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A Sedgwick Genealogy: Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick
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"With the exception of some years past in New York City where he was in the broker's business from which he long since retired Mr. Swift's home had always been in Bennington Centre."

B5C,2.
Mary Jeannette Swift, 2d child of Heman Swift (B5C) and Ruth (Robinson) Swift, was born May 21, 1824, at Bennington Centre, Vermont. She married, June 26, 1849, A.B. Gardner, a lawyer who represented Bennington in the legislature in 1862. She evidently lived at Bennington and at her father's house. She died May 8, 1851, two years before the death of her father. -- Memorials of a Century.

B5C,3.
Heman Sedgwick Swift, 3d child of Heman Swift (B5C) and Ruth (Robinson) Swift, was born June 16, 1827, at Bennington Centre. He was a physician and a graduate of Williams College. "After receiving a thorough education as a physician and surgeon, he acquired great practical knowledge and skill in the hospitals in New York and other cities." -- Memorials of a Century.

He died September 23, 1857, at Bennington, unmarried.

B5C,4.
Henry Martyn Swift, 4th child of Heman Swift (B5C) and Ruth (Robinson) Swift, was born March 22, 1832, at Bennington Centre, Vt., where he married October 20, 1859, Jane Augusta Weeks, born May 29, 1836, at that place. He preached at Fenton, Michigan. Children:

1. Heman Sedgwick, b. September 26, 1862; d. in 1900, unmarried.

2. Maria Jeanette, b. November 14, 1864. (B5C,42)

3. Louis Fuller, b. September 12, 1866. (B5C,43)

4. Bessie Robinson, b. February 9, 1872. (B5C,44)

B5E.
Mary Ann Swift, 14th child of Mary Ann (Sedgwick) Swift (B5) and Rev. Job Swift, was born August 18, 1796, at Bennington, Vermont. She was married by Rev. Justis S. Hough at Addison, Vermont, July 1, 1819, to Hiram Everest, son of Zadock Everest and Sarah Everest, born at Addison October 27, 1786, and died at Galesburg, Illinois, October 12, 1857. Mary Ann died at Galesburg April 3, 1875.

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