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(The Sweeting Line)
(I) Henry Sweeting, the first English settler of this family, is descended from the Van Swietens of Leyden, from which place he fled in 1580 to escape the persecutions of the Duke of Alva, according to the researches of Rev. Walter Sweeting, of Market Deeping, England. A large number of Dutchmen and Walloons took refuge in Southern England at that time and contributed greatly to the prosperity of that country, especially in the manufacturing industries.
(II) Lewis, son of Henry Sweeting, was of Somersetshire, England. He and all the men of the family were clothiers and men of education. The manor houses in which they lived are still in existence in Southern England.
(III) Lewis, son of Lewis Sweeting, was of Owey Stowey, Somersetshire, England.
(IV) Henry, son of Lewis Sweeting, was born in Somersetshire, England, and died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1728. He and his brother Lewis (tradition says), were in the Monmouth rebellion. They were taken prisoners at the battle of Bridgewater and were condemned to death, but "Bloody Jeffries" was willing to be bribed, and the father and the youngest brother not being involved, they were rescued, and taken to Bristol, where a sloop waited in readiness. They took refuge in Rehoboth, but it was not until 1687, when William and Mary ascended the throne, that they appeared and registered their lands. Mr. Henry Sweeting was a very wealthy man for the time, educated, and one of four only in Rehoboth who had the title of Mr. He married (first) Joanna or Joan ββββ, who became the mother of two children. He married (second) Martha Cole (Hugh 2, James 1); children:
Henry;
Lewis (see forward);
Benjamin;
John;
Experience, married John Carey;
Mary, married Noah Mason;
Sarah, married William Walker;
there were one or two other daughters.
(V) Lewis, son of Mr. Henry and Martha Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth, and his father gave him a valuable mill site near or on the site of Pawtucket Mills. About four years after his marriage he was taken ill with a violent fever, which lasted for six weeks, "a man nurse, etc.," all this being shown in the widow's account, besides "a trip to Boston for best morning." He was married in Wrentham, Massachusetts, to Zebiah, daughter of John and Mary (Billings) Whiting, of Wrentham and Dedham; granddaughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whiting, of Dedham; granddaughter of William Billings, of Stonington, Connecticut; and great-granddaughter of John Dwight. Children: Joanna, who died in infancy; Lewis (see forward). Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting went back to Wrentham with her two children to live with her father, and, in spite of "best morning," soon married Dr. William Ware, of Dighton and Norton, Massachusetts.
(VI) Dr. Lewis, son of Lewis and Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth in 1723, and was brought up by his stepfather, with whom he studied medicine. He was a man of prominence in the community, and when Mansfield was set off from Norton it took in that part of the town in which he lived. He and his wife died in Manlius, New York. He married Abiah Cobb, of Norton and Taunton. (See Cobb). Children:
Zebiah, married Solomon Wetherell; children:
Hannah, married ββββ Sennett, in Rensselaer county; her daughter married ββββ Scollard, one of whose descendants being Clinton Scollard, the poet of Oneida county, New York.
Abiah, married Job Gilbert, and has descendants living in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Lucy, married Spencer Pratt, and has descendants living in the vicinity of Boston.
Lewis, married and removed to Manlius, and many of his descendants are in the west.
Anna, married Captain Alexander D'Aubie, an aide of La Fayette, and lived in Lee, Massachuetts, and in Utica, New York.
Whiting, married, 1791, Sarah Kilbourne; children:
Whiting, died unmarried.
Abiah, married ββββ Worden, and has descendants in Syracuse, New York.
Eliphalet, married Lovina (Benton) Luce, and has descendants in New York and the west.
Nathaniel (see forward).
Mary, married Jacob Tyrrell.
John, married Mary Sessions, and has descendants in the far west.
