Display Patriot - P-300877 - Van SWEARINGEN/SWERINGEN Sr
Van SWEARINGEN/SWERINGEN Sr
SAR Patriot #:
P-300877
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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Memorial only on Find-a-Grave which states his burial is unknown
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Author: Allan Ray Wenzel Ph.D.
Van was born in about 1693 in St. Marys County, Maryland, the second of four sons born to Thomas Swearingen and Jane Hyde. He married on 14 February 1714, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, to Elizabeth Walker, the daughter of Charles Walker and Rebecca Isacke. Elizabeth was born on 22 December 1695, at Patuxent, Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Van was known as "Maryland Van" to distinguish him from his son and nephews. He moved to Washington County, Maryland, taking up lands that were part of a grant known as Ringgold's Manor. He served in Captain James Baxter's Company and Colonel Nicholas Hyland's Frederick County, Maryland, troops during the French and Indian War.
Van was already quite an older man by the outbreak of the American Revolution. Van was beyond the age of most men who were actively participating in the revolt. But he felt his duty to stand up for his convictions to challenge the British who had stripped his grandfather, Gerrit Van Sweringen, a Councilor, and High Sheriff to Peter Stuyvesant, of his property in 1664 when the British took New Netherlands from the Dutch. The British forced his grandparents to remove to Maryland with only a few of their possessions. Whatever the case, Van joined in the signing of his Oath of Allegiance to the newly established independent American colonies. He signed the list of patriots in Washington County in 1778.
Van died around July or August of 1787 in Washington County, Maryland.
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