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Godfrey SWEET

Male - Abt 1740


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  • Name Godfrey SWEET 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 10 Mar 1740  Long Island Sound Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial at sea 
    Notes 
    • "The Loyalist Comptons of Prince Edward Island" by Harold S. MacLeod with Tilly Compton MacLeod and Pamela Hatton Compton. From the newspaper - The Boston Weekly Post Boy, March 31, 1740: "We are informed that about three weeks ago, a sloop from the jersey's bound for Rhode Island, the Joanna, commanded by Captain James De Hart, was overset by a hard gale of wind in Long Island Sound, his sail being froze so that he could not cut down the mast. There were nine men on board, eight of them perished in the seas, amongst them, one Captain Thomas Seabrook and his mate Godfrey Sweet, who were passengers. The person whose life was aved was frozen to the degree it is feared his legs must be cut off."

      Godfrey who was mate to Captain Thomas Seabrook of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, had just returned from a voyage abroad, was at home for about three weeks, then went with Capt. Seabrook from Long Island enroute to Rhode Island in a ship commanded by Capt. DeHart so that they might pick up their own ship for another journey.
    Person ID I1594  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2005 

    Family Elizabeth VAN ECHSTEIN,   b. 31 Aug 1715, Monmouth County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Sarah SWEET,   b. 17 Nov 1740, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F1081  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Feb 2010