Mason, married Judith Pratt, and has descendants in Lyons, New York, and its vicinity.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of Dr. Lewis and Abiah (Cobb) Sweeting, was born in Norton, Massachusetts, 1758, and died in Oneida county, New York. He was a pensioner of the revolution, during which time he was active and prominent. In the Lexington alarm his father, aged sixty, three sons, four sons-in-law, besides many cousins and other relatives, marched to Lexington, arriving just after the battle. Dr. Lewis Sweeting remained with the army until the "eight months' men" could organize and return, in order to keep the British in Boston. Nathaniel and his brothers returned in a few days to Norton or Mansfield, re-enlisted for eight months, and when Dr. Lewis Sweeting returned he was placed on important war committees, etc. He served as a surgeon in the army, but no documentary proofs of this service have been found. Nathaniel Sweeting's pension describes the line of march to Dorchester Heights, where they were then stationed. At the end of eight months he re-enlisted. Later, about August 29, he was at Tiverton, as lieutenant, and was in charge of a boat and company intending to attack the British in Rhode Island, but the boat stuck fast on a bar, and the expedition failed. He was in the battle of Rhode Island. He was stationed at Fogland, in Little Compton or Tiverton, guarding the coast. The American headquarters were at the Wing house, and a little farther to the north La Fayette had his headquarters at the Brown house. About 1781 we find Nathaniel and his brother Lewis in a militia company in Stephentown (now Rensselaer county), Kiliaen Van Rensselaer having raised a regiment by promising large bounties of his lands to soldiers. After the war, until 1791, we find, where Stephentown, Berlin, Sand Lake and Nassau come together, in the high lands, Dr. Lewis Sweeting, Lewis Sweeting, Whiting Sweeting and Nathaniel Sweeting, and several of their sisters and their families. In 1791 Nathaniel and Eliphalet went to Oneida county. Dr. Lewis Sweeting and his sons, Lewis, John and Mason, went to Manlius, Onondaga county. Some time during the revolution Nathaniel Sweeting was on a "service of great peril," and acquitted himself so well that George Washington wrote him a letter commending him. This was probably the service of a spy, of which no records were kept. This letter was a highly prized treasure, and was packed in the box with Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting's wedding china and her gold beads. This box broke away from the remainder of the load and went over Oneida Falls, the contents being entirely lost. Nathaniel Sweeting had had considerable experience with iron furnaces at Raynham, through the Cobbs of Taunton, his mother's family, and he was for a short time at Lee, Massachusetts. When he came to Whitestone he started the Hecla Furnace, and his brother Eliphalet started the first furnace of Oneida county, at Paris Hill. One of the descendants of Eliphalet is Mrs. Henry O. R. Tucker, of Troy, New York. From Whitestown, Nathaniel Sweeting removed to Westmoreland, where his death occurred. He married in Mansfield, Mary Tyrrell. (See Tyrrell). Children:
Nathaniel, married Ruby Phelps.
Almon, married and went west.
Philip Belin, married Myra Barnard.
Chloe, see forward.
Anna, died unmarried.
There were others who died young. There are very few descendants of his name; some in Michigan and a few in Oneida county, New York.
(VIII) Chloe, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting, was born in Whitestown, New York, in 1794. She married, 1813, George Langford. (See Langford IV).
(The Cobb Line)
(I) Augustine Cobb was in Taunton in 1670. He had a brother John, who also had a son Morgan, which would indicate that there was a connection with a Morgan family in an earlier generation. He married Elizabeth ββββ.
(II) Ensign Morgan, son of Augustine and Elizabeth Cobb, was prominent in Taunton during the French and Indian war. He gave liberally to the First Episcopal church of Taunton. He married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin, and granddaughter of John Willis.
(III) Benjamin, son of Morgan and Abigail (Willis) Cobb, was born in Taunton and died just prior to the revolution. Several of his sons were active participants in the revolution and died young. Just before removing to Norton he married Mary, daughter of Ensign John and Mercy (Myrrick) Mason. Children: Captain John; Captain Benjamin; Colonel Silas; Mason; Abiah (see forward); and several daughters who married into the Briggs, Makepeace, Babbitt, Lane and other families.
(IV) Abiah, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mason) Cobb, was born in Norton, and died in Manlius. She was a remarkable woman in many ways and the influence of her character was beneficially felt. She married Dr. Lewis Sweeting. (See Sweeting VI).
(The Tyrrell Line)
(I) William Tyrrell, of Boston, is the first of whom we have record. He was a Scotchman, and his descendants have intermarried with the best families of Weymouth and Abington β Nash, Pratt, Kingsman, Simpkins, etc.
(II) Gideon was the son of William Tyrrell.
(III) Samuel, son of Gideon Tyrrell.
(IV) Alexander, son of Samuel Tyrrell, was born in Abington. He married in Weymouth, where he lived after his marriage, Mary, his cousin, who was a daughter of Jacob Tyrrell, granddaughter of William Tyrrell, and great-granddaughter of William Tyrrell. Children, all born in Weymouth:
Jacob, married Mary, sister of Nathaniel Sweeting, mentioned above, and his descendants are throughout the west.
Job, married Abigail Cobb; he was captured by the Algerines, and, returning after many years, found his wife had married again; he went to Central New York, where he also married again, and where he died.
Mary (see forward).
Chloe, married Captain John Cobb, and died soon after without leaving children.
Tradition says that Alexander and Jacob Tyrrell, of Bridgewater, ran the gauntlet at Fort William Henry, and proof of this is found in the State House in Boston β the enlistment of Alexander in the troops at Fort William Henry and two or three records of his wounded condition, and his death in the hospital in Albany. The Tyrrells of Weymouth and Abington were noted as fast runners.
(V) Mary, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Tyrrell) Tyrrell, married Nathaniel Sweeting. (See Sweeting VII).
