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Dutch vessel. They had been kindly cared for by the squaw of Monotto,
the sachem next in rank to Sassacus. At Saybrook they were received
from the Dutch by Lyon Gardiner, then in command there."
For the settlement of Branford a tract of land was sold to " Mr. Wil-
Ham Swayne " and others. He removed there in 1644, and had laid out
to him 435 acres of land. He probably died there not long after, as his
name, previously so prominent, seems to have disappeared from the records.
His children of whom we have farther knowledge were Samuel and Daniel,
who removed with him to Branford in 1644, and Mary who is said to have
gone to New Haven. Dam'el Swayne younger son of William, born in
England, was one of the founders of the town of Branford in 1644, and
remained there. He was Representative from 1673-77. He married, in
165 1, Dorcas daughter of Robert Rose of Stratford, Conn. Of his
family only his son John, who died in Branford in 1694, and his daughter
Deborah, and Dorcas who married a Taintor and afterwards a Wheeler,
left children.
Samuel Swayne, born in England (who sometimes wrote his name
Swayn, without the final e) was the elder son. Between May 25, 1653
and January 7, 1663, he was twenty-seven times member of the General
Court of Connecticut, before leaving Branford. About 1667, as a friend
of Rev. Abraham Pierson, he went with him to settle Newark, N. J.,
where he was from the beginning one of the leading men, and prominent
in all the most important concerns of the colony. Ele was for years
chosen as " the third man " among the deputies to the General Assembly,
to supply the place of either of the others who might fail to attend. The
first was Mr. Jasper Crane, a much older man, Magistrate for the town
of Newark, President of the Town-Court, and chosen regularly, for the
first five or six years, as first in its list of deputies to the General Assembly
—whose place Samuel Swayne filled in the first General Assembly ever
held in the province. The second man was Capt. Robert Treat, after-
wards Gov. Treat of Connecticut, who was Clerk of the Town, Magistrate,
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