Ancestry of
Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter

Elizabeth Sweet

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Amy Grant — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 147 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sweet 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Peck   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Sep 1733 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jan 1773 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Centre Burial Ground, Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nehemiah Carpenter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Sep 1752 
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  • Child:

  Rachel Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:73 )

  • Notes: 

  • A tombstone erected in 1888 has Elizabeth Sweets death year as 1734. However the original tombstone reportedly had 23 SEP 1733 as her birthdate.

• Sources for Elizabeth Sweet

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/29/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wrentham, Vol. 1, p. 40, Baptism record for daughter Rachel Carpenter.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Foxborough, Vol. 1, p. 24, Birth record for daughter Rachel Carpenter.
  • ⁴ Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland, Carpenter Family of America, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company (2000, Orig. 1901), 114.

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