THE SACKETTS OF AMERICA THEIR ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS 1630-1907 By CHARLES H. WEYGANT, NEWBURGH, N. Y. 1907 Page 1 JOURNAL PRINT, NEWBURGH, N. Y. Page 2 Introductory Statement. When one takes up what purports to be an authentic history of his ancestors and kinsfolk, it is but natural he should want to know who wrote it and how it came to be written. "May I ask whether you are a descendant or a professional genealogist, or what occasions your special interest in the family?" This question embraces the purport of scores of others, asked by intelligent and interested members of the Sackett Clan, from whom I have sought information in the preparation of this book. What so many have inquired about it is to be presumed others would be interested in knowing. In my youth one of my most esteemed schoolmates was Henry McCoun Sackett, an only son who was greatly beloved by his parents and sisters. A retired army officer, residing in the then village of Newburgh, organized a company of boys whom he armed with small muskets and drilled Saturday afternoons in the manual of arms and school of the company. On the organization of this company of embryo soldiers, Henry McCoun Sackett was selected as one of its sergeants, while I had to be content with a corporal's warrant. Several years later came the great civil war. We both entered the army. He was killed in his first battle, and his shellmangled body was hastily buried on the field where he fell, in an unmarked grave. I participated in many battles, was three times wounded in action, and after witnessing the surrender of General Lee's army at Appomattox, brought the battle-scarred survivors of my regiment back to Orange County, N. Y., and disbanded them on Washington's Headquarters grounds at Newburgh. And then was married to Charlotte Sackett, the youngest sister of my schoolboy friend and army comrade. About the year 1870, my honored father-in-law, Samuel Bailey Sackett, related to me this family tradition, which I subsequently found to be in full accord with colonial records of undisputed authenticity: "About ten years after the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Simon and John Sackett, brothers, came from England to Massachusetts, in company with Roger Williams. John Sackett followed Mr. Williams to Rhode Island and Page 3 finally settled at New Haven, becoming the founder of the New Haven branch of the family. Simon Sackett remained in Massachusetts, was one of the founders of the City of Cambridge, and is the progenitor of the Massachusetts and Long Island, N. Y., branches." At the time of receiving this tradition I was made the custodian of many highly prized old family letters, and given access to a rare collection of ancient documents and manuscripts relating to Sacketts of former generations. Some of these antedate the Revolutionary epoch by a quarter of a century, while by far the greater number are of that eventful period; and still others relate to men and events connected with the second war with England. Washington, Heath, Wayne, John Hancock, George Clinton, William Duer, Robert Harper, Eben Hazzard, and James Madison, are among the renowned soldiers, patriots and statesmen, whose signatures are affixed to certain of these letters and documents, which plainly establish the social as well as official standing of the members of the Sackett family to whom they are addressed. No! I am not a descendant or a professional genealogist, but my interest in the Sackett family, awakened and developed by the facts and events narrated, has never waned, and is, in this year of our Lord, 1907, more deeply rooted than at any period since I strove to equal Henry McCoun Sackett in the accuracy and promptness with which he handled his diminutive musket, at the word of command, over fifty years ago. For fully thirty-five years no seasonable opportunity to add to my records of the family has been allowed to pass unimproved; and in the arduous task of gathering the material composing the following pages I have had valuable aid from numerous sources. In 1830, Judge Garry V. Sackett, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., made an extended tour through New England for the express purpose of tracing, by means of ancient gravestone inscriptions and church, town and county records, his ancestral line back to his colonist ancestors. And at his death he left with his descendants and kinsfolk copies of both his original and his radically revised manuscript records of his progenitors and their children, which have served as a basis for later efforts of a more general character. Riker, in his "Annals of Newtown," published in 1852, devotes several pages Page 4 to what may be styled the first printed genealogical record of any branch of the Sackett family in America. And he, in the preface of his book, names Garry V. Sackett, Esq., as one of his authorities. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, published in 1862, devotes some two pages to early Sackett records, some of which he credits to the author of the "Annals of Newtown." Lucius P. Paige, in his "History of Cambridge, Mass.," published in 1877, adds some exceedingly interesting data, copied from original records, relating to the colonist Simon Sackett and his immediate family, as well as to other colonists whose descendants intermarried with the descendants of said Simon Sackett. Mr. William W. Sackett, of Wilkes-Barre, Penn., compiled and had published, in 1892, a single line, entitled, "Our Family Record from the year 1675 to 1892." Mr. Marinus Dewey gave to the newspaper press of Westfield, Mass., about the year 1895, several columns of records of Sackett families, who, at an earlier period had resided in that town and its immediate vicinity. All of these records, which are mainly of a genealogical character. I have utilized to the fullest possible extent, rejecting only such items as have been proven misleading or incorrect. In 1895, and for several years thereafter, Fred J. Sackett, Esq., then of Omaha, Neb., and later of Minneapolis, Minn., spent not a little time and money in a systematic gathering of Sackett records, accumulating an extensive collection of family tables and some in teresting biographical notes, all of which he, in 1903, turned over to the writer with full authority to use such of them as circumstances would warrant. In the early part of the year last mentioned, Mr. L. W. Sackett, of Buffalo, N. Y., volunteered to gather for this family history as complete records as could be secured of the descendants of his great-grandfather. Lemuel Sackett, who was born at Westfield, Mass., in 1758; and with persistent effort carried his undertaking to a commendable conclusion. I am also indebted for valuable assistance and reliable collections of data to Mr. James DeLong Sackett, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. Porter D. Ford, of Richmond Hill, N. Y.; Miss F. Adelaide Sackett, of Hartford, Conn.; Adjutant General F. M. Sackett, of Providence, R. I.; the late Mrs. T. S. Bryon, of East Poultney, Vt.; Mr. W. W. Sackett, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Penn.; Miss Amy C. Kenyon, Page 5 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. F. J. Sackett, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Marcus Sackett, Esq., of Silver Creek, N. Y.; Hon. Leonard B. Sackett, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Mr. Charles W. Sackett, of Addison, N. Y.; Mr. James H. Sackett, of Katskill, New Mexico; Mr. Mark Hall, or Ogden City, Utah; Miss Anne C. Gott, of Irondequoit, N. Y., and Mr. C. H. Clark, of Toronto, Canada. Many other interested members of the clan have contributed bible records, genealogical tables, and interesting items of family history. Of the hundreds of printed volumes examined, in my search for reliable biographical data, those commanding my closest attention have been the New York. Massachusetts and Connecticut records of soldiers of the Revolution and earlier and later wars. As the publication of some of these are of recent date, it is hoped the additional value given to not a few of the biographical notes and sketches printed in this book, will, by reason of extracts from them, in a great measure, offset the annoyance caused to many contributors and correspondents by the unavoidable delay in publishing it. CHARLES H. WEYGANT. NEWBURGH, N. Y., Mar. 14, 1907. Page 6 The Sackets, Sacketts and Sackvilles, of England. The colonist ancestors of the Sackets and Sacketts of America came from England. The Sackets, Sacketts and Sackvilles of England trace descent from a common ancestor whose forebears were natives of Normandy. Before taking up the biographical and genealogical records of the family in America, a few pages may well be devoted to their English kinsfolk. While proper names, distinguishing one person from another, have been in use from time immemorial, surnames are not met with in recorded history until near the close of the 10th century of the Christian Era. They were first used in Normandy, and did not come into general use in England until about the middle of the 15th century. It is a self-evident fact that surnames were derived from various sources--from articles and terms used in commerce and navigation, from localities, from objects of nature, animals, colors, avocations, and not unfrequently from combinations of two or more objects or terms. And after a surname had once been adopted by the head of a family it was no uncommon practice on the part of his descendants to drop, add to, alter or change a final letter or syllable for the purpose of distinguishing one branch from another. Early English pursuits were mainly pastoral. The chief staple was wool, and to export this in an unmanufactured state was the practice. Then, as now, wool was shipped in sacks. It is recorded in the histories of England that in 1340, King Edward III was granted thirty thousand sacks of wool to enable him to carry on the French war. In the records of those early days the name of Adam le Sackere (Adam the sacker) is met with, as one busied, not in the care of flocks or shearing of sheep, but in the purchase and exporting of wool. This man, whose father or grandfather came into England with William the Conqueror, is recognized by the Sackets. Sacketts and Sackvilles of England, as their common ancestor. Just when, or under what circumstances, the most prominent branch of the family in England changed the last syllable of their name from "et" or "ett" to "ville," is unknown to the writer. But few families in America have played a more important part Page 7 in founding, developing and maintaining this mighty republic, than the descendants of the colonists, Simon Sackett of Cambridge, Mass., and John Sackett, of New Haven, Conn. Meantime, in these respects, the name Sackville has, in America, gradually become an unknown quantity. But in England the credit of greater prominence rests with the Sackville branch of the family. "EDWARD SACKVILLE, fourth Earl of Dorset," writes Lord Clarendon, "was born in London in 1590. His person was beautiful, and graceful, and vigorous; his wit pleasing, sparkling and sublime, and his other parts of learning and language of that lustre that he could not miscarry in the world." Lodge adds, "He was indeed one of the most accomplished orators of his time, and was held in high respect for the independence and purity of his principles. He had a command in the forces sent to the Palatinate in 1620, and fought in the decisive battle of Prague. The following year he was employed on a mission to the Queen Regent of France, and on his return was sworn of the Privy Council. On the accession of King Charles, he was chosen a Knight of the Garter and appointed Lord Chamberlain to the Queen." "THOMAS SACKVILLE, Earl of Dorset," says Lodge in his Portraits of Illustrious personages of Great Britain, "was born in 1636, and educated at Oxford and Cambridge. He was the first poet, and one of the first statesmen of his time; and the biographer who would profess to celebrate his fame with justice, should be at once a poet and an historian, a politician and a critic. He was the only son of Sir Richard Sackville, a lineal descendant of one of the Norman band which accompanied William the Conqueror to England; Chancellor of the Court of Augmentation under Edward the Sixth, and in the two following reigns, and a Privy Councillor to Mary and Elizabeth, the last of whom he served also in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. This gentleman was nearly related to Elizabeth, for he was the first cousin by his mother to Anne Boleyn." GEORGE SACKVILLE, Viscount, son of Lional Sackville, the first Duke of Dorset, was born January 26, 1717. He entered the army, Page 8 served under the Duke of Cumberland and was wounded in the breast at the famous battle of Fontenoy. In 1758 he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant General and was Privy Councilor. In the expedition to Germany that year in aid of the King of Prussia, he was appointed second in command of the English forces, under the Duke of Marlborough. On the death of the latter before the close of the year the command in chief devolved on Lord George. He held that office until the memorable battle of Minden, Aug. 1st, 1759, when, in consequence of some misunderstanding between himself and Prince Ferdinand, he returned to England in disgrace. Lady Betty Germain, at her death in 1769, left her property to Lord George Sackville, on condition of his assuming her surname, which he did accordingly. After the accession of George the Third, he was again received at court, and on November 10th, 1775, was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. This position he held throughout the long conflict which ended in the colonies' achievement of independence and permanent establishment as the United States of America. No authentic records have as yet been discovered which establish beyond question the name of the father of Simon and John Sackett, the colonist founders of the Sackett clan in America. The generally accepted tradition is that they came to Massachusetts Bay Colony, from the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. But was their ancestral home located there? It is established by official records that Simon Sackett was one of the founders of Newtown, Mass., which became the City of Cambridge, and is now an integral part of Greater Boston, and that his brother. John Sackett, became a resident of New Haven, Conn. In the early records of both Cambridge and New Haven, the name is invariably spelled "S-a-c-k-e-t-t." J. N. Clark, Esq., register of the University of Cambridge, England, replying to a letter addressed to him by Fred J. Sackett. Esq., formerly of Omaha. Nebraska, and later of Minneapolis, Minn., says: "I find the following persons of the name of Sacket on the Registers of this University: GEORGE SACKET, Sidney Sussex College, A. B., 1617; A. M., 1621; B. D., 1628, from S. Johns, Coll. STEPHEN SACKET, Sidney Sussex College, A. B., 1624; A. M., 1628. Page 9 GEORGE SACKET, Sidney Sussex College, A. B., 1650; A. M., 1654. GEORGE SACKET, Sidney Sussex College, A. B., 1661; A. M., 1665. JOHN SACKET, Corpus Christi College, A. B., 1690; A. M., 1694. After this, no persons of the name appears and I cannot give you any further particulars." It will be observed that these names are all spelled "S-a-c-k-e-t." and so far as ascertained that is the way in which the name is spelled at and in the vicinity of Cambridge, Eng. In the "Genealogies of Kent." we find records of marriages as follows: "Thomas Claybrooke of Swaleleave, to Margaret, daughter of John Sackett"; "Hannah, daughter of Samuel Tritton, to Richard Sackett," and "Sarah, granddaughter of Richard Sackett, to Robert Tonelin of Sackett's Court, near Northdown"--all spelled "S-a-c-k-e-t-t." In "London Marriage Licenses" we find a record of marriage of "John Sackette, of Folkstone, Kent, A. M., bachelor, and Margaret Tempest, spinster, of Patricksborne, Kent, 24 Oct., 1702." In 1716, this John S-a-c-k-e-t-t-e wrote a scientific work, entitled. "Sinking of the Earth near Folkstone, Kent." which attracted the attention of scholars throughout Europe and America. In the "restoration of the church of St. Nicholas at Wade Thenet, in 1876." brass plates were discovered on removal of the pews, bearing these quaint inseriptions: "Here lyeth huried the body of John Sacket, so' time of the P'ishe of S. Nicholas at Wade, hou died the xxii daye of Juine A' Ve D'ni 1588, whose soule we hope God take he to hys marcie." "Here lyeth buried the body of Jhane Knooler, late wife of John Sacket and Richard Enitage. By the forsaid Richard Enitage she had issue two sons and two daughters, the which said Jhane deceased the 6 of January A'no D'ni 1603." The branch of the family in England who spell their name S-a-c-k-e-t-t-e does not appear to be represented in the United States. The entire clan in America--barring the few Sackvilles--seem to be lineal descendants of either Simon or John Sackett, the colonists of 1630-31. We regret exceedingly our inability to state, with any degree of certainty, just where in England the ancestral home of the colonists Page 10 Simon and John Sackett, was located, or from which branch of the family they are descended. It is claimed, however, that the armorial bearing of the Earls and Dukes of Dorset were, in a somewhat modified form, conferred on the father or grandfather of the common ancestor of the clan, Adam le Sackere. Page 11 THE SACKETTS OF AMERICA: Their Ancestors and Descendants. GENERATION I. 1. SIMON SACKETT, 160?-1635. On December 1, 1630, the ship Lyon, laden with provisions consigned to colonists who had the preceding year accompanied or followed Lord John Winthrop to New England, sailed from the seaport city of Bristol. The passenger list of the Lyon on this particular voyage contained 26 names--a little band of well-to-do Puritan colonists who had voluntarily left comfortable homes in the land of their birth, where liberty to worship God in accordance with the dictates of conscience was by law denied them, and were seeking new places of abode, with such fortune as might await them on the rugged shores and in the primeval forests of the New World. Among the heads of families of this pioneer band were Roger Williams, Simon Sackett. John Sackett, John Throkmorton and Nicholas Bailey. The family of Simon Sackett included his wife, Isabel, and their infant son, Simon Sackett, Jr. This midwinter voyage of the ship Lyon was unusually severe. She did not reach Nantasket Roads, off Boston town, the port of her destination, until February 5, 1631. About a month previous to her arrival. Governor Winthrop, Deputy Governor Dudley, and the "Assistants," to whom, and their successors, King Charles had committed the charter government of Massachusetts Bay Colony, had formally selected, a few miles from Boston, on the Charles River, a site for a new town, which it was their avowed purpose to fortify and make the permanent seat of government. It was understood and agreed that the Governor. Deputy Governor, and six of the eight assistants, should each erect on the site selected a permanent house, suitable for the accommodation of his family, in time to spend the following winter there. But shortly thereafter several of the assistants became deeply interested in private business projects at Boston and other settlements and neglected to carry out their part of the agreement. The undertaking was not, however, Page 12 abandoned or long delayed, for in the spring of 1631, Winthrop, Dudley and Bradstreet, together with six other "principal gentlemen," including Simon Sackett, "commenced the execution of the plan" by erecting substantial dwellings. The house built and occupied by Simon Sackett and his family stood on the north side of what is now Winthrop Street, in the centre of the block, between Brighton and Dunster Streets. From the commencement of the settlement records were made of the "agreements of its inhabitants" touching matters of mutual interest, as well as of the public acts of town officials--all of which have been preserved to the present day. Wood, in his "New England's Prospects," written in the latter part of 1633, gives the following description of the place, which at that time was called Newtown, but three years later was re-christened Cambridge: "This is one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England, having many fair structures, with many handsome contrived streets. The inhabitants, most of them, are very rich and well stored with cattle of all sorts, having many hundred acres of land poled in with general fence, which is about a mile and a half long, which secures all their weaker cattle from the wild beasts." Newtown did not, however, become the permanent seat of government of Massachusetts Bay Colony, but it did become, is to-day, and will undoubtedly long remain the seat of America's most famous university. In the founding and laying out of this embryo "city in the wilderness," Simon Sackett was a potent factor, but the exposure and privations of his mid-winter voyage on the ship Lyon had undermined his health, which continued to decline until October, 1635, when he died. On the third day of November following, widow Isabel Sackett was granted, by the court, authority to administer on his estate. At same session of court, the memorable decree was entered which banished Roger Williams from the colony. Mrs. Williams had come to Newtown with her husband on that occasion, "he being in feeble health," and it is altogether probable they were entertained at the home of their bereaved friend and fellow passenger on their voyage from England, whose dwelling was convenient to the public building where the court was held. Widow Sackett's name appears on the Newtown records for the last time under date of February 8, 1636. In June of that year the Page 13 Rev. Hooker's congregation, having either sold or leased their dwellings, removed to Connecticut--widow Sackett and her boys forming part of the migrating company. Dr. Trumble gives the following account of their journey: "About the beginning of June, 1636, Mr. Hooker and about 100 men, women and children took their departure from Newtown and traveled more than a hundred miles through a hideous wilderness to Hartford. They made their journey over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers, which were not passable but with great difficulty. They had no cover but the heavens, nor any lodgings but those that simple nature offered them. They drove with them 160 head of cattle and carried their packs and some utensils. This adventure was the more remarkable, as many of the company were persons of figure, who had lived in England in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were entire strangers to fatigue and danger." After Mr. Hooker's migrating company had become established at Hartford, widow Isabel Sackett became the second wife of William Bloomfield. Simon Sackett and his wife Isabel were the parents of: 3. SIMON SACKETT, b. 1630, d. July 9, 1659; m. Sarah Bloomfield. 