This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweet, Sweat, Cotton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HBRBAIB/1189 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the parents of the Elizabeth Sweet who married Nicholas Cotton. She is listed as "Sweat" in "MARRIAGES By Rev. Elijah Herrick of Charleston Montgomery County, New York 1796-1844" : "Cotton, Nicholas & Elizabeth Sweat - Jan. 15, 1815" One source says "Elizabeth SWEET B JAN 1791 in Fonda, Montgomery Co., N Y D 7 APR 1875 in Braceville, IL" and though the birth date matches and she is buried in the Cotton Cemetary there, all census records I have found claim she was from Rhode Island.