John Bernard Swanton (1782 - 1851)

Born 29 May 1782 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Bosworth) Swanton — married 16 Sep 1804 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine

Descendants

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Biography

John Bernard Swanton was born in Bath, in 1782, and married Lydia Bosworth in 1814. He was Collector of the Port of Bath from 1825 to 1829. He afterwards retired to a farm in Dresden, where he died in 1851. HISTORY OF BATH. [ page] 359

Sources

• https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028809759#page/n398/mode/1up

• Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, Robert Moody Sherman, FASG, Ruth Wilder Sherman, FASG, comps., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Henry Samson, Volume 20, Part 3 of 3, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), pp. 259-260

• Find A Grave, Memorial #61945383

• "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47Y-SBN : 4 December 2014), John Barnard Swanton, 29 May 1782; citing CIVIL, BATH, SAGADAHOC, MAINE; FHL microfilm 10,562.

• "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XB-5J5 : 4 December 2014), John B. Swanton and Lydia Bosworth, 16 Sep 1804; citing Bath,Sagadahoc,Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 10,562.