Raised a Quaker on Nantucket Island, Deborah married a Boston boy, Dr Foster Swift MD. Dr Swift served in the Continental Navy as a teenager, and afterward served as USA surgeon. Their main house was Taunton, MA. but they also lived in Brooklyn NY where Dr Swift worked at the Navy yard hospital.
Deborah raised 5 children to adulthood, and buried five others. The five early deaths were: Jonathan, b. 1785,Deborah Ann (Nancy) 1787-1805, Elizabeth, b. 1796, Elizabeth, b. 1798, Eliza Lucretia, b. 1802, and Ann Elizabeth, b. 1806. The others were : Joseph Gardner,Sarah Delano (Sally), William Henry, and Mary Roberdeau.
From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890):
1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine health. She had gone to the city to visit her sister and was seized with a sudden laryngitis ... doctors pronounced fatal. Essay was made by an incision in the throat to permit breathing. She became easy and died calmly, in full trust in the mercy of her Savior"
" My father's heartfelt prayer at the foot of my mother's bed was for mercy, and safety in this world, or acceptance in a better, and was a most impressive scene. They had lived in undisturbed harmony and love together forty-one years".
Funeral in Brooklyn NY from son Joseph's house. Service by Rev. Dr. Onderdonk, burial St Ann's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. Re-Interred in Green-Wood Cem, Brooklyn 13 Apr 1847.
Deborah raised 5 children to adulthood, and buried five others. The five early deaths were: Jonathan, b. 1785,Deborah Ann (Nancy) 1787-1805, Elizabeth, b. 1796, Elizabeth, b. 1798, Eliza Lucretia, b. 1802, and Ann Elizabeth, b. 1806. The others were : Joseph Gardner,Sarah Delano (Sally), William Henry, and Mary Roberdeau.
From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890):
1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine health. She had gone to the city to visit her sister and was seized with a sudden laryngitis ... doctors pronounced fatal. Essay was made by an incision in the throat to permit breathing. She became easy and died calmly, in full trust in the mercy of her Savior"
" My father's heartfelt prayer at the foot of my mother's bed was for mercy, and safety in this world, or acceptance in a better, and was a most impressive scene. They had lived in undisturbed harmony and love together forty-one years".
Funeral in Brooklyn NY from son Joseph's house. Service by Rev. Dr. Onderdonk, burial St Ann's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. Re-Interred in Green-Wood Cem, Brooklyn 13 Apr 1847.
Raised a Quaker on Nantucket Island, Deborah married a Boston boy, Dr Foster Swift MD. Dr Swift served in the Continental Navy as a teenager, and afterward served as USA surgeon. Their main house was Taunton, MA. but they also lived in Brooklyn NY where Dr Swift worked at the Navy yard hospital.
Deborah raised 5 children to adulthood, and buried five others. The five early deaths were: Jonathan, b. 1785,Deborah Ann (Nancy) 1787-1805, Elizabeth, b. 1796, Elizabeth, b. 1798, Eliza Lucretia, b. 1802, and Ann Elizabeth, b. 1806. The others were : Joseph Gardner,Sarah Delano (Sally), William Henry, and Mary Roberdeau.
From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890):
1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine health. She had gone to the city to visit her sister and was seized with a sudden laryngitis ... doctors pronounced fatal. Essay was made by an incision in the throat to permit breathing. She became easy and died calmly, in full trust in the mercy of her Savior"
" My father's heartfelt prayer at the foot of my mother's bed was for mercy, and safety in this world, or acceptance in a better, and was a most impressive scene. They had lived in undisturbed harmony and love together forty-one years".
Funeral in Brooklyn NY from son Joseph's house. Service by Rev. Dr. Onderdonk, burial St Ann's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. Re-Interred in Green-Wood Cem, Brooklyn 13 Apr 1847.
Deborah raised 5 children to adulthood, and buried five others. The five early deaths were: Jonathan, b. 1785,Deborah Ann (Nancy) 1787-1805, Elizabeth, b. 1796, Elizabeth, b. 1798, Eliza Lucretia, b. 1802, and Ann Elizabeth, b. 1806. The others were : Joseph Gardner,Sarah Delano (Sally), William Henry, and Mary Roberdeau.
From the Memoirs of Gen. JG Swift( Ellery, 1890):
1824: "On the 3rd June died my dear mother, in fine health. She had gone to the city to visit her sister and was seized with a sudden laryngitis ... doctors pronounced fatal. Essay was made by an incision in the throat to permit breathing. She became easy and died calmly, in full trust in the mercy of her Savior"
" My father's heartfelt prayer at the foot of my mother's bed was for mercy, and safety in this world, or acceptance in a better, and was a most impressive scene. They had lived in undisturbed harmony and love together forty-one years".
Funeral in Brooklyn NY from son Joseph's house. Service by Rev. Dr. Onderdonk, burial St Ann's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. Re-Interred in Green-Wood Cem, Brooklyn 13 Apr 1847.
Inscription
Deborah Swift
daughter of Capt Thomas Delano
of Nantucket
wife of Dr Foster Swift USA army
died June 3 1824 aged 61 years
Moved from St Anns Apr 13 1847
Gravesite Details
Flat ledger stone.