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(The Sweeting Line)
(I) Henry Sweeting, the first English settler of this family, is descended from the Van Swietens of Leyden, from which place he fled in 1580 to escape the persecutions of the Duke of Alva, according to the researches of Rev. Walter Sweeting, of Market Deeping, England. A large number of Dutchmen and Walloons took refuge in Southern England at that time and contributed greatly to the prosperity of that country, especially in the manufacturing industries.
(II) Lewis, son of Henry Sweeting, was of Somersetshire, England. He and all the men of the family were clothiers and men of education. The manor houses in which they lived are still in existence in Southern England.
(III) Lewis, son of Lewis Sweeting, was of Owey Stowey, Somersetshire, England.
(IV) Henry, son of Lewis Sweeting, was born in Somersetshire, England, and died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1728. He and his brother Lewis (tradition says), were in the Monmouth rebellion. They were taken prisoners at the battle of Bridgewater and were condemned to death, but "Bloody Jeffries" was willing to be bribed, and the father and the youngest brother not being involved, they were rescued, and taken to Bristol, where a sloop waited in readiness. They took refuge in Rehoboth, but it was not until 1687, when William and Mary ascended the throne, that they appeared and registered their lands. Mr. Henry Sweeting was a very wealthy man for the time, educated, and one of four only in Rehoboth who had the title of Mr. He married (first) Joanna or Joan ββββ, who became the mother of two children. He married (second) Martha Cole (Hugh 2, James 1); children:
Henry;
Lewis (see forward);
Benjamin;
John;
Experience, married John Carey;
Mary, married Noah Mason;
Sarah, married William Walker;
there were one or two other daughters.
(V) Lewis, son of Mr. Henry and Martha Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth, and his father gave him a valuable mill site near or on the site of Pawtucket Mills. About four years after his marriage he was taken ill with a violent fever, which lasted for six weeks, "a man nurse, etc.," all this being shown in the widow's account, besides "a trip to Boston for best morning." He was married in Wrentham, Massachusetts, to Zebiah, daughter of John and Mary (Billings) Whiting, of Wrentham and Dedham; granddaughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whiting, of Dedham; granddaughter of William Billings, of Stonington, Connecticut; and great-granddaughter of John Dwight. Children: Joanna, who died in infancy; Lewis (see forward). Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting went back to Wrentham with her two children to live with her father, and, in spite of "best morning," soon married Dr. William Ware, of Dighton and Norton, Massachusetts.
(VI) Dr. Lewis, son of Lewis and Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth in 1723, and was brought up by his stepfather, with whom he studied medicine. He was a man of prominence in the community, and when Mansfield was set off from Norton it took in that part of the town in which he lived. He and his wife died in Manlius, New York. He married Abiah Cobb, of Norton and Taunton. (See Cobb). Children:
Zebiah, married Solomon Wetherell; children:
Hannah, married ββββ Sennett, in Rensselaer county; her daughter married ββββ Scollard, one of whose descendants being Clinton Scollard, the poet of Oneida county, New York.
Abiah, married Job Gilbert, and has descendants living in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Lucy, married Spencer Pratt, and has descendants living in the vicinity of Boston.
Lewis, married and removed to Manlius, and many of his descendants are in the west.
Anna, married Captain Alexander D'Aubie, an aide of La Fayette, and lived in Lee, Massachuetts, and in Utica, New York.
Whiting, married, 1791, Sarah Kilbourne; children:
Whiting, died unmarried.
Abiah, married ββββ Worden, and has descendants in Syracuse, New York.
Eliphalet, married Lovina (Benton) Luce, and has descendants in New York and the west.
Nathaniel (see forward).
Mary, married Jacob Tyrrell.
John, married Mary Sessions, and has descendants in the far west.
