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273. Elizabeth[11] Swaine (Samuel, 332) (A1,053). Born, 1649[174].

From a Swaine Genealogy: "The exact date of Elizabeth Swaine's birth is not universally accepted. Some accept 1649, while an alternative date of April 24, 1654 is given by another source...By legend, she is supposed to have been the first person ashore at the founding of Newark. Accompanying Elizabeth was her fiancee, Josiah Ward. One story says that she was seventeen at the landing. The event is immortalized in a forty-foot mural at the Essex County Courthouse in Newark. Painted in 1906 by C.Y. Turner, it shows Elizabeth Swaine being helped ashore by Josiah Ward... We are certain that she married Josiah Ward in Newark. When he died in 1675, he left her with one child.

"The ...list of Quitrenters written on March 25, 1696 includes Elizabeth Swaine. She...had 2 acres. She increased her holdings in 1698 by purchasing additional land from the East Jersey proprietors." A deed dated March 8, 1698 from the Province of East New Jersey mentioned "...the tract of upland on the side of the long hill South by highway, west partly by Nathaniel Wheeler & John Johnson North by George Day east by John Curtise also piece of meadow bounded north by Thomas Pierson, South East by the great Island S.E. by Samuel Freeman N.E. by the creek... "Eight years later Elizabeth sold part of the land inherited from her father."

She married, first, Josiah Ward, son of George Ward.

She married, second, David Ogden (272) (A1,052).