Samuel Swett

Samuel Swett was an American writer and public speaker whose published work appeared across the first half of the 19th century. Records from library catalogs and bibliographic listings identify him as the author of an 1806 Fourth of July address, historical writing on the Battle of Bunker Hill, and works connected with the life of General Israel Putnam.

He is especially associated with History of Bunker Hill Battle and related writings, including expanded notes and later work on the planning of the Bunker Hill Monument. Those books show a lasting fascination with the Revolutionary generation and with preserving eyewitness memory before it disappeared.

Although concise biographical details are harder to confirm than his bibliography, the surviving record makes him stand out as a patriotic antiquarian writer: someone who gathered stories, documents, and commemorative history for readers eager to remember the American Revolution.