Mason, married Judith Pratt, and has descendants in Lyons, New York, and its vicinity.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of Dr. Lewis and Abiah (Cobb) Sweeting, was born in Norton, Massachusetts, 1758, and died in Oneida county, New York. He was a pensioner of the revolution, during which time he was active and prominent. In the Lexington alarm his father, aged sixty, three sons, four sons-in-law, besides many cousins and other relatives, marched to Lexington, arriving just after the battle. Dr. Lewis Sweeting remained with the army until the "eight months' men" could organize and return, in order to keep the British in Boston. Nathaniel and his brothers returned in a few days to Norton or Mansfield, re-enlisted for eight months, and when Dr. Lewis Sweeting returned he was placed on important war committees, etc. He served as a surgeon in the army, but no documentary proofs of this service have been found. Nathaniel Sweeting's pension describes the line of march to Dorchester Heights, where they were then stationed. At the end of eight months he re-enlisted. Later, about August 29, he was at Tiverton, as lieutenant, and was in charge of a boat and company intending to attack the British in Rhode Island, but the boat stuck fast on a bar, and the expedition failed. He was in the battle of Rhode Island. He was stationed at Fogland, in Little Compton or Tiverton, guarding the coast. The American headquarters were at the Wing house, and a little farther to the north La Fayette had his headquarters at the Brown house. About 1781 we find Nathaniel and his brother Lewis in a militia company in Stephentown (now Rensselaer county), Kiliaen Van Rensselaer having raised a regiment by promising large bounties of his lands to soldiers. After the war, until 1791, we find, where Stephentown, Berlin, Sand Lake and Nassau come together, in the high lands, Dr. Lewis Sweeting, Lewis Sweeting, Whiting Sweeting and Nathaniel Sweeting, and several of their sisters and their families. In 1791 Nathaniel and Eliphalet went to Oneida county. Dr. Lewis Sweeting and his sons, Lewis, John and Mason, went to Manlius, Onondaga county. Some time during the revolution Nathaniel Sweeting was on a "service of great peril," and acquitted himself so well that George Washington wrote him a letter commending him. This was probably the service of a spy, of which no records were kept. This letter was a highly prized treasure, and was packed in the box with Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting's wedding china and her gold beads. This box broke away from the remainder of the load and went over Oneida Falls, the contents being entirely lost. Nathaniel Sweeting had had considerable experience with iron furnaces at Raynham, through the Cobbs of Taunton, his mother's family, and he was for a short time at Lee, Massachusetts. When he came to Whitestone he started the Hecla Furnace, and his brother Eliphalet started the first furnace of Oneida county, at Paris Hill. One of the descendants of Eliphalet is Mrs. Henry O. R. Tucker, of Troy, New York. From Whitestown, Nathaniel Sweeting removed to Westmoreland, where his death occurred. He married in Mansfield, Mary Tyrrell. (See Tyrrell). Children:
Nathaniel, married Ruby Phelps.
Almon, married and went west.
Philip Belin, married Myra Barnard.
Chloe, see forward.
Anna, died unmarried.
There were others who died young. There are very few descendants of his name; some in Michigan and a few in Oneida county, New York.
(VIII) Chloe, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting, was born in Whitestown, New York, in 1794. She married, 1813, George Langford. (See Langford IV).
(The Cobb Line)
(I) Augustine Cobb was in Taunton in 1670. He had a brother John, who also had a son Morgan, which would indicate that there was a connection with a Morgan family in an earlier generation. He married Elizabeth ββββ.
(II) Ensign Morgan, son of Augustine and Elizabeth Cobb, was prominent in Taunton during the French and Indian war. He gave liberally to the First Episcopal church of Taunton. He married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin, and granddaughter of John Willis.
(III) Benjamin, son of Morgan and Abigail (Willis) Cobb, was born in Taunton and died just prior to the revolution. Several of his sons were active participants in the revolution and died young. Just before removing to Norton he married Mary, daughter of Ensign John and Mercy (Myrrick) Mason. Children: Captain John; Captain Benjamin; Colonel Silas; Mason; Abiah (see forward); and several daughters who married into the Briggs, Makepeace, Babbitt, Lane and other families.
(IV) Abiah, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mason) Cobb, was born in Norton, and died in Manlius. She was a remarkable woman in many ways and the influence of her character was beneficially felt. She married Dr. Lewis Sweeting. (See Sweeting VI).
(The Tyrrell Line)
(I) William Tyrrell, of Boston, is the first of whom we have record. He was a Scotchman, and his descendants have intermarried with the best families of Weymouth and Abington β Nash, Pratt, Kingsman, Simpkins, etc.
(II) Gideon was the son of William Tyrrell.
(III) Samuel, son of Gideon Tyrrell.
(IV) Alexander, son of Samuel Tyrrell, was born in Abington. He married in Weymouth, where he lived after his marriage, Mary, his cousin, who was a daughter of Jacob Tyrrell, granddaughter of William Tyrrell, and great-granddaughter of William Tyrrell. Children, all born in Weymouth:
Jacob, married Mary, sister of Nathaniel Sweeting, mentioned above, and his descendants are throughout the west.
Job, married Abigail Cobb; he was captured by the Algerines, and, returning after many years, found his wife had married again; he went to Central New York, where he also married again, and where he died.
Mary (see forward).
Chloe, married Captain John Cobb, and died soon after without leaving children.
Tradition says that Alexander and Jacob Tyrrell, of Bridgewater, ran the gauntlet at Fort William Henry, and proof of this is found in the State House in Boston β the enlistment of Alexander in the troops at Fort William Henry and two or three records of his wounded condition, and his death in the hospital in Albany. The Tyrrells of Weymouth and Abington were noted as fast runners.
(V) Mary, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Tyrrell) Tyrrell, married Nathaniel Sweeting. (See Sweeting VII).
