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• Residence: 1830, Orangeville, Genesee (Wyoming), New York
• Residence: 1840, Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 1850, Ophir, LaSalle, Illinois
• Residence: 1860, Ophir, LaSalle, Illinois
• Residence: 1870, Ophir, La Salle, Illinois
• Residence: 1880, Iola, Allen, Kansas

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"Andrew Swap Jr. was born in Cattaraugus county, New York. In 1840 he came with his family to Erie County (PA), and for ten years resided in Conneaut township. Moving to Jefferson, Wisconsin, in 1850, he was there employed in farming two years, after which he located in La Salle county, Illinois, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for about thirty years. Returning to Pennsylvania, he lived for awhile in Crawford county, but spent his last years with his son, Andrew L., dying at a good old age. He was a carpenter and cabinet maker, and in addition to tilling the soil worked at his trade to some extent. He was a member of the Wesley Methodist church, and a strong abolitionist in politics. He married Sybil Hitchcock, of New York state, a native of Wyoming county, and they reared five children besides Andrew L., of this sketch, namely: Frank, a retired farmer of Jefferson county, Wisconsin; Albert E., engaged in the grocery business in Illinois; Prudence, of Humboldt, Kansas, is the widow of J. Towner; Harriet, wife of William Watson, a retired business man of Goodland, Indiana ; and Luther J. Three children have passed to the life beyond, Rachel, Melvina and Abigail." - Miller, John, A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania : A narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests (1909) P. 657

Andrew married Sybil Hitchcock on 20 Jan 1821 in New York. Sybil (daughter of Ebenezer Hitchcock, Jr. and Abigail Barnes) was born on 3 Apr 1805 in Vermont; died on 28 Mar 1884 in Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1880, Iola, Allen, Kansas

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• Name: 1837 Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania
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• Residence: 1800, Hebron, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1810, Coeymans, Albany, New York; where he lived with his family. His brother Frederick also lived nearby
• Residence: 1820, Orangeville, Genesee (Wyoming), New York; where he and his family were early settlers in this farming community
• Residence: 1830, Wethersfield, Genesee (Wyoming), New York; where he lived with his family and probably worked as a farmer
• Residence: 1837, Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania; after relocating from Wethersfield, Wyoming, New York
• Residence: 1840, Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania; where he lived with his family
• Residence: 1850, Salem, Mercer, Pennsylvania

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Alternate death date of 1866 has been cited in possibly Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., NY. however there are no records of the family ever living in this place. No evidence of either date or place of death seems to exist. It seems more likely he died in Pennsylvania or Indiana. There are no census records found after 1850. Two daugters were married in Porter Co., Indiana in the late 1850's, it is possible and maybe likely that the family lived there also as the ages of the daughters were 15 and 16 yrs.
Andrew Lafayette Swap consistently spelled his name Swap as did his brother Frederick and most of his sons up until about the 1850 census where we first see Swap spelled as Swoap. Most English translations of Swap or Swab were spelled phonetically as Swope only a few families spelled it as Swoap and it varied, even within the same family.
"His grandfather, Andrew Swap Sr., was born in Pennsylvania, near the central part of' the state, but subsequently settled permanently in New York state. (Note: the family did not settle permanently in New York, they infact moved to Pennsylvania in 1837) He was twice married, by his first wife having six sons and three daughters, none of whom are living. By his second marriage he became the father of nine more children, and of these two sons and two daughters survive." - Miller, John, A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania : A narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests (1909) P. 657

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where he lived with wife Adelia, 9 children and one child from his first marriage, Joseph, who was blind

Andrew married Unknown Wife about 1799. Unknown and died. [Group Sheet]

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Ebenezer married Abigail Barnes on 10 Apr 1783 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Abigail was born on 31 Jul 1763 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died in 1825 in Warsaw, Wyoming, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Little is known of John and Katie Swope. They settled in Pennsylvania for a time where Andrew and Frederick were born according to census data. It is not certain that the third brother, George, existed however the popular opinion is that this is so. It may be that the family relocated or fled to eastern New York during or subsequent to the Revolutionary War if it is true that they lived in the Wyoming Valley region of Pennsylvania where the Battle of Wyoming occured in 1777. It has been cited that John Swope died in Cohoes Falls, NY however this death date is the same as the Revolutionary War soldier John Swope who lived, died and was buried in Bucks, Pennsylvania. Whether this man was our John Swope or not may remain a mystery.
"Lockwood, Leander S., born in the town of Westerlo (Albany Co., NY), November 4, 1833, is the son of Samuel and Margaret (Swope) Lockwood, both natives of Westerlo. The maternal grandparents were Frederick and Adrian (Whitmarsh) Swope. who lived in Westerlo and removed to Oneida county, where Mrs. Swope died, when he moved to Herkimer, then to Oneida county, where he died. The parents of Frederick, John and Katie (Teeter) Swope, came from Germany when young and settled in Eastern New York." - Landmarks of Albany County New York, Edited by Amasa J. Parker, 1897
"Great, Great Grandfather's name was John Swope. He and wife were born in Germany and came to this country on or about 1776 then served in the Revolutionary War." - Except from hand written testimonial of John Swope's Great Great Granddaughter Edna McCarthy in 1927.
John and Ezra Swope arrived in America with Peter Minuit, who came from Holland to found New Amsterdam. He landed on Manhattan Island June 6 1626. Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for $24.00 and a keg of whiskey. The Swopes, always pioneers, finally settled in the Wyoming Valley in New York State. Tradition has it that there was a John and Ezra in almost every Swope family. After the Revolutionary War in which a Swope was a Lieutenant in Washington’s forces, there was an Indian Massacre in the Wyoming Valley (It is mentioned in history as the Wyoming Massacre) The Swope who was in the war was tomahawked and scalped. There were only two who escaped from the Valley that night. They were John and Ezra Swope. They separated. One went to Pennsylvania and the other to Kentucky. An Ezra Swope - a grandson of the one killed by the Indians - settled at Wellsborogh, Penn. It was here he met and married one Katrinka Van Valkinberg who fled from Holland to avoid marrying a German prince. Katrinka was a member of the Royal House of Holland - a cousin of the Queen. She bore the following sons- Lafayette, Byther, Darins, Miles, Leander and Ezra Jr., and daughters; Mary and Margaret. Katrinka died at the age of 52 with a cancer. Lafayette (or Lafe as he was called) went to California in the gold rush of ‘49. Miles and Leander to Wassau, Wis in 1857. Ezra in Lomar, Minn in the early 1900’s. Lafe died in Sacremento California. Miles in Oregon - buried in Merrill - Leander in Waussau. Ezra or Junie in International Falls, Minn. Byther & Darins in Penn. The girls Mary & Margaret came next. Margaret married E.H Newton and bore him 3 sons & a daughter. Two of the sons and their father enlisted in the Civil War. One son was killed in action. One (Collins) died in the Soldier’s Home in Levenworth Kansas. Lew, the youngest died in St. Louis at the age of 52 of cancer. Margaret died in Rockforf Ill. Mary Coneant made her home with Miles for several years & died at his farm home near Merrill and was buried beside her husband in Boston Mass. When the Civil War broke out Miles went back to Penn where his wife & family were still living & enlisted there. He was wounded in the Battle of Gettysberg. Leander was the first man in Manhattan County to enlist. He went 5th Wis Company G. - Provided from family documents by pattystrehlow@juno.com (Note: Interesting Swope Folklore tale handed down from older generations...it may have some truth amongst some inaccuracy and legend)

John married Katie Teeter. Katie was born in 1740 in Germany; died in in New York. [Group Sheet]

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