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/288.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: That may be a possibility on one certain line of Sweats. Sweat is a name that has come from England and Germany, long before any settlers came to these lands. I beleive that they may have taken last names just as the African slaves did. Some Indians were kept as slaves by the white man also and then there were some that "adopted" children or had affairs but took the children in. This is very interesting and I hope that everyone involved in this line continues to research all the possibilities. Try to get some documentation on what you find and cite the references here where you found the info.