This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SWEET Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1280.1 Message Board Post: There is a J W Sweet as follows on the 1870 census: 1870 Pacific, Ferndale PO, Humboldt, CA 6 & 7 Jul 1870 136 126 Sweet, J W, 30 ship carpenter, Nova Scotia, father of foreign birth There was no Joseph or Susan or Benoni Sweet on the 1870 census in Humboldt County. In 1880 this could be your George: 1880 Bear River and Eagle Prairie, Humboldt, CA ED 44 page 5 1 Jun 1880 36 42 Sweet, George 39 married dairyman Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, No (probably Nova Scotia) Mary J 32 wife No No No (probably Nova Scotia) Sweet, James R servant 25 laborer Nov Scotia, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia