Deacon Sylvester Sweet

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Name Sylvester Sweet Title Deacon Birth 5 Jan 1724/25 Portsmouth, RI [1, 2]
Gender Male Death 1805 East Greenwich, RI Person ID I05839 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father James Sweet, b. Abt 1695 Mother Sarah Stephenson, b. Abt 1700 Marriage 1722 Family ID F08738 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Avis Luther, b. 17 Dec 1726 d. 3 Sep 1747 (Age 20 years) Marriage 26 Sep 1746 Swansea, MA [3]
Family ID F09693 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 2 Waite Brown, b. 7 Oct 1730, Scituate, RI d. 21 Mar 1757 (Age 26 years)
Marriage 7 Oct 1748 Portsmouth, RI [1, 4, 5]
Notes - SWEET Sylvester, of Portsmouth, and Wait Brown, of Providence; m. by Robert Lawton, Asst., Oct. 7, 1748.
Children 1. Lydia Sweet, b. 16 Nov 1749, Portsmouth, RI 2. Almy Sweet, b. 8 Oct 1751, Portsmouth, RI 3. James Sweet, b. 7 Apr 1753, Portsmouth, RI Family ID F04909 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 3 Mary Johnson, b. Abt 1736 d. Nov 1780 (Age 44 years) Marriage 14 Aug 1757 East Greenwich, RI [6]
Notes - Sweet Sylvester, and Mary Johnson; m. by Thomas Shippee, Justice, Aug. 14, 1757.
Children 1. Waite Sweet, b. 29 Aug 1758, East Greenwich, RI d. 25 Nov 1821, North Kingstown, RI
(Age 63 years)
2. Samuel Sweet, b. 9 Jan 1761, East Greenwich, RI 3. Sylvester Sweet, b. 7 Oct 1762, East Greenwich, RI d. Bef 7 Mar 1804 (Age < 41 years)
4. Thomas Sweet, b. 2 Sep 1764, East Greenwich, RI d. Abt Dec 1830 (Age 66 years)
5. Sarah Sweet, b. 17 Oct 1766, East Greenwich, RI 6. Susannah Sweet, b. 20 Jul 1768, East Greenwich, RI 7. Mary Sweet, b. 2 Oct 1770 d. 18 Aug 1854, West Greenwich, RI (Age 83 years)
8. Elisha Sweet, b. 26 Jan 1775, East Greenwich, RI Family ID F02238 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Family 4 Dorcas Whitman Marriage 22 May 1783 East Greenwich, RI [6]
Children 1. Tabitha Sweet, b. 2 Nov 1786, East Greenwich, RI Family ID F09695 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
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Notes - The will of Sylvester Sweet, yeoman, advanced in life, is dated 7 Mar 1804, proved 25 Jan 1806 at East Greenwich. It mentions wife Dorcas; sons James, Samuel, Thomas, Sylvester dec'd, & Elisha; and daughters Tabitha Sweet, Lydia w/o John Johnson, Almy w/o Amos Vaughn, Wait w/o George Wightman, Mary w/o Charles (should read Pardon) Tillinghast, Sarah w/o William Sleid, and susannah w/o Charles Sleid; grandson Luther Sweet s/o son Sylvester dec'd.
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Sources - [S012512] Cherry Bamberg Fletcher, The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, RI, 1757-1766, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2000), 16.
- [S013318] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Portsmouth -- Births and Deaths.
- [S013914] Boston Evening Transcript, 26 Aug 1912, Google News Archive Search.
- [S013914] Boston Evening Transcript, 26 Aug 1912.
- [S013319] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Portsmouth -- Marriages.
- [S012498] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, East Greenwich -- Marriages.
- [S012512] Cherry Bamberg Fletcher, The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, RI, 1757-1766, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2000), 16.