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Subject: Re: Statan Island
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:05:08 -0600
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wrote:
>
> Reply to Candace and all -
>
> I had seen something similar one time just recently - about SWAIM
> standing for Sworn to
> Withhold
> Allegience from
> Invading
> Monarch
>
> I am especially interested in this as I am chasing a SWAIM in the area.
> While not disputing - some of the most unusual sounding things turn out to
> be true - I point out that (according to Stillwell's Book) on the Staten
> Island Census attributed to 1706, there are these SWAMS: (which are my
> SWAIMs, at least some of them)
> Men: John age 20; Barnt age 60; John age 32; Antony age 49; John age 31;
> Women: Martha, Jane, Sarah, Lisabeth
> Boys: Barnt, Albert, Mathew, Jacobob, Antony, Mathew,
> Girls Elizabeth, Mary, Susanna, Ane, Medlean, Siathe;
> And these John SWAIN (boy), tye SWAIN (boy), John SWAIN age 25,
> Cornelius SWAN age 21, Elizabeth SWAIN (woman), Ledly SWAIN (woman)
>
> Of course, this is after the time said for the start of SWAIM - so still
> could be. If anyone can take me to Holland definitively, I would surely like
> it.
>
> Carolyn
>

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