Robert Sweete Born 1623

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4/1/2013 at 6:11 PM

Son of Robert Sweete of Virginia Born 1566 , came over on The Guiding Star in in 1638, He was made to do public pennance durning Divine Service at James City Parish ,VA on 17 October !640 becausehe hath gotten a negro servant belonging to Lt Shepard with child .The negro woman servant may not have been a slave, The courts also referred to to indentured white servants as belonging to their masters. She may have been Margaret Cornish.Perhaps their Children were i Robert Cornish born say 1640, ii William born about 1642.

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