The Families of Swan's Island

From the Late 1700s To Present

We at the Swan’s Island Historical Society have been gathering family history or 'Genealogy' information based upon the work of Dr. Hermon W. Small's 'History of Swan's Island' and the work of Grace Bishoff, a former summer resident of the Island. Ms. Bishof traced connections of many Island families to Mayflower and Revolutionary ancestors.

We will periodically assemble and add portions of this huge work for presentation on the Swan's Island Web Site. The initial information provides ancestor roots and descendant trees of some of the earliest settlers of the Swan's Island group of Islands.

•We ask all viewers to please provide us details about any detected errors, and information to more completely cover all related people and additions about people not currently documented.

•Also, if you'd like to ask for specific family information, please contact us and every effort will be made to satisfy your request.

•We provide on this site, files you can download to print blank forms to submit additional family information for which we will be most grateful.

We have now added descendant reports for families who settled on Swan’s Island after those Dr. Small recorded in his book. Mostly those arriving until the early Twentieth Century.

PDF copies of blank genealogical documents are available to download here.

Download Blank Family Group Sheet

Download Blank Pedigree Chart

Many early settlers came after the Revolutionary War and were former soldiers. A lot were enticed by Colonel Swan, also a former soldier, to work on his Island and take up a lot of land for their own. Others later came for the same purpose but perhaps not with the soldier background.

See Explanations to find out about what is and is not included in the reports available here.

Email Swan's Island Historical Society with any questions you may have about this genealogy information.

The Early Settlers

The Settlers of the Intermediate years

Several of these settlers were likely living on Swan’s Island before or at the same time as Dr. Small, but he didn’t mention them in his book. Perhaps because he was focusing on families from the earliest times of settlement and their descendents.