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I have just proven that Shubael Swain of Nantucket, who is recored in major collection as having died at sea with his brother Valentine on Jan 10, 1808, is incorrect. All of my research on my ggg grandfather, Shubael Swain, led me to the conclusion that Ebenezer Swain and Lydia Ellis Swain were his parents, but I needed to get past this died at sea problem. I kept having a nagging feeling that if I could prove his family of origin that it would be very important. I went to a workshop to get professional assistance and on the third day found his parents 1813 will which included all living children and grandchildren. Shubael was there but his brother Valentine, who was the brother who "died at sea" with him was not there. That was the final proof that I needed.
I have extensive information on him after he moved to NYC in 1803, and on his descendants and am writing an important book about my grandmother which will change ballet history. Because the book, Swains of Nantucket, Tales and Trails, leaves off three of the children in this family, I found three more in the William C Folger Collections. One was Shubael. I saw that this was the only family he fit birth date wise.
I have proven incorrect, The Barney Collections, The William C Folger Collections, and the Nantucket Vital Record books. All say he died at sea in 1808. He actually lived to age 72 and died in 1849. Now I can take him back into England three generations because of some research someone did on Richard Swain, and have 218 pages of relatives in that book. I have resurrected a man and now can connect the line. I am very excited about this, and after we publish the other books, I want to publish something about them- as they are a lost line. He is, indeed, my ggg grandfather, and he looked like a twin of Robert Burns.
Since the name Swain came into Britain and other countries from the Danish Vikings, particularly Svein Forkbeard, I am now reading about Viking history in the British Isles. The name in Scotland became associated with the Clan MacQueen which has Danish origins. The whole thing is fascinating and a bit complicated, but I want to correct this error, so I am putting the info out in various places.
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