Rev
Thomas
Swift
Born about in Kent, England
Ancestors 
Son of William Swift
and Mary Philpott
Brother of
Katherine (Swift) Whitefierde and Margaret (Swift) Atkinson
Husband of
Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift
— married
3 Jul 1625 in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, England
Descendants 
Father of
Mary Swift, Godwin Swift Esq., Dryden Swift, Emily Swift, Elizabeth Swift, Thomas Swift, Abraham Swift, Sarah Swift, William Swift, Katherine Swift, Jonathan Swift and Adam Swift
Died
at about age 63
in Goodrich, Herefordshire, England
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Biography
Thomas was born about 1595. Thomas Swift ... He passed away in 1658. Thomas Swift, the vicar of Goodrich was the Grandfather to Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels, built Newhouse Farm in 1636. A staunch royalist, he bankrupted himself in gifting his coat, sewn with 300 pieces of gold, to Charles I.
Rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, near Ross, in Herefordshire, married Elizabeth Dryden, niece to the poet Sir John Dryden's. [1]
Children: 4 daughters and 10 sons.
Birth
- Birth 1595-03 Canterbury, Kent,
Married in Whitbourne Herefordshire 3 July 1625 Elizabeth Dryden Phillimore 3726
Death
- Death 1658-05-02 Goodrich, Herefordshire, England
Sources
- ↑ "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland" by Bernard Burke p 433 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ha0EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=~genealogy+Adam+Swift+Greencastle,Down,,Ireland&source=bl&ots=Hs_Q2q2LAw&sig=5yAS-vweDNxp1aRk9Ib1V2fTXq0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_nMuO8sfUAhVGPj4KHYm6ADcQ6AEISTAJ#v=onepage&q=~genealogy%20Adam%20Swift%20Greencastle%2CDown%2C%2CIreland&f=false
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