Elizabeth Rose, ^

1791 - 1875  (84 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Rose  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	^
  Nickname	Betsey
  Birth	31 Aug 1791	Fire Place (now Brookhaven Hamlet), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Sep 1875	Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Burial	Middle Island, Suffolk, New York, United States of America
  Person ID	I1118	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	John Rose, Esq.† ^,   b. 10 Jan 1768, {Fire Place (now Brookhaven), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY} d. 6 Jul 1826, Fire Place (now Brookhaven Hamlet), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Rose, † ^,   b. 8 May 1769   d. 17 May 1834, {Fire Place (now Brookhaven), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY} (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	26 Jul 1789  [1, 3, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Sweezey,   b. 1786, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY d. 30 May 1851, Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1808  [7]
  Children	1. Deborah Ann Sweezey, <,   b. 1812, Brookhaven, Suffolk, N Y d. 21 Apr 1876, Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 64 years)   2. Stephen Sweezey, <,   b. 1812, Setauket, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 5 Jul 1870, Setauket, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 58 years)   3. Charles Swezey, ^,   b. Abt 1818, NY d. 9 Apr 1894, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 76 years)   4. John Rose Sweezey, <,   b. 6 Nov 1817, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 18 Jan 1879, Patchogue, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 61 years)   5. William Sylvester Swezey, <,   b. 17 Jun 1825, Suffolk Co., NY d. 23 Jun 1900, Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 75 years)   6. Catherine E. Sweezey, ^,   b. 1828, Middle Island, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY d. 1882 (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F603	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S103] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record (New York Genealogical Society: New York), Vol 122, No. 1 (Jan 1991), p. 28. Family Record of John Rose of Long Island: This family record was found in by Bernice Weir of Huntington, Long Island, when she was helping Sister Eileen Cleater, former head of Trocair, a Catholic organization. They had been willed the contents of an old home (that of Marie M. Baddetty who died at 105). While dusting a new Bible, photocopies from an old Bible fell out, and are here presented. John Rose, descendant of Robert Rose of Southampton and East Hampton, Long Island, married Elisabeth Rose, daughter of the Rev. David Rose ... of the Branford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, family. Thus, this marriage joined these two Rose families.... This Bible / Is the Property of / John Rose. [S21] Robert H. Sweezey, Sweezey.com and Sweezey.net, http://sweezey.net/genealogy/software/getperson.php?personID=I00766. [S333] Chrtistine Rose Certified Genealogist, Descendants of Robert Rose of Wethersfield and Branford Connecticut: Who came on the ship "Francis" in 1634 from Ipswich, England (San Jose, California: Privately published by Rose Family Association, 1983)., p. 251. [S3] Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National, p. 212. Age 61. [S80] Stephanie Bigelow, Bellport and Brookhaven: A Saga of the Sibling Hamlets of the Old Purchase South. (Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society. 1968), p. 4. [S40] George Borthwick, The Church at the South: A History of the South Haven Church (Mattituck, N.Y. : Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, 1989.. Written c. 1940 in manuscript form.), p. 145. [S200] Spectator (New York, NY), 9 Jan 1808, p. 3. Married. At Brookhaven, Long Island, on Sabbath evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Robertson, Mr. William Swezey to the amiable Miss Eliz. Rose, daughter of John Rose, Esq., all of Brookhaven.