4. JOHN SACKETT, b. 1632, d. Oct. 8, 1719; m. Abigail Hanuum. 2 JOHN SACKETT, colonist, and founder of the New Haven branch of the Sackett family, came to New England, from Bristol, England, with his brother Simon, on the ship Lyon, in the winter of 1630-31. He brought with him his son, John Sackett, Jr., who at the time was about three years of age. No record of any other member of his immediate family has been found. Either before leaving England, or during his tedious mid-winter voyage hither, he became strongly attached to the brilliant and popular non-conformist minister, Roger Williams, whom he followed first to Plymouth settlement and afterwards to Rhode Island. Tiring of life in the wilderness he made his way to New Haven settlement, in the records of which he is mentioned as early as 1640 and as late as 1684. On October 6, of the year last mentioned, he filed an inventory of the estate of "John Sackett, Jr." Child. 5. JOHN SACKETT, JR., b. about 1628, d. Sept. 3, 1684; m. Agnes Tinkham. Page 14 GENERATION II. 3. SIMON SACKETT, 1630-1659, son of (1) Simon Sackett and his wife Isabel, was born in England and brought to New England by his parents before he was one year old. About the year 1652 he was married to his step-father's daughter, SARAIL BLOOMFIELD, who had been his companion and playmate from early childhood. His home at the time of his marriage was at Springfield, Mass. The records of that town show that in 1653 he was granted several town lots as an inducement to make it his permanent place of abode, that on March 15, 1653, he purchased from "William Brooks 20 acres of land fronting on ye Great River," and that on March 13, 1653, he subscribed to the "Oath of Fidelity." So far as known he continued to reside at Springfield on the banks of "ye Great River" to the day of his death. WILLIAM BLOOMFIELD, 1604-1664, the father of Sarah Bloomfield Sackett, was born in England. In 1634 he sailed for New England in the ship Elisabeth, which left Yarmouth in the month of April and reached Boston the following June. He brought with him his wife Sarah, aged 25, and their only child, an infant daughter, named for her mother, aged about one year. The Bloomfields on disembarking at Boston seem to have proceeded immediately to the comfortable home of Simon Sackett, at Newtown. The two families doubtless had been neighbors and friends in England, and they were destined to become more closely united in the New World. Sarah, wife of William Bloomfield, probably died soon after their arrival at Newtown. The records show conclusively that William Bloomfield did not remain for any considerable length of time in Newtown after Mr. Hooker and his congregation removed to Hartford. Paige, in his "History of Cambridge," states that William Bloomfield was there in 1635, and removed to Hartford, Conn. Hartley's "Hartford in the Olden Time" records the fact that William Bloomfield, as a citizen of that town, participated, in 1637, with Captain Mason and his ally, the Indian Chief Uncus, in their short and decisive campaign of extermination against the Pequots. The Newtown, Mass., records show that in 1638 William Bloomfield transferred to Robert Stedman the house and lot "on the north side of Winthrop Street, between Dunster and Brighton Streets," Page 15 which property, according to Paige's "Map of Cambridge in 1635," was the Sackett Homestead. "Porter's Map of Hartford in 1640," shows the dwelling of William Bloomfield in the centre of a spacious corner lot near "Little River." on road from "Mill to Country." The historical catalogue of First Church of Hartford records the fact that William Bloomfield and family remained there until 1648, when they removed to New London. It is not known how long they remained at New London, but in 1656 they were at Springfield, Mass., and shortly thereafter at Middleberg, Long Island, where for the remainder of his life William Bloomfield was recognized as a leading citizen. In 1663, when the English towns of New Netherland rebelled against Dutch authority, the civil affairs of Middleberg were by the choice of the inhabitants placed in charge of William Bloomfield and five other "trusted citizens." Children of Simon Sackett and Sarah Bloomfield. 6. SAMUEL SACKETT, baptized at Springfield, Mass., in 1653. 7. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Feb. 23, 1656, d. Sept. 23, 1719; m. 1st, Elizabeth Betts. 4 JOHN SACKET,(*) 1632-1719, son of (1) Simon Sackett and his wife Isabel, was, so far as known, the first white child born in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass. In 1653 he became a resident of Springfield, Mass., receiving from the town commissioners a gift of four pieces of land, agreeable to an ordinance passed to encourage the speedy settlement of that place. On November 23, 1659, he was married to ABIGAIL HANNUM, 1640-1690, daughter of WILLIAM HANNUM (colonist), and his wife, HONOR CAPEN, of Dorchester, Windsor and Northampton. A short time after date of his marriage to Abigail Hannum. John Sacket sold his land at Springfield and removed to property he had purchased some fifteen miles up the Connecticut River at Northampton. There he and his family lived until 1665, when he again sold out and moved to a farm purchased of one Chapin near Westfield, on what are now called Sacket's Meadows. Mr. Sacket's removal to Westfield was at the date of the first permanent settlement of that town, (*)This John Sackett dropped the final "t" in signing his name and several generations of his descendants followed his example, but nearly all of his living descendants have resumed its use. Page 16 and about ten years previous to the commencement of King Philip's Indian wars. There Mr. Sacket built a house and barn, both of which were burned, Oct. 27, 1675, by the Indians, who, at the same time, destroyed a large amount of other property, and drove off his cattle. He rebuilt his house and barn, and also erected a saw mill on a creek which ran through his farm and emptied into the Waronoco (now Westfield) River. The building of a dam on this creek was the occasion of a vexatious lawsuit, brought against him by Thomas, Jedediah and Jonah Dewey, who claimed that by reason of Sacket's saw mill dam the water was backed up on their grist mill. The case was tried at Springfield before a jury, who found for plaintiff, but the court in giving judgment, recited that it was a hard case for the defendant, and "therefore ordered that the plaintiffs should, with a hired man and oxen, work with said Sacket 9 days in taking down and removing said dam." At a town meeting held in 1672 at Westfield, John Sacket was chosen a selectman, and as late as 1693 he held the same office. Abigail Hannum Sacket died October 9, 1690, and about a year later John Sacket was married to SARAH, daughter of JOHN STILES and widow of John Stewart of Springfield. He continued to reside on his Westfield farm to the day of his death. His will, dated in 1718, and probated in 1719, reads as follows: IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the tenth day of May in the year of our Lord God 1718. I John Sacket Sen'r. of Westfield in the county of Hampshire in ye Province of ye Massachusetts Bay, in New England, being aged and under the decays of nature, but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God therefor, calling unto mind the mortality of my body, & knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament, yt is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, and as for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christianlike & decent manner at the direction of my Executors, nothing doubting but at ye Gen'll Reserection I shall receive the same again by ye mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give and devise & dispose of the same in the following way and manner Imprimus, I give and bequeath to SARAH MY WELL BELOVED WIFE, all the use & improvement of all my Estate both real and personal during the whole of her natural life if she shall outlive me, that is to say, all that I shall be possessed of at my decease. Imp'rs, I give to my son JOHN SACKET five shillings, and to my son Page 17 WILLIAM'S CHILDREN five shillings, and my son SAMUEL SACKET'S CHILDREN 5 shillings. Imp'rs, I give to WILLIAM SACKET MY GRANDSON, the son of SAM'LL SACKET deceased, after myself and my wives decease, my Team and Tackling & all ye furniture thereunto belonging and two plows, cart wheels & all belonging unto them, and a harrow & what belongs to it, and I likewise make & ordain him viz--my grandson WILLIAM SACKET, Executor of this my last Will & Testament. Imp'rs, After my own and my wives decease I give to my well beloved daughters viz--HANNAH MERRYMAN, MARY MAUDSLEY and ABIGAIL KING all the remainder of my movable estate in an equal division amongst them all, excepting my great brass Kettle the which I give to my daughter MARY MAUDSLEY, above her share in the movables, to be at their own disposal. Further--This may inform all concerned that all my lands are disposed of by deed of gift, therefore no Inventory to be taken of them. Imp'rs, I give to RACHEL STILES a cow and a pair of sheets. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, & Legacies, Bequests & executors by me in any way before this time named, willed and bequeathed. Rattifying & Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in ye day & year above written. Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & Declared by ye s'd John Sacket as his last Will & Testament. In Presence of us ye subscribers, viz: JOHN ROOT, JEDEDIAH DEWEY, JOSEPH SACKET. JOHN SACKET(S) Hampshire s.s.; Springfield May 20, 1719. John Root, Jedediah Dewey & Joseph Sacket, the witnesses of the foregoing will appeared before me underwritten, Judge of ye Probate of wills & co for ye County afores'd made oath that they saw John Sacket subscribe unto the foregoing instrument, Sign Seal Publish & Pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and Testament, and that he was of sound mind & Periect memory when he did it to the best of their understanding. Which s'd Will I approve & allow of and do appoint JOHN SACKET ye son of ye said deceased to be an administrator on ye said will with ye Executor in the said will named till ye said Executor comes of ye age of twenty one years. SAMUEL PARTRIDGE Children of John Sacket and Abigail Hannum. 8. JOHN SACKET, b. Nov. 4, 1660; d. Dec. 20, 1745; m. Deborah Filley. 9. WILLIAM SACKET, b. Apr. 20, 1662; d. Mar. 28, 1700; m. Hannah Graves. 10. ABIGAIL SACKET, b. Dec. 1, 1663; d. July 3, 1683; m. John Noble. 11. Mary Sacket, b. in year 1665; d. Nov. 19, 1667. 12. HANNAH SACKET, b. Mar. 7, 1669; d. Aug. 30, 1749; m. 2d, Ben. Newbury. 13. MARY SACKET, b. June 8, 1672; d. in year 1729; m. Benj. Moseley. 14. SAMUEL SACKET, b. Sept. 16, 1674; d. Nov. 8, 1709; m. Elizabeth Bissell. Page 18 15. Elizabeth Sacket, b. May 27, 1677; d. June 16, 1682. 16. ABIGAIL SACKET, b. in year 1683; d. Sept. 1721; m. David King. 5 JOHN SACKETT, JR., 16??-1684, of New Haven, Conn., son of (2) John the colonist, was born in England and brought to New England by his father in 1631. He was at the time about three years of age. Very little is known of his boyhood days. In 1646 he was a member of the New Haven Train Band. The general court of that year first brought him to notice and gave him a place in the recorded history of Connecticut by fining him six cents "for wanting a rest at a training he attended." A rest was a stick crotched at one end which was used to steady the heavy musket then in use when taking aim. On May 20, 1652, he was married to AGNES TINKHAM, who probably was a younger sister of the colonist Ephraim Tinkham, of Plymouth settlement. He remained a resident of New Haven until his death in 1684. The records there show that on October 6, 1684, "John Sackett" made and filed an inventory of the estate of "John Sackett, Junior." Agnes Tinkham Sackett died at New Haven in the early part of the year 1707. An inventory of her estate was filed on April 25th of that year by her grandson, Lieut. Joseph Sackett, who had previously been appointed administrator of her husband's estate. The records also show that on July 8, 1712, Lieut. Joseph Sackett made a final accounting of said estates and was discharged from his bonds. Children of John Sackett and Agnes Tinkham. 17. JOHN SACKETT, b. Apr. 30, 1653; d. in year 1703; m. Mary Woodin 18. JONATHAN SACKETT, b. June 6, 1655; d. ; m. Hannah 19. Mary Sackett, b. Sept. 24, 1657. 20. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Mar. 2, 1660; m. 21. Martha Sackett, b. Sept. 19, 1662; d. Sept. 3, 1684. GENERATION III. 6. SAMUEL SACKETT, born and christened at Springfield, Mass., in 1653, was the oldest child of (3) Simon and Sarah Bloomfield Sackett. No further record of him has been found and it is probable that he died in infancy and was buried at Springfield. Page 19 7 CAPT. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1656-1719, son of (3) Simon and Sarah Bloomfield Sackett, was born at Springfield, Mass. After the death of his father in 1659 his childhood home appears to have been with the family of his grandfather Bloomfield. From early manhood to old age he was a resident of Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., where for many years he was a member "in full communion" and office bearer in the Presbyterian Church. His name appears frequently in lists of Road Commissioners, Assessors, Collectors and Supervisors of his town. The Colonial and Documentary Histories of New York show that he was commissioned by successive Governors of the Colony as Ensign, Lieutenant and Captain of Long Island troops. His name is also to be found in lists of recipients of Royal Patents or land grants, and of commissioners selected and appointed to adjust town and county boundary disputes, so prevalent and troublesome in the early history of New York and Connecticut. Capt. Joseph Sackett was thrice married. His first wife, who was the mother of all but one of his children, was ELIZABETH BETTS, daughter of CAPT. RICHARD BETTS. The name of his second wife, who lived but a short time after the date of her marriage, is unknown. His third wife, to whom he was married in 1711, was MERCY WHITEHEAD, widow of Capt. Thomas Betts, a brother of his first wife. CAPT. RICHARD BETTS, the father of Elisabeth, the first wife of Capt. Joseph Sackett, was born in Hertferdshire. England, in the year 1613. He came to New England about the year 1635, and in 1636 settled in Newtown. Mass., from which place, prior to 1642, he removed to Ipswich, where he remained until about 1654, when he removed to and became a permanent resident of Newtown, Long Island, N. Y. There he soon acquired prominence and influence, and for upwards of half a century participated largely in public affairs. In the revolution of 1663 he bore a zealous part, and after the conquest of New Netherlands by the English was a member from Newtown of the Provisional Assembly held at Hempstead in 1665. He was "High Sheriff of Yorkshire, upon Long Island," from 1678 to 1681. For a long series of years he was a magistrate, and several times a member of the "High Court of Assise," then the supreme power of the Colony. His name is honorably mentioned in upwards of thirty distinct paragraphs on the pages Page 20 of "Riker's Annals of Newtown," the last of which reads as follows: "The last survivor of the original purchasors, Capt. Richard Betts, died on November 18, of this year" (1713) "at the patriarchal age of a hundred years. None in the township has been so eminent as he for commanding influence and valuable public service. His remains were interred on his own estate at the English Kills, on the 20th, with a funeral service by Mr. Poyer, rector of Jamaica Parish." DANIEL WHITEHEAD, 1603-1668, the grandfather of Mercy Whitehead, the third wife of Capt. Joseph Sackett, was the founder of the Long Island branch of the Whitehead family. He came to New England with the early colonists and migrated to Long Island, N. Y., during or previous to the year 1647, under which date his name appears among the proprietors of Hempstead. In 1650 he purchased land in Smithtown, and later, in Oyster Bay, in Huntington, and on Lloyds Neck. Riker says that "he located at Mespot Kills, was a reputable citizen and one of the seven persons to whom the first Newtown Patent was granted." He was chosen a town surveyor in 1668 and died on his farm at Mespot Kills in November of that year. He was at the time of his death one of the two Overseers, or Chief Magistrates of the town. MAJOR DANIEL WHITEHEAD, son of above and father of Mercy Whitehead (Betts) Sackett, was married to ABIGAIL STEPHENSON, daughter of THOMAS STEPHENSON, and settled in Jamaica, of which town he was one of the patentees. According to local historians he was a man of enterprise and wealth. Politically he was a Jacobite. The ancient records show that he was a magistrate, a member of the committee of safety, a representative in the Colonial Assembly and a trustee of the parish church. His will, dated November 13, 1703, and proved October 30, 1704, disposes of land in Jamaica, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Flushing, Orange County and Suffolk County, all in the Colony of New York. In the list of grievances enumerated in the historic anonymous pamphlet published in New York and republished in London in 1700, attacking Leysler's administration, the following appears: "On the 13th of January this usurper Leysler, sends under the command of Lieut. Churchill twenty soldiers over to Long Island, the next day they come to Jamaica, where they in a violent manner by force of arms broke open the house of Mr. Daniel Whitehead, one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace appointed by our Governor Sir Edward Andros, and being entered into the house they in like manner aforesaid broke open several chests Page 21 and boxes, but found not what they looked for and so returned the next day without doing any more mischief as we yet hear of." On May 19th following, Stephen Van Cortlandt, Mayor of New York, in writing to Sir Edward Andres an account of the progress of the Leysler revolution, mentions the fact that he, with Captain Jackson, Daniel Whitehead and several others had been obliged to "flye from their homes to escape imprisonment at the hands of Leisler." When in 1711 Capt. Joseph Sackett and Mercy Whitehead (Betts) were married, the former was 55 years of age and had 10 children, while the latter was about 48 years of age and had 9 children. These, with their son Samuel, born to them in 1712, made an even score. Sixteen of the number married and had children, and nearly all the sons as well as the husbands of the daughters became men of prominence in their day and generation; while among their descendants have been Governors of States, Cabinet Officers, Bishops, Authors of note, Judges, Generals and Ministers of the United States to the principal Courts of Europe. Capt. Joseph Sackett's will, dated September 20, 1719, and admitted to probate December 22 following, is witnessed by Nathaniel Woodward and Peter Berrian. It reads as follows: "IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I JOSEPH SACKETT of Newtown, in Queens County, being sick and weak * * * I leave to my wife MERCY the use of all lands and meadows which I leave to my son SAMUEL, until he comes of age, and all the wearables she brought with her when married, and œ30, and 2 cows and some young cattle. I leave to my son JOSEPH a certain lot of land and meadow bounded west by the land of Thomas Betts, north by the middle ditch, east by the land of Joshua Hunt, and north by the road. And he shall pay to my daughter SARAH, alias MOORE œ20, and to my daughter PATIENCE SACKETT œ10. I leave to my children JOSEPH, RICHARD, JOHN, WILLIAM, SAMUEL, SARAH MOORE, ABIGAIL ALSOP and PATIENCE SACKETT and the children of my daughter ELIZABETH deceased, all my land and meadows at Hopewell and Maidenhead in Huntingdon County, New Jersey, my son JOSEPH to have a double share. I leave to my son JOHN a certain lot of land and meadow adjoining the narrow passage running eastward, adjoining the land of Joseph Hollett and Joseph Moore and running due eastward to a ditch and piece of meadow that was formerly Samuel Moore's, and south easterly 'till it meets a small ditch that joins a fence running southerly to the road that leads to Hellgate Neck. Also another lot lying on the south side of said road that leads along by Newtown Spring to the Kills and the land of John Sanders. I leave my son WILLIAM a lot of land with the house and buildings lying Page 22 on the south side of the road, bounded east by the land of John Wright and Thomas Hunt, south by the meadow ditch, west by the land of Widow Moore and the piece hereinafter devised to SAMUEL SACKETT. Also 3 lots of land. The first bounded west and north by land of Job Wright, east by land of Nathaniel Woodward, and south by the road. The second being the lot called the Old lot, bounded west by the land of William Moore, north by land of Peter Berrean * * * and south by the highway. The third lot being upland and meadow, bounded northwesterly by the middle ditch, north by Thomas Stephenson, southeast by the highway and lying near the house of Benjamin Cornish. Also another lot of land and meadow, beginning at a certain road that leads by the side of the house of John Sackett going down the east side of the cleared land as the fence now stands to a certain ditch, and all the land and meadow that lies east of it, belonging to me. I leave to my son SAMUEL all my manshon where I now dwell, with all the buildings, and the lot of land and garden and orchards, and all that land that I had of my uncle Daniel Bloomfield joining my said land near the * * * and westward to the land of Nathaniel Woodward. Also a lot of land over against my said land being ten rods wide and running down to a small ditch in the meadows bounded west by land of said Woodward and the Widow Moore. Also another lot of land and meadow lying at the end of said town, bounded on two sides by the highway, and on the other two sides by the land of Benjamin Moore and George Reynolds. I leave to my sons WILLIAM and SAMUEL a certain lot of land lying at a certain swamp called Juniper Swamp, bounded east by the highway, north by land that was Edward Hunt's and George Brinkerhoff's, west by land that was Edward Hunt's. I leave to my sons JOHN, WILLIAM and SAMUEL all my upland and meadow lying between the land of ---- Field and Flushing Creek, near the head thereof. I leave to my son JOHN the time Hugh McCarty has to live with me by his indenture. I leave to my son WILLIAM and my daughter PATIENCE each a bed. I leave the rest of my personal property to my children WILLIAM, PATIENCE. RICHARD, SARAH, JOSEPH, ANNE MOORE and ABIGAIL ALSOP. I make my sons JOSEPH and WILLIAM executors. JOSEPH SACKETT(S). Children of Capt. Joseph Sackett and Elizabeth Betts. 22. SIMON SACKETT, b. in 1678, d. in 1718; m. a Miss McGaw. 23. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. in 1680, d. Sept. 27, 1755; m. Hannah Alsop. 24. ANNE SACKETT, b. in 1681, d. Sept. 30, 1757; m. Benjamin Moore. 25. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. in 1683, d. Sept. 1716; m. Joseph Moore. 26. RICHARD SACKETT, b. in 1686, d. May 8, 1737; m. Elizabeth Kirtland. 27. JOHN SACKETT, b. in 1688, d. Dec. 31, 1728; m. Elizabeth Field. 28. SARAH SACKETT, b. in 1689, d. in 1766; m. Joseph Moore. 29. ABIGAIL SACKETT, b. in 1695, d. Dec. 8, 1751; m. John Alsop. 30. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. in 1696, d. Aug. 29, 1761; m. Mary Jones. 31. PATIENCE SACKETT, b. in 1700, d. in 1772; m. John Lawrence. Page 23 Child of Capt. Joseph Sackett and Mercy Whitehead (Betts). 32. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 2, 1712, d. June 5, 1784; m. Hannah Hazard. 8. JOHN SACKET, 1660-1745, of Weathersfield, Mass., son of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married, Dec. 1, 1686, to DEBORAH FILLEY, 1661-1701, daughter of WILLIAM FILLEY and his wife Margaret, of Windsor, Conn. On May 17, 1702, he was married by Joseph Haley, Justice of the Peace, to MAHITABLE DANKS, widow of John Harris and daughter of ROBERT DANKS and his wife ELIZABETH SWIFT. Children of John Sacket and Deborah Filley. 33. JOHN SACKET, b. Mar. 3, 1688, d. ; m. Sarah Macerany. 34. ABIGAIL SACKET, b. Oct. 16, 1690, d. ; m. Capt. Griswold. 35. DANIEL SACKET, b. Aug. 14, 1693, d. Feb. 9, 1776; m. Mary Weiler. 36. David Sacket, b. July 7, 1696. 37. BENJAMIN SACKET, b. Oct. 31, 1698, d. 1753; m. (62) Thankful King. 38. DEBORAH SACKET, b. Nov. 16, 1701. Children of John Sacket and Mahitable Danks (Harris). 39. ISAAC SACKET, b. Feb. 14, 1703, d. Oct. 29, 1773; m. Elizabeth Shepard. 40. Ezra Sacket, b. in 1704, d. May 13, 1706. 41. ISRAEL SACKET, b. Mar. 6, 1706, d. in 1786. 42. ELEAKIM SACKET, b. Mar. 12, 1712, d. in 1764; m. Bethesda Fowler. 43. MARY SACKET, b. Mar. 5, 1715. 9. WILLIAM SACKET, 1662-1700, of Westfield, Mass., son of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married December 26, 1687, to SARAH CRAIN, who a short time thereafter died without issue. In 1689 he was married to HANNAH GRAVES, daughter of ISAAC GRAVES and HANNAH CHURCH. In the winter of 1699-1700 he was drowned in the Connecticut River near Deerfield on his return from a wedding he had been attending with a party of relatives and friends. THOMAS GRAVES, colonist, the grandfather of Hannah Graves Sacket, came to New England accompanied by his wife and several almost or quite grown up sons previous to the year 1631, presumably in one of the vessels of Governor Winthrop's fleet in 1630 Very soon thereafter he erected a dwelling house a few miles inland from Boston. It is recorded in the ancient records of the Colony Page 24 that when, on March 6, 1632-3, the "line of division between Newtown and Charlestown" was established, it was determined that "the neck whereon Mr. Graves' house standeth shall belong to Newtown." When in 1636 Mr. Hooker and the larger number of the inhabitants of Newtown removed to Hartford, George Graves, one of the sons of Thomas, joined the migrating company. An account of their memorable journey has been given in the biographical sketch of (1) Simon Sackett, colonist, and his wife Isabel. The name of George Graves appears engraved on the monument erected, some sixty years since, to the memory of the "Founders of Hartford," in the ancient burying ground of that city. A few years after the date of the Hooker migration. Thomas Graves, with his wife and several children--including his son Isaac--removed from Newtown, then called Cambridge, to Hartford. ISAAC GRAVES, son of Thomas, the colonist, was married at Hartford about the year 1645 to MARY CHURCH. In 1656 they removed to Hatfield and later to Hadley, where, on January 24, 1666, their daughter Hannah, who married William Sacket, was born. RICHARD CHURCH, colonist, and his wife Annie, were at Hartford in 1637, and removed from there in 1660 to Hadley, where he died in December, 1667. In his will he mentions his daughter "Hannah, wife of Isaac Graves." Children of William Sacket and Hannah Graves. 44. JOSEPH SACKET, b. May, 1690, d. in 1756; m. Abigail 45. Hannah Sacket, b. June, 1692. 46. REBECCA SACKET, b. Sept. 18, 1694, d. Sept. 15, 1782; m. T. Dewey. 47. JONATHAN SACKET, b. Mar. 20, 1696; d. Sept. 1, 1773; m. Ann Filer. 10. ABIGAIL SACKET, 1663-1683, oldest daughter of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married, Sept. 13, 1682, to JOHN NOBLE, of Westfield, Mass., son of HON. THOMAS NOBLE and his wife HANNAH WARINER, who was the daughter of WILLIAM WARINER, colonist, and his wife JOANA SEARL. Bridgeman, in his "Inscriptions on Graves Stones," published in 1850, states that a stone erected to the memory of Abigail Noble is the oldest found in the burying ground at Westfield, and contains this inscription, "Here lieth the body of Abigail the wife of John Noble, who died IV ly, ANO 1683, in ye 20 year of her age." Page 25 Only Child. 48. Abigail Noble, b. June 30, 1683, d. March 28, 1700. 12. HANNAH SACKET, 1669-1749, daughter of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married in April, 1688, to THOMAS DEWEY, 1664-1690, of Westfield, Mass. On May 3, 1691, she was married to her second husband, CAPT. BENJAMIN NEWBURY, 2nd, 1669-1709. Previous to the year 1719 she was married to her third husband, a MR. MERRYMAN. HON. THOMAS NEWBURY, colonist, grandfather of Capt. Benj. Newbury, 2nd, came from England in 1634, and was one of the Assistants in the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1636, and died that year leaving property valued at œ1520, 4, 7. CAPT. BENJAMIN NEWBURY, 1st, father of Capt. Benjamin Newbury, 2nd, was born in England and came to America with his father in 1634. He was married, June 11, 1646, to MARY ALLEN, daughter of Hon. Matthew Allen. HON. MATTHEW ALLEN was one of the early residents of Newtown, Mass., where in 1632-3 he built a house for himself and family, adjoining that of the colonist Simon Sackett. Paige, in his "History of Cambridge," quoting from records made by Hinman & Hazard, says: "ALLEN, MATTHEW, was here, in 1632, and in 1635 he owned the estate at N. W. corner of Winthrop and Dunster streets. He also owned the opposite corner, south of Winthrop street. He was a deputy in the General Court. 3 March, 1635-6, removed to Connecticut with Hooker, and settled at Windsor, where he died in 1670, having had children John. Thomas and Mary. Mr. Allen sustained a high rank with his fellow colonists; held several town offices, and served as Juror, Deputy Magistrate, and Assistant in the Colony Government. He was also appointed by the Colony, in 1660 and 1664, one of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, an office fully equal in dignity and importance to that of Senator in the Congress of the United States." Children of Capt. Benjamin and Hannah Sacket Newbury. 49. Benjamin Newbury, b. Jan. 31, 1693, d. Sept. 24, 1709. 50. Roger Newbury, b. June 24, 1706. 51. Marah Newbury, b. Feb. 3, 1709, d. June 5, 1753. 13. MARY SACKET, 1672-1729, daughter of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married, Oct. 2, 1689, to BENJAMIN MOSELEY Page 26 (originally Maudsley), son of JOHN MAUDSLEY and his wife MARY NEWBURY, daughter of the first CAPT. BENJAMIN NEWBURY. Children of Benjamin and Mary Sacket Moseley. 52. Thomas Moseley, b. in 1690, d. in 1719. 53. Benjamin Moseley, b. in 1693, d. in 1719. 54. Jemima Moseley, b. in 1694. 55. Bethsheba Moseley, b. in 1697. 56. Azariah Moseley, b. in 1701, d. in 1719. 14. SAMUEL SACKET, 1674-1709, of Westfield, Mass., son of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married, in 1698, to ELIZABETH BISSELL, daughter of SAMUEL BISSELL. In 1712 widow Elizabeth Bissell Sacket was married to John Root. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Bissell Sacket. 57. WILLIAM SACKET, b. in 1700, d. in 1756; m. Hannah Bagg. 58. ELIZABETH SACKET, b. Feb. 20, 1702, d. Nov. 22, 1755; m. Luke Noble. 59. SAMUEL SACKET, b. in 1704, d. in 1760; m. Ruth Trumbell. 60. BENONI SACKET, b. May 18, 1710, d. Apr. 6, 1783; m. Mindwell Smith. 16. ABIGAIL SACKET, 2nd, 1683 ---? youngest child of (4) John and Abigail Hannum Sacket, was married, about the year 1701, to DAVID KING, 1677-1730, of Westfield, Mass. A short time after the date of their marriage they removed to a "new plantation," in what became the town of Sheffield, Mass. CAPT. JOHN KING, 1629-1703, colonist, the father of above mentioned David King, came to New England in 1645, and lived at Hartford for about five years, when he removed to Northampton. There on Nov. 18, 1656, he was married to SARAH HOLTON. Theirs is the first marriage recorded and it is believed to have been the first solemnized at Northampton. John King was for several years captain of the Northampton military company, and in 1679, was a representative. HON. WILLIAM HOLTON, colonist, father of Sarah Holton King, was born in England in 1634. He came from Ipswich to New England in the ship Francis, and was one of the early proprietors of Hartford, Conn. In 1655, he removed to Northampton, Mass., and was one of the first deacons of the church there. In 1666, 1667, Page 27 1669, 1670 and 1671 he was a Representative, serving one year for the neighboring town of Hadley. Children of David and Abigail Sacket King. 61. David King, b. in 1702. 62. Thankful King, b. in 1704, d. in year 17--; m. (37) Benjamin Sacket. 63. Moses King, b. in year 1706. 64. Stephen King, b. in year 1708. 65. Benjamin King, b. in year 1710. 66. Aaron King, b. in year 1714. 67. Asafel King, b. in year 1718, d. in year 1719. 68. Eldad King, b. in year 1718. 69. Gideon King, b. in year 1722. 17. LIEUT, JOHN SACKETT, 1653-1703, of New Haven, Conn., son of (5) John and Agnes Tinkham Sackett, was married about the year 1686, to MARY WOODIN, 16--? - 1717, daughter of WILLIAM WOODIN and his wife SARAH ALLARD. Like his father and many of his kinsmen he took a lively interest in military affairs. As soon as he had reached the required age he joined the New Haven military company and remained an active member of it to the day of his death. After serving several years as a private and non-commissioned officer, he was commissioned an Ensign and later a Lieutenant. The records of the General Court of Connecticut show that at a session held at Hartford May 14, 1696, a lease from certain Indians, for a considerable tract of land to John Sackett and others, was confirmed. WILLIAM WOODIN, 16--? - 1684, colonist, is first mentioned in New Haven records under date of 1643. He was married there October 5, 1650, to SARAH ALLARD, who died in 1693. Children of John and Mary Woodin Sackett. 70. Mary Sackett, b. in year 1688. 71. SARAH SACKETT, b. in year 1694; m. Capt. Jonathan Alling. 72. John Sackett, b. in year 1699. 73. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 7, 1702, d. Feb. 1781; m. Elizabeth Todd. 18. JONATHAN SACKETT, 1655 ---?, of New Haven, Conn., son of (5) John and Agnes Tinkham Sackett, was married to Hannah ----. Page 28 Children. 74. JONATHAN SACKETT, m. Ruth Hotchkiss. 75. RICHARD SACKETT, d. in year 1746; m. Margery L. Sleade. 76. Hannah Sackett. 77. JOHN SACKETT, m. Hannah Smith. 78. Joseph Sackett. 20. LIEUT. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1660 - 17--?, of New Haven, Conn., son of (5) John and Agnes Tinkham Sackett, was married about the year 1685 to his first wife ANNE. On May 18, 1710, he was married to his second wife, HANNAH DENISON, daughter of JAMES DENISON and his wife BETHIAH BOYKIN. In 1704 the General Assembly of Connecticut, in reorganizing the militia for active service "against the common enemy," appointed "Sergeant Joseph Sackett to be Lieutenant of the soldiers raised in the county of New Haven for this service." He was administrator of the estates of his parents and served as such until July 8, 1712, when he filed his report and was discharged. On January 1, 1717, he was chosen by his nephew John Sackett, a minor son of Lieut. John Sackett, as his guardian. JARVIS BOYKIN, colonist, came from Charington in Kent, England, to Charlestown, Mass., in the year 1635. In 1639 he removed to New Haven, Conn., where in April, 1643, his daughter Bethia was married to James Denison. Children of Lieut. Joseph Sackett and his wife Anna. 79. Anne Sackett, b. in August, 1687. 80. Sarah Sackett, b. Nov. 23, 1691. Child of Lieut. Joseph and Hannah Denison Sackett. 81. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Oct. 27, 1712. GENERATION IV. 22. SIMON SACKETT, 1678-1718, oldest son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was born at Newtown, Long Island. N. Y., and died at Hopewell, New Jersey. He seems to have been a wayward youth, whose love of adventure was stronger than his love of home and kindred. The following record is based on tradition, which is supported by recorded facts: "When about seventeen Page 29 years of age he left home without the consent of his parents and became a sailor. After following the sea for several years, during which he visited many foreign lands, he married--presumably in Ireland--a comely young Irish girl, whose surname was MCGAW. His marriage was not approved by his parents, and his cultured sisters treated his bride with great coolness, if not actual rudeness, when, after his return to his native land, he took her to the Sackett mansion at Newtown. This action on the part of his parents and sisters he promptly, indignantly and emphatically resented, using language more suggestive of heat than ice is suggestive of cold. And when after a few hours sojourn he left his father's house never to return, he took with him a title deed to property in Hopewell, New Jersey, in consideration of which he agreed to forego forever all claim to any other portion of his father's estate." His Irish wife proved to be a true helpmate and model mother. Their family life at Hopewell was all that could be desired, and when he died there in 1718, he left his wife and three children in comfortable circumstances. Capt. Joseph Sackett's will, which was executed a few months later, and probated the following year, contains no mention of his deceased son Simon's children. The reason for this omission has already been given. Children. 82. THOMAS SACKETT, m. Sarah Haywood. 83. ---- Sackett, a daughter. 84. ---- Sackett, a daughter. 23. JUDGE JOSEPH SACKETT, 1680-1755, of English Kills, Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was married, May 23, 1706, to HANNAH ALSOP, 1690-1773, daughter of CAPT. RICHARD ALSOP and his wife HANNAH. Judge Sackett was, says Riker in his "Annals of Newtown." "a man of probity, a Justice of the Peace and a Judge from 1749 to his death, Sept. 26, 1755," and it may be added that he was an office holder in the Presbyterian Church, took an active part in public affairs, and was ever held in high esteem by his townsmen. In 1724 he and his brother-in-law, John Alsop, purchased jointly the central portion of the "Chambers-Southerland Patent," located on the west shore of the Hudson River, in the town of New Windsor, Orange County, Page 30 N. Y. There they built a substantial wharf, erected a commodious storehouse and established a sloop freight and passenger line, which ran at stated intervals to and from New York City. They also started and maintained for a number of years a flat-boat ferry at that place, which carried horses and cattle, as well as human beings to and from a point near what afterwards became Fishkill Landing, on the opposite shore. This ferry, which was the first of its kind established on the central Hudson, was extensively patronized previous to the Revolution. It is a matter of history that in July, 1775. Morgan and his famous body of rifiemen crossed the river on this New Windsor ferry when hastening to join Washington's army at Boston. Not long after that date is was discontinued. JOHN ALSOP, who was by profession a lawyer, located at New Windsor at the time of the before mentioned purchase, but after remaining there a few years sold out his interest to Joseph Sackett, Jr., his partner's oldest son, and took up the practice of his profession in New York City, where he acquired marked prominence. The Sacketts, it would seem, did not long remain entirely content with their holdings in New Windsor. Colonial land papers show that on Jan. 11, 1727, a patent was duly issued to Nathaniel Hazzard and Joseph Sackett for 4,000 acres in adjoining town of Blooming Grove; that on July 7, 1736, a patent for additional plots containing 2,000 acres, located near that last mentioned, was issued to Joseph Sackett, Jr., and that on Sept. 1, 1737, a third patent for another 2,000 acres in same vicinity was issued to Joseph Sackett. These extensive grants covered a considerable portion of what is now one of the most populous and productive farming districts in Orange County, N. Y. In 1749 a land company, composed of Joseph Sackett, Jr., his brother John Sackett, and eight other men of local prominence, was organized under the title of "The Proprietors of New Windsor." To this company the Sacketts transferred all of their New Windsor real estate except the wharf and storehouse property. The "Proprietors" laid out the entire unimproved portion of their purchase in village lots and township plots, and a considerable number of new dwellings were added to the settlement; but already the importance of the village as a commercial centre had begun to decline, and to-day (1907), what was then the business portion of New Windsor is a veritable "Deserted Village," with a church in which Page 31 no service has been held for years, dilapidated dwellings, and no signs of commercial life save the unsightly sheds of several brick yards at the river's edge. But the township plots on the western bounds of the tract have become the country seats of families of wealth, and constitute one of Newburgh's aristocratic suburbs. The orginal records, consisting of rude maps and transfer data of "The Proprietors of New Windsor," is in possession of the "Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands," at Newburgh, N. Y. Judge Sackett was never an actual resident of New Windsor. He died at English Kills, Sept. 27, 1755. His wife, Hannah Alsop Sackett, outlived him nearly eighteen years, her death occurring June 17, 1773, in the 83d year of her age. Judge Sackett's will is recorded in the New York City records of probate and reads in part as follows: WILL OF JUDGE JOSEPH SACKETT. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. Mar. 31, in the year of our Beloved Lord Christ 1755. I Joseph Sackett of Newtown, in Queens County, being in perfect health.....My executors to pay all depts and clear my land that is mortgaged to the Loan Office at Jamaica in Queens County. My executors are to sell all my lands lying in the Patent of Goshen in Orange County, except the land that is to be laid out at Wawayanda, or the other lands belonging to the patent or a Ronnd Hill, so called, and what land belongs to me joining the same. It lyeth between the land of Hezekiah Bowell and Thomas Celeman, And what land I have lying between a brook called Perry's and a hill called Caar Matthews on said hill. Reserving in all the lands they sell three quarters of all mines and minerals with privilege to dig and carry off same, and to erect buildings for that use. They are also to sell all my lands in New Jersey, reserving the same privileges. And they are also to sell all my lands and Meadows in Newtown, except what I shall give to my wife and my son William. I leave my wife Hannah one half of the lands and buildings hereinafter named, during her widowhood, and the other half to my son William, viz--My Mansion house and all the buildings and lot of ground they stand on, and all my lands on the east and south sides of the road that leadeth from Newtown to New York ferry except a lot I baught of John Culver, and all my lands and meadows lying on the west side of said road as far as the lower end of Smiths Island. And also my land swamp at a place called Juniper swamp, and a piece of upland and fresh meadow bounded east by Francis Morel, north by the middle ditch, west by a ditch that runs through my meadow joining to John Ketcham and Rapalye and the creek above Cars Mill. And after my wifes death my son William to have the whole, and to pay his brother Thomas and his sister Elizabeth Fish each œ100. I leave to my sons Thomas and William all my wearing clothing. To Page 32 my son Joseph a silver headed cane. To my daughter Elizabeth Fish the choice of my Negro girls. To my son William, a Negro boy. I leave to my wife Hannah one half of the rest of my movables and the remainder to be sold to pay my debts. I leave to my six sons Joseph, John, James, Samuel, Thomas and William a hill called Round Hill, lying between the lands of Hezekiah Howell and Thomas Coleman (in Orange County) also a piece of land lying between the brook called Perry's brook on a hill called Car Matthews, but on condition that if there be any mines or minerals on said land or lands I have sold in New York and West Jersey, they shall pay to my daughter Hannah one thirteenth of the clear profit, and also to Elizabeth Fish and the children of my deceased daughter Frances Blackwell, and the children of my deceased daughter Deborah Stringham, and to my wife, two thirteenths. If my son William dies without issue then his lands to go to the rest of my children. My executors are to sell so much cleared land joining the lot I bought of Jonathan Culver as will make it 40 acres with that lot, and they are to sell all my upland and fresh meadows, joining to Thomas Monell on the main ditch and the road. The above, signed by Joseph Sackett and witnessed by Richard Hollett, Jr., James Way, Jr., and Thomas Way, was probated Oct. 22, 1755. Children of Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett. 85. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Mar. 5, 1707, d. in year 17--; m. Milicant Clowes. 86. Richard Sackett, b. June 30, 1709, d. Feb. 11, 1726. 88. HANNAH SACKETT, b. Aug. 7, 1711, d. July 26, 1762; m. Thomas Whitehead. 89. Elizabeth Sackett, b. Aug. 15, 1713, d. Dec. 17, 1721. 90. JOHN SACKETT, b. May 15, 1716, d. Mar. 2, 1783; m. Phoebe Burling. 91. DEBORAH SACKETT, b. Nov. 18, 1718, d. Jan. 10, 1754; m. James Stringham. 92. FRANCES SACKETT, b. Dec. 4, 1720, d. Feb. 4, 1754; m. Joseph Blackwell. 93. JAMES SACKETT, b. Sept. 12, 1722, d. Sept. 12, 1784; m. Frances Dekay. 94. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. June 23, 1724, d. Sept. 29, 1780; m. Mary Betts. 95. THOMAS SACKETT, b. Dec. 27, 1726, d. June 27, 1769; m. Phene Alburtis. 96. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. June 25, 1729, d. Apr. 10, 1778; m. Jonathan Fish. 97. