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- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165752702/william-thomas-swann
Mortuary Notice
Tuesday, October 24, 1820; Genius of Liberty (Leesburg, Virginia) Volume: IV, Issue: 41, Page: 3
DIED, on Sunday night, the 15th inst. in the 35th year of his age, William T. Swann, Esq. of Alexandria. He has left an amiable and affectionate wife, and a family of small children, to deplore his loss.
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William Thomas Swann b. 1785 -October 24, 1820;
Genius of Liberty (Leesburg, Virginia) Volume: IV, Issue: 41, Page: 3
DIED, on Sunday night, the 15th inst. in the 35th year of his age, William T. Swann, Esq. of Alexandria. He has left an amiable and affectionate wife, and a family of small children, to deplore his loss.
Prince George's County Bonds Book TT 04
Received of Henry T. Compton, Administrator of Edward Swann Dec'd, all the personal estate devised me and my brother Edward Swann by my father's last will and testament amounting as per the Inventory filed in court to Twenty Two Hund and Sixty Nine dollars $2,269. January 7, 1815
Wm. Thos. Swann
http://www.freedmenscemetery.org/resources/documents/importation.shtml details slaves brought in to Alexandria, VA. Halfway down the page you find Feb. 29, 1811 William Thomas Swann imported 13 slaves (their names and ages are given). Most of the names match up to the slave names in the will of Edward Swann from 1803, when he devised them to his children.
In the 1810 census for Washington & Prince Frederick Hundreds, Prince George's Co. MD. there is W. T. Swann 0-0-1-0-0 0-0-1-0-1. The enumeration date for the 1810 census was Aug. 22, 1810. William T. Swann married Frances Alexander on July 12, 1810 (Bondsman: Thomas Swann) so the 16-26 male in the home was Wm. T. The 16-26 female was his new wife Frances. The 45&up female was his mother Nancy Ann Swann.
Prince George's County Land Records 1806-1808 Liber JRM 12 Page 326-28.
A deed dated June 8, 1807 between "William T. Swann of the Dictrict of Columbia and Ann Swann of Prince George's County, Maryland" and "Caleb Thomas of Charles County and state of Maryland..." They sell Caleb Thomas a "tract of land called Pascum Enlarged in Prince George's County..."
William T. Swann was about 22 and was commuting back and forth between DC and PGC, pursuing a career like his older brother Thomas Hon. Swann. Ann Swann in this deed would be Wm. T. Swann's mother, and widow of Edward Swann who died in 1803.
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Prince George's County MD Will Book Liber T No. #1; 1803-1808;
Folio 534 EDWARD SWANN 09/5/1801 05/10/1803
"... being now in Perfect health and Memory . ."
Bequeaths to:
I. Nancy Swann --wife
-to have the dwelling plantation whereon testator now lives for her natural life or widowhood
-to have Negroes: "Bigg Harry" "Little Harry" "Frank" "Jack" "Nedd" "Sal!"
"John" "Charles"
-to have 20 head of cattle, 8 head of horses, and all of testator's household furniture
2. "Pegg" --Negro woman -after widow's decease or remarriage to be free
3. William Swann --son
-after widow's death or remarriage to have all of testator's part of a tract of land called "Pascoam Enlarged"
4. Edward Swann --son
-after widow's decease or remarriage, to have part of 3 tracts of [and called
"Part of Masauscon" "Part of Retaliation" and "Part of Addition"
-after widow's decease or remarriage to divide equally with William all the personal property bequeathed to her
5. Thomas Swann --son
-to have 1/2 of 2000 acres of ]and which testator holds lying in Georgia and the other 1/2 to be divided between testator's 2 sons William and Edward
6. Henry Compton --grandson
-to have all the several parts or parcels of tract lving in Prince George's county being pail of a tract called "Gidling" cont. 100 acres adjacent to the land belonging to the heirs of Eversfield and another part of a tract called "Cox Hayse Enlarged' cont. 23 acres which was originally called "The New Exchange" and also to have par( of another tract called "Quicksale" cont. 100 acres being the southernmost fourth part thereof, and also to have part of another tract of land or parcel lying between "The New Exchange" and "Quicksale" called "Cox Hayse Enlarged" cont. 70 acres and also to have part of another tract or parcel called "Anchovy Hills" lying adjacent to the land belonging to the heirs of James T. Yates cont. 30 acres
-to have Negroes: "Kitty" "Jacob"
7, Edward Compton --grandson
-to have Negroes: "Benjamin" "David" "Abraham" "N ace" Mulatto lad "Ned" Negro woman "Nay" infant girl "Kitty" "Aggy" "Negro boy "Abraham" being the son of "Aggy" Negro girl "Minty" being the daughter of "Aggy" Negro boy "Isaac" son of "Aggy" Negro woman "Barsheba" Negro girls "Henny" "Lucy" daughter of "Barsheba" Negro woman "Rachel" Negro girl "hilly" Negro girl "Peg" Negro girl "Sarah" infant girl "Mary" the daughter of Rachel"
8. Samuel Edward Compton --grandson
-to have 30 head of black cattle, 3 yoke of oxen. and 6 horses all now on the plantation where Henry T. Compton lives, also to have 6 feather beds and furn., which are in the care of Henry T. Compton
-Henry and Samuel to have the land and Negroes on the condition that they pay all bonds which remain unpaid at testator's death being : 8 bonds dated 03/09/1801 far $500.00 each, and also 10 bonds dated 07/1411801 for 580.00 each all payable to Henry T. Compton
-and in order to help pay the bonds off, testator leaves all the estate devised to them in the hands of Henry T. Compton
-Samuel to have 20 Negroes now in the hire of Henry T. Compton
-to have 30 head of cattle, 3 yoke of oxen, 6 head of horses, and 6 feather beds and fur.
Witnesses: Joshua Wilson
Levin C. Wailes
Stephen Swann
John Beavcn
Codicil to the will:
E. Henry Compton --grandson
-whereas since the writing of the will, testator's grandson Samuel Edward Compton has died without heir, then Henry to have all the estate left to Samuel with the same expressed conditions
Witnesses: Thomas Parran
Isaac Norfolk
When came: Levin C. Wailes and stephen Swann
Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand
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Prince George's County MD Will Book Liber TT; 1808-1812;
Folio 25 EDWARD SWANN 12/28/18O9 02/28/1810
"being weak and debillitated in Body ..."
Bequeaths to:
I. William `Thomas Swann --brother
-to have all the testator's property both real and personal
Witnesses: John Brightwell (mark)
Eleanor Brightwell (mark)
Ann Swann
Then came: Ann Swann
Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1785 - 1820 (35 years)