Fernow’s Calendar of Wills: Schepmoes, Dirck of Kingston Corporation. Ulster Co. will proved 9/20/1725 — mentions wife margrietie Tapen, daughters Anna, Aryantie, Sarak, Dirikye, Reagel, Leca and Rebecca; sons Willem and Johannes. Among executors: Barnardus Swartwout.

According to Swartwout Chronicles, Barnardus was born Wiltwijck; baptized there on 4/26/1673; was still unmarried when he purchased land with his two brothers in the Magaghemeck Tract, lying north of the Delaware river and stretching along the west side of the Neversink River in 1696.

Barnardus, fourth son of Roeloff Swartwout was living in Hurley when his father died in 1715. He had married on May 19, 1700, being then 27 years of age, to Rachel, daughter of Dirk Janse and Maria Willems Schepmoes of Kingston. On 10/2/1702, he, along with 28 of the other “chiefest and principal inhabitants of the County of Ulster” had signed and dispatched an “address to his Excellency, Edward Lord Viscount” Cornbury, governor of province of New York. As is disclosed by rcords of the village, he was one of the seven freeholders appointed in 1719, the first trustees of Hurley.

On August 2, 1720, he purchased for 320 pouinds, a farm of 500 acres in the manor of Poughkeepsie belonging to Thomas Lewis and “adjoining upon the south line of Henry van der Burg’s 1000 acres” extending southerly along Jan Casper’s Kill to the land of Thomas Sanders. On Jan 5, 1721, resigned office of trustee of the village of Hurley and in spring of that year, moved with his family to Dutchess County... In 1741, having never occupied any of the Maghaghkemeck lands allotted to him, he sold to his nephew Jacobus, second son of Antoni Swartwout, all that full lot, No. one, which fell unto him the said Barnardus Swartwout by the second division of the 12,000 acres of land which were formerly purchased by the said Swartwouts and company...

On his death, his widow and sons conveyed to “Jacobus Swartwout, Jr. of the Menisincks in Orange Co., merchant, the 7th share which the deceased had owned in the manor of maghaghkemeck.

Grantee records, Orange Co. LiberC:25 28 Oct 1741 — Bernardus Swartwout of Dutchess Co sold to Jacobus Swartwout of Orange Co for 126 pounds all that full lot No. 1 which fell unto him sold Bernardus by 2nd division of 1200 acres of land formerly purchased by said Swartwout and Company, said lot lying..207