Lucy Sweat

Not the mother of Ephraim Sweat, SR
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11.William6 Sweat, born about 1732, was baptized in Prince Frederick Winyaw Parish in South Carolina on 11 December 1735. He purchased land by deed recorded in South Carolina between 1757 and 1758 and sold this land by deed recorded during the same period [Lucas, Index to Deeds of South Carolina, S-S:343, 346].
He married Lucy Turbeville before 23 July 1763 when he was named as executor and son-in-law of John Turbeville who mentioned his daughter Lucy Sweat and grandson Nathan Sweat in his Craven County, South Carolina will (which was proved 3 August the same year) [WB RR:55].
According to the Rev. Alexander Gregg, Rector of St. David's Church in Cheraw, South Carolina, William was the father of Nathan, James and William Sweat [Gregg, History of the Old Cheraws, 101, 311, 312]. William's children were

i. Nathan, born say 1753, listed in Captain Robert Lide's Company of Volunteer Militia who signed a petition to the Council of Safety of South Carolina on 9 October 1775. He was counted as white in 1790, head of a Beaufort District, South Carolina household of one male over 16, one under 16, and four females [SC:11].

ii. James1, born say 1755, counted as white in 1790, head of a Beaufort District, South Carolina household of four males over 16, three under 16, three females, and a slave [SC:11].

iii. William8, born say 1757, received a grant for 150 acres on Three Creeks in Craven County, South Carolina, on 16 July 1772. He was listed in Captain Robert Lide's Company of Volunteer Militia who signed a petition to the Council of Safety of South Carolina on 9 October 1775. He was counted as white in 1790, head of a Beaufort District, South Carolina household of one male over 16, three under 16, and two females [SC:11].

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Heinegg on William and Lucy (same citation as above): "12. William6 Sweat, born about 1732, was baptized in Prince Frederick Winyaw Parish in South Carolina on 11 December 1735. He purchased land by deed recorded in South Carolina between 1757 and 1758 and sold this land by deed recorded during the same period [Lucas, Index to Deeds of South Carolina, S-S:343, 346]. He married Lucy Turbeville before 23 July 1763 when he was named as executor and son-in-law of John Turbeville who named his daughter Lucy Sweat and grandson Nathan Sweat in his Craven County, South Carolina will (which was proved 3 August the same year) [WB RR:55]. "

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Daughter: Lucy. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes... Named in will of her father John Turbevil: WILL:23 Jul 1763 Craven Co., SC John Turbevil Wife Elizabeth,Son Charles,dau Judith,dau Jemima,dau

Lucy Sweat had 3 children of her own, adopted her grandsons and adopted others also. In a native community touched by war, that is going to happen. We know from her will that her grandsons were: ,gr-son Morris Murphy & Matthew Murphy his brother,gr-son George Turbevil (under 21) & Solomon his brother,gr-son Nathan Sweat,son-in-law William Sweat;

Lucy Sweat was born circa 1736. Her parents were John Turbeville, of Craven County and Sarah Elizabeth (Jones) Turbevil.

Lucy married Moses Murphy.

Together they had 2 sons mentioned in her father's will.

Lucy married William Sweat, Cheraw,Westron Indian Community.

Together they had a daughter: Alley (Sweat) Scott mentioned in her father's will.

She died 1777 in Old Cheraw's District, Chesterfield Co SC

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Lucy (Turbeville) Murphy-Sweat born1722 - Craven Co, NC; not, Marion Co, SC into a transfer censused community specified as Indian from Hodges' Ferry at Holden's Beech on the north side of the Elizabeth River into SC and died in 1763 at Hunt's Bluff, in what was legislated by Keaton, et. al in the SC Assembly of 1768 as named Cheraw District , which became Chesterfield Co in SC She was born to John Turbevil, Elizabeth Turbevil (born Johns/Jones) and we know her children and siblings from the Will of Lucy's Father's John's Will

Lucy's siblingls named in the will were 1.Judith Turbeville, 2Jemima Turbeville, 3Charles Turbeville,

Lucy inherited 3 slaves from her father's will: Hannah (wench), Peter (boy), and Domer/Domor (girl)

Children:

• 1 Daughter Alley Sweat's spouse mentioned in Lucy's father's will.
• Husband: William Sweat (mentioned in will of father in law)
  
• and Husband: Moses Murphy (children mentioned in will of father in law)
  

Grand Children of John Turbevil Mentioned In Will of Lucy's Father:

• 1. Morris Maurice Murphy
• 2. Matthew Murphy, Lucy's children by Moses Murphy
  
• 3. George & brother
• 4. Solomon Turbeville and
• 5.Nathan Franklin Sweat, son of ?.
  

Children direct to Sweat but not to Lucy:

• 1, John Turbeville as Not Mentioned in Will of Lucy's Father:
• 2 John Sweat,
• 2. William Sweat,
• 4 James Theophilus Sweat (son of Fnu)
• 5. Allen Sweat (belonged to Thomas Jefferson Sweat .
  

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes...

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Lucy Sweat was named in will of her father,

• John Turbevil: WILL:23 Jul 1763 Craven Co., SC
  
• John Turbevil,Wife Elizabeth,
  
• Son Charles,dau Judith,dau Jemima,dau Lucy Sweat,
  
• gr-son Morris Murphy & Matthew Murphy his brother,
  
• gr-son George Turbevil (under 21) & Solomon his brother,
  
• gr-son Nathan Sweat,
  
• son-in-law William Sweat<br/>

References

• Vicky Lynn, "Gibson Lineage", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/gibson-lineage/P415.php : accessed September 12, 2021), "Lucretia Lucy TURBEVILLE (< 1738-1837)".
• “Lucy (Turbeville) Sweat Murphyn Pamunkey By Marriage, Old Cheraw By Birth.” No reference