He would have four half-siblings (three surviving til adulthood) by his father's fifth wife, the former Mary Edwards.
He also handled his late father's estate together with his stepmother Mary Swann (who ultimately remarried Robert Randall), and rented a house from Rachel, the wife of William Sherwood, on behalf of the Governor's Council.
His father-in-law William Drummond sided with the rebels and was eventually executed, although this man's brother Thomas Swann Jr. as the Surry County sheriff in 1677 would be responsible for bringing many to trial.
[4] He continued his political career after moving across the border to (North) Carolina, and was elected speaker of that colony's assembly.
The Swann's Point Plantation Site was listed on the National Register for Historic Places in 1975, and is now owned by the National Park Service, having been donated in order to prevent construction of a bridge across the James River there.