been enslaved.[2] If Mathias Swaim was an abolitionist or sympathetic to their cause, that would likely explain why Abigail's father, a slave owner, disliked him.
Mathias passed away early in 1825.
Sources
- ↑ Watson, Gary Wayne. The descendants of Joshua and Elizabeth (Chapline) Hedges of Berkeley County, Virginia. Redlands, CA: The Hedges Family Association, 1994, p. 24.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL3-J9R : accessed 14 June 2020), Matthias Swaim, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio, United States; citing p. 208, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 91; FHL microfilm 181,397
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup E-L117, FTDNA kit #86490
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~0.39%
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