Biography

06/09/1759 - 07/31/1798


SWANWICK, John, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, June 9, 1759 in Liverpool, England; served, 2nd Militia, Sixth Battalion, Continental Army (1778, Revolutionary War); apprenticed to financier Robert Morris (1774-1778); receiver of Continental taxes (1781); junior partner, Willing, Morris & Swanwick; general merchant; director, Insurance Company of North America (1792-1793); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1792-1793 and 1793-1794 terms; elected, United States Congress (1795-1798); died while in office of Congress, July 31, 1798 in Harrowgate (now Philadelphia), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

 

Bibliography

Swanwick, John. Considerations on an Act of the Legislature of Virginia, entitled, An Act for the Establishment of Religious Freedom. Philadelphia: Robert Aiken, printer, 1786.

Swanwick, John. A Rub from a Snub, or, a Cursory Analytical Epistle Addressed to Peter Porcupine, Author of the Bone to Gnaw, Kick for a Bite, etc. Philadelphia: n.p.,1795.

Swanwick, John. British Honour and Humanity, or, The Wonders of American Patience: As Exemplified in the Modest Publications and Universal Applause of Mr. William Coblet. Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1796.

Swanwick, John. A Roaster, or, A Check to the Progress of Political Blasphemy: Intended as a Brief Reply to Peter Porcupine, alias Billy Cobler. Philadelphia: J. Johnson, 1796. 

Swanwick, John. Poems on Several Occasions. Philadelphia: F. and R. Bailey, 1797.

Swanwick, John. Circular. Philadelphia: n.p., 1797.

Baumann, Ronald M. “John Swanwick: Spokesman for ‘Merchant-Republicanism’ in Philadelphia, 1790-1798.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 97 (April 1973):131-182.

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