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/HBRBAIB/1163.1 Message Board Post: Hi -- I'm not connected to your line of Sweet's, but have this info. in my data base. Perhaps it will give you an additional avenue to pursue. Good luck! --Virgene Travis From Commemorative Biographical Record of Dutchess Co., NY: Pedro Sweet, a leading merchant of Bull's Head, Dutchess county, and one of the well-known citizens of Clinton, was born Dec 25, 1840 in Columbia countiy, where his ancestors on both sides had been residents for several generations. Maj. Rowland Sweet, his great-grandfather, a farmer by occupation was one of the early settlers there, and his grandfather, Luke Sweet, also a farmer, passed his life there. Jerome Sweet, our subject's father, grew to manhood under the care of his grandfather, and received an excellent education in the schools of Columbia county. He married Catherine Bathrick, who grandfather, Jacob Bathrick, was a pioneer settler of that locality, and lived there until the good old age of 100 years. He married Hannah Kilmer, and their son, Peter, born in the town of Galatin, Columbia county, married Maria Marks, and moved to Dutchess county, settling upon a farm in the town of Milan. . . . . . A few years after their marriage Jerome Sweet and his wife came to the town of Milan, where he bought a farm, which he cultivated until his death in 1884. He was unusally well-informed, a Democrat in politics, and he was a self-made man in the fullest sense of the term. Mrs. Sweet stil! l survives him, and is living at Lafayetteville. They reared a family of eight children: Pedro, Clement, Franklin, Egbert, Eily, William, Hattie, and Mary, all still living but the youngest.