that Christiana – obviously as strong willed as her mother – married him anyway, in 1806, and Mrs. Swan built them a townhouse on Chestnut Street. (John and Christiana named their second son Henry Jackson Sargent) Her son James Keadie Swan married Caroline Knox, the daughter of Henry Knox, in 1808. At the time of the wedding Mrs. Swan commissioned Gilbert Stuart to paint a portrait of her son and also of herself. Hepzibah Swan had Henry Jackson interred in a tomb she built in her back garden. The tomb was raised on an earth berm surrounded by a hedge of lilacs and surmounted by an obelisk of blue marble probably quarried and made in Italy. On it was carved "Henry Jackson. Soldier, Patriot, Friend". A lane of lilacs led from the house to the tomb that Mrs. Swan often visited and pointed out to guests. One of them was the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in June 1825, on his triumphal visit to Boston for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He visited Mrs. Swan on his way to Quincy to see John Adams. The Marquis and Mrs. Swan talked in French for over an hour and no doubt Mrs. Swan walked him out to look at the tomb of Revolutionary War General Henry Jackson. Hepzibah Swan died two months later, probably of cholera, on August 14, 1825. She was buried in General Jackson's tomb. The house and grounds were left to Christiana Sargent who lived there until her death in 1867 at the age of 89. Her home on Chestnut Street is a site on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. References Further reading Allen Chamberlain. Beacon Hill: its ancient pastures and early mansions. 1925. Eleanor Pearson DeLorme. The Swan Commissions: Four Portraits by Gilbert Stuart. Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1979), pp. 361–395. S.E. Morison. Harrison Gray Otis: 1765-1848; the urbane Federalist. 1969. External links Dorchester Atheneum (Description of the Swan summer house in Dorchester, Massachusetts). 18th-century American people 18th century in Boston 19th century in Boston People from Beacon Hill, Boston 18th-century American women 1825 deaths