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Deacon Sylvester Sweet

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  • Name Sylvester Sweet 
    Title Deacon 
    Born 5 Jan 1724/25  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1805  East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I05839  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father James Sweet,   b. Abt 1695 
    Mother Sarah Stephenson,   b. Abt 1700 
    Married 1722 
    Family ID F08738  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Avis Luther,   b. 17 Dec 1726,   d. 3 Sep 1747  (Age 20 years) 
    Married 26 Sep 1746  Swansea, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F09693  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Waite Brown,   b. 7 Oct 1730, Scituate, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1757  (Age 26 years) 
    Married 7 Oct 1748  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Almy Sweet,   b. 8 Oct 1751, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. James Sweet,   b. 7 Apr 1753, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F04909  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary Johnson,   b. Abt 1736,   d. Nov 1780  (Age ~ 44 years) 
    Married 14 Aug 1757  East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Nov 1821, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)
     2. Samuel Sweet,   b. 9 Jan 1761, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Sylvester Sweet,   b. 7 Oct 1762, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 7 Mar 1804  (Age < 41 years)
     4. Thomas Sweet,   b. 2 Sep 1764, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Dec 1830  (Age 66 years)
     5. Sarah Sweet,   b. 17 Oct 1766, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Susannah Sweet,   b. 20 Jul 1768, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Mary Sweet,   b. 2 Oct 1770,   d. 18 Aug 1854, West Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     8. Elisha Sweet,   b. 26 Jan 1775, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F02238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 4 Dorcas Whitman 
    Married 22 May 1783  East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
     1. Tabitha Sweet,   b. 2 Nov 1786, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F09695  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012512] The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, RI, 1757-1766, Cherry Bamberg Fletcher, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2000), 16.

    2. [S013318] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Portsmouth -- Births and Deaths.

    3. [S013914] Boston Evening Transcript, 26 Aug 1912, Google News Archive Search.

    4. [S013914] Boston Evening Transcript, 26 Aug 1912.

    5. [S013319] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Portsmouth -- Marriages.

    6. [S012498] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, East Greenwich -- Marriages.