I have at least two generations of George Washington Sweats. My GWS came to Gates, NC-Nansemond County, VA (now known as Suffolk, VA) in the mid 1880-1890s. I haven't been able to track the SWEATS, who are variously listed as Indian, mulatto or black in the census' prior to this. My genealogy gut guess is that they came from the Georgia-South Carolina area and radiated from there prior to 1817 and the Trail of Tears...the removal of Indians from the East to Indian Territory (now primarily Oklahoma) Help Sweat cousins- KamDeb@AOL.com