This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdQBAEB/312.2.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: There are several other Sweats in the New England area in the same time frame as our "Israel". I hope that in the future someone can link them together. Also there are several various spellings of Sweat, Swett, Sweet, Sweatt. They get switched occassionally because of the literacy of the various census takers and record-keepers. What I have been doing is taking my g-aunts records and working backwards from me and trying to document and verify as I go. She did not have any of her records and sources on computer and as yet I don't have access to her boxes of papers. Usually she sent me copies of what she had "found out" but not the sources, so I try to take all her "facts" with a grain of salt. Like I said before there are a lot of tales that have been passed down in the family. Let me know if I can be of any help. Margaret