John Swezey
John Swezey, also written Sweezey, was a Quaker who came to Long Island from Salem, Massachusetts. In 1650 he was at Boston, a debtor of Robert Button. In 1655 he was among the men who settled Brookhaven, on the north shore of Long Island.
By 1659 he was at Southold. Southold then belonged to the New Haven Colony, which required its men to swear an oath of fidelity. Quakers would not swear oaths, and in 1659 John Swezey refused it. In 1676 he was rated at Southold for two men and nineteen cattle. He made a deed in 1679. He died probably before 1686. His sons were John, who died in 1706, and Joseph.
His daughter Abigail married John Hallock in 1679. Her father is named in Nelson's Ushers in America through Twelve Generations (1977): "JOHN HALLOCK, in 1679 married Abigail Swezey, daughter of John Sweezey, who was a neighbor of the Hallocks at West Mattituck on Long Island ... John Sweezey lived until 1692. The Sweezeys were Friends who had arrived on Long Island from Salem, Massachusetts." In 1687 John Hallock made a deed of "4 lots as laid out to J. Swezey." Abigail and John Hallock later lived at Setauket, in the town of Brookhaven that her father had helped to settle.
Children
Abigail Swazey (d. 1737)
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Cite: Heirology, "John Swezey (d. 1686)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-swezey-1686-44cecd.