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. Aug. 27, 1731, d. May 1, 1776; m. Deborah Fish. 24. ANNE SACKETT, 1681-1757, oldest daughter of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth Betts Sackett, was married Dec. 27, 1710, to BENJAMIN MOORE, of Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., son of CAPT SAMUEL Page 33 MOORE and grandson of REV. JOHN MOORE, both of whom were men of prominence, whose records are closely interwoven in the early history of Long Island. REV. JOHN MOORE came to Massachusetts from England about the year 1636. He was at the time unmarried and a comparatively young man. He had evidently studied for the ministry in England. On Dec. 8, 1636, he was sworn a freeman and recorded as a resident of Cambridge, Mass., "where in the following year he purchased from Humphrey Vincent a house and garden on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, between Dunster and Brighton Streets, together with sundry lots of land." This property he did not dispose of until during or after the year 1642. The records of Cambridge show that at one period during these years he was a magistrate. He was also associated with and deeply interested in the founding of the school at Cambridge which became Harvard College and is now America's most renowned university. Early in the year 1641 he removed to Long Island, N. Y., and in April of that year was recognized as a resident of Southampton. Previous to changing his place of abode from New England to Long Island, he became engaged in the securing of subscriptions to a fund for the education of divinity students at the Cambridge school, and continued his efforts in that direction after his removal to Long Island. Riker says "he was an independent * * 'having been permittel in New England to preach but not allowed to administer the sacrament.' After this mode he officiated for many years. * * He was reputed to be a good preacher." The early colonial records of New York and Connecticut show that on reaching Long Island he took an active and influential part in secular as well as religious affairs. At a convention held in Hartford, May 30, 1644, looking to a union of Long Island with the New England Colonies, his name appears as that of a delegate from the "Third Ward of Southampton." A little later in the same year he was in attendance at a meeting of the General Court of Massachusetts, evidently on the same business. At about the same period he began preaching regularly to the congregation at Hempstead. About the year 1646 he was married to MARGARET HOWELL, daughter of EDWARD HOWELL, colonist, who came to America from Buckingham, England, in 1637. In 1652 Mr. Moore removed to Newtown, L. I., and there became the first regular minister of that settlement, and continued preaching Page 34 there until his death in 1657. Some 20 years later the town, in recognition of his valuable services, in negotiations with the Indian owners for the purchase of Newtown plot and in the building of the settlement, awarded 80 acres of land to his surviving children. CAPT. SAMUEL MOORE, son of Rev. John Moore and his wife Margaret Howell, was married to MARY REED, 1651-1738, daughter of CAPT. THOMAS REED. Capt. Moore served his town as Constable, Assessor, Commissioner of Town Court, Supervisor, and on several important commissions. He served also in the ranks, as Lieutenant, and as Captain of the Newtown militia. BENJAMIN MOORE, son of above and husband of Anne Sackett, was a man of marked influence in Newtown. but unlike his father and grandfather, took but little interest in public affairs and did not acquire official prominence. Children of Benjamin and Anne Sackett Moore. 98. SAMUEL MOORE, b. Dec. 5, 1711; m. Sarah Fish. 99. MARY MOORE, b. Jan. 10, 1714; m. James Renne. 100. ANNE MOORE, b. Nov. 5, 1715; m. Thomas Hollett. 101. Sarah Moore, b. May 17, 1718; m. Samuel Moore. 102. Benjamin Moore, b. Nov. 23, 1720, d. in year 1745, unmarried. 103. John Moore, b. Jan. 28, 1723, d. in childhood. 104. Elizabeth Moore, b. Jan. 10, 1725; m. William Hazard. 105. Patience Moore, b. Oct. 18, 1727; m. Joseph Lawrence. 106. John Moore, b. July 5, 1730; m. Hannah Whitehead. 25. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1683-1716, daughter of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was married, about April, 1705, to JOSEPH MOORE, of Newtown, N. Y., son of CAPT. SAMUEL MOORE and his wife MARY REED (see No. 24). Children. 107. Sarah Moore, b. Sept. 24, 1706; m. Benjamin Fish. 108. Joseph Moore, b. Sept. 28, 1708, d. in November, 1757. 109. Nathaniel Moore, b. Jan. 1, 1710, d. in childhood. 110. Mary Moore, b. Nov. 19, 1712; m. John Davis. 111. Abigail Moore, b. Apr. 10, 1715; m. Samuel Washburn. 112. Sackett Moore, b. Sept. 3, 1716, d. in year 1752. 113. Benjamin Moore, b. Sept. 3, 1716, d. in year 1792; m. Mary Hart. 26. REV. RICHARD SACKETT, about 1686-1727, of Greenwich, Conn., son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth Betts Sackett, was married Page 35 before reaching his majority. His wife died shortly after the birth of their only child, who was named for his father. Mr. Sackett then entered Yale College and studied for the ministry. He graduated with honor in 1709, and the following year was married to ELIZABETH KIRTLAND, daughter of Lieut. JOHN KIRTLAND and his wife LYDIA PLATT. The Yale Graduate, in issue of 1860, contains the following: "Richard Sackett, son of Joseph Sackett of Newtown. L. I., was born about 1688. He studied theology and married before Nov., 1711, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. John Kirtland of Saybrook Conn. In 1711 he was preaching to the congregation of Maidenhead, and Hopewell, N. J. In 1712 his residence was at Saybrook. Early in 1714, he succeeded Mr. John Jones in preaching to the first church in Greenwich, but in 1716 changed to the supply of the pulpit at what was then called Horse Neck in western part of the town. His ministrations there were so acceptable that the General Assembly in October 1717, granted an application for a church, and accordingly a church was quickly formed (perhaps in the following months) and Mr. Sackett was ordained pastor. He remained in this office until his sudden death in Greenwich May 9, 1727. A notice of his death in the New England Weekly Journal says that he was so well the day before that he preached both parts of the day. He is reported to have been of a mild temper and pleasant manner and much beloved by his people. His children remained in Greenwich. The inventory of his estate dated Aug. 15, 1729, amounted to about two thousand pounds--fifty pounds being in books." Mead in his "History of Greenwich," published in 1757, says: "In 1717, the Second Society was provided with another minister, the Rev. Richard Sackett. Little seems to be known of him even by his immediate descendants. He is spoken of as a kind, mild man, and universally beloved by his people. Mr. Sackett graduated in middle life at Yale College in the class of 1709." Mr. Mead doubtless drew his conclusion that Mr. Sackett was in "middle life" when he graduated from Yale, from the fact that he was a widower when he entered. Riker, in his "Annals of Newtown," giving a record of children of Capt. Joseph Sackett, simply states that "Richard married and died at Greenwich, Conn." An old book which was probably included in the before mentioned inventory, is entitled, "The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle." It was written, as shown by the title page, by Nathaniel Hardy, minister of the gospel and preacher to the parish of St. Dionecius, and printed in London in 1659. This ancient volume was, in 1905, in possession of the heirs of Daniel Gott, Esq., of Syracuse, N. Y. Page 36 Written in it, unquestionably by the hand of Rev. Richard Sackett, is this note: "My honored father, Joseph Sackett, left this world September 23, Anno Que Domini 1719." On another page, in same hand, the following names appear: "Elisabeth, Nathaniel, Richard, Joseph, Mary, Abigail." The Greenwich Town Records contain thefollowing: "Richard Sackett, of Greenwich, and his wife Elizabeth had: John, b. Nov. 14, 1713; Elizabeth, b. evening next after Nov. 27, 1715; Mary, b. evening next after Dec. 28, 1717; Nathaniel, b. June 8, 1720; Abigail, b. Aug. 29, 1722; Joseph, b. Feb. 11, 1724-5." NATHANIEL KIRTLAND, 1616-1678, the grandfather of Elisabeth Kirtland Sackett, came from County Bucks, England, to Massachusetts Bay, in the ship Hopewell in the year 1635. For several years he resided at Lynn, after which he removed to Southold, L. I., where he was married. Previous to the year 1658 he returned to Lynn, of which town he was for several years a Selectman. LIEUT, JOHN KIRTLAND, 1659-1716, son of Nathaniel Kirtland, and father of Elisabeth Kirtland Sackett, was married, May 16, 1679, to Lydia Pratt, daughter of Lieut. William Pratt. Lieut. John Kirtland was a man of prominence in Saybrook, and during the years 1702 and 1703 was the commandant of the Government fort there. The following is as nearly complete a list as we are able to give of Rev. Richard Sackett's Children. 114. RICHARD SACKETT, b. about 1706, d. about 1767. 115. John Sackett, b. March 14, 1713, d. March 15, 1713. 116. Elizabeth Sackett, b. Mar 28, 1715. 117. Mary Sackett, b. Dec. 28, 1717; m. ---- Lockwood. 118. NATHANIEL, SACKFTT, b. June 8, 1720, d. before 1768; m. 1st, Ann Bush. 119. ABIGAIL SACKETT, b. Aug. 29, 1722; m. Jehial Hubbell. 120. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Feb. 11, 1724; m. Hannah Budson. 27. JOHN SACKETT, 16--? - 1728, of Newtown, L. I., son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was married, Jan. 11, 1719, to ELISABETH FIELD, after whose death he was married to her sister, Page 37 SUSANNA FIELD. They were the daughters of ELNATHAN FIELD, son of ROBERT FIELD, of Newtown, who was the son of ROBERT FIELD, a patentee of Flushing, L. I. Children. 121. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. in year 1720, d. Sept. 6, 1809; m. John Leverish. 122. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. Dec. 29, 1727, d. Apr. 28, 1802; m. (141) Anne Lawrence. 28. SARAH SACKETT, 1689-1766, daughter of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth Betts Sackett, was married in 1777 to her brother-in-law, JOSEPH MOORE, who died suddenly July 10, 1756, aged 77 years. (See No. 25.) Children. 123. Anne Moore, b. Mar. 21, 1718, d. in year 1769, unmarried. 124. ELIZABETH MOORE, b. Mar. 28, 1720; m. Joseph Baldwin. 125. Patience Moore, b. Feb. 5, 1722; m. John Moore. 126. Samuel Moore, b. Jan. 15, 1724, d. in year 1781; m. Abigail Field. 127. Martha Moore, b. Mar. 30, 1726; m. Joseph Titus. 128. Nathaniel Moore, b. Jan. 15, 1728, d. in year 1781; m. Joana Hall. 129. Phoebe Moore, b. Mar. 28, 1730; m. ---- Burroughs. 130. Jemima Moore, b. Oct. 18, 1732, d. in year 1758, unmarried. 29. ABIGAIL SACKETT, 1695-1752, daughter of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was married in December, 1718, to JOHN ALSOP, son of CAPT. RICHARD ALSOP, who it is claimed is a lineal descendant of the Richard Alsop who was Lord Mayor of London in 1579. John Alsop was by profession a lawyer, and a short time after his marriage to Abigail Sackett, whose brother (23) Joseph had married his sister Hannah, located at New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., where he was largely interested in real estate. A few years later he removed to New York City and there practiced his profession for many years. Children. 131. Ephemia Alsop, m. Thomas Stephenson. 132. Frances Alsop, d. unmarried. 133. JOHN ALSOP, b. ----, d. Nov. 22, 1794; m. Mary Fragot. 134. RICHARD ALSOP, b. in year 1726, d. Apr. 10, 1776; m. Mary Wright. Page 38 30. WILLIAM SACKETT, 1691-1761, of Newtown, L. I., son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sacket, was married, in 1727, to MRS. MARY JANES, He died without issue. Much of his time and attention was given to agricultural pursuits. He, however, served several years in the magistracy. By his will he conveyed his homestead at Newtown to Dr. Jacob Ogden, and the residue of his estate, including several slaves, to his nephews. Samuel and John Moore, sons of his sister Anna, and to Joseph Lawrence, the husband of his niece, Patience, the sister of said nephews. Dr. Ogden decded to the church at Newtown the property willed to him by William Sackett. It had evidently, says Riker, been left to him in trust for that purpose. These premises now (1907) contain, with other buildings, the Episcopal parsonage house and new church. 31. PATIENCE SACKETT, 1700-1772, daughter of (7) Capt. Joseph and Elisabeth Betts Sackett, was married, December 8, 1720, to JOHN LAWRENCE, 1695-1765, son of CAPTAIN JOHN LAWRENCE and his wife DEBORAH WOODWARD. MAJOR THOMAS LAWRENCE, the grandfather of above mentioned John Lawrence, was born in Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. He came to America about 1645. According to Riker, "he lived awhile at Flushing, L. I., but in 1656 bought a house and lot in Newtown, to which place he removed and took part in buying the town lands from the Indians that same year. Afterwards, by purchase from the Dutch settlers, he became proprietor of a number of cultivated farms extending along the East River from Hellgate to Bowery Bay. On receiving the news of the Revolution in England in 1688, and the removal of Sir Edward Andrees as Governor of Massachusetts, the family of Thomas Lawrence became decided in asserting the principles which had prompted his departure from England. Though advanced in years, Capt. Lawrence accepted the command of the forces of Queens County, to which he was commissioned by Governor Leisler, with the rank of Major, on Dec. 30, 1689. In February following he was intrusted with the raising of troops in Queens County to aid in defending Albany against the French; and again in the same year he was commissioned to proceed Page 39 to Southold with a militia force to protect his Majesty's subjects against the apprehended attacks of French cruisers." CAPT. JOHN LAWRENCE, son of Major Thomas Lawrence, and father-in-law of Patience Sackett Lawrence, commanded the Newtown troop of horse in Leisler's time, with his brother Daniel Lawrence as Cornet; and was soon after appointed High Sheriff of the county, to which place he was also chosen in 1698. He was married to DEBORAH WOODHULL, daughter of RICHARD WOODHULL, one of the patentees of Brookhaven. JOHN LAWRENCE, son of above mentioned Capt. John Lawrence and his wife Deborah Woodhull, and husband of Patience Sackett, was a wealthy farmer and for many years a magistrate of Queens County, N. Y. Children. 135. JOHN LAWRENCE. 1721-1764, m. Catherine Livingston. 136. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, 1723-1793, m. Benjamin Moore. 137. RICHARD LAWRENCE, 1725-1781, m. Amy Berrien. 139. Nathaniel Lawrence, 1727-1761, died unmarried. 140. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, 1729-1794, m. Ann Brinkherhoff. 141. Anne Lawrence, 1731-1798, m. (122) William Sackett. 142. THOMAS LAWRENCE, 1733-1817, m. Elisabeth Fish. 143. Samuel Lawrence, 1735-1810, m. Elizabeth Hazard. 144. JONATHAN LAWRENCE, 1737-1812, m. Judith Fish. 145. DANIEL LAWRENCE, 1739-1807, m. Eva Van Horne. 32. REV. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1712-1784, son of (7) Capt. Joseph and Mercy Whitehead (Betts) Sackett, was married in 1734 to HANNAH HAZARD, daughter of NATHANIEL HAZARD and his wife DEBORAH ALSOP. In 1735 Mr. and Mrs. Sackett took up their residence in Orange County, N. Y., where the Sacketts and Hazards were largely interested in unimproved lands, owning many thousands of acres in what are now the towns of New Windsor, Cornwall, Woodbury, Blooming Grove and Montgomery. The young couple resided during the greater part of the first eight years of their wedded life at the foot of Storm King Mountain, near the village of Cornwall. During these, to them, not uneventful years, Mr. Sackett labored as a missionary, mainly in the towns mentioned. One of his principal preaching stations was Little Britain, where he lay the foundation of a society which is still in existence. Page 40 The minutes of the Presbytery of New Brunswick show that in 1742 he was sent to preach in Westchester County--the special field assigned him being Cortland Manor, embracing North Salem, Cortland town, Crompond and Somers. In 1743 he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Society at Bedford. From 1747 to 1749 Crompond (now Yorktown) secured his services for half the time. From 1749 to April 11, 1753, he labored at Bedford. He was then settled over the church at Hanover, Conn., where he remained until 1760, when he returned to the church at Crompond. In 1765 he was again at Hanover, which became the scene of his labors until after the commencement of the Revolution. A letter written by him to his son Nathaniel, at Fishkill, N. Y., dated "Hanover, Oct. 29, 1776," contains the following request: "Send us two wagons immediately to help us away with some small things before the enemy are upon us." During the long struggle for independence Mr. Sackett's position as minister at Crompond was most trying. His daughter Hannah was the wife of Stephen De Lancey, son Hon. James De Lancey; and the De Lanceys were bitter Tories. His sons were serving in the Patriot Army. His pastoral flock was divided, some were Whigs and others were Loyalists, Crompond was about midway of the distance between the outposts of the opposing armies. But he preached whenever occasion offered, not concealing the fact that his sympathies were with those of his countrymen who had determined to throw off the galling yoke of oppression. In July, 1779, the meeting house at Crompond, in which his flock assembled for worship, was destroyed by fire kindled by a body of British cavalry sent out for that especial purpose. A short time after the close of the war a new edifice was erected on the site of the burned building. And for over a century a plain tombstone has stood in the graveyard adjoining it, bearing this inscription: REV. SAMUEL SACKETT, who died June 5, 1784. He was a judicious, faithful, laborious and successful minister of Christ. THOMAS HAZARD, the grandfather of Hannah, wife of Rev. Samuel Sackett, came to Boston from Wales in 1635. In 1636 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay admitted him to Freemanship. In 1652 he sought and obtained from Director Stuyvesant. of New Amsterdam, in behalf of himself and a goodly company of English men from New England, permission to plant a town within Page 41 his jurisdiction. "The fertile lands of Mespot, L. I., being yet, for the most part unoccupied, afforded a bright field for their enterprise, and soon a group of cottages, fashioned after those of New England, arose to adorn the settlement." The most of these were located upon the street whereon the Presbyterian Church of Newtown now stands. Among the privileges granted by Director Stuyvesant to the new villagers, was the free exercise of the Protestant religion and the choice of their own Scheppens or magistrates; making annually a double nomination of the best qualified persons in the town, from whom the Director General and Council should select and confirm one-half in office whose authority extended to the collection and disbursement of town revenues and most other matters affecting the peace and security of their municipality." Under the above arrangement Thomas Hazard was the first person nominated and confirmed as a magistrate, and he was retained in office by renomination and by reappointment for a long consecutive term of years. In 1653, the year after Thomas Hazard and his associates from New England came to Long Island, Indians and freebooters became very troublesome and committed many serious depredations. The English towns, aroused by their losses and a sense of personal insecurity, first called a meeting at Flushing and then sent delegates to meet the Burgermasters at New Amsterdam in joint session, at the City Hall, on the 25th day of November of that year, to devise some plan for their common safety. Thomas Hazard was a delegate from his town to this and subsequent councils held at New Amsterdam for the same and similar objects. JONATHAN HAZARD, son of Thomas and grandfather of Hannah, wife of Rev. Samuel Sackett, married HANNAH LAURENSON, daughter of JAMES LAURENSON, and resided permanently at Newtown, becoming even more prominent and influential in civil affairs than his father had been. He served acceptably under various English Governors of the Province, thirteen years as a magistrate in the various courts, four years as Supervisor, one year as an Assessor, and throughout the greater part of his adult life as Town Surveyor. He died in 1711, survived by three sons and two daughters, who inherited a substantial estate. NATHANIEL HAZARD, son of Jonathan, married DEBORAH ALSOP SIMPKINS, daughter of RICHARD ALSOP, and wife of Capt. John Page 42 Simpkins. They were the parents of Hannah Hazard, wife of Rev. Samuel Sackett. Nathaniel Hazard began his business carcer as a merchant at Newtown, but soon removed to New York and from there to Philadelphia, where he acquired unusual prominence. His son Ebenezer became Postmaster General of the United States, and edited several valuable contributions to American History. HANNAH HAZARD, the wife of Rev. Samuel Sackett, was in several respects a remarkable woman. The following letter, written by her to her daughter Hannah, gives an interesting insight of her character, and presents a graphic picture of domestic life "in the days that tried men's souls." The original is in possession of Mrs. Anne C. Gott, of Irondequoit, N. Y., one of her descendants. Dear Child: When I tell you that I have but Hannah to cail upon and have had to nurse the sick for a week during which Mr. Bernit has lodged here, and that Frank has had the smallpox and been useless to me these three weeks, you will not wonder that I have not been able to find time to acknowledge the receipt of your friendly epistle before. I have been harrassed to death and so afflicted with pain in my breast and stomach that I have scarce been able to sit up. I am getting the better of it I hope, for I trust I have no reason to fear death, yet pain is and ever will be a disagreeable companion to live with. Do you think you can be contented with your new abode and acquaintances? If I can leave my mother I shall endeavor to make you a visit this spring. Her disorder will not permit me to be long absent. When you are weary of your present retreat you must make an excursion hither, my house and half a bed, more I cannot offer because I have not more than one, though, if you insist upon it I think, upon due deliberation, I will return to my old method of lodging on the floor and resign the whole bedstead with the necessary furniture to you. I had thought of sending for you some days ago to bid you a final adieu for this world but my life seems to be reanimated. How long the dying lamp will continue its fainting beams I am not much concerned to know, but only am I anxious what remains of it shall be spent usefully. The seeds you wish, I will send, but have not so many as I wish I could supply you with, some have been destroyed, some lost, some the rats have eat, for moving so often and the confusion which is the almost unavoidable consequence of it, has prevented me from taking that care of them I used to do. Of what I have you shall be a sharer. I had a visit yesterday from Mr. Evans. I wished for you to make one of the party. You may perceive by this no design to monopolize the man. He dined with