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(The Sweeting Line)
(I) Henry Sweeting, the first English settler of this family, is descended from the Van Swietens of Leyden, from which place he fled in 1580 to escape the persecutions of the Duke of Alva, according to the researches of Rev. Walter Sweeting, of Market Deeping, England. A large number of Dutchmen and Walloons took refuge in Southern England at that time and contributed greatly to the prosperity of that country, especially in the manufacturing industries.
(II) Lewis, son of Henry Sweeting, was of Somersetshire, England. He and all the men of the family were clothiers and men of education. The manor houses in which they lived are still in existence in Southern England.
(III) Lewis, son of Lewis Sweeting, was of Owey Stowey, Somersetshire, England.
(IV) Henry, son of Lewis Sweeting, was born in Somersetshire, England, and died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1728. He and his brother Lewis (tradition says), were in the Monmouth rebellion. They were taken prisoners at the battle of Bridgewater and were condemned to death, but "Bloody Jeffries" was willing to be bribed, and the father and the youngest brother not being involved, they were rescued, and taken to Bristol, where a sloop waited in readiness. They took refuge in Rehoboth, but it was not until 1687, when William and Mary ascended the throne, that they appeared and registered their lands. Mr. Henry Sweeting was a very wealthy man for the time, educated, and one of four only in Rehoboth who had the title of Mr. He married (first) Joanna or Joan ββββ, who became the mother of two children. He married (second) Martha Cole (Hugh 2, James 1); children:
Henry;
Lewis (see forward);
Benjamin;
John;
Experience, married John Carey;
Mary, married Noah Mason;
Sarah, married William Walker;
there were one or two other daughters.
(V) Lewis, son of Mr. Henry and Martha Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth, and his father gave him a valuable mill site near or on the site of Pawtucket Mills. About four years after his marriage he was taken ill with a violent fever, which lasted for six weeks, "a man nurse, etc.," all this being shown in the widow's account, besides "a trip to Boston for best morning." He was married in Wrentham, Massachusetts, to Zebiah, daughter of John and Mary (Billings) Whiting, of Wrentham and Dedham; granddaughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whiting, of Dedham; granddaughter of William Billings, of Stonington, Connecticut; and great-granddaughter of John Dwight. Children: Joanna, who died in infancy; Lewis (see forward). Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting went back to Wrentham with her two children to live with her father, and, in spite of "best morning," soon married Dr. William Ware, of Dighton and Norton, Massachusetts.
(VI) Dr. Lewis, son of Lewis and Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth in 1723, and was brought up by his stepfather, with whom he studied medicine. He was a man of prominence in the community, and when Mansfield was set off from Norton it took in that part of the town in which he lived. He and his wife died in Manlius, New York. He married Abiah Cobb, of Norton and Taunton. (See Cobb). Children:
Zebiah, married Solomon Wetherell; children:
Hannah, married ββββ Sennett, in Rensselaer county; her daughter married ββββ Scollard, one of whose descendants being Clinton Scollard, the poet of Oneida county, New York.
Abiah, married Job Gilbert, and has descendants living in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Lucy, married Spencer Pratt, and has descendants living in the vicinity of Boston.
Lewis, married and removed to Manlius, and many of his descendants are in the west.
Anna, married Captain Alexander D'Aubie, an aide of La Fayette, and lived in Lee, Massachuetts, and in Utica, New York.
Whiting, married, 1791, Sarah Kilbourne; children:
Whiting, died unmarried.
Abiah, married ββββ Worden, and has descendants in Syracuse, New York.
Eliphalet, married Lovina (Benton) Luce, and has descendants in New York and the west.
Nathaniel (see forward).
Mary, married Jacob Tyrrell.
John, married Mary Sessions, and has descendants in the far west.
