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Notts on ttie iFawflles <strong>of</strong> JSonir antr Stwasne<br />

really a peninsula running into the sea, nearly cut <strong>of</strong>f from the mainl<strong>and</strong><br />

by a river which flows between. We wish to call attention to the fact<br />

that the seat <strong>of</strong> the Bond family whose arms we have given was at Creech<br />

Grange on the Isle <strong>of</strong> Purbeck, very near Corfe Castle ; <strong>and</strong> that the seat<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Okeden family was at Turnworth, co. Dorset, a few miles north <strong>of</strong><br />

Purbeck. William Okeden was M.P. for Corfe Castle in the seventeenth<br />

century. In the pedigree <strong>of</strong> Okeden in Hutchins's "Dorset" are men-<br />

tioned John <strong>and</strong> Richard Okeden as brothers, in the generation immediately<br />

preceding the time <strong>of</strong> our John <strong>and</strong> Richard Ogden. In 1562 Robert<br />

Swaine <strong>of</strong> Gunvill married Elizabeth daughter <strong>of</strong> Denis Bond <strong>of</strong> Lutton<br />

in Purbeck.<br />

All the Swaynes we have referred to, <strong>of</strong> Somerset, Gloucester,<br />

Wiltshire, Southampton <strong>and</strong> Dorset, <strong>and</strong> the Bonds <strong>and</strong> Okedens <strong>of</strong><br />

Dorset, lived within a circle <strong>of</strong> about fifty miles in diameter. The Swaynes<br />

<strong>and</strong> Bonds <strong>of</strong> the Isle <strong>of</strong> Purbeck <strong>and</strong> the Okedens were neighbors. In<br />

view <strong>of</strong> these facts <strong>and</strong> coincidences is it too fanciful to suggest that<br />

John Ogden or Okeden (who used the Okeden arms) <strong>and</strong> Robert Bond,<br />

who married probably in Engl<strong>and</strong>, before emigration, each a sister <strong>of</strong> the<br />

other, <strong>and</strong> Samuel Swayne who was so intimately associated with them,<br />

were from this same neighborhood, or <strong>of</strong> branches <strong>of</strong> these families who<br />

visited relatives there ; <strong>and</strong> that thus were brought into friendship with<br />

one another, in the old country, the emigrants <strong>of</strong> whom we write ?^<br />

' For our Notes on the Families <strong>of</strong> Bond <strong>and</strong> Swayne, the following works have been carefully<br />

studied, compared <strong>and</strong> drawn upon :<br />

Hatfield's<br />

History <strong>of</strong> Elizabeth, New Jersey ; Public Records <strong>of</strong><br />

the Colony <strong>of</strong> Connecticut prior to May 1665 ; B. R. Hinman's Puritan Settlers <strong>of</strong> the Colony <strong>of</strong> Con-<br />

necticut ; Coll. <strong>of</strong> the New Jersey Flist. Soc, Vol. vi. Supplement ;<br />

Bond's<br />

Genealogies <strong>of</strong> Watertown,<br />

Vol. ii.; Trumbull's Memorial Hist, <strong>of</strong> Hartford County, Vol. ii.; Savage's Geneal. Diet., Vol. iv.;<br />

Records <strong>of</strong> the Colony <strong>and</strong> Jurisdiction <strong>of</strong> New Haven [1653-64] ; Stearns's First Church in Newark ;<br />

Burke's Commoners, Vol. i.; Hutchins's Dorset, Vols. i. <strong>and</strong> iii.; Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Vols. v.<br />

<strong>and</strong> vi.<br />

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