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Margaret Sweet

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Margaret Sweet was born 29 Oct 1740 (daughter of James Sweet and Unknown Wife).

    Notes:

    SWEET Margeret, dau. of James, on oath that the father of her son was James Austin, her son Ezra born April 13, 1767.

    Margaret — . [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Ezra Sweet was born 15 Apr 1767, North Kingstown, Washington Co., RI.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Sweet was born 4 Dec 1719 (son of James Sweet and Mary Shearman).

    James — Unknown Wife. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Unknown Wife
    Children:
    1. 1. Margaret Sweet was born 29 Oct 1740.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James Sweet was born 28 May 1687, North Kingstown, RI (son of Benoni Sweet and Elizabeth Manchester).

    Notes:

    Some information on James's children was found here:
    http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SWEET/2000-06/0962376001
    and:
    http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/SHERMAN/2001-01/0980126451

    James carried on the art of bonesetting, passed down from his father and grandfather.

    James married Mary Shearman 6 Jul 1714. Mary (daughter of Eber Shearman and Mary Unknown) was born 26 Jun 1688. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Mary Shearman was born 26 Jun 1688 (daughter of Eber Shearman and Mary Unknown).
    Children:
    1. Benoni Sweet was born 2 Apr 1715.
    2. Eben Sweet was born 5 Jun 1716.
    3. Mary Sweet was born Between 4 Nov 1717 and 1718; died 31 Jan 1765.
    4. 2. James Sweet was born 4 Dec 1719.
    5. Elisha Sweet was born 18 Oct 1721.
    6. Freelove Sweet was born 12 Apr 1723.
    7. Job Sweet was born Between 1724 and 1726.
    8. Elizabeth Sweet was born 13 Nov 1727.
    9. Margaret Sweet was born 4 Apr 1729.
    10. Thomas Sweet was born 30 Mar 1732.
    11. Hannah Sweet was born Abt 1734.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Benoni Sweet was born 28 Mar 1663, Warwick, RI (son of James Sweet and Mary Greene); died 19 Jul 1751, North Kingstown, RI.

    Notes:

    Benoni (bonesetter) b 28 Mar 1663 in Warwick, RI; md Elizabeth (Manchester). The following is from "Updike's History of the Narragansett Church": Benoni had been a Captain in the British service; was well informed and of polished manners; was a "natural" bonesetter and the progenitor of the race of bonesetters in RI; was styled "Dr. Sweet"; practiced in restoring dislocations only; was a regular communicant of the church; officiated as vestryman until his death. In the proceedings of the General Assembly held for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at Newport, 6 Mar 1696, admitted freeman were: Philip, James, Benoni, John, and Daniel Sweet. Benoni died 19 Jul 1752: Capt. Benoni Sweet of North Kingstown, in the 90th yr of his age.

    Benoni married Elizabeth Manchester Abt 1686. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas MANCHESTER and Margaret WOOD) was born Abt 1667; died Abt May 1754, North Kingstown, RI. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Manchester was born Abt 1667 (daughter of Thomas MANCHESTER and Margaret WOOD); died Abt May 1754, North Kingstown, RI.
    Children:
    1. 4. James Sweet was born 28 May 1687, North Kingstown, RI.
    2. Margaret Sweet was born Abt 22 Sep 1690, North Kingstown, RI; died 1727.
    3. Benoni Sweet was born 28 Mar 1692.
    4. Mary Sweet was born Between 8 Dec 1696 and 1699, North Kingstown, RI; died 1775, North Kingstown, RI.
    5. Elizabeth Sweet was born Abt 20 Feb 1700/01.
    6. Thomas Sweet was born 9 Aug 1703.

  3. 10.  Eber Shearman was born Between 1629 and 1634, Dedham, England or Roxbury, MA (son of Philip SHEARMAN and Sarah ODDING); died 1706; was buried , North Kingstown, RI.

    Notes:

    Eber possibly married second, Sophia A. Brown.

    Eber — Mary Unknown. Mary was born Between 1645 and 1655. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Mary Unknown was born Between 1645 and 1655.

    Notes:

    Some genealogies show that the wife of Eber Shearman was Mary Wilcox, b. 1639. However, genealogist Alden G. Beaman wrote that he had found no evidence that Eber's wife was Mary Wilcox (see RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 91), who probably would have been too old to be the mother of Eber's younger children. So, it may have been a different Mary, or perhaps he was married to two Marys.

    Children:
    1. Eber Shearman was born Abt 1679; died 1758.
    2. Samuel Shearman was born Abt 1681.
    3. Peleg Shearman was born Abt 1683; died 1782, Exeter, RI.
    4. Elisha Shearman was born Abt 1685; died Abt 1750, North Kingstown, RI.
    5. William Shearman was born Abt 1687; died Aft 20 Sep 1757.
    6. 5. Mary Shearman was born 26 Jun 1688.
    7. Stephen Shearman was born Abt 1690; died Abt Aug 1773, North Kingstown, RI.
    8. Abigail Shearman was born Abt 1692.