Mason, married Judith Pratt, and has descendants in Lyons, New York, and its vicinity.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of Dr. Lewis and Abiah (Cobb) Sweeting, was born in Norton, Massachusetts, 1758, and died in Oneida county, New York. He was a pensioner of the revolution, during which time he was active and prominent. In the Lexington alarm his father, aged sixty, three sons, four sons-in-law, besides many cousins and other relatives, marched to Lexington, arriving just after the battle. Dr. Lewis Sweeting remained with the army until the "eight months' men" could organize and return, in order to keep the British in Boston. Nathaniel and his brothers returned in a few days to Norton or Mansfield, re-enlisted for eight months, and when Dr. Lewis Sweeting returned he was placed on important war committees, etc. He served as a surgeon in the army, but no documentary proofs of this service have been found. Nathaniel Sweeting's pension describes the line of march to Dorchester Heights, where they were then stationed. At the end of eight months he re-enlisted. Later, about August 29, he was at Tiverton, as lieutenant, and was in charge of a boat and company intending to attack the British in Rhode Island, but the boat stuck fast on a bar, and the expedition failed. He was in the battle of Rhode Island. He was stationed at Fogland, in Little Compton or Tiverton, guarding the coast. The American headquarters were at the Wing house, and a little farther to the north La Fayette had his headquarters at the Brown house. About 1781 we find Nathaniel and his brother Lewis in a militia company in Stephentown (now Rensselaer county), Kiliaen Van Rensselaer having raised a regiment by promising large bounties of his lands to soldiers. After the war, until 1791, we find, where Stephentown, Berlin, Sand Lake and Nassau come together, in the high lands, Dr. Lewis Sweeting, Lewis Sweeting, Whiting Sweeting and Nathaniel Sweeting, and several of their sisters and their families. In 1791 Nathaniel and Eliphalet went to Oneida county. Dr. Lewis Sweeting and his sons, Lewis, John and Mason, went to Manlius, Onondaga county. Some time during the revolution Nathaniel Sweeting was on a "service of great peril," and acquitted himself so well that George Washington wrote him a letter commending him. This was probably the service of a spy, of which no records were kept. This letter was a highly prized treasure, and was packed in the box with Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting's wedding china and her gold beads. This box broke away from the remainder of the load and went over Oneida Falls, the contents being entirely lost. Nathaniel Sweeting had had considerable experience with iron furnaces at Raynham, through the Cobbs of Taunton, his mother's family, and he was for a short time at Lee, Massachusetts. When he came to Whitestone he started the Hecla Furnace, and his brother Eliphalet started the first furnace of Oneida county, at Paris Hill. One of the descendants of Eliphalet is Mrs. Henry O. R. Tucker, of Troy, New York. From Whitestown, Nathaniel Sweeting removed to Westmoreland, where his death occurred. He married in Mansfield, Mary Tyrrell. (See Tyrrell). Children:
Nathaniel, married Ruby Phelps.
Almon, married and went west.
Philip Belin, married Myra Barnard.
Chloe, see forward.
Anna, died unmarried.
There were others who died young. There are very few descendants of his name; some in Michigan and a few in Oneida county, New York.
(VIII) Chloe, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting, was born in Whitestown, New York, in 1794. She married, 1813, George Langford. (See Langford IV).
(The Cobb Line)
(I) Augustine Cobb was in Taunton in 1670. He had a brother John, who also had a son Morgan, which would indicate that there was a connection with a Morgan family in an earlier generation. He married Elizabeth ββββ.
(II) Ensign Morgan, son of Augustine and Elizabeth Cobb, was prominent in Taunton during the French and Indian war. He gave liberally to the First Episcopal church of Taunton. He married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin, and granddaughter of John Willis.
(III) Benjamin, son of Morgan and Abigail (Willis) Cobb, was born in Taunton and died just prior to the revolution. Several of his sons were active participants in the revolution and died young. Just before removing to Norton he married Mary, daughter of Ensign John and Mercy (Myrrick) Mason. Children: Captain John; Captain Benjamin; Colonel Silas; Mason; Abiah (see forward); and several daughters who married into the Briggs, Makepeace, Babbitt, Lane and other families.
(IV) Abiah, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mason) Cobb, was born in Norton, and died in Manlius. She was a remarkable woman in many ways and the influence of her character was beneficially felt. She married Dr. Lewis Sweeting. (See Sweeting VI).
(The Tyrrell Line)
(I) William Tyrrell, of Boston, is the first of whom we have record. He was a Scotchman, and his descendants have intermarried with the best families of Weymouth and Abington β Nash, Pratt, Kingsman, Simpkins, etc.
(II) Gideon was the son of William Tyrrell.
(III) Samuel, son of Gideon Tyrrell.
(IV) Alexander, son of Samuel Tyrrell, was born in Abington. He married in Weymouth, where he lived after his marriage, Mary, his cousin, who was a daughter of Jacob Tyrrell, granddaughter of William Tyrrell, and great-granddaughter of William Tyrrell. Children, all born in Weymouth:
Jacob, married Mary, sister of Nathaniel Sweeting, mentioned above, and his descendants are throughout the west.
Job, married Abigail Cobb; he was captured by the Algerines, and, returning after many years, found his wife had married again; he went to Central New York, where he also married again, and where he died.
Mary (see forward).
Chloe, married Captain John Cobb, and died soon after without leaving children.
Tradition says that Alexander and Jacob Tyrrell, of Bridgewater, ran the gauntlet at Fort William Henry, and proof of this is found in the State House in Boston β the enlistment of Alexander in the troops at Fort William Henry and two or three records of his wounded condition, and his death in the hospital in Albany. The Tyrrells of Weymouth and Abington were noted as fast runners.
(V) Mary, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Tyrrell) Tyrrell, married Nathaniel Sweeting. (See Sweeting VII).
