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John Sweet Sr.

Birth
England
Death
15 May 1637 (aged 33–34)
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Born by about 1603, based on estimated date of marriage. Came to Massachusetts Bay in 1632 & settled in Salem. Died in Salem between 6 June 1637 and 25 December 1637 (when widow Sweet received a grant of land).
MARRIAGE: By about 1628 Mary _____. She married (2) about 1638 Ezekiel Holliman.
Source: Anderson's The Great Migration Begins.

The origins of John Sweet of Salem, Massachusetts [whose widow, Mary, married Ezekiel Holliman of Rhode Island] remain unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 325).

Below are verbatim excerpts from Robert Charles Anderson, Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995), pages 1788-90.

JOHN SWEET
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Salem…
BIRTH: By about 1603 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Salem between 6 June 1637… and 25 December 1637…
MARRIAGE: By about 1628 Mary _____. She married (2) about 1638 Ezekiel Holliman.
[only three] CHILDREN…
JOHN, b. say 1628; m. by about 1655 Elizabeth _____ …
JAMES, b. say 1630; m. by 1655 Mary Greene…
RENEWED, b. say 1632; m. by about 1652 John Gereardy.
Born by about 1603, based on estimated date of marriage. Came to Massachusetts Bay in 1632 & settled in Salem. Died in Salem between 6 June 1637 and 25 December 1637 (when widow Sweet received a grant of land).
MARRIAGE: By about 1628 Mary _____. She married (2) about 1638 Ezekiel Holliman.
Source: Anderson's The Great Migration Begins.

The origins of John Sweet of Salem, Massachusetts [whose widow, Mary, married Ezekiel Holliman of Rhode Island] remain unknown (Robert Charles Anderson, FASG [Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists], The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640; a Concise Compendium [Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015], 325).

Below are verbatim excerpts from Robert Charles Anderson, Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995), pages 1788-90.

JOHN SWEET
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Salem…
BIRTH: By about 1603 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Salem between 6 June 1637… and 25 December 1637…
MARRIAGE: By about 1628 Mary _____. She married (2) about 1638 Ezekiel Holliman.
[only three] CHILDREN…
JOHN, b. say 1628; m. by about 1655 Elizabeth _____ …
JAMES, b. say 1630; m. by 1655 Mary Greene…
RENEWED, b. say 1632; m. by about 1652 John Gereardy.


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