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/1185.1 Message Board Post: John SWEET (b.12 Mar 1752-East Greenwich,Kent,Rhode Island;d.11 Aug 1835-Smithfield,Madison,New York) sp: Mary ALBRO (b.31 Jul 1752-Exeter,Washington,Rhode Island;m.Abt 1773) Children: 1. Stephen SWEET (b.1774-,Dutchess,New York) sp: Mary C. (b.Abt 1784;m.Abt 1814) 2. John SWEET (b.1775-,Dutchess,New York) 3. Samuel SWEET (b.1776-,Dutchess,New York) 4. Benjamin SWEET (b.11 Aug 1778-,Dutchess,New York;d.25 Sep 1860-Chilton,Calumet,Wisconsin) sp: Hannah STANTON (b.1778-Albany,Albany,New York;m.1799;d.28 May 1860-Chilton,Calumet,Wisconsin) 5. James SWEET (b.Abt 1779-Cambridge,Washington,New York) 6. Layton SWEET (b.Abt 1780-Cambridge,Washington,New York) 7. Elsie SWEET (b.Abt 1782-Cambridge,Washington,New York) 8. Elizabeth SWEET (b.Abt 1784-Cambridge,Washington,New York) 9. Eunice SWEET (b.Abt 1786-Cambridge,Washington,New York) Source of Information: Genealogy and History of the Sweet Family in America By James Sylvester Perry Sweet. pg 74. John Sweet, was an ancestor of numerous Sweet families residing in Wisconsin, New York, and Michigan. He ran away from home to sea at the age of twelve years, and became a cabin boy. He did not return home until grown to manhood. After his return from sea he seems to have drifted to Dutchess County, New York, where it is stated that he married Mary Albro, daughter of Stephen and Alice Albro. The Albro family is also an old and widely known Rhode Island family, and it is possible that he found his wife in Rhode Island before moving to New York. He next located on a farm near Cambridge, in Washington County, New York, and was living upon this farm with his family at the time of his enlistment in the Revolutionary Army. He enlisted at Batemantown, Dutchess County, and served as a private in the New York troops, a part of the time under Captain Benjamin Knox! on and Colonel Humphrey. He subsequently, in 1832, was granted a pension for six months and twenty-one days service. John Sweet and his comrades surrounded a house up in Vermont in which were concealed a party of one hundred Tories and they captured the whole Tory Party. At the end of his enlistment, he left his wife and children on the farm in Washington County, New York, but during his absence his wife received word that the Indians were coming, burning and murdering all, so she hastily abandoned their home and possessions, and taking her children, fled home to her parents in Dutchess County, New York, where she was joined by her husband after his discharge from the service. The farm in Washington county was never re-occupied by the family and was either sold or abandoned. Later he lived with his children near Coeymans, Albany County, New York, and later still, the family seems to have removed to Oneida County and Madison Counties; one son, Benjamin settled near Chilto! n, Oneida County, and John at Stockbridge, Madison County. At the time of his application for a pension, John Sweet gave his residence as Smithfield, New York.