Re: Who are Jane Godfrey's real parents?
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Who are Jane Godfrey's real parents?
6/13/98
Two different Jane Godfrey's.See The Grantees and Settlement of Hampton, New Hampshire, page 19:14. RICHARD SWAYNE. Though this name is found in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset, it is not uncommon in Norfolk, and that I believe to be the county from which he came. No exact record shows when he came to New England.77 He is said to have settled first in Rowley, but here he is confused with a genuine Rowley man, Richard Swan. His daughter Elizabeth was baptized by Bachiler at Newbury, 9 Oct., 1638. Richard Swayne lived in Hampton for some years, and his first wife, who bore the unusual name of Basselle, died there 15 July, 1657. He married (2) at Hampton, 15 Sept., 1658, Jane (Godfrey), the widow of George Bunker, who was drowned at Topsfield 26 May, 1658.78 Swayne became a Quaker, and was fined and disfranchised therefor in 1659. With his wife and step-children, he removed to Nantucket in 1660, taking with him two of his own children, John and Richard. They were the ancestors of a long line of Nantucket Swains. Richard Swayne, who was born circa 1595, died at Nantucket 14 April, 1682.79 His wife Jane had predeceased him there 31 Oct., 1662.79 For his descendants, vide Dow's Hampton, pp. 985-7; and Hinchman's Nantucket Settlers, vol. II, pp. 152-4, 304.
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