Born about in Burke County, Province of North Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of [father unknown] and Ann Perkins
Wife of
Ephraim Sweat
— married
1781 in Burke, North Carolina, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Johnson Sweat, Gideon Sweat, William Sweat, Mary M Sweat, Sarah (Sweat) Avery, Johnson Robert Sweat, Nancy (Sweat) Johnson, Elizabeth Sweat, Olive Sweat and Ephraim Sweat Jr.
Died [date unknown]
in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Profile last modified
| Created 31 Dec 2011
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Biography
Olive (Perkins) Sweat is a part of US Black heritage.
“Ann Perkins, born say 1726, was granted a patent for land in Bladen County, North Carolina, on 25 April 1767 and 100 acres on Beaver Dam Branch of the Raft Swamp on 22 March 1772. She sold 50 acres on a branch of Raft Swamp on 12 December 1768 and sold another 100 acres on Beaver Dam Branch of Raft Swamp to William Lowry, son of James Lowry, on 18 February 1775 [N.C. Land Records, 1772-74, 7:72; Bladen County DB 23:71, 481]. She was taxable in Bladen County on 2 "Mulatoes" in 1771: her son Jordan Perkins and Thomas Sweat [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:60]. She was the mother of
i. Jordan1, born say 1758.
ii. ?Olive, born say 1762, married Ephraim Sweat according to the 18 April 1811 Opelousas, Louisiana marriage bond of their son Gideon Sweat [Opelousas license no.6].
iii. ?Nancy, born before 1776, head of a St. Landry Parish household of 6 "free colored" in 1820 [LA:108].”
Sources
- Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the colonial period to about 1820, Paul Heinegg, Clearfield, 2001 Link to PDF
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Olive by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Olive:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Olive by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Olive:
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~1.17%
Melanie (Thompson) Hubbard
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member emtb25
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~0.78%
Kevin Grayson :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Tiffany DiGiovanni :
23andMe
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~0.78%
David Goodman :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jack Poynor :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Jpoynor1089
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Hope (Poynor) Middleton :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jennifer Wathen :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A965485 [compare], Ancestry member JMW2010
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~0.78%
Jennifer Johnson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TT8358789 [compare], Ancestry member boneyjenn78
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~0.78%
Jana (Jenkins) Souza :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A258485 [compare], Ancestry member souzafam4
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~0.78%
Jerome Andries :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TG5542771 [compare], Ancestry member jeromeandries
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~0.39%
Jaime Lodridge :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Chris Siber :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A696211 [compare], Ancestry member C_Siber
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~0.39%
Greg Allen :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A185427 [compare], Ancestry member gregoryeallen
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~0.39%
Lauren Lankford :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A209548 [compare], Ancestry member laurenmwade
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~0.39%
Jean (Cupp) Plummer :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JeanPlummer52
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Categories: USBH Free People of Color, Linked | North Carolina, Free People of Color
Olive married Ephraim Sweat, son of Robert Sweat and Unknown. Ephraim was born about 1750 in Burke, NC and died in May 1830 in Chipique Bayou, Rapides Parish, La. about age 80. They had ten children: Gideon "Gadi," William, Sarah, Nancy, Mary M., Elizabeth "Betsy," Johnson, Olive, Ephraim, and Robert.