| Last name | Swett |
| First name | Benjamin |
| Display name | Benjamin Swett |
| Birth date | 1739 |
| Death date | 1819 |
| Birth place | New Castle |
| Death place | Haddonfield |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Philadelphia Friends meeting, London Yearly meeting |
| Bio notes | Son of John Swett, probably born in Delaware. Granted a certificate by Philadelphia Meeting to London (1759). Married Mary Howell at Phila. meeting in 1762. To Burlington, N.J.; to Haddonfield, N.J. In 1778 accompanied John Hunt in a visit to the Indians living near Edgepelick, NJ; in 1797-1801 with his wife visited Friends in Europe. Member, Phila. Yearly Meeting's Indian Committee; left money to Soc. of Friends for care of the insane. |
| Data notes | Birth date is approximate |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798
The Committee Appointed to Confer With the Friends who Attended the Indian Treaty
Address to the Six Nations
Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795