William Sweat

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Cornish Sweat, born say 1690, was called Corney Sweet in Isle of Wight County on 17 July 1740 when he and his wife Lucy recorded the birth of their son Robert Sweet [Old Parish Register of Newport Parish, 183]. On 11 August 1748 he was one of the freeholders of Isle of Wight County who were ordered to work on the road from Days's Neck Road near Thomas Day's over Wakefield Run to Hogpen Point. On 3 July 1760 he confessed that he owed James Ridley, executor of William Hogsden, 9 pounds, 11 shillings [Orders 1746-52, 115, 158]. Administration of his Isle of Wight County estate was granted to William Sweat on 7 May 1767 [Orders 1764-8, 402].

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Robert Sweat, born about 1623, was one of the immigrants imported into Virginia by Lieutenant Robert Sheppard aboard the ship Guiding Star in 1638 [Foley, Early Virginia Families Along the James River, 21; Greer, Early Virginia Immigrants, 318 cited by Ben H. Swett]. He was was made to do public penance during divine service at James City Church, James City Parish, Virginia, on 17 October 1640 because he hath begotten with Child a negro woman servant belonging unto Lieutenant Sheppard [Minutes of the Council (Robinson's Notes), 30, Virginia Historical Society Mss 5:9R5613].

The "negro woman servant" may not have been a slave. The courts also referred to indentured white servants as belonging to their masters. She may have been Margaret Cornish.

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Thomas, born say 1738, listed in the Muster Roll of Captain Alexander McKintosh's Company of Colonel Gabriel Powell's Battalion in the expedition against the Cherokees from 11 October 1759 to 15 January 1760, in the same list as Winslow Driggers [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 929]. He was a "Mulato" taxable in his own household in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 1768 and 1769 and taxable in the household of Ann Perkins in 1771 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:8, 17, 60]. He was granted 150 acres on the north side of the Pee Dee River in Craven County, South Carolina, on 28 July 1775. He was in the list of Captain Robert Lide's Company of Volunteer Militia who signed a petition to the Council of Safety of South Carolina on 9 October 1775.