Linda wrote: > I found that James and Sarah > was b. somewhere in Nova Scotia Note that some Sweets from Rhode Island settled in Nova Scotia in the early days, so it is quite possible that James was related to the RI bunch. It would be possible to test this theory if your grandmother had brothers who, in turn, had male-line descendants to the present day. See the Sweet DNA project web page at http://www.fairleafarm.harvard.ma.us/dnasweet.htm John Chandler