Nielsen Hayden genealogy
James Sweet

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Name James Sweet Birth Abt 1630 England [1]
Gender Male Death 18 Jun 1698 South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island [2, 3]
Burial Sweet-Austin Lot, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island [2]
Person ID I12529 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 27 Nov 2024
Father John Sweet, b. Abt 1603 d. Between 6 Jun 1637 and 25 Dec 1637, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 34 years)
Mother Mary d. Bef 31 Jul 1681 Marriage Bef 1628 England [1]
Family ID F1609 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Greene, b. Bef 19 May 1633 d. 6 Nov 1686, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island (Age > 53 years)
Marriage Bef 1655 [1] Children + 1. Samuel Sweet, b. 1 Nov 1667, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 26 Nov 1728, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island
(Age 61 years)
Family ID F7375 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Nov 2021
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Notes - From his Find a Grave page (citation details below):
The second son of John & Mary Sweet, James Sweet came with his parents to America in 1632. He worked at a grist mill with his step-father, Ezekiel Holliman. He was an inhabitant of Warwick in 1648, Commissioner in 1653/1658/1659, freeman in 1655, juryman in 1656 and lived at the estate of the late William Congdon at the foot of Ridge Hill. He married Mary Greene, daughter of John Greene & Joane (Tattersol) Greene, about 1654 in Providence, RI. On Sept. 30, 1660, he sold to Thomas Greene, the lot he had received from the town of Warwick along with meadow land. Later, the family moved to Prudence Island in Portsmouth Twp. about four miles soutwest of Bristol in 1664 being one of the first families to live on the island from 1664 to about 1685. Several family members are buried in the old family burying ground in the center of the island.
On November 8, 1686, he deeded his land in Providence that he had inherited from his father to eldlest son, Philip of Prudence Island. On the same date, he deeded to son, Benoni, certain land in Mashiantatack, and to son, James of Prudence Island, Valentine of Kingstown, and Samuel & Mary Sweet living with their parents, land in Mashiantatack. In 1695, James deposed and gave his age as 73. He died at age 76 years.
All the "bone-setter" family lines originate with James Sweet and his wife, Mary, who learned the art of bone-setting from her surgeon father, John Greene. James Sweet & his brother, John Sweet were interpreters to the Indians for first settlers and their names can be found on early Indian deeds. James Sweet signed with his mark.
- From his Find a Grave page (citation details below):
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Sources - [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S7947] Find a Grave page for James Sweet.
- [S679] The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin. Albany, New York; 1887. Corrected edition, including corrections by John Osborne Austin and material by G. Andrews Moriarty from The American Genealogist. Baltimore: Genealogicical Publishing Co., 1969, 1978.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.