Thomas Samuel Swartwout

Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – ) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck (Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulster County October 14, 1697 and one of seven founders with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Anthony & Bernardus Swartwout, David Jamison and Jan Tyse of pre1798 Deerpark, Orange County, New York. He married Elizabeth Jacobse Jansen Gardenier on February 4, 1683 in New York, British Province.

Family Thomas Swartwout was the eldest son of Schout of EsopusRoelof Swartwout and Eva Brandt de Hooges and grandson of Tomys Swartwout. He was the brother of Antoni Swartwout and Bernardus Swartwout, brother in law of Jacob Kip, and father of Jacobus Swartwout and grandfather of Brigadier General Jacobus Swartwout. He was born in Beverwyck, New Netherland in 1660.

Swartwout Land Patent was formally known as Wagheckemeck Patent October 14, 1697 also known as Peenpack Patent. Source for image is Swartwout Chronicles by Arthur Weise.

Early settler and founder in New York On October 14, 1697, Swartwout, along with his brothers Antoni and Bernardus, were granted 1200 acres of patent land along with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Jan Tyse, and David Jamison, Wagheckemeck Patent, later called the Peenpack Patent.