Swift, Zephaniah
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born in February, 1759, in Wareham, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Connec ticut from 1793 to 1797. He was placed on the bench of the superior court of the state, where he continued eighteen years, during the last five years of which he was chief justice. He was afterward a member of the state legislature, and was one of the committee to revise the statute laws of the state. He published several works; among them was a Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, on the model of Blackstone.
He died Sept. 27, 1823, in Warren, Ohio.