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He was named for Noah Swayne of Culpepper, VA, whose family came to Chester Co, PA, from Berkshire, England, in 1710. In 1846 he began the trip to California with his father, brothers, William & Purdy, and other gold hunters, but never made it. |
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"Swayne, in bad health, had returned to Wyandotte to visit with a Miss Brady, an Indian girl whom he had known in Ohio before the Wyandottes, a civilized tribe, had moved westward. While there he died....When Col. McElvain returned, an Indian stepped up to the boat which came down the river from St. Joseph and inquired if Col. McElvain was in the party, and instinct of the father told him before the Indian announced it, that his favorite son was dead." It was said he was engaged to the girl. |
| He was buried in the Bradley family plot. |