me and sang for me but did not make a long visit, being under the necessity of returning to Peekskill to visit a condemned malefactor. I like him very well on better acquaintance. He has recovered his health and is in good spirits. I believe he would have been very glad to Page 43 see you. I am more than half sorry you have sold your farm and if your family settles there shall, as soon as I can, quit this place and return to my friends at New York. But this I can not do until the commotion in the land subsides, and that is an event which to human sagacity must appear remote. Were not my mother with me I could easily follow you, but unless necessity induces me to a removal I shall not do a thing to which she is so averse. I flatter myself sometimes that I shall yet execute my favorite plan of operations, that is to build at the hill near my sister at the Bowery and to have you spend the winters with me. I hope your father will be able to return to his congregation after a while, and then the distance between this and New York will not prevent you from making us a winter visit. And I can repay in summer. However we can not tell where Providence will cast our future lot. Yet we may, innocently enough I believe, please ourselves with such agreeable prospects, whatever in a world of vicissitudes may be our portion. May the bosom of God be our final abode and place of rest. Tell me how you employ yourself, whether in harmless plain work, or By murmuring brooke Observe the gliding streams or croaking rooks Or with dull rural sports, dull scenes or duller books? I am ready to chide myself for this little sally of humor. The fire of vivacity is not quite extinguished in my soul, though almost suffocated under heaps of cares, sorrows and disorders. Should these be removed I imagine I should be, as once, the life of society. I sigh when I look back on the time when I sparkled in the gay circles of my acquaintance: frank, easy, lively, brilliant, and innocent as gay--the darling and delight of all my numerous associates who were ready to divide me in pieces to share me among them, each contending who should have me. How often it has raised my vanity to observe the preference and peculiar distinction now buried in the deep obscurity of the remotest solitude, unknowing and noknown of the Beau Monde. But why should I regret that homage since I have exchanged to such advantage. Why should my fond ungrateful heart complain. Yet 'tis, as a certain author observes, like an Isaac trial, and one had need have Abraham's faith to have God instead of the world. Who would not? But alas to have God hide his face--overwhelmed with perplexities, buried under sorrows, exersized with a variety of cares and anxieties, oppressed with the languor of sickness and almost expiring under temptations, constrained to labor though scarcely able to sit up, without one kind friend or relative to lift the homely latch of my cottage and assist in cheering and soothing such variety of wretchedness. I might add other calamities but here is a dismal group of the most awful and gloomy images already drawn together. And who that should be told, this is your lot, could without shuddering hear the dreadful doom announced. Yet all this and more than this I have suffered, and in the midst of such suffering smiled--have forgot my own woes often while I have endeavored to alleviate those of others and cheered the drooping hearts of my fellow sufferers. I am sensible that infinite goodness Page 44 ordains, directs and superintends all human events, and that all things are ordered in mercy. Some things I have undergone have not been properly through my own default but my want of fortitude has given energy to the evil of adverse circumstances and rendered them more afflicting. When I hope in God it appeases the fury of the storm, but when this delightful and supporting thought vanishes I sink, and who can wonder I do so under my burdens. I sometimes please myself with thinking that like Job it shall be better with me at the latter end than in the beginning. This hope injures no one, and should it be no more than an airy fancy it will not harm me as it buoies up my disponding soul and seems like a friendly gale to assist in wafting me over the waters of the troubled ocean of mortality. And when I reach the haven of Eternity I shall but smile to reflect that the prospect and flattering expectations of the sunshine of prosperity had cheered me when tossed on the boisterous surges of life. May you be preserved from such painful exegencies. Your own lot you think deplorable, yet at present it is not so. Secure in the bosom of parents who, if in their conduct there is a fault, it is in too great tenderness for you. And why should you anticipate misfortunes you may never live to experience and which you are apt to suppose would be consequent upon their death. Oh. Hannah, one needful care is to gain the favor of God and then leave the events of your life with him who will choose wisely and can but choose most kindly for you, tho perhaps not as your own wild desires would be ready to demand. I have exceeded the intended bounds of this letter. Excuse me, if you are fired of reading let me know it and the next shall by its brevity compensate for the tediousness of this. I am dear Hannah affectionately yours April 23, 1777. Children of Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett. 146. Deborah Sackett, 1st, b. Jan. 15, 1733, d. Dec. 17, 1745. 147. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Apr. 18, 1735, d. Dec. 1, 1757; m. Eliza Strang. 148. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. Apr. 10, 1737, d. July 28, 1805; m. Mary Rogers. 149. Mercy Sackett, b. Mar. 3, 1739, d. Sept. 15, 1744. 150. Samuel Sackett, 1st, b. June 18, 1741, d. in August, 1741. 151. Samuel Sackett, 2d, b. May 24, 1743, d. Sept. 16, 1745. 152. William Sackett, b. July 8, 1744, d. Oct. 15, 1745. 153. DEBORAH SACKETT, 2d, b. Oct. 25, 1746, d. July 14, 1769; m. Benj. Peck. 154. SAMUEL SACKETT, 3d, b. July 10, 1749, d. Apr. 15, 1780, unmarried. 155. HANNAH SACKETT, 1751-1836, m. Stephen De Lancy and Isaac Baldwin. 156. Ebenezer Sackett, b. Oct. 16, 1753, d. Oct. 21, 1761. 157. JAMES SACKETT, b. Oct. 3, 1756, d. Aug. 28, 1791, unmarried. Page 45 33. JOHN SACKET, 1688 - 17--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (8) John and Deborah Filley Sacket, was married, July 14, 1722, to SARAH MACKERANY. Children. 158. JOHN SACKET, b. Aug. 2, 1723; m. Rachel Church. 159. SETH SACKET, b. Feb. 17, 1725; m. Elizabeth Winchell. 160. Sarah Sacket, b. Oct. 14, 1729, d. Jan. 20, 1745, unmarried. 161. Aaron Sacket, b. July 13, 1735, d. Aug. 15, 1750, unmarried. 162. Lucy Sacket, b. Nov. 15, 1736; m. Gad Kellogg. 34. ABIGAIL SACKET, 1690 - 17--?, daughter of (8) John and Deborah Filley Sacket, was married, Sept. 5, 1728, to CAPT. THOMAS GRISWOLD. Only Child. 163. Abigail Griswold. 35. DANIEL SACKET, 1693-1776, of Westfield, Mass., son of (8) John and Deborah Filley Sacket, was married, Feb. 1, 1732, to MARY WELLER, daughter of ELEAZER WELLER, JR. Mr. Sackett was an active participant in Colonial wars. In 1723 he served as a sentinel in Capt. Adgat Dewey's troop of horse. He was also a member of the company of troops commanded by Capt. Hezekiah Noble, and was on duty guarding Westfield under Capt. John Ashley. (See Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 91, pages 94 and 164.) Children. 164. Margaret Sacket, b. Dec. 4, 1732. 165. DANIEL SACKET, b. Mar. 6, 1734, d. in year 1824. 166. OZEM SACKET, b. Jan. 24, 1736, d. in year 1801; m. Mercy Weller. 167. Mary Sacket, b. Nov. 21, 1738. 168. Ann Sacket, b. Feb. 28, 1740, d. Sept. 21, 1750. 169. MOSES SACKET, b. Nov. 29, 1743; m. Eunice Cadwell. 170. ISRAEL SACKET, b. Feb. 10, 1746, d. in year 1786; m. (207) Eunice Sacket. 171. GAD SACKET, b. Apr. 13, 1748; m. Lucy Williams. 172. ABNER SACKET, b. Oct. 11, 1751; m. Rhoda Kellogg. 173. ---- Sacket. Page 46 37. BENJAMIN SACKET, 1698-1753, of Westfield and Sheffield in Mass., son of (8) John and Deborah Filley Sacket, was married, Dec. 4, 1729, to (62) THANKFUL KING, daughter of DAVID KING and his wife (16) ABIGAIL SACKET. COPY OF WILL. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the twenty & seventh day of August, 1746. I BENJAMIN SACKET, of Sheffield in the County of Hampshire, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, being in perfect health * * * I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife THANKFUL the improvements of the whole of my estate both real and personal, until my children come to be of age--my sons twenty one years and daughters eighteen years old, and each child to their portion as they come of age, and the improvement of one third of my estate real and personal during her natural life as the law provides for her. Item--I give to my well beloved oldest son BENJAMIN five pounds money, over and above what I give to his brethren. Item--I give to my well beloved sons BENJAMIN SACKET, KING SACKET, & ZEBULON SACKET the whole of my estate real and personal to have possession each of their portion as they come of age except their mothers thirds, and all at her decease, they paying their sisters portion, and in case either of the sons should die before he is of age his portion shall return to his or their brother or brethren. And in case that I should have another son it is my will that he should be equal to his brethren. Item--I give to my well beloved daughter DEBORAH twenty pounds money to be paid to her equally by my sons. And in case that I should have a daughter born after this time I give her twenty pounds money to be paid out of my estate by my sons equally. Likewise I constitute, make and ordain my trusty and well beloved brother Daniel Sacket of Westfield & my beloved wife Thankful executors of this my Last Will and Testament. Children. 174. BENJAMIN SACKET, m. Miss Buel. 175. KING SACKET, m. (179) Lydia Sacket. 176. Zebulon Sacket. 177. Abigail Sacket. 178. Deborah Sacket. 39. ISAAC SACKET, 1703-1773, of Westfield, Mass., son of (8) John and Mahitable Danks (Harris) Sacket, was married, Dec. 18, 1735, to ELIZABETH SHEPARD. Page 47 Children. 179. Lydia Sacket, b. Dec. 18, 1736; m. (175) King Sacket. 180. EZEKIEL SACKET, b. Sept. 12, 1738; m. Anne Granger. 181. Mahitabel Sacket, b. May 7, 1741. 182. DAVID SACKET, b. Aug. 19, 1743, d. 1838; m. Lucretia Shepard. 183. ADNAR SACKET, b. Dec. 5, 1745, d. Apr. 8, 1813; m. Jerusha Pumeroy. 184. ZAVEN SACKET, b. Apr. 28, 1751; m. Abigail Bills. 41. ISRAEL SACKET, 1706-1786, of Westfield, Mass., son of (8) John and Mahitable Danks (Harris) Sacket. Child. 185. ASHER SACKET, b. in year 1748, d. in year 1830; m. Leah Kellogg. 42. ELIAKIM SACKET, 1712-1764, of Westfield, Mass., son of (8) John and Mahitable Danks (Harris) Sacket, was married July 5, 1738, to BETHESDA FOWLER, 1717 - 1--?, daughter of SAMUEL FOWLER and his wife MARIA ROOT. The following is a COPY OF HIS WILL. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, this fifth day of July Anaque Domire 1764. I ELJAKIM SACKET of Westfield in the County of Hampshire and Provence of Massachusetts Bay in New England being infirm and weak of body but in perfect mind and memory * * * touching such worldly estate both real and personal, as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form viz: Imprimus. I give to my beloved wife BETHESDA SACKET Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved son JUSTICE SACKET Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved son STEPHEN SACKET Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved son EZRA SACKET Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved son PLINEY SACKET Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved daughter RHODA ASHLEY, with what she has already had. One Hundred Pounds, that is to say with what she has had to make the hundred pounds. Item, I give to my beloved daughter MERCY SACKET One Hundred Pounds, which hundred pounds is to rise and fall with her brothers and sisters as my estate may be after my debts are paid, also ten sheep. Page 48 Item, I give to my beloved daughter EUNICE SACKET One Hundred Pounds. Item, I give to my beloved daughter SARAH SACKET One Hundred Pounds. Item, I given to my beloved daughter MOLLY SACKET One Hundred Pounds. And so in proportion my will is that my several children shall have more or less according as my estate shall inventory after my just debts are paid, excepting the ten sheep which I give to my daughter Mercy, and also Ten pounds which I give as an addition to my son Justice's portion of four hundred and fifty pounds, but not to rise and fall as the others, viz the Ten pounds. I now constitute and appoint my beloved wife Bethesda Sacket, and my son Justice Sacket my executors of this my last Will and Testament * * hereby utterly disallowing all and every former Will and Testament. Record of Children. 186. Eliakim Sacket, Jr., b. Nov. 23, 1739, d. Aug. 26, 1758, unmarried. 187. Rhoda Sacket, b. Dec. 21, 1740; m. Josiah Ashley. 188. Mercy Sacket, b. Nov. 25, 1742; m. Oliver Weller. 189. JUSTICE SACKET, b. Oct. 14, 1745, d. in year 1778; m. Naomi Weller. 190. STEPHEN SACKET, b. May 23, 1748, d. in year 1830; m. Emma Ross. 191. EZRA SACKET, b. Nov. 15, 1750, d. in year 1834; m. Lydia Lovering. 192. PLINY SACKET, b. May 24, 1753; m. Elizabeth Kellogg. 193. Eunice Sacket, b. Feb. 19, 1756; m. (170) Israel Sacket. 194. Sarah Sacket, b. Aug. 29, 1758; m. Elna Hoyt. 195. Molly Sacket, b. Nov. 23, 1761. 44. JOSEPH SACKET, 1690-1756, of Westfield, Mass., son of William and Hannah Graves, was married, ----, to ABIGAIL ----, who died in 1776. WILL OF JOSEPH SACKET. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the eighth day of March 1756. I JOSEPH SACKET of Westfield, . . . . husbandman Imprimus, I give and bequeath . . . . to ABIGAIL my beloved wife the use of one half of my house, barn and home lot so long as she remains my widow, and also the use of my lot over the little river by the bridge the same term of her widowhood. Also I give her one bed and furniture such as she may choose to her disposal forever. Also I give her five pounds in movables out of the household furniture, such as she may choose to her disposal forever. Item, I give unto my well beloved son JESSE SACKET, five shillings to be paid by my executors, also one half of my joiners tools. Page 49 Item, I give unto my well beloved son ERASTUS SACKET, five shillings, also one half of my joiners tools and all my team tackling. Item, I give unto my well beloved daughter BEULAH DEWEY. Eight Pounds to be paid by my executors and also one half of the movables in the house, and also one half of my live stock. Item, I give unto my well beloved daughter ABIGAIL SMITH. Eight Pounds to be paid by my executors, and also one half of my movables in the house, and also one half of my live stock. I do appoint ordain and constitute ERASTUS SACKET to be my executor of this my last Will and Testament. The above will is witnessed by Eldad Taylor, Asa Noble and Moses Kellogg. Record of Children. 196. BEULAH SACKET, b. Jan. 30, 1714, d. Oct. 27, 1769; m. Joseph Dewey. 197. JESSE SACKET, b. Nov. 9, 1716; m. Sarah Dewey. 198. ERASTUS SACKET, m. Elizabeth Leonard. 199. HANNAH SACKET, b. Oct. 10, 1726, d. Oct. 13, 1799; m. Jacob Noble. 200. Abigail Sacket, m. ---- Smith. 47. JONATHAN SACKET, 1696-1773, of Westfield, Mass., and of the towns of Hebron and Kent (now Warren) in Conn., son of (9) William and Hannah Graves Sacket, was married in February, 1722, to ABIGAIL ASHLEY, who died before the end of that year. On Jan. 28, 1725, he was married to ANN FILER, daughter of ZEBULON FILER and his wife EXPERIENCE STRONG. Jonathan Sacket was born and grew to manhood in the town of Westfield. Immediately after his marriage to Abigail Ashley he took possession of a small farm at Hebron, Conn., which he had purchased the previous year. There is some uncertainty as to just when he removed from Hebron to Kent. The records of Kent show that in the year 1745. "Jonathan Sacket, of Hebron," purchased from one Joseph Fuller, certain lands in that town, and that in 1749 he purchased from one Joseph Phillips another tract in same town. These records also show that in 1749 he conveyed certain lands in the town of Kent to his son, Jonathan Sacket, Jr. WILLS OF JONATHAN AND ANNE SACKET. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I JONATHAN SACKET, of Kent in Litchfield County. Colony of Connecticut, in New England. . . . . give unto ANNE my beloved wife the use of the half of my dwelling house and the Page 50 half of my barn and the use of the half of my lot that I now live on, during her widowhood, and I also give unto my beloved wife to be at her disposal as she pleases, two cows and ten sheep and my riding mare and side saddle and bridle, and all my household goods and beds and bedding, pots, kettles and co. Also my looms and loom tackling belonging thereto Item, I give to my well beloved son JUSTUS one half of my house and barn to be at his disposal at my decease, and my home lot that I now live on at the decease or marriage of my wife. And I also give unto my son JUSTUS my oxen and all my team tackling, and all my stock excepting the above mentioned cows, mare and sheep that I have given to my beloved wife, and my said son JUSTUS is to find his mother a team cart and plow & co to do her team work with so long as she remains my widow. And also I give unto my son JUSTUS that piece of land I bought of James Phelps, that is joining to my lot I now live on, and he to pay unto my son Jonathan three pounds six shilling and eight pence. Item, I give unto my beloved son JONATHAN the above named three pounds six shilling and eight pence that my son Justus is ordered to pay to him, and also four pounds three shillings that my son REUBEN is to pay to him in money or spetia. And as to my wearing clothes I give them to my beloved sons JONATHAN, JUSTUS and REUBEN, to be divided equally between them. And I do appoint my well beloved wife and my son JUSTUS to be my lawful executors of this my last Will and Testament. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of June A. D. 1772. And in presence of three witnesses I do publish and pronounce and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. JOHN BLISS, JR. JONATHAN SACKET (ss) SAMUEL BLISS EPHKAIM TANNER IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I ANNE SACKET, in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, being well and of perfect mind and memory . . . . do make this my last Will and Testament . . . . I give devise and dispose . . . . in manner following viz: After my debts and funeral expenses are paid I give to my grand children, sons of my oldest son Jonathan Sacket deceased viz: to WILLIAM SACKET, JESSE SACKET and ALMON SACKET the one third part of the whole of my estate, that is to say the one half of the aforesaid one third part I give unto William, Filer and Jesse, and the other half I give unto Almon, always provided that it is to be understood that William hath received two pounds lawful money which is to be accounted towards his part--the money he received November 1773. Item, I give unto my son JUSTUS SACKET one third part of the whole of my estate. Item, I give unto my son REUBEN SACKET one third part of the whole of my estate. Page 51 Furthermore I appoint my son JUSTUS SACKET executor of this my last Will and Testament ANNE SACKET (S) Signed sealed and pronounced in presence of us NATHANIEL SPOONER AUGUSTUS CURTIS REBECCA SPOONER Children of Jonathan and Ann Filer Sacket. 201. Anne Sacket, b. June 12, 1726, d. in infancy. 202. JONATHAN SACKET, b. Dec. 26, 1727, d. in year 1777; m. Hannah Phelps. 203. JUSTUS SACKET, b. Mar. 9, 1730, d. Mar. 16, 1815; m. Lydia Newcomb. 204. REUBEN SACKET, b. June 17, 1732, d. June 5, 1803; m. Mercy Finney. 205. Aaron Sacket, b. Aug. 5, 1735. probably died in childhood. 206. Anne Sacket, b. Aug. 23, 1738, probably died in childhood. 207. Hannah Sacket, b. Aug. 13, 1740, probably died in childhood. 208. Rebecca Sacket, b. Apr. 14, 1743, probably died in childhood. 57. WILLIAM SACKET, 1700-1755, of Westfield, Mass., son of (14) Samuel and Elisabeth Bissell Sacket, was married in April, 1724, to HANNAH BAGG. WILL. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, this ninth day of Nov'r 1752. I WILLIAM SACKET of Westfield in the County of Hampshire & Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, being in comfortable health . . . . Imprimus. I give and bequeath unto HANNAH my beloved wife the improvements of one third of my real estate so long as she remains my widow, and one third of all my personal estate for her disposal forever, and also my riding horse or mare over and above what has been given. Item, I give unto my daughter HANNAH NOBLE my farm at Munhard River, by David and Solomon Root farm, containing about fifty or sixty acres, and also fifteen pounds lawful money. Item, I give to my son WILLIAM SACKET, all the remainder of my estate real and personal. Item, I now constitute and appoint my son WILLIAM SACKET, sole executor of this my last Will and Testament. Record of Children. 225. Hannah Sacket. b. July 6, 1725; m. ---- Noble. 226. Moses Sacket, b. Dec. 15, 1727, d. Oct. 10, 1743, unmarried. 227. WILLIAM SACKET, b. Sept. 7, 1730, d. in year 1802; m. Lydia Weller. Page 52 58. ELIZABETH SACKET, 1702-1755, daughter of (14) Samuel and Elisabeth Bissell Sacket, was married, Jan. 16, 1724, to LUKE NOBLE, 1700-1778, son of SERGEANT LUKE NOBLE. They resided at Westfield and removed in 1743 to Great Barrington, Mass. Children. 228. Hannah Noble, b. Nov. 12, 1724; m. James Root. 229. Simeon Noble, b. Mar. 3, 1729. 230. Elizabeth Noble, b. Feb. 9, 1742. 231. Naomi Noble, b. May 19, 1745; m. Samuel Judd. Six children died in infancy. 59. SAMUEL SACKET, 1704-1760, of Westfield and Sheffield in Mass., son of (14) Samuel and Elisabeth Bissell Sacket, was married in Nov. 1738, to RUTH TRUMBLE. WILL. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the twenty third day of April 1760, I SAMUEL SACKET of Sheffield, husbandman, being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God . . . . . Imprimus, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife RUTH the improvement of one third part of my estate both Real and Personal, during her natural life, and then to go to the children, my son SAMUEL to have a double part. I will that my wife have the improvement of one third of my house barn and orchard in her third part. I also give to my wife Five pounds beside her thirds. Item, I give to my well beloved son SAMUEL two fifth parts of the remainder of my estate Real and Personal. And he to have my house barn and orchard in his part after my wife has done with them. Item, I give to my beloved daughter THANKFUL one fifth part of my estate Real and Personal, in such manner as is consistent with that what I have given my son, and also THANKFUL to have a feather bed above what her sisters have. Item, I give to my well beloved daughter ABIGAIL one fifth part of my estate Real and Personal in such manner as is consistent with what I have given my wife and son &co Item, I give to my well beloved daughter RACHEL one fifth part of my estate Real and Personal in such manner as is consistent with what I have given my wife and son &co N. B.