John Sweet, of Newport

John Sweet

• birth: 1620, Modbury, Devonshire, England;
• death: 16 July 1677, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
• father: John SWEET, birth: 1579, Traine, Modbury, Devonshire, England; death: 1637 / 1638, Newport, Newport Co, RI
• mother: Mrs Mary SWEET, birth: 1579, Of, Va, Devonshire, England; death: 31 July 1681, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island

Marriage

1. to Temperance, birth: about 1594; death: November 1645
2. September 1651, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island to Elizabeth JEOFFREY, birth: 1629; death: 18 September 1684

Children:

• John Albert Sweet, birth: 1652; death: August 1717
• Daniel Sweet, birth: 1654; death: 1728
• Richard Sweet, birth: 1659; death: 1744
• Benjamin Sweet, birth: 1661
• Henry Sweet, birth: 7 March 1662; death: after 1749
• William Sweet, birth: 1 August 1663
• Jeremiah Sweet, birth: 6 January 1669; death: September 1731
• Rufus Sweet, birth: 1685; death: 23 December 1732
• James Sweet, birth: 26 June 1719; death: 26 January 1719

Notes

John came from England with his mother. Evidently his father came over earlier Lived in Warwick Rhode Island, was on the freeman's list in 1665. Was a commissioner in 1660. Had a grist mill and other works on the Potowomut river in Narraganset county, which were burned by Indians in the Phillip’s war in 1675.

Residences: Warwick, RI and Newport, RI.

1648, June 5- Records show him as inhabitant of Warwick, RI.

1655- Freeman.

1660- Commisioner

1675- His Grist Mill was burned by Indians.

Siblings: James born 1622, and Meribah.

Sources 

1. [S49] History and Descendants of John Sweet, James Sylvester Perry Sweet.
2. [S50] Genealogical History of the Sweet Family of America.
3. [S47] (Boston, MA: The Grafton Press, 1907).
4. [S42] Old Tales of Our Bluenose Family, Iola S. Young, (privately published).
5. [S45] Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode island, John Osborne Austin, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD, 1969), pg 194.
6. [S54] Will, John Sweet.
7. Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of ..., Volume 1  By William Richard Cutter. Page 420
8. New England Historical & Genealogical Register, v144, p.291
9. "Ancestral File", database, FamilySearch - http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MW1F-CWC

Links

• http://www.clancywrightgenealogy.org/getperson.php?personID=I830&tr...
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

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