[lAMEs] SECOND LEGISLATURE OF UPPER CANADA 16B 



Samuel Swayzie from Soutbold, Long Island, was the prog'enitor 

 of the New Jersey family. He was born at Souifcliold, 30'th March, 

 1(!89. He removed to Roxbury, N.J., in 1737, and resided there till 

 his death, 11th May, 1759. His fifth and youngest sou was Caleb. 

 Three of the sons of Caleb came to Canada at the end of the w'ar, and 

 three otbens later on. 



1. Isaac, wibo s-ettled on the Niagara river. 



2. Caleb, Jr. (born 27th March, 1772; died loth June, 1858), who 

 was buried in the old Beaverdams cemetery. He was grandfather of 

 W. D. Swayzie, of Dunnville. 



3. Richard (born 5th February, 1775; died 12th January, 1863), 

 who settled near Beaverdams anid was the father of the Swayzie fami- 

 lies of Haddimiand county. 



Three other children cam'C to Upper Canada later, namely: 



4. Samuel, came to Canada in 1805, and settled at Allanburg. 



5. Susan miarried — Sharp, and settled at Ancaister, where she 

 died, aged 104 5^ears. 



6. Elizabeth, who married — Cooper, and lived near Niagara Falls. 



Lt.-Ool. Isaac Swayzie, described in the official list of U. E. Loyal- 

 ists, as the " Pilot to tbo New. York Army," made bis borne at Niagana 

 and appears to have been more or less engaged in active service during 

 'the whole of the Civil "War, at one time oommaniding a small fort in 

 New York Staite. Early in the war, he and a number of unarmed men 

 were occupying an old log house, when a party of arm^ed VVbigs sud- 

 denly surrounded the place. Knowiing that he was the person wanted, 

 lie, Isaac, was concealed beneath tbe floor of the dwelling. The 

 Americans searched the place, and on not findiing him, they became 

 enraged and bayonetted his unanned brother to death. Isaac was 

 lying immediately under the place where his brother was killed and was 

 completely saturated with his blood, eventually escaping by slipping 

 through the guard. Naturally a man of extreme views, this incident 

 so preyed upon his mind that his one object in living seemicd to be 

 to do the greatest possible injury to the Americans. He was captured 

 several times, but always succeeded in making his escape, the last 

 time with the assistance of his wife, wbo shortly afterwards fell a victim 

 either to the savagery of the Indians of New York Sltate, or to the 

 over zeal O'f some of the " Sons of liberty." The deatb of his wife 

 had the effect of increasing his bitterness towards the Whig or Revolu- 

 tionary party, and he then declared that he would never make peace 

 with them, and apparently they never made peace with him. When 

 the American forces were first encamped on the Swayzie farms near 

 the Beaverdams, they respected property, and left the people in pos- 

 session of their dwellings. True, they took whatever they wanted^ 