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(The Sweeting Line)
(I) Henry Sweeting, the first English settler of this family, is descended from the Van Swietens of Leyden, from which place he fled in 1580 to escape the persecutions of the Duke of Alva, according to the researches of Rev. Walter Sweeting, of Market Deeping, England. A large number of Dutchmen and Walloons took refuge in Southern England at that time and contributed greatly to the prosperity of that country, especially in the manufacturing industries.
(II) Lewis, son of Henry Sweeting, was of Somersetshire, England. He and all the men of the family were clothiers and men of education. The manor houses in which they lived are still in existence in Southern England.
(III) Lewis, son of Lewis Sweeting, was of Owey Stowey, Somersetshire, England.
(IV) Henry, son of Lewis Sweeting, was born in Somersetshire, England, and died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1728. He and his brother Lewis (tradition says), were in the Monmouth rebellion. They were taken prisoners at the battle of Bridgewater and were condemned to death, but "Bloody Jeffries" was willing to be bribed, and the father and the youngest brother not being involved, they were rescued, and taken to Bristol, where a sloop waited in readiness. They took refuge in Rehoboth, but it was not until 1687, when William and Mary ascended the throne, that they appeared and registered their lands. Mr. Henry Sweeting was a very wealthy man for the time, educated, and one of four only in Rehoboth who had the title of Mr. He married (first) Joanna or Joan ββββ, who became the mother of two children. He married (second) Martha Cole (Hugh 2, James 1); children:
Henry;
Lewis (see forward);
Benjamin;
John;
Experience, married John Carey;
Mary, married Noah Mason;
Sarah, married William Walker;
there were one or two other daughters.
(V) Lewis, son of Mr. Henry and Martha Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth, and his father gave him a valuable mill site near or on the site of Pawtucket Mills. About four years after his marriage he was taken ill with a violent fever, which lasted for six weeks, "a man nurse, etc.," all this being shown in the widow's account, besides "a trip to Boston for best morning." He was married in Wrentham, Massachusetts, to Zebiah, daughter of John and Mary (Billings) Whiting, of Wrentham and Dedham; granddaughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Dwight) Whiting, of Dedham; granddaughter of William Billings, of Stonington, Connecticut; and great-granddaughter of John Dwight. Children: Joanna, who died in infancy; Lewis (see forward). Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting went back to Wrentham with her two children to live with her father, and, in spite of "best morning," soon married Dr. William Ware, of Dighton and Norton, Massachusetts.
(VI) Dr. Lewis, son of Lewis and Zebiah (Whiting) Sweeting, was born in Rehoboth in 1723, and was brought up by his stepfather, with whom he studied medicine. He was a man of prominence in the community, and when Mansfield was set off from Norton it took in that part of the town in which he lived. He and his wife died in Manlius, New York. He married Abiah Cobb, of Norton and Taunton. (See Cobb). Children:
Zebiah, married Solomon Wetherell; children:
Hannah, married ββββ Sennett, in Rensselaer county; her daughter married ββββ Scollard, one of whose descendants being Clinton Scollard, the poet of Oneida county, New York.
Abiah, married Job Gilbert, and has descendants living in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Lucy, married Spencer Pratt, and has descendants living in the vicinity of Boston.
Lewis, married and removed to Manlius, and many of his descendants are in the west.
Anna, married Captain Alexander D'Aubie, an aide of La Fayette, and lived in Lee, Massachuetts, and in Utica, New York.
Whiting, married, 1791, Sarah Kilbourne; children:
Whiting, died unmarried.
Abiah, married ββββ Worden, and has descendants in Syracuse, New York.
Eliphalet, married Lovina (Benton) Luce, and has descendants in New York and the west.
Nathaniel (see forward).
Mary, married Jacob Tyrrell.
John, married Mary Sessions, and has descendants in the far west.
