General Notes

Information of this family furnished by Dr. Oren Swearingen and Gail
Vanderhoof. They do not agree entirely with the researcher who located
the records in Holland. "The father of Gerrett was Hendrick Van
Sweringen/Seringen b. 1614 inHolland. The only documentation to that
effect is from a will of his sister, Mary van Sweringen." An extract of a
letter to Jay E. Swearingen from Paul J. Rapteyn, Hilverus, Holland 1933:
The will or testament of Mary van Sweeringen shows us that she left as a
legacy to her brother, Gerrit Van Sweeringen, now (as far as she knows)
residing in the Marylands in the Virginies near the fortof Baltimore, an
account of two guilder. In another notarial document is mentioned that
she, Mary, gives power of attorney in which she authorises her brother
Albert to sell her 1/5 part or shares in a fram (farm?) and belongings
formerly the property of her parents - and situated in what the clerk in
Americacalled Remsterdwan/Beemsterdam. Garret, Mary and Albert's father
was HendrickVan Sweringen/Seringen b. about 1614 in Holland." This came
from Georgia Wilcoxen Lane who published a Wilcoxin Newsletter and quoted
as above by Patricia H. Kohl February 5, 1996. All of this from Gail
Vanderhoof.