--My debts to be paid out of my estate first of all, by my executors and then each to have their part. Likewise I constitute make and ordain my well beloved wife RUTH the sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament . . . . . Page 53 The above will is signed by Samuel Sacket and witnessed by John Callondrer, Ebenezer Trumble and Zenas Higgins. Record of Children. 232. Ruth Sacket, b. Aug. 26, 1740, d. Oct. 10, 1741. 233. Thankful Sacket, b. Jan. 29, 1742. 234. Abigail Sacket, b. Apr. 27, 1745. 235. Rachel Sacket, b. Dec. 23, 1747. 236. SAMUEL SACKET, b. Oct. 29, 1750. 60. BENONI SACKET, 1710-1785, of Westfield, Mass., son of (14) Samuel and Elisabeth Bissell Sacket, was married in March, 1731, to MINDWELL SMITH, of Hadley. Children. 237. Mindwell Sacket, b. Feb. 15, 1732; m. John Shepard. 238. ELIZABETH SACKET, b. Sept. 13, 1734; m. John Shepard. 239. Diana Sacket, b. Mar. 18, 1736; m. Seth Case. 240. Lucretia Sacket, b. June 28, 1739. 241. Ruth Sacket, b. Sept. 28, 1741; m. Jacob Gleason. 71. SARAH SACKETT, 1691-17--?, of New Haven, daughter of (17) Lieut. John and Mary Woodin Sackett, was married to CAPT. JONATHAN ALLING. Children. 245. John Alling. 246. Jonathan Alling. 247. James Alling. 248. Joseph Alling, b. in year 1728, d. in year 1803. 73. CAPT. SAMUEL SACKETT, of New Haven, Conn., son of (17) Lieut. John and Mary Woodin Sackett, was married, Dec. 11, 1728, to ELIZABETH TODD, 17--?-1737, daughter of SAMUEL TODD and his wife SUSANA TUTHILL. Prior to 1741 Capt. Sackett was married to his second wife, ---- ----, who died prior to 1751. On Aug. 6, 1752, he was married to his third wife. MRS. HANNAH RUSSELL PIERPONT, daughter of REV. NOADIAH RUSSELL and widow of Lieut. Joseph Pierpont. Capt. Sackett is frequently referred to in Page 54 colonial records of New Haven as "Deacon Samuel Sackett." These early records show also that he was prominent in business and social circles as well as in military and religious affairs. In 1736 he was appointed a Lieutenant and in 1754 commissioned Captain of the "5th Company or Train Band" in the town of New Haven. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1748 and 1749, and again from 1758 to 1776. In 1759 the Governor and General Council of Connecticut authorized Samuel Sackett and several other prominent citizens to organize a company and build and maintain a bridge across the "New Haven East River." Children. 251. Sarah Sackett, b. Apr. 9, 1730; m. Samuel Moulthrop. 252. MAHITABLE SACKETT, b. Feb. 23, 1732; m. Asa Goodyear. 253. Elisabeth Sackett, m. ---- Decker. 254. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 20, 1741, d. 1826; m. Abigail Blakeley. 255. Elias Sackett, b. Mar. 27, 1743. 256. SOLOMON SACKETT, b. in year 1748, d. Aug. 8, 1823. 74. JONATHAN SACKETT, of New Haven, Conn., son of (18) Jonathan and Hannah ---- Sackett, was married, March 12, 1717, to RUTH HOTCHKISS. Of their ten children we have been able to record but one, a Daughter. 259. SARAH SACKETT, b. Aug. 9, 1721, d. Dec. 5, 1780; m. Elisha Booth. 75. CAPT. RICHARD SACKETT, 16--?-1746, of New Haven, New York City, and Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (18) Jonathan and Hannah ---- Sackett, appears to have been employed in early life, for a considerable period, in the forests of New England and to have there learned how tar was extracted from pine trees In 1699 he was a resident of New York City and the proprietor of a malt house or brewery. This malt house was located on the north side of Cherry Street, which at that time was known as Sackett Street, having been named for said Richard Sackett. On May 11, 1699, a marriage license was issued in New York City authorizing the marriage of Richard Sackett and Margery L. Page 55 Sleade. At about the same date Richard Sackett was commissioned Captain of the 7th Company of the New York City regiment commanded by Colonel William Peartree. This company was composed in the main of prominent young business men, and Capt. Sackett commanded it for several years. On March 11, 1703, Capt. Sackett petitioned the Lord Cornbury Government for permission to purchase from the Indian proprietors a certain tract of land in Dutchess County, called Wassaic. The license petitioned for was duly granted, the purchase from the Indian proprietors was made, and a patent for same, covering 7,500 acres, was issued to Richard Sackett and Company (Richard Sackett, Josiah Crego, Joseph Sackett, William Huddleson and John Mitchell), bearing date Nov. 2, 1704. At the time of which we are writing Capt. Sackett was enjoying marked prominence and popularity in both government and social circles, and his name appears frequently in official records of both New York and Connecticut. In April, 1703, Lord Cornbury appointed him Chief Revenue Officer for the South Eastern Section of the Province of New York. In April, 1704, he filed a minute of expenses incurred in seizing the sloop Betsey of Oyster Bay, for trading contrary to law, and bringing her up to New York. This proceeding shows that he had jurisdiction over the harbor and seacoast as well as over the city and surrounding country. On June 16, of the same year, he was granted license to dispose by lottery, of several lots and tracts of land in New York City and Dutchess County, N. Y. The date of birth of Mr. Sackett has not been ascertained. It is claimed by some of his descendants that at one period before his marriage he was a sea captain. It is also stated on supposedly reliable authority that "having perfected his title to the Wassaick tract, he, in connection with several wealthy residents of New York City, purchased the Indian titles to several other extensive tracts in same vicinity, and the colony line between New York and Connecticut not having at the time been established, he probably availed himself of his knowledge of astronomy, acquired in the study of navigation, and made experiments and observations, based upon the treaty of partition made in 1683, but which had never been carried out by actual survey, and persuaded himself that the boundary line when surveyed would run within about two miles of the Ousatonic Page 56 River. And that in this belief he purchased of Metoxan, the Great Chief of all the Indian tribes in that region, 22,000 acres of land--more than 7,000 acres of which the survey of the boundary line showed to be in Connecticut." The foregoing probably refers to the Little Nine Pardners tract for which a patent was issued on April 10, 1606, to Richard Sackett and associates, the larger section of which is to-day the most productive portion of Dutchess County, and contains some of the most valuable farms to be found in the State of New York. The records of Connecticut General Assembly, under date of May, 1705, contain the following minute: "Mr. Richard Sackett, of the Province of New York, petitions this Assembly for full liberty for himself and associates to get and transport all such timber of pine and spruce and whatever growing in this colony, that might be of use in furnishing his Majesty's navy, and that he might have a patent for the same. Referred to the next General Assembly to be holden at New Haven in October next." At said October session the above petition, having been modified by the insertion of certain limitations and conditions, was favorably considered, and a resolution ordering the issue of a patent accordingly was duly passed. In the Census of the City of New York, taken about 1708, Richard Sackett is shown to have resided in the East Ward, and to have a household consisting of himself, his wife, four children (two sons and two daughters), and four negro slaves (three male and one female). In 1711 Mr. Sackett settled his family permanently in Dutchess County, building his residence about one mile south of the present village of Wassaic. French, in his "Gazetteer of New York," says that Richard Sackett purchased several large tracts of land of the Indians in Dutchess County and in Sharon, Connecticut. P. H. Smith, in his "History of Dutchess County," says that "at the time Richard Sackett established his family in Amenia there was not another white family nearer than Poughkeepsie. Woodbury and New Milford." In other words within a radius of fifteen miles. In same year, 1711, Governor Hunter, somewhat in opposition to the Lords of Trade, who favored another person, appointed Mr. Sackett superintendent of the manufacture of naval stores in the Province of New York, and subsequently of New Jersey also. Page 57 This important position he filled acceptably throughout the term of office of Governor Hunter, who mentions him favorably in no less than twelve of his official reports to the Lords of Trade. In the first one of above mentioned reports Governor Hunter says: "I have provided another here by the name of Sackett, who hath lived three years in the Easterne Countries, among the manufacturers of tar, and gives me a very rational account of the method of preparing the trees; I have also wrote to Connecticut for two more, who, as I am informed, understand ye matter very well." Mr. Sackett was also one of the presiding officers of the "Court over the Palatines," appointed by "His Excellency, Brigadier Hunter, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief," to manage the affairs of the several Palatine villages within his jurisdiction. The extraordinary powers conferred on this court are shown by the warrant creating it, which is recorded on page 669, Vol. III, Documentary History of New York. and reads as follows: To Robert Livingston, Richard Sackett, John Cast, Godfrey Wulson, Andrew Bagg and Herman Schuneman, Esqrs., and the officers commanding the detachment of soldiers at Manor Livingston for the time being: By virtue of powers to me granted by her Majesty's Patent, and her particular instructions with relation to the Palatines within the Province of New York, who by her Maiesty's orders and their own contract are obliged to follow the manufacture of naval stores within the said Province, I do appoint you or any three of you (of which number Robert Livingston or Richard Sackett is always to be one), to be a court for regulating and forwarding the said work, with full power to take cognisance of all misdemeanors, disobedience, or other wilful transgressions in the said people with relation to the above mentioned work, and power to punish the same by confinement or corporal punishment, not extending to life or mutilation. You are also hereby impowered to nominate to each village or settlement of the said Palatines a fit person for the head of the said village or settlement to whom all your orders are to be directed, and who is to see them put in execution, and in case of tumult, disobedience or any other mutinous proceeding as have already fallen out, the officer commanding the detachment now at Manor Livingston is to assist you, if need be, toward the suppressing the same, preserving the public peace and securing the delinquents, in order to their being brought to Royal and condign punishment, for all which this is your sufficient warrant. Given at Manor Livingston this present 12th June 1711. R. HUNTER. In 1715. Richard Sackett was, on recommendation of Judge Leonard Lewis, made the first clerk of Dutchess County, which office he held until 1721. Page 58 On Nov. 29, 1722, it is recorded that Richard Sackett petitioned the New York Assembly for "a warrant of survey, to run the north line of Madam Brett's patent, his land lying adjacent thereto (in Dutchess County)." In 1732 the General Assembly of Connecticut granted a charter to "The New London Society, United for Trade and Commerce," in which Richard Sackett is named as one of the incorporators. Among the acts passed by the New York Colonial Assembly at session of 1734-5, was one "For the partition and division of a certain tract of land in Dutchess County, granted to Rip Van Dam, Richard Sackett, and others." A full account of proceedings taken under this act, together with copies of official maps, showing the specific allotments in this thirty-five mile tract, may be found in the "History of Little Nine Partners," by Isaac Hunting, of Pine Plains, N. Y., issued from the press of Charles Walsh & Co., Amenia, N. Y., in 1897. Capt. Richard Sackett died at Wassaick in 1746, and is buried in a private plot on a small rise of ground on the original Sackett Homestead farm at that place. Van Alstine in his "Burying Grounds of Sharon & Vicinity," referring to this particular plot, says: "This is a small enclosure on the hillside above the steel works, on the old road, half way between South Amenia and Wassaick. Here was buried in 1746. Mr. Richard Sackett, the earliest settler of Amenia. The stone that marked the spot has long since disappeared. The whole place is shamefully neglected." The will of Capt. Sackett was probated April 28, 1746, and was recorded both at Albany and New York City. It reads as follows: IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, Dec. 14, 1744, I Richard Sackett, of Dover in Dutchess County, yoeman, being sick . . . . leave to my wife Margery all Household goods, and the use of my lot, house and Orchards, during her widowhood, and then to my son John Sackett. I leave to my oldest son Richard Sackett 200 acres of land above his equal share as oldest son. I leave to my wife 50 acres to be at her disposal. I leave to my son John after my wife's decease my house, homestead, orchards and meadows and all my books. I leave to my son Josiah Crego, and to the heirs of my daughter Mary Dean deceased, and to my daughter Catherine during her widowhood, and to my sons Richard and John the whole of my remaining estate, each an equal part, and they are to pay equally in defending the title. I make my wife Margery and my sons Richard and John executors. The later years of the life of Capt. Sackett were attended with Page 59 great annoyance occasioned by suits at law brought by persons claiming title to his estate, or the greater part of it, by virtue of grants or patents which it was claimed antedated those held by him. Children. 267. RICHARD SACKETT, b. in 1701, d. in 1772; m. Mary ---- 268. JOHN SACKETT. 269. Catherine Sackett, m. Thomas Walcot. 270. Maria Sackett, m. ---- Dean. 271. JOSIAH CREGO SACKETT, m. Miss Douglas. 77. JOHN SACKETT, 1--?-17--?, of New Haven, Conn., son of (18) Jonathan Sackett, was married, Nov. 27, 1721, to HANNAH SMITH. Child. 272. Hannah Sackett, m. Benjamin Richmond. 81. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1712-17--?, of New Haven, Conn., son of (20) Lieut. Joseph and Hannah Denison Sackett. By the terms of his will, which is recorded in probate office at Poughkeepsie, he bequeaths all of his property in Dutchess County to his son Samuel, who is supposed to have been the first of his line to settle in Dutchess County. Children. 276. Sarah Sackett. 277. Reuben Sackett. 278. Joseph Sackett. 279. Hester Sackett, b. in 1743, d. May 6, 1816. 280. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. in 1747, d. Aug. 20, 1816; m. Thankful Wood. GENERATION V. 82. THOMAS SACKETT, of Hopewell, N. J., Williamsport, Md., and Cumberland County, Penn., son of (22) Simon Sackett, was married at Hopewell, N. J., to SARAH HAYWOOD, daughter of ZACKERIAS HAYWOOD. Children. 281. ELIJAH SACKETT, b. in 1751, d. in 1837; m. Catherine Gibson. Page 60 282. AZARIAH SACKETT, m. Elizabeth Young. 283. JOSEPH SACKETT. 284. Amos Sackett, m. Polly Phillips. 285. Lavisiona Sackett, m. ---- Flemming. 286. BATHSHEBA SACKETT, m. Joseph Eaton. 287. Sarah Sackett. 85. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1707---?, of Newtown, L. I., New York City and Orange County, all in the State of New York, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, March 23, 1731, to MILLICENT CLOWES, daughter of SAMUEL CLOWES and his wife CATHERINE DONNE. He was by profession a lawyer. Previous to or immediately after the date of his marriage he became engaged in mercantile business in New York City, to which for several years he gave considerable attention--dividing his time between that and the practice of his profession. Meantime his father, Judge Joseph Sackett, and his father-in-law, Samuel Clowes, acquired title to several extensive tracts of fertile land in the vacated Capt. John Evans patent, on the west bank of the Hudson Hiver and in the County of Orange, N. Y. This land they had surveyed and plotted into small farms and village lots, which they disposed of to incoming settlers. Evidently this lucrative land business on the Hudson possessed for the young lawyer and merchant a controlling attraction, for about the year 1741, he relinquished all interest in his promising mercantile venture to his younger brothers and removed with his family to Orange County. There, in addition to looking after his father's real estate interests, he soon became engaged in extensive transactions on his own account. In 1747 he was appointed, by Governor George Clinton, High Sheriff of Orange County, which office he retained by consecutive reappointments through the administrations of Governors Danvers, Osborn, De Lancy, and Sir Charles Hardy, to the year 1757, when he resigned said office, removed his family to Long Island and took up anew the practice of his profession in New York City. SAMUEL CLOWES, ESQ., 1674-1760, the father of Millicent Clowes Sackett, was born in Derbyshire, England. In receiving his education he was instructed in mathmatics by Flamestead, for whose use Greenwich Observatory was erected. He became a lawyer and on reaching New York in 1697 began the practice of his profession, Page 61 and is credited with being the first lawyer to settle on Long Island. On July 18, 1698, he was married to Catherine Donne (sometimes written Denne). In 1702 he accompanied Lord Cornbury to Jamaica and was immediately thereafter commissioned Clerk of Queens County, which office he held until 1710, when the pressure of professional business and personal interests impelled him to resign. He was a practical surveyor as well as an able lawyer. His name appears as attorney in some of the most important suits of that period, and figures more extensively than that of any man of his time in real estate transactions found recorded in early records of Long Island and the Hudson River counties. Child of Joseph and Millicent Clowes Sackett. 295. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Feb. 16, 1733, d. July 17, 1799; m. Hannah Alsop. 88. HANNAH SACKETT, 1711-1762, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married at Newtown, L. I., Sept. 5, 1725, to THOMAS WHITEHEAD, physician and surgeon, son of MAJOR DANIEL WHITEHEAD and his wife ABIGAIL STEPHENSON. (For records of ancestors of Thomas Whitehead, see No. 7.) Children. 296. Hannah Whitehead, 1728-1772, m. May 2, 1752, John Moore. 297. Abigail Whitehead, 1740-1821, m. Nov. 21, 1776, Richard Alsop. 90. JOHN SACKETT, 1716-1783, of Newtown, L. I., and Orange County, N. Y., son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married to PHEBE BURLING, of Flushing, N. Y. John Sackett, referred to in an old record as Counselor at Law and Speaker in Court Judiscature, was associated with his father, Judge Joseph, and his brother, Sheriff Joseph, in laying out the village of New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., and in the ferry and the freighting business they established at that point. (See also No. 22.) His name appears in the list of signers of the Revolutionary Pledge, living in the town of New Cornwall in 1775. Children. 298. JOHN SACKETT, m. Jane ---- 299. Justus Sackett. Page 62 91. DEBORAH SACKETT, 1718-1759, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Oct. 28, 1737, to JAMES STRINGHAM, son of CAPT. SAMUEL STRINGHAM, and grandson of PETER STRINGHAM. PETER STRINGHAM was a resident of Jamaica, L. I., several years prior to 1683, on which date his name is recorded in list of resident taxpayers of that town. CAPT. SAMUEL STRINGHAM, son of above, was a resident of Flatbush, L. I., and in 1715 was a member of the military company of that town, commanded by Capt. Jonathan Wright. A few years later he was commissioned Captain of same company, which office he held as late as 1738. JAMES STRINGHAM, son of Capt. Samuel, was a resident of Flushing, L. I., in 1736. On July 17 of that year, he was granted a patent for 1,630 acres of land near the present City of Middle town, Orange County, N. Y. Some three months later he was married to Deborah Sackett, as above stated. James Stringham's name appears under date of 1738 as a member of a company of Orange County militia known as "The foot company of the precinct of the Highlands," which saw considerable service on the nearby Indian frontier. Children. 300. David Stringham, father of Rear Admiral Stringham, U. S. N. 301. Ann Stringham. 92. FRANCES SACKETT, 1720-1745, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married to COLONEL JACOB BLACKWELL, son of JACOB BLACKWELL and his wife MARY HOLLETT, and grandson of ROBERT BLACKWELL and his wife MARY MANNINGHAM. ROBERT BLACKWELL was, prior to 1676, a merchant doing business in Elizabethtown, N. J. In that year he contracted marriage with Mary Manningham, of Mannings Island in the East River. After his marriage he established his residence on said island, which took and has since retained his name. Mr. Blackwell also owned and conducted a plantation on the main land of Newtown, opposite said Island. Page 63 JACOB BLACKWELL was the youngest son of above mentioned Robert. He resided near Astoria, L. I., and was a man of unusual size, being six feet and two inches in height and weighing over four hundred pounds. He was married, May 10, 1711, to MARY HALLETT, daughter of CAPT. WILLIAM HALLETT, and died Aug. 26, 1743, aged 56 years. COLONEL JACOB BLACKWELL, son of above and husband of Frances Sackett, was an enterprising business man. Prior to the French and Indian war he held a Captaincy in the Newtown militia and later became Colonel of a Queens County regiment. On the breaking out of the War of the Revolution he stood prominent among the Whigs, but being forced to flee at the invasion of the British, his large estate was seized and despoiled by the enemy. Deeming his presence in the Provisional Convention, of which he was a member, to be of little importance, now that Queens County was overrun by ioreign troops, he returned to Newtown, trusting to the assurances contained in the proclamation of Lord Howe; but the privations and pecuniary losses which he continued to suffer from the enemy, are believed to have hastened his death, which occurred Oct. 23, 1780, in his 63d year. Colonel Blackwell and his first wife Frances Sackett had three Children. 302. Joseph Blackwell, m. Mary Hazard. 303. Robert Blackwell, m. ---- Benezet. 304a. James Blackwell, b. in year 1748, d. in year 1831; m. Elizabeth Hollett. 93. JAMES SACKETT, 1722-1784, of New York City, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Nov. 2, 1749, to FRANCES DEKAY, granddaughter of COL. FRANCIS DEKAY and his wife CHRISTIANA DUNCAN, and great-granddaughter of JACOBUS TUNIS DEKAY and his wife HILDEGRAND. James Sackett was a merchant of New York City, and from 1760 to 1765 a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Child. 