Mason, married Judith Pratt, and has descendants in Lyons, New York, and its vicinity.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of Dr. Lewis and Abiah (Cobb) Sweeting, was born in Norton, Massachusetts, 1758, and died in Oneida county, New York. He was a pensioner of the revolution, during which time he was active and prominent. In the Lexington alarm his father, aged sixty, three sons, four sons-in-law, besides many cousins and other relatives, marched to Lexington, arriving just after the battle. Dr. Lewis Sweeting remained with the army until the "eight months' men" could organize and return, in order to keep the British in Boston. Nathaniel and his brothers returned in a few days to Norton or Mansfield, re-enlisted for eight months, and when Dr. Lewis Sweeting returned he was placed on important war committees, etc. He served as a surgeon in the army, but no documentary proofs of this service have been found. Nathaniel Sweeting's pension describes the line of march to Dorchester Heights, where they were then stationed. At the end of eight months he re-enlisted. Later, about August 29, he was at Tiverton, as lieutenant, and was in charge of a boat and company intending to attack the British in Rhode Island, but the boat stuck fast on a bar, and the expedition failed. He was in the battle of Rhode Island. He was stationed at Fogland, in Little Compton or Tiverton, guarding the coast. The American headquarters were at the Wing house, and a little farther to the north La Fayette had his headquarters at the Brown house. About 1781 we find Nathaniel and his brother Lewis in a militia company in Stephentown (now Rensselaer county), Kiliaen Van Rensselaer having raised a regiment by promising large bounties of his lands to soldiers. After the war, until 1791, we find, where Stephentown, Berlin, Sand Lake and Nassau come together, in the high lands, Dr. Lewis Sweeting, Lewis Sweeting, Whiting Sweeting and Nathaniel Sweeting, and several of their sisters and their families. In 1791 Nathaniel and Eliphalet went to Oneida county. Dr. Lewis Sweeting and his sons, Lewis, John and Mason, went to Manlius, Onondaga county. Some time during the revolution Nathaniel Sweeting was on a "service of great peril," and acquitted himself so well that George Washington wrote him a letter commending him. This was probably the service of a spy, of which no records were kept. This letter was a highly prized treasure, and was packed in the box with Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting's wedding china and her gold beads. This box broke away from the remainder of the load and went over Oneida Falls, the contents being entirely lost. Nathaniel Sweeting had had considerable experience with iron furnaces at Raynham, through the Cobbs of Taunton, his mother's family, and he was for a short time at Lee, Massachusetts. When he came to Whitestone he started the Hecla Furnace, and his brother Eliphalet started the first furnace of Oneida county, at Paris Hill. One of the descendants of Eliphalet is Mrs. Henry O. R. Tucker, of Troy, New York. From Whitestown, Nathaniel Sweeting removed to Westmoreland, where his death occurred. He married in Mansfield, Mary Tyrrell. (See Tyrrell). Children:
Nathaniel, married Ruby Phelps.
Almon, married and went west.
Philip Belin, married Myra Barnard.
Chloe, see forward.
Anna, died unmarried.
There were others who died young. There are very few descendants of his name; some in Michigan and a few in Oneida county, New York.
(VIII) Chloe, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Tyrrell) Sweeting, was born in Whitestown, New York, in 1794. She married, 1813, George Langford. (See Langford IV).
(The Cobb Line)
(I) Augustine Cobb was in Taunton in 1670. He had a brother John, who also had a son Morgan, which would indicate that there was a connection with a Morgan family in an earlier generation. He married Elizabeth ββββ.
(II) Ensign Morgan, son of Augustine and Elizabeth Cobb, was prominent in Taunton during the French and Indian war. He gave liberally to the First Episcopal church of Taunton. He married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin, and granddaughter of John Willis.
(III) Benjamin, son of Morgan and Abigail (Willis) Cobb, was born in Taunton and died just prior to the revolution. Several of his sons were active participants in the revolution and died young. Just before removing to Norton he married Mary, daughter of Ensign John and Mercy (Myrrick) Mason. Children: Captain John; Captain Benjamin; Colonel Silas; Mason; Abiah (see forward); and several daughters who married into the Briggs, Makepeace, Babbitt, Lane and other families.
(IV) Abiah, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Mason) Cobb, was born in Norton, and died in Manlius. She was a remarkable woman in many ways and the influence of her character was beneficially felt. She married Dr. Lewis Sweeting. (See Sweeting VI).
(The Tyrrell Line)
(I) William Tyrrell, of Boston, is the first of whom we have record. He was a Scotchman, and his descendants have intermarried with the best families of Weymouth and Abington β Nash, Pratt, Kingsman, Simpkins, etc.
(II) Gideon was the son of William Tyrrell.
(III) Samuel, son of Gideon Tyrrell.
(IV) Alexander, son of Samuel Tyrrell, was born in Abington. He married in Weymouth, where he lived after his marriage, Mary, his cousin, who was a daughter of Jacob Tyrrell, granddaughter of William Tyrrell, and great-granddaughter of William Tyrrell. Children, all born in Weymouth:
Jacob, married Mary, sister of Nathaniel Sweeting, mentioned above, and his descendants are throughout the west.
Job, married Abigail Cobb; he was captured by the Algerines, and, returning after many years, found his wife had married again; he went to Central New York, where he also married again, and where he died.
Mary (see forward).
Chloe, married Captain John Cobb, and died soon after without leaving children.
Tradition says that Alexander and Jacob Tyrrell, of Bridgewater, ran the gauntlet at Fort William Henry, and proof of this is found in the State House in Boston β the enlistment of Alexander in the troops at Fort William Henry and two or three records of his wounded condition, and his death in the hospital in Albany. The Tyrrells of Weymouth and Abington were noted as fast runners.
(V) Mary, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Tyrrell) Tyrrell, married Nathaniel Sweeting. (See Sweeting VII).
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