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/1090.2 Message Board Post: Thanks to Dawn (Cowgirl in the Sand) it has been discovered that he told the census taker in 1870 that he was born in New York and that his parents were also born in the US. So I am looking for the antecedents of William Sweet, born March 25, 1815 in New York, whose parents were also born in the US. The next news we have on him is that he got married in Canada in 1839 and we know quite a bit about him after that.