Authors: Iola Young and Maribelle Smiley
231 pages; coil bound; published by the West Hants Historical Society, 1979.
From old England to New England 1630
From New England to Nova Scotia 1760
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This family history deals with the genealogy and descendants of Benoni Sweet and his wife Elizabeth,
who came from Rhode Island bland to Nova Scotia in 1760 with the New England Planters. Their son, Benoni
Sweet, was born in Rhode Island and married Lydia Dimock. As far as possible, their descendants are
included in this volume.
ln 1947, research was done by William J. Sweet, a prominent lumberman and banker of Bandon, Oregon,
who was a great, great grandson of Benoni and Lydia (Dimock) Sweet. His information was derived from
the records of the Institute of American Genealogy in Chicago, from James Sylvester Sweet, and from
Miss Belle Sweet of Alburquerque, New Mexico, and from many reliable records of the families in
Rhode Island; also from Harriette Elliott Sweet of West Hartford, Conn.
In 1960, further research was undertaken by two great, great, granddaughters, Maribelle S. Smiley (Mrs.
Bertram Smiley) of Beaver Bank, formerly of St. Croix, and Lola S. Young, (Mrs. Robert Young) of
Placerville, California.
