Samuel was January 11/12, 1771, son of Joseph and Margaret (McCall) Swift.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Arts 1786, and studied law with his cousin, Judge Jasper Yeates. He was not admitted to the bar, choosing to pursue other interests. He spent most of his time at his country home in Oxford, Philadelphia County where he was a Vestryman of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. He married Mary Shippen February 11, 1795. She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph Shippen, Secretary to the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster County.
Among their children were:
Margaret McCall Swift m. her cousin John Shippen May 19, 1831.
Mary Swift, b. at the "Grove," Philadelphia County, November 22, 1798; d. Philadelphia, February 15, 1877; m. M(atthew) Brooke Buckley September 9, 1824.
Joseph Swift, b. December 26, 1799 at the "Grove"; d Long Branch, New Jersey July 1, 1882; m. 11-24-1831 Eliza Moore Willing, daughter of George Willing, 1831.
Edwin Swift b. November 6, 1806 d. Philadelphia March 22, 1891.
Samuel is buried with his wife Mary in one tomb in Christ Church yard Oxford, Pa.
Sources
Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania, by John W. Jordan, p. 120.
Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College Together with ..., by University of Pennsylvania. Society of the Alumni, University of Pennsylvania
Letters and Papers Relating Chiefly to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania with Some Notices of the Writers, by Thomas Balch. Privately printed, Philadelphia: Crissy & Markey, Printers, Goldsmith Hall, Library St. 1855.
Balch, Thomas Willing, et.al. "The Swift Family of Philadelphia." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, no. 2, 1906, pp. 129-158. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20085329.
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