Swett Genealogy
SWETT GENEALOGY DESCENDANTS OF John Swett of Newbury, Mass. BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE Author of History of Durham,_.Maine, History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family, Old Kittery and Her Families, Macomber Genealogy, etc. THE JOUltNAL PRINTSHOP LEWISTO~. MAIN!! FOREWORD Some have supposed that the Swett, Sweat, Swete, Sweet fam ilies are all of common origin. Swett and Swete, however, seem to have been two distinct and separate families. John de la Swete had a shop in Canterbury, Eng., in 1494. Later he is called sim ply Jdhn Swete. Here the origin of this surname is shown. He was John de la suite, of the retinue of some nobleman or digni tary of the church. The surname Swete is often found in Devon shire. The coat of arms of this family was printed in the sev enth volume of the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, as though it belonged to the Swett, or Sweat family. This must be an error. Swet is an earlier Anglo-Saxon surname. William Swet is mentioned as a tenant of Hugh de Chauncaus, at Upton, in the reign of Henry III. about 1216. The Hundred Rolls contain the name~ of Swet le Bone (Goodman Swet), in co. Norfolk, Adam Swct in co. Oxford, Roger son of John Swet in co. Cambridge, about the year 1275.-See Banlsley's Dictionary of English an<l Welsh names, p. 731. Chaplain William Suwet made a grant of a messuage of land in Coventry, Warwickshire, to William de Colesby, in 1369. John Swet, or Suet, of Thur\eston, Derbyshire, had mother Emma, son Edmond, and wife Alice, in 1332.
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