Talk:Lorenzo De Medici Sweat

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Lorenzo De Medici and Margaret Jane (Mussey) Sweat did not have children. Gallant wrote, "There's every indication that their's was a marriage of convenience, with little or no affection between them. Her diaries indicate that they spent very little time together and they had no children." In the 1860 U.S. Census they were living in the 6th Ward in Portland, lines 18-20 with one 30-year-old Irish domestic servant. In 1870 lines 23-26, the couple and two Irish domestic servants are enumerated. In 1880, lines 7-12, the couple has two servants and nephew in the household. There are no births or deaths of children found in the Maine Vital Records for Portland. Connie Burns, in researching her Master's Thesis on Margaret Sweat, read all of her extant diaries housed at the University of New England and does not mention children, nor were they mentioned in Sweat's will, or either of the couple's obituaries. 74.78.135.6 (talk) 15:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)Ethelind Wright, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine