SmittyCity
Tenderfoot
- Oct 22, 2010
- 8
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OK I'm pretty new to this whole John swift silver mine thing but it caught my attention when i first heard of it. so i did some research and have seen accounts that say John swift but also say it could have been William or George or Tom. before all this my grandmother has done a lot of genealogy and made a book for all of her grandchildren and i knew i was a descendant of a Swift family so i went through and looked to see what my grandmother had found with relation to all this john swift stuff and there isn't anything about silver but there is record of a John swift who had brothers by the names of William, George, and Thomas of which only John could have possibly been around at the finding of the silver mine having been born in 1756 but she also says he may have been born in 1741 so if he had been born in 1741 he would have been 19 in 1760 when the mines were found if I'm correct. if he was born in 1756 that throws this whole speculation out or does it... their fathers name was also William Swift Born 1723 in Bermuda island, British dependency. what if this silver mine was a family business? any thoughts or am i just making my self think this is possible.