Person:Seth Sweetser (1)

m. 20 Jan 1630
  1. Anna Sweetser1631 - 1635
  2. Benjamin Sweetser1633 - 1718
  3. Mary Sweetser1635 -
  4. Sarah SweetserEst 1637 - Aft 1662
  5. Hannah Sweetser1638/39 - 1673
  6. Elizabeth Sweetser1643 - Bef 1662
m. Apr 1661
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Seth Sweetser
Gender Male
Christening[2][3] 18 May 1606 Tring, Hertfordshire, England
Marriage 20 Jan 1630 Tring, Hertfordshire, Englandto Bethiah Cooke
Marriage Apr 1661 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Unknown
Will[1] 20 May 1662
Death[1] 21 May 1662 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[1] Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 17 Jun 1662
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Seth Sweetser 1, in Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
    2:921.

    Seth Sweetser 1. From Tring, Hertfordshire, England; inhabitant 1637; adm. church 8 (11) 1638-9; … d. May 21, 1662, æ. 56 g. s. … Will: May 20 (pro. June 17) 1662, devised to wife, property during life; to wife's son, £20; to two daus., £20; after decease of wife, ⅓ each to daus. Sarah and Elizabeth [a close reading of the will indicates that the Elizabeth referred to is the (second) wife, not the daughter], and to Samuel Blanchard; witnesses, Thomas Emons, Thomas Osborn. Inventory: House and 10 acres £190; wood-lot in Chas. common £2; total £270.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Sweetser, Philip Starr. Seth Sweetser and his Descendants. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Integrity Press, 1938)
    21.

    Seth Sweetser. (James) the immigrant ancestor of the Sweetser family in America, was born [baptized] at Tring,. Hertfordshire, England, May 18, 1606; died at Charlestown, Mass., May 1662; married (1) at Tring, England, Jan. 21,1630, Bethia Cooke. She died at Charlestown, Mass., Jan 1660; married (2) at Cambridge, Mass., Apr 1661, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes, widow of Thomas Oakes. She married (3) 1662, Samuel Howard.

  3. "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J3FH-WTP : accessed 01 Mar 2013), Seth Sweetser, 18 May 1606.