Person:William Sweetser (1)

Coming soon after the Worlines, on the same side of the river, and a little north of them, was William Sweetser. He bought out John and Henry Worline's property and built an addition to a single-roomed cabin he found standing on the place. Mr. Sweetser came from Dummerston, Vt.. in the fall of 1815, after a forty days' journey through the wilderness. He had a family of five boys and three girls, the youngest child only six months old, when he came into Delaware. The journey was full of such mishaps as breaking the wagons or harness, causing at times a tedious delay of days to effect repairs. The family came in two wagons, Mrs. Sweetser driving a single horse all the way from the East, caring for her young babe beside most of the time. When they arrived in town, they went to the house of Thomas Butler, which stood about where Mitchel & Vogt's store now stands, where they remained during the winter. The next spring they moved on to their farm, where but little clearing had been done. In 1823, he laid the foundations, and partially completed a brick house on the river road. There is nothing now left of the original buildings to mark the spot save an old stone spring house. With the Sweetser, family, came the family of Hosea Miller, and two young men, Solomon and Wilder Joy. From "History of Delaware County", pg 318

Moved with his family to Fitzwilliam, NH in abt. 1785. He must have settled at Dummerston, VT, around the time of his marriage because his first child was born there. Left for OH around 1815.

Served in the War of 1812 in Vermont's militia.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sweetser, Philip S. Seth Sweetser and His Descedants. (Philadelphia: Integrity Press, 1938)
   p.266.
2. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
   222.

   SWEETSER, William, s. of Michael and Mary, Feb. 14, 1774.