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yiottn on tJje iFamfUts of iSontr antr Stoagne
Deputy to the Assembly, &c. These three men ranked together in all
official positions, and in social relations. Samuel Swayne had been pre-
viously Lieutenant, but after the departure of Capt. Treat to Connecticut
he was raised to the captaincy of the Newark forces, about 1673.
Samuel
Swayne and Thomas Johnson were two of five men commissioned with
full powers from the town of Newark, who met with John Ogden, Robert
Bond and two others to arrange the boundaries between Newark and
Elizabethtown (see above, p. 306).
Stearns says of Capt. Swayne that he " happening to be in New
York when disease seized him, and death seemed to be not far, thus
testified the readiness of his spirit to answer the last summons :
' I, Samuel
Swaine, being in perfect sense and memory, not knowing how long the
Lord will continue the same mercy to me, being weak under His good
hand of Providence, and willing to be at His dispose—therefore, for life
or death, do leave this as my last will and testament.' " The instrument is
dated New York March 17, 1681-82, and gives all to "his beloved wife
Joanna." Having come in 1635 he had then been in this country from
forty-six to forty-seven years. It may be presumed that he died in that
illness, as his name does not appear after the list made in 1680. "His
wife Johanna died prior to Dec. 5, i6go." Their children were : i. Eliza-
beth, born in 1649, baptized in New Haven in 165 1. "There is a tradition
that" she "was the first to land on the shore of Newark, having been
merrily handed up the bank by her gallant lover [Josiah Ward], in his
ambition to secure for her that mark of priority. She was then . . .
nineteen years of age." She married him, and after his death married
David Ogden, and became the great grandmother of Rev. Stephen Johnson.
She died in 1691 ;
2. Christiana, born in 1659, wife of Nathaniel Ward;
3. Sarah, born in 1669, wife of Thomas Johnson of the third generation
(see Pedigree of Johnson) ; 4. Abigail, wife of Eleazer Lampson ;
and
5. Joanna, wife of Jasper Crane. Joanna Crane died Sept. 16, 1720,
aged sixty-nine.
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