The Family Tree

Nine centuries of documented lineage. From the Battle of Hastings to the shores of Nantucket, from the Revolution to the Civil War, from Fall River to Falmouth.

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Swift of Falmouth
Sandwich → Falmouth, MA
▾ 9 generations
●William Swift I~1627–1705
England → Sandwich
●William Swift II1654–1700
Sandwich
●William Swift III1679–1750
Falmouth
●William Swift IV1719–1809
Falmouth
●Solomon SwiftFS1745–1807
Falmouth
Revolutionary War
●Capt. Nathaniel SwiftFS1775–1849
Falmouth / Waquoit
●Solomon Crowell SwiftFSb. ~1804
Falmouth
●Leroy E. SwiftFSb. 1836
Falmouth
Civil War
●Le Roy Warren SwiftFSb. 1869
New Bedford
Photo Survives
Winter of Fall River
Fall River → New Bedford, MA
▾ 3 generations
●Great-Grandmother Winter~1810s
Fall River
Photo Survives
●Richmond C. Winter1839–1912
Fall River → New Bedford
Photo Survives
●“Mama” Winter~1870s
New Bedford
Photo Survives
Jenkins of Falmouth
Falmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
▾ 5 generations
●John JenkinsFS1659–1736
Massachusetts
●John JenkinsFS1687–1760
Massachusetts
●John JenkinsFS1709–1760
Falmouth
●James JenkinsFS1735–1807
Falmouth
Revolutionary War
●Thankful JenkinsFS1776–1842
Falmouth
Key Marriage
Green
Massachusetts
▾ 3 generations
●James GreenFS1640–1731
Massachusetts
●Samuel GreenFSb. 1680
Massachusetts
●Rebecca GreenFSb. 1710
Massachusetts
Key Marriage
Warren
SE Massachusetts
▾ 1 generation
●Rachel Warren~1840s
SE Massachusetts
Photo Survives
Arden
Fall River / New Bedford
▾ 1 generation
●Elizabeth Arden~1830s
Fall River area
Photo Survives
The Convergence

Six family lines — Swift, Winter, Jenkins, Green, Warren, and Arden — converge through marriages across three centuries in southeastern Massachusetts. From Sandwich to Falmouth to Fall River to New Bedford, the same thirty-mile stretch of coastline produced nine generations of interconnected families.

“Many many years ago when I was very little.”