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Caleb Swan (July 2nd, 1758-November 29th, 1809) was Paymaster-General for the United States Army from May 8th, 1792 to June 30th, 1808. Swan had served as a corporal in the 9th Massachusetts Regiment, and an ensign in the 4th and 8th Regiments during the American Revolutionary War. He was initially stationed at White Plains (NY) and was later stationed at West Point. After the war, he was one of the original members of the New York chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati. As Paymaster-General, Swan was one of the signers of the Treaty of Greenville at the end of the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795). He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery, one of eleven Revolutionary War veterans buried there.