WAS CAPTAIN PETER J. SWINK GORED BY A COW?
– Revision – Captain Peter J. Swink, remembered as having been an acquisitive and strong-willed Madison Countian, was born in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, May 11, 1796. Research done by Mrs. A. L. Tapp and summarized into a typescript, “Michael Swink Lineage,” by Janice Threadgill Watlington, 1988, reveals convincingly that Peter Swink was one of the several children of Leonard and Mary (Smith) Swink of Rowan County; that his paternal grand-father had been a German immigrant (Page 5). Peter J. Swink was married to Polly Pinkston in Rowan County, November 11, 1818 (bond) and they had several children: Jesse Wilborn Swink; Mariah Catherine Swink; David Marion Swink; William Pinkston Swink; James Alexander Swink; Turner Lamar Swink; Burwell Robert Swink, the first of whose given names was often spelled as it was pronounced, even thus so, Burrell, in his father’s will. It is likely that Polly Swink died in childbirth or from complications of same resulting from the birth of thi
