I have just returned from a trip to NYC to research my Swain line. I am still trying to connect Captain Shubael Swain and his wife Sarah Turner Swain with a Swain family. My biggest hints are a census report of one of his daughters that says her parents came from Mass; the next is a book on the Swains that says a group moved from Nantucket to North Easton , NY in the late 1700- this included a group of various families such as Meader and other names. My next hint and problem is that I found Sarah's death announcement- she died of a lingering illness on May 8, 1844; the death register says that her body was removed to Newburg, NY, which is in Orange County. Shubael, who died about 5 years later, is not listed on the death record in NYC, nor can I find an obituary for him. I have looked in Early American Newspapers on the NYGBS site, but can't find one. It is a puzzle. He could always have followed her to that area- probably there were relatives there. He could have visited his son in OHio, the last few years of his life.
Anyway, I am wondering if this removal to Newburg might indicate that they were part of that group that came to North Easton. The first of them were attacked by Indians, but then there wre more. Does anyone know much about these Quaker families who came there. I am really stumped by this man. There must be at least a death announcement someplace.
Sue