Is John Isacc Sweet PGM material

Question

Good Morning,

I was looking over my Sweet family connections and I noticed that John I. Sweet, Sweet-104, Is noted in the biography to have come on the Lyon. Is he truly one of the Great Migration participants?

Answer 1

He will be when his profile is fixed,  As it stands now there is almost nothing on his profile I believe after 10 minutes of poking around the internet.  I can certainly see where all the bad information comes from though and how confusing he can be.  Basically I think the current profile is a mix of more than 1 John Sweet with a lot of bad guesses thrown in.

He does have a profile in Anderson's Great Migration Begins vol. 3 p. 1789-1790.  Here is what I would say about his current profile:

1. His parents and origins are unknown.  There is no evidence he is a son of Robert Sweet as currently given.
2. The name of his wife is a guess.  She is not known to be Mary Westcott and should be Mary Unknown.
3. There is no evidence he immigrated on the Lyon. 
4. He did not die in Rhode Island after 15 March 1637.  He died in Massachusetts before 25 December 1637 when his widow received a grant of land.
5. The man who went to Rhode Island was his son if anyone.
6. Calling a man named John "Isaac" is so unusual that it needs to quoted from the primary records with an explanation as to why they are the same.  I have not dismissed this out of hand because I do find it on the internet.
7. The name of his a daughter was Renewed.  Is there any reason to think it was Meribah?  Or is this an attempt to explain away his English origins?

Comments

Thank you for the response. I don't have John in my data base so that was why the question. I have his ?son (according to the wikitree) James-Sweet-92 m. Mary Greene. That is all I have on this couple sourced. I have a list of children as well. which includes a Renewed Sweet, but no Meribah. So if names where carried on to this family Meribah didn't make the muster as far as my list of children goes.  I don't have parents for either James or Mary. Again Thank you!

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Regarding your James Sweet. see:

The American Genealogist, vol. 53 (1977): 28-30.  James Sweet of Rhode Island: A new Mystery, by Lois Stewart.

whose conclusions were challenged in

The American Genealogist, vol. 67 (July 1992): 177-183.  James Sweet of Warwick R.I., by Harold F. Porter. (Lots of wills and original records to prove confusing relationships.)

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Thank You Joe I will check these out :D