When Stephen Sweet was born on 13 November 1774, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Samuel Sweet, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Shear, was 27.
English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
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