304. FRANCES SACKETT, m. Nov. 2, 1772, William Laight. Page 64 94. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1724-1780, of Newtown, L. I., New York City, and Jamaica, N. Y., son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, June 27, 1764, to MARY BETTS. He was born at Newtown and on reaching his majority engaged in mercantile business in New York City, being associated with his brother James. When about 40 years of age he retired from business and settled at Jamaica, where he was married, as above stated. He however, maintained an establishment in New York City, in which he resided for several months of each year as long as he lived. During the early part of the War of the Revolution, when lead was the most difficult of all warlike materials to procure, it is recorded that the lead window weights were removed from the dwellings of the principal citizens and made into bullets for the use of the Continental Army. The house of Samuel Sackett is mentioned as one of the number from which a goodly supply of lead was thus secured. The will of Mr. Sackett is recorded in New York City records. It begins in this wise: "I, SAMUEL SACKETT, of Jamaica, in Queens County, on Nassau Island, in the Province of New York, Gentleman." It was executed a short time before his death. By it he bequeathed to his wife Mary the use of all of his furniture, plate, horse, chair and negroes. In case she prefers to reside in New York city instead of Jamaica, it is provided that she have the use of a designated part of his dwelling house on Queen Street. To his oldest son, Samuel, he gave œ700, and to his son Augustus œ500, in money. He then empowers his executors to dispose of his estate after his youngest child shall have arrived at the age of 21, "and after the termination of the present unhappy war," and provides that one equal fourth part of the proceeds be given to each of his four children, viz.: his sons Samuel, Richard and Augustus, and his daughter Sophia. The concluding clause reads: "Lastly I appoint my relation, Capt. Thomas Lawrence, of New York, and Christopher Smith and Cary Ludlow, of Jamaica, my executors." Mrs. Sackett survived her husband but a little over three and a half years, her death occurring at Jamaica, Apr. 20, 1784. Children. 305. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Sept. 22, 1765, d. in year 1822; m. Elizabeth Kassam. 306. Richard Sackett, b. July 3, 1767. Page 65 307. AUGUSTUS SACKETT, b. Nov. 10, 1769, d. Apr. 12, 1827; m. Minerva Camp. 308. Sophia Sackett, b. July 29, 1774; m. Oliver Goodwin. 95. THOMAS SACKETT, M. D., 1726-1769, of Newtown, L. I., graduate of Kings (now Columbia) College, New York, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Sept. 21, 1762, to PHEBE ALBERTUS, daughter of SAMUEL ALBERTUS and his wife ELISABETH VANDERVOORT. Dr. Sackett was born and practiced his profession with success for seventeen years at Newtown, L, I., when he removed to and became a resident of Quebec, Canada. On July 24, 1769, letters of administration were granted to his wife, Phebe Sackett. PETER CAESAR ALBERTUS, a native of Venice, in Italy, came to New Amsterdam with the early settlers and married there, in 1642, JUDITH JANS MEYNIE, from Amsterdam in Holland. They lived for many years on the Heeren Gracht, now Broad Street. Mr. Albertus also owned a tobacco plantation at the Wallabout, for which he received a patent June 17, 1743. JOHN ALBERTUS, oldest son of above, married ELISABETH SCUDDER, daughter of JOHN SCUDDER, who was born in England in 1619, came to New England in 1635, and settled at Mespot Kills prior to 1660. He accumulated a large estate and died at English Kills in April, 1691. SAMUEL ALBERTUS, son of John and Elisabeth Scudder Albertus, inherited a large share of his father's estate and died Oct. 14, 1752, at an advanced age. SAMUEL ALBERTUS, son of Samuel, the grandson of John, was married, June 1, 1724, to ELISABETH VANDERVOORT, daughter of PAUL VANDERVOORT. Their daughter Phebe, as stated above, was married to Thomas Sackett. Only child of Thomas and Phebe Albertus Sackett. 310. Hannah Sackett, m. John Reynolds. 96. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1729-1778, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Oct. 5, 1750, to JONATHAN FISH, 1727-1779, son of CAPT. SAMUEL FISH and his wife AGNES Page 66 BERRIEN. Jonathan Fish was a merchant of New York City. (For Fish line, see No. 97.) Children. 311. Sarah Fish, b. in year 1755; m. Terrance Reiley. 312. NICHOLAS FISH, b. Aug. 23, 1758, d. June 30, 1833; m. Elizabeth Stuyversant. 97. WILLIAM SACKETT, 1731-1776, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married Aug. 31, 1757, to SARAH FISH, daughter of CAPT. SAMUEL FISH and his wife AGNES BERRIEN. Mr. Sackett was a lifelong resident of Newtown, and for many years a vestryman in the Episcopal church there. JONATHAN FISH, colonist and founder of the Long Island Fish family, came from England to America previous to 1637, in which year he, with two of his brothers, settled at Sandwich on Cape Cod. Previous to 1659 he became a resident of Newtown, Long Island. There he served for several years as a magistrate, and there he died about the year 1673. NATHAN FISH, son of above named Jonathan, was one of the citizens of Newtown to whom the Conformatory charter was granted by Governor Dongan. He was a husbandman and died at an advanced age in 1734. CAPT. SAMUEL FISH, son of above named Nathan, was thrice married and the father of fifteen children. His first wife, AGNES BERRIEN, to whom he was married June 21, 1727, was the mother of his daughter Sarah, who married William Sackett. They had two Children: 313. Samuel Sackett, b. Jan. 29, 1762, d. Oct. 1, 1763. 314. WILLIAM W. SACKETT, b. Aug. 31, 1765, d. July 9, 1833; m. Susan Smith. 98. LIEUT. SAMUEL MOORE, 1711-1788, of Newtown, L. I., son of Benjamin and (24) Anna Sackett Moore, was married previous to 1748 to SARAH FISH, daughter of JOHN FISH and his wife ELISABETH HALLETT. Children. 315. BENJAMIN MOORE, b. Oct. 5, 1748, d. Feb. 27, 1816; m. Charity Clark. 316. Jacob Moore, b. in year 1751, d. July 22, 1825; m. Hannah Waters. 317. WILLIAM MOORE, b. Jan. 17, 1754, d. Apr. 2, 1824; m. Jane Fish. Page 67 318. Sarah Moore, m. Thomas Barrow. 319. Patience Moore, m. David Titus. 320. Judith Moore, m. Rev. Thomas L. Moore. 100. ANNE MOORE, 1715-17--?, daughter of Benjamin and (24) Anne Sackett Moore, was married to LIEUT. THOMAS HALLETT, son of JOSEPH HALLETT and his wife LYDIA BLACKWELL. WILLIAM HALLETT, colonist, founder of the Long Island branch of the Hallett family, was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1616. He came first to New England. Previous to 1655 he settled on Long Island, and became the owner of a large estate near Hellgate. In the fall of that year the Indians destroyed his house and damaged his plantation at Hallett's Grove, and he took up his residence at Flushing. In 1656 he was appointed High Sheriff, but was, the same year, deposed by Stuyvesant and fined and imprisoned for entertaining Rev. William Wickendon from Rhode Island, allowing him to preach at his house, and receiving the sacrament of the Lord's Supper from his hands. He afterwards returned to Hellgate, where he lived to the age of 90 years. CAPT. WILLIAM HALLETT, 1647-1750, son of foregoing, was married to SARAH WOOLSEY, daughter of GEORGE WOOLSEY, of Jamaica. He served several years as a Justice of the Peace, and was Captain of a company of militia. JOSEPH HALLETT, son of above mentioned Capt. William, and father of Lieut. Thomas Hallett, who married Anne Moore, was married, Dec. 23, 1702, to LYDIA BLACKWELL, daughter of ROBERT BLACKWELL, who was for several years a magistrate and a highly respected citizen. Children of Lieut. Thomas Hallett and his wife Anne Moore. 325. Lydia Hallett, b. Jan. 7, 1739; m. Joseph Burroughs. 326. Joseph Hallett, b. Feb. 28, 1740. 327. Benjamin Hallett, b. Aug. 18, 1743. 328. Thomas Hallett, b. Dec. 18, 1745; m. Elizabeth Willett. 329. Mary Hallett, b. Mar. 6, 1751. 330. Hannah Hallett, b. July 30, 1754; m. William Waters. 331. John Hallett, b. Apr. 2, 1757. 114. RICHARD SACKETT, of Greenwich, Conn., son of Rev. Richard Sackett and his first wife, whose name has not been ascertained, died Page 68 just previous to the year 1768, intestate and without issue. So far as can now be learned he was unmarried. In original papers at Fairfield, Conn., is one looking to the distribution of his estate among his next of kin, who are given as "heirs of Nathaniel Sackett, dec'd, Elisabeth Aak, Abigail Hubbell, dec'd, Mary Lockwood, dec'd, and Joseph Sackett." It would appear from this document, which is dated Mar. 7, 1768, that of his brothers and sisters, or rather half brothers and sisters, only Elisabeth Aak and Joseph Sackett were then living. 118. HON. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1720-177--?, Greenwich, Conn., son of (26) Rev. Richard and Elisabeth Kirtland Sackett, was married about 1739, to ANNE BUSH, daughter of JUSTUS BUSH, JR., oldest son of JUSTUS BUSH and his wife ANNE SMITH, of Rye, Westchester County, N. Y. Anne Bush Sackett died about 1746 and Nathaniel Sackett was married to his second wife, ELISABETH, who died May 1, 1757. On May 10, 1760, he was married to his third wife, widow SARAH LOCKWOOD. For a year or two previous to his first marriage he resided in New York City, and was in business there for several years thereafter. During said period he was a member of Capt. Van Horne's militia company. About 1753 he established his permanent home at Greenwich, and from 1756 to 1760, inclusive, represented that town in the General Assembly of Conn. And from 1757 to 1760, inclusive, he was a Justice of Peace for the County of Fairfield. The records of St. John's Church, Stamford, Conn., show that on Jan. 22, 1758, "John, Elisabeth, William, Henry, Charity and Mary--the last two twins--children of Nathaniel and Elisabeth Sackett of Horseneck in Greenwich," were baptized there. Justus Sackett was the oldest and may have been the only child of Nathaniel Sackett and his first wife, Anne Bush. There is some uncertainty as to which one of his wives was the mother of any one of his children not mentioned above. JAN BOSCH, the colonist ancestor of Anne Bush Sackett, was a native of the "Maory of Bosch," an ancient city of the Netherlands. His name is first met with in the records of New Amsterdam as one of a company that arrived there on the ship Fox in the month of August. 1662. These records show that his home, or place of abode, at the date on which he engaged passage on the Fox was "Westphalen." But he was accompanied by several families coming Page 69 direct from "Maory of Bosch." This Jan Bosch was a man of affairs in New Amsterdam. Almost immediately after his arrival he became a prominent householder, and for a decade a merchant, having frequent business with the courts; sometimes as defendant and sometimes as plaintiff. ALBERTUS BOSCH, son of above, who is described in early records as a "Sword Cutler of New Amsterdam," had his residence and place of business on "the south side of Stone Street, east of Broad Street." JUSTUS BOSCH, son of above mentioned Albertus, anglicized his family name by spelling it "B-u-s-h," and his descendants, with but few exceptions, have followed his example. After New Amsterdam was re-christened New York City, Justus Bush became a prominent merchant there. He also became one of the original proprietors of the town of Rye, Westchester County, N. Y. On Feb. 23, 1697, he was married in the "Dutch Church," in New York City, to ANNEKIN (ANNE) SMITH. JUSTUS BUSH, JR., of Rye, N. Y., and Greenwich, Conn., oldest son of above mentioned Justus and Annekin Smith Bush, and the father of Anne Bush, the first wife of Nathaniel Sackett, at one time was the owner of a grist mill in the town of Greenwich. Justus Bush, Sr., in his will, which is dated June 24, 1737, and probated Dec. 4, 1739, makes provision, first of all, for his oldest son, Justus, Jr., in language as follows: I, Justus Bush, of Rye, in Westchester County, N. Y., merchant, being in good health. I leave to my oldest son Justus, œ5, over and above œ500 that I have given him, and what more shall come to him by this will, in full bar of all claim as heir at law. In a clause following he provides that his interest in a copper mine in Farmington, Conn., together with all his land in Newtown, shall belong to all of his children. Children of Nathaniel Sackett. 340. JUSTUS SACKETT, b. in year 1740, d. Jan. 15, 1827; m. Anna Lyon. 341. RICHARD SACKETT, d. in year 1799; m. Rachel Holmes. 342. Sarah Sackett, m. Edward Joice, M. D. 343. Joseph Sackett. 344. Deborah Sackett, m. Benjamin Mead. 345. NATHANIEL SACKETT, m. Bethiah Reynolds. 346. Abigail Sackett. Page 70 347. John Sackett, m. Mary Bush. 348. WILLIAM SACKETT. 349. Henry Sackett. 350. Charity Sackett. 351. Mary Sackett. 352. Elisabeth Sackett. 119. ABIGAIL SACKETT, 1722-1--?, daughter of (26) Rev. Richard and Elisabeth Kirtland Sackett, was married to JEHIAL HUBBELL. Child. 360. Elizabeth Hubbell, b. in year 1747; m. Nathan Slawson. 120. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1724-1--?, of Greenwich, Conn., and Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., son of (26) Rev. Richard and Elisabeth Kirtland Sackett, was married. Apr. 28, 1751, by (32) Rev. Samuel Sackett, to HANNAH BUDSON, daughter of THOMAS BUDSON and his wife JEMIMA, both of the town of North Castle in said county of Westchester. Children. 370. Richard Sackett, b. June 7, 1754; m. Tobiatha ---- 371. Thomas Sackett, b. Jan. 31, 1756, d. Feb. 27, 1763. 372. Joseph Sackett, b. Nov. 1758. 373. Solomon Sackett, b. Jan. 4, 1760. 374. JAMES SACKETT, b. Jan. 14, 1762. 375. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. Oct. 8, 1763, d. in year 1812; m. Rachel ---- 376. Deborah Sackett, b. Feb. 4, 1765, d. Feb. 20, 1765. 377. Samuel Sackett, b. Aug. 4, 1766. 378. Daniel Sackett, b. Sept. 23, 1768. 121. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1720-1809, daughter of (27) John and Elisabeth Field Sackett, was married, May 22, 1743, to JOHN LEVERICH, 3d, of Fishkill, N. Y., and Newtown, L. I. REV. WILLIAM LEVERICH, the founder of the New York branch of the Leverich family, was born in England and educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, taking his degree of A. B. in 1629. In 1633 "he engaged to become the minister of Dover, New Hampshire, and came from London in the ship James, reaching Salem on October 10, of that year. After spending two years at Dover he Page 71 went to Boston and from there to Doxbury. In 1640 he was at Cape Cod preaching to the Indians, a worthy cotemporary of the aspostle Elliot. In 1653 he was settled over the congregation of Oyster Bay, and labored there and at Huntington and Newtown to the date of his death, 1717." CALEB LEVERICH, son of above, was for many years a prominent citizen and extensive land holder in Newtown, L. I., and was one of the original members of the Presbyterian church there. JOHN LEVERICH, son of above mentioned Caleb, died at Newtown just previous to 1705, leaving surviving him a son: JOHN LEVERICH, 2nd, who by his wife, Anne Moore, had several children, the oldest being: JOHN LEVERICH, 3d, who married, as above stated, Elisabeth Sackett. They had three Children: 385. Amy Leverich. 386. Sackett Leverich. 387. Richard Leverich, m. Amy Titus and Nancy Lane. 122. WILLIAM SACKETT, 1727-1802, of Newtown, L. I., son of (27) John and Susannah Field Sackett, was married, Feb. 14, 1749, to (141) ANNE LAWRENCE, daughter of CAPT. JOHN LAWRENCE and his wife (31) PATIENCE SACKETT. Mr. Sackett was by occupation a farmer and lived and died on the farm at Newtown on which he was born. (This William Sackett seems to have been a pronounced Loyalist, and if so, is unquestionably the William Sackett of Queens County, who acknowledged allegiance to King George in 1776, and is mentioned by Sabine as an addresser of Lt. Col. Sterling in 1779.) Children of William and Anne Lawrence Sackett. 388. JOHN SACKETT, b. July 27, 1755, d. May 12, 1819; m. Elizabeth Gibbs. 389. DANIEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 29, 1759, d. Jan. 7, 1822; m. Martha Green. 390. JONATHAN SACKETT, b. Sept. 22, 1761; m. Sarah Banks. 391. Nathaniel Sackett, b. Aug. 23, 1764, d. Mar. 26, 1797, unmarried. 133. JOHN ALSOP, 17--?-1794, of New York City, son of John and (29) Abigail Sackett Alsop, was married, June 8, 1766, to MARY FRAGOT. Mrs. Lamb, in her "History of New York City," says: "John Alsop was an importing merchant and accumulated a handsome Page 72 fortune. He took an active part in the patriotic measure of the New York merchants; was, in 1770, one of the Committee of Inspection to enforce the Non-Importation Agreement; was, in 1774, a member (and deputy chairman) of the Committee of Fiftyone, chosen to unite the Colonies in measures of resistance, and the same year was chosen delegate to the first Continental Congress. He was one of the Committee of One Hundred and elected to Congress in 1775. He resigned his seat on the Declaration of Independence and retired with his family to Middletown, Conn. He returned to New York after the war and was an active and useful member of society until his death in 1794." Riker, in his records of "The Alsop Family," differs with Mrs. Lamb, and says that John Alsop "was not in Congress, as has been supposed, when the independence of the American Colonies was declared, but was, at the time, a member of the New York Convention, and, on the adoption of the above measures by the latter body he resigned his seat. He survived the Revolution and was for several years a vestryman of Trinity Church." His only Child, 400. MARY ALSOP, m. Hon. Rufus King. 134. RICHARD ALSOP, 1726-1776, of New York City and Middletown, Conn., son of John and (29) Abigail Sackett Alsop, was married to MARY WRIGHT. He was bred a merchant, serving his time with Philip Livingston, after which he, with his brother John Alsop, conducted successfully a cloth and dry goods house in New York City. Several years previous to the commencement of the War of the Revolution he removed with his family to Middletown, Conn. Riker says he had eight children, but gives the names of but three Sons. 401. RICHARD ALSOP, b. June 23, 1761, d. Aug. 20, 1815. 402. JOSEPH W. ALSOP, b. Mar. 2, 1772, d. Oct. 16, 1844. 403. John Alsop, unmarried. 135. JOHN LAWRENCE, 1721-1764, of Newtown, L. I., and New York City, son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married to CATHERINE LIVINGSTON, daughter of HON. PHILIP LIVINGSTON. Page 73 Mr. Lawrence was a wealthy and eminent merchant. He died Aug. 5, 1764, in his 43d year, and his funeral sermon was delivered by the celebrated Whitefield, who was then in this country, and between whom and Mr. Lawrence a warm friendship had long existed. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence had no children that reached maturity. 136. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, 1723-1793, of Newtown, L. I., son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married to (105) PATIENCE MOORE, daughter of BENJAMIN MOORE and his wife (24) ANNIE SACKETT. Children. 409. Richard Lawrence, M. D., b. Mar. 3, 1764, d. July 26, 1804; m. Mary Moore. 410. Anne Lawrence, b. Nov. 26, 1749, d. Jan. 5, 1833; m. Samuel Riker. 137. CAPT. RICHARD LAWRENCE, 1725-1781, son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married to AMY BERRIEN, daughter of CORNELIUS BERRIEN and his wife AMY SMITH. They had no children. Richard Lawrence, at the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, was commissioned Captain of the Newtown troop of horse, and in 1776, on falling into the hands of Royalists was conveyed to the Provo at New York City, where he was for a long time confined, during which his health completely broke down. He was, however, permitted to return to his home to die. A short time before his decease word was brought him of the capture of Cornwallis and his army. Assuring himself of the truthfulness of the report he declared his readiness to die, now that the ultimate triumph of his country was assured. His death took place at Newtown, Nov. 21, 1781, in the 57th year of his age. In the collection of Sackett Family manuscripts belonging to Mrs. Anne C. Gott, of Irondequoit, N. Y., there is a letter written by Mrs. Lawrence a short time before her husband was dragged from his sick bed by his Tory neighbors and carried off to the "Provo" prison in New York City. This letter is addressed to "Mrs. Hannah Delancey at Cortlands Manor," who is the No. 155 of this volume. It reads as follows: Page 74 March ye 2d 1776 My Dear Cousin The receipt of yours of ye 26th of last month gave me a great deal of pleasure as it ascertained me of your existence which I had some reason to doubt as you promised to write me as soon as you got home. But not one word from you my dear since I parted with you till yesterday when I received your kind letter, but was sorry to hear of my dear Uncles misfortune but hope he is now better. And now I will tell you what is nearest to my heart in this world of misfortune. My Mr. Lawrence is very sick, and brother Daniel is very ill, and brothers Joseph and Thomas are both in a bad state of health. As to myself I enjoy a better state of health than when I parted with you. May that God be Blessed who has brought me from the borders of the grave and said unto me, Live. O let us put our trust in him in every difficulty. He has promised he will not leave nor forsake us. But still wars and rumors of wars distress me. Our house is filled with soldiers, forts are erecting, batteries forming, and I am afraid a bloody summer ensueing. But the God of the Armies of Israel is able to defend his people. And oh that he would please to go with our armies to the field of battle if they must be called there in defence of our liberties. But you my dear are out of the way of these troubles and I could wish myself with you in your happy retreat from bustle and noise. But I desire to be contented in every thing that God thinks best for me. I think I could be happy in your company in almost any situation, but I am debarred that pleasure. But My Dear write me as often as you can for it will be a pleasure to hear from you since I can not see you. Your brothers I hope will be preserved through all the dangers they may be called to encounter in these Dreadful Days . . . . Be pleased to give my duty, with Mr. Lawrence's to our Honored Uncle and Aunt and accept a large share to yourself, and may the best of blessings attend you, both in this life and the life to come, is the sincere prayer of your loving cousin AMY LAWRENCE (Mrs. Lawrence in above letters refers to brothers-in-law as if they were her own brothers.) 140. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, 1729-1794, of Newtown, L. I., son of (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married, May 14, 1752, to ANNE BRINKERHOFF, 1733-1770, daughter of ISAAC BRINKERHOFF and his wife DIANA BRINKERHOFF. On April 14, 1771, he was married to his second wife, MARY PALMER, daughter of CHARLES PALMER and his wife JANE FISH. "He was," says Riker, "for many years a magistrate and filled the station with usefulness." On the capture of Long Island, in 1776, part of his house in Newtown was made Page 75 the headquarters of British and Hessian Generals, and himself and family were subjected to many of the exactions and vexations which those who had rebel predelictions experienced from the invaders. Children. 411. Dientie Lawrence, b. Mar. 19, 1756; m. Abraham Lent. 412. John Lawrence, b. July 5, 1753; m. Elizabeth Berien. 413. Catherine Lawrence, b. Apr. 26, 1763; m. Cornelius Luyster. 414. Richard Lawrence, b. July 11, 1765; m. Sarah Lawrence. 415. Isaac Lawrence, b. Feb. 8, 1768; m. Caroline Beach. 416. William Lawrence, b. May 17, 1770. 417. Jane Lawrence, b. Aug. 3, 1783; m. Hendrick Suydam. (Six children died in infancy.) 142. CAPTAIN THOMAS LAWRENCE, 1733-1817, of Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married, Aug. 31, 1760, to ELISABETH FISH, daughter of NATHANIEL FISH and his wife JANE BERIEN. Capt. Lawrence, at the age of about 25, was appointed to the command of the ship Tarter, or 18 guns, and during the old French War made several cruises from New York with her. Possessing considerable wealth he settled on a farm on Flushing Bay, formerly owned by his father-in-law. In 1784 he was appointed a Judge and was noted for decision of character and by punctilious observances which characterized gentlemen of the old school. Children. 418. Nathaniel Lawrence, b. July 11, 1761, d. July 5, 1797; m. Elizabeth Berien. 419. Sarah Lawrence, b. Sept. 20, 1765; m. Maj. Richard Lawrence. 420. Thomas Lawrence, b. Jan. 12, 1770; m. Mariah Woodhull. 421. Mary Lawrence, b. Aug. 15, 1773; m. Adrian Van Sinderon. 422. Elizabeth Lawrence, b. Sept. 16, 1775; m. John Wells. 423. John T. Lawrence, b. Aug. 18, 1780; m. Elizabeth Rumson. 424. William Lawrence, b. Feb. 11, 1783, d. unmarried. 425. Jane Fish Lawrence, b. Aug. 6, 1785, d. unmarried. 144. HON. JONATHAN LAWRENCE, 1737-1812, of Newtown, Long Island, and New York City, son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married, Mar. 16, 1766, to JUDITH FISH, 1749-1767. On May 7, 1768, he was married to his second wife, RUTH RIKER, Page 76 daughter of ANDREW RIKER and his wife JANE BERIEN. He was bred a merchant and on reaching his majority engaged in business in New York City. At the age of 34 he retired with a competence and purchased a residence at Hellgate, which had belonged to his great-grandfather, Maj. Thomas Lawrence. On the opening of the Revolution he espoused with much zeal the cause of his oppressed country. In 1775 he was appointed a member of the Provisional Convention which met at New York, and the next year he was again deputed to that body, and was afterwards elected to the convention which formed the first constitution of the State of New York. On the adoption of the constitution and organization of the State government in 1777, Mr. Lawrence was appointed one of the senators of the southern district, in which capacity he served during the remainder of the war, when not absent on special service. The various appointments and commissions executed by him during his connection with the Legislature were of the most valuable character. When peace was declared he returned to his native town much impoverished by the casualties of war. He again commenced business in New York and in a degree repaired his fortunes, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens till the day of his death. Children. 437. Jonathan Lawrence, b. June 20, 1767, d. June 10, 1850; m. Elizabeth Rogers. 438. Judith Lawrence, b. June 27, 1769; m. John Ireland. 439. Margaret Lawrence, b. June 13, 1771. 440. Samuel Lawrence, b. May 23, 1773, d. Oct. 20, 1837; m. Elizabeth Ireland. 441. Andrew B. Lawrence, b. July 17, 1775, d. Apr. 18, 1806; became a sea captain. 442. Richard M. Lawrence, b. Jan. 12, 1778, d. July 4, 1856; President Union Insurance Co. 443. Abraham R. Lawrence, b. Dec. 18, 1780; Member of Congress. 444. Joseph Lawrence, b. May 5, 1783; m. (953) Mary Sackett. 445. John L. Lawrence, b. Oct. 2, 1785; m. Sara Augusta Smith. 446. William T. Lawrence, b. May 7, 1788; m. Margaret Sophia Muller. 145. COL. DANIEL LAWRENCE, 1739-1807, of Lawrence Point, Long Island, son of John and (31) Patience Sackett Lawrence, was married to EVA VAN HORNE, of New York City. Col. Lawrence was Page 77 an exile from his home from 1776 to 1783, and served as a member of Assembly from Queens County by appointment of the Convention of 1777, from that year to the close of the war. Children. 447. John Lawrence, died unmarried. 448. Nathaniel Lawrence, m. Agnes Rapelye. 449. Daniel Lawrence, died unmarried. 450. Abraham Lawrence. 451. Catherine Lawrence, m. Egbert Luysler. 452. Anne Lawrence, m. Thomas Bloodgood. 453. Mary Lawrence, m. John M. Rapelye. 147. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1735-1757, of Hanover, New Haven County, Conn., son of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, was married in 1756 to ELIZA STRANG, daughter of DANIEL STRANG, of Westchester County, N. Y. Mr. Sackett, several months previous to marriage to Miss Strang, engaged in business, opening a general store at Hanover. A business letter written by him to his brother Nathaniel in New York City, contains so much of interest to the student of American History who would compare the business methods of that period with those of to-day, that it is given herewith intact. Hanover June 7, 1757. To Nathaniel Sackett at New York Dear Brother:--The boat not going off as soon as I expected, I have taken some more butter, which I send with the other to you with a staff I have made for you. I believe if I had a dozen pair of spectacles they would sell pretty soon. The rum goes off briskly. The two pieces of forest cloth, the shallows, and especially the two dozen worsted caps seem to stick a hand slowly. I shall be glad if you will inform me what the skins I sent you fetch apiece. and also how much I may allow for mink skins, if you can inform yourself handily, and also whether I may take sewing thread and at what price, and you will oblige Your affectionate brother JOSEPH SACKETT. P. S.--The butter I send was all in one large butter tub, two small tubs and a pail, all good fresh butter excepting that in the great tub, which is middling. I must get you to keep a memorandum of what the butter fetches or comes to. I must beg one more favor of you and that is that you will send a pair of mens glasses to me by the bearer that will about suit yourself, which a certain person desires me to send for I am in haste your affectionate brother JOSEPH SACKETT. Page 78 In less than a year after date of this well preserved old letter, the young merchant was called hence. In 1893, (5009) C. H. Clark, Esq., while wandering among the graves of his kinsmen in the old burial ground adjacent to the Presbyterian Church at Crompond, Westchester County, N. Y., tarried long enough in front of one of the ancient tombstones to decipher this almost obliterated inscription: Here lies the body of JOSEPH SACKETT, Born Apr. 18, 1735. and departed this life Dec. --?, 1757. Child of Joseph and Eliza Strang Sackett. 460. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. in year 1757, d. in year 1816, unmarried. 148. HON. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1737-1805, of Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, was married, Jan. 3, 1759, to MARY ROGERS, daughter of ANANIAS ROGERS and his wife PRUDENCE CARLE. Nathaniel Sackett developed at an early age an aptitude for trade, and declared his determination to become a merchant. His decision in that respect evidently met the approval of his father, who, in his efforts to give the lad a practical education along lines bearing on the life work he had chosen, was greatly aided by his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Hazard, then a successful merchant of New York City. There now lies before the writer an original letter, yellowed by over a century and a half of time, which reads as follows: New York July 27, 1749. Dear Nephew Inclosed you have Bill of Parcels of sundry goods which I charge to your account, amounting to œ12, 5s, 9d, which you had best to sell cheap and as soon as you can for cash. I also send you a Parcel of Books to sell, which I had come from England, which is charged at the cost of them, sterling, and the rule we go by in such things is that which costs is, sterling to sell for 2s 6d, New York money. But I would have you sell them off quick if possible, if you get only as much money as they cost sterling. I also send you a book for you to learn to write by, and hope you will take pains to improve in it. I am your affectionate uncle NATHANIEL HAZARD. For Nathaniel Sackett at Bedford. Page 79 At the time of above transaction Nathaniel Sackett was but a little over 12 years of age. When he was about 17 years of age he went to New York and served an apprenticeship in his uncle's store. On reaching his majority he located at Fishkill, in Dutchess County, N. Y., and there engaged in business on his own account. According to early records of Fishkill, he was the proprietor of the first general store opened in that town. The part taken by Nathaniel Sackett in the long and desperate struggle of the colonies for independence shows him to have been a purely unselfish patriot and should not be forgotten by his descendants. He was in New York City on business in the latter part of the memorable year 1775, when its patriotic citizens were electrified by startling news of the battle of Lexington. Returning in haste to Fishkill, he called together several prominent citizens in whose patriotism and judgment he relied, and they together prepared and issued the following call: To the Inhabitants of Rombout Precinct: Whereas, alarming accounts have been received of the massacre in Boston, and a resolution taken in Parliament declaring the whole continent rebels, a number of inhabitants of this Precinct, having this day assembled at the house of John and Hendrick Wyckoff, taking the alarming situation of this continent into consideration, agreeable to the printed handbills sent up from the county of New York, requesting them to fall on such measures as may be thought most necessary by the majority of the freeholders and inhabitants for their future safety and preservation. And as it has become absolutely necessary for the future preservation of our families in this Precinct, that a firm union may subsist between us and the other precincts, it is sincerely hoped that all former prejudices and party disputes be entirely laid aside and all ranks and denominations appear and their names be taken at this crisis. It is therefore requested that none on any account or excuse whatever will keep back, but appear at the house of Messrs. John and Hendrick Wyckoff on Friday, the 5th instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, there to determine on such matters as are necessary to the present occasion. The original draft of this call, as well as the following memoranda, prepared as a guide to the presiding officers in the organization and conduct of this most important gathering, together with notes of vital matters to be considered, are in the handwriting of Nathaniel Sackett, and were found folded together in a package of his papers relating to the Revolutionary period. Page 80 Fishkill, May 5th, 1775. The orders of this general meeting, held at this place to consult on most interesting and important matters, are as follows: 1. That a chairman be chosen. 2. That a clerk be chosen to enter all matters concluded upon. 3. That no person speak only in his turn. 4. That no person call any other person in private. 5. That all matters be debated with candor, without constraint, and with the greatest freedom. 6. That all persons shall be heard, and proper weight given to their reasons, without any distinction to either rank, quality, or fortune. 7. That after every matter is properly debated, and the question being put, every person present is to answer only yes or no, as his judgment may direct, without giving any reasons. 8. That no business, diversions, stories, histories, or any other matter or thing that may divert or delay the business of the day, be mentioned or encouraged until the whole business is gone through and completed. 9. That every question put shall be carried for or against by a majority of the voices of the people present. 1. Choose a committee of thirty, to be a Committee of Observation. 2. Their power to be fixed. 3. Some of that number to wait on Col. Brinkerhoff, at Poughkeepsie, they to make a report on their return to the other members of the commitee to establish their sense. 4. To choose one deputy to the New York Provisional Congress. 5. The affairs of the negroes to be considered. 6. What to be done with them in case of a battle. 7. What precautions should be taken now. 8. Enter into some resolution to be published. Endorsed on the paper containing above memoranda are the names of the forty patriots who responded to the call, including Col. Brinkerhoff, who came from adjoining precinct to arrange for a county meeting to be held at Poughkeepsie, to which the proposed election of a delegate to represent Rombout precinct in Provisional Congress was on motion referred. The meeting held at Fishkill, May 5, 1775, resulted in a permanent organization, since known to history as the Fishkill (or Rombout Precinct) Committee of Safety; and from the day of its inception to the end of the long but finally triumphant struggle for national independence, the course pursued by Nathaniel Sackett was that of a fearless patriot who unhesitatingly risked his all for the sacred cause he had espoused and was ever ready and willing to undertake any duty, no matter how laborious or hazardous, in response Page 81 to his country's call. Elected a delegate to the First New York Provisional Congress, we find him present at its initial gathering and never absent from a recorded roll call; and scanning the records we learn of his activity in preparations being made for the inevitable conflict. On the 21st of September, 1776, by act of Provisional Congress, he was appointed, together with William Duer, John Jay and several others, a committee for detecting and defeating conspiracies against the liberties of America. On this committee almost unlimited powers were conferred, including the raising and arming of troops at the State's expense, and the arbitrary arrest, examination and imprisonment of any and all persons suspected of disloyality. For several months after the creation of this committee its arduous duties were shared to some extent by all of its members, but gradually its labors and responsibilities were delegated to Nathaniel Sackett, who by authority of the governing powers of the State exercised them with discretion and success until the close of the war. To attempt to designate the position of greatest responsibility or to name the act of most marked importance, held or performed by Nathaniel Sackett, of Fishkill, N. Y., during the Revolutionary War, is to undertake a difficult task. For a portion of the period mentioned he would seem to have been the active quartermaster or commissary of a considerable portion of the patriot army, operating on the banks of the Hudson River; at another the recognized chief of Washington's secret service corps; to-day attending a session of the Provisional Congress, and to-morrow present at a session of the General Committee of Safety. At one time consulting with his associates of the committee for detecting and defeating conspiracies, at another issuing orders to armed bodies of troops; and again consulting with the Commander in Chief, or hastening off on some specially hazardous duty needing his personal direction. Space will not admit of following his eventful career from the beginning to the end of his patriotic struggle for the independence of his country. A few extracts from official colonial records and the copies of a few original documents given in chronological order, and covering a comparatively short period of time, will have to suffice: Page 82 October 1, 1776--An account of Lead and Ball, &c., shipped off by Peter T. Curlenius, agreeable to the order of Congress and delivered to the following persons: Nathaniel Sackett, Dutchess Co., 6,000 lbs. of lead. From Journal of Committee for Defeating Conspiracies, etc. November 19, 1776--Committee for Defeating Conspiracies, meet at Conners' Tavern, Fishkill. Present--William Duer, Chairman, John Jay, Esq., Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., Zepheniah Platt, Esq. November 25, 1776--Committee meet at Conners' Tavern, Fishkill. Present--William Duer, Chairman, John Jay Esq., Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., Zepheniah Platt, Esq. December 30, 1776--Committee meet at Fishkill. Resolved, that Mr. Sackett, taking with him Captain Van Gasbeck's company, do forthwith endeavor to apprehend the persons mentioned in John Hain's last examination. By order committee, JOHN JAY, Chairman. January 3, 1777--Committee meet at Fishkill. In Council--Resolved, that Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., have power to employ such detachments of militia of Dutchess County as are not in active service, as he may deem expedient for the execution of the business committed to his charge, and all officers of the said militia are requested to comply with his requisition and obey his orders accordingly. JOHN JAY, Chairman. January 6, 1777--Committee meet at Fishkill. Present--John Jay, Chairman; Zepheniah Platt, Esq., Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., Egbert Benson, Esq., General Morris. January 7, 1777--At a meeting of Deputies from Dutchess County, Resolved, that the deputies from this county be divided into two classes. That the Honorable Robert Livingston, Esq., Cornelius Humphrey, John Schenck, and Nathaniel Sackett, Esquires, be one class, and Zepheniah Platt, Gilbert Livingston, Henry Sohenck, James Livingston, and Jonathan Landon, Esquires, be the other class to attend convention alternately. The following letter, discovered not long since in the family of one of Captain Van Gasbeck's descendants, living near the City of Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., effectually sets at rest the long disputed question as to the identity of Harvey Birch, the hero of Cooper's famous historical novel, "The Spy": Dear Sir:--I had almost forgotten to give directions to give our friend an opportunity to escape. Upon our plan you will take him prisoner with the parties you are now watching for. His name is Enoch Crosby, alias Page 83 John Brown. I could wish that he may escape before you bring him two miles on your way to the committee. You will be pleased to advise with Messrs. Cornwall and Captain Clark on the subject, and form such plan of conduct as your wisdom may direct, but by no means neglect this friend of ours. I am, sir, your humble servant, NATHANIEL SACKETT. Fishkill, January 7, 1777. To Capt. Goosbeck. From Nathaniel Sackett, member of committee. From journal of Committee of Safety. January 13, 1777. Ordered, that Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., deliver to Col. Lasher, as commissary appointed by the convention of this State to take charge of the military stores which were in his custody, and take a receipt for the same. That Mr. Sackett exhibit and deliver all his accounts and vouchers relative to said stores to the Auditor General to be audited, that they may be filed in the Treasurer's office. Commission in hand writing of General Washington. To Mr. Nathaniel Sackett: Sir:--The advantage of obtaining the earliest and best intelligence of the designs of the enemy, the good character given you by Conl. Duer, added to your capacity for an undertaking of this kind, have induced me to entrust the management of this business to your care till further orders on this head. For your care and trouble in this business, I agree, on behalf of the public, to allow you fifty dollars per calendar month, and herewith give you a warrant on the Paymaster Genl. for the sum of five hundred dollars to pay those whom you may find necessary to employ in the transaction of this business, an account of the disbursement of which you are to send to me. Given under my hand at Morristown this 4th day of February, 1777. GO. WASHINGTON. From journal of Committee of Safety. February 12, 1777. General Scott (in behalf of Mr. Sackett) informed the committee that Mr. Sackett is employed by his excellency, General Washington, to execute some public business, for defraying the expense whereof Mr. Sackett introduced an order from his excellency General Washington on Paymaster General of the Army of the United States of America, which is in the words following, to wit: 500 dollars--Pay to Nathaniel Sackett five hundred dollars to be accounted for with me, and this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal at Morristown, this fourth day of February, 1777. GEORGE WASHINGTON. By his Excellency's Command, TINCH TILGHMAN. Page 84 To William Palfrey, Esq., Paymaster General of the Army of the United States of America: General Scott further informed the committee that the Paymaster General being absent when Mr. Sackett left headquarters, payment on the said order could not be procured and that the business to which Mr. Sackett is appointed as aforesaid is of a very urgent nature, and therefore moved that the money be advanced Mr. Sackett on the credit of said order out of the Treasury. Ordered, that the Treasurer of this State advance to Nathaniel Sackett, Esq., on the credit and account of his Excellency, General Washington's order for five hundred dollars on the Paymaster General of the Army of the United States of America, in favor of Mr. Sackett, dated the 4th day of February, 1777. To understand the full purport of the foregoing documents and extracts, as to their bearing on the services rendered his country by Nathaniel Sackett, it is well to remember that when the New York Provisional Congress was not in session, as such, the State Government was administered by less than a quorum of its specially designated members under the title of "General Committee of Safety"; and this latter body was frequently made up solely of the members of the yet smaller and more active sub-committee appointed for "Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies," and that Nathaniel Sackett, an active member of all these bodies, was not unfrequently the only member remaining on duty with authority to act as emergency might require. With these facts before us the following document, which with several of the foregoing I copy verbatim from the original, is more readily understood: Fishkill Landing, 4th Aug., 1779. Dear Sir:--You will please order a detachment of 150 men, with ten days' provision, under command of Colonel Butler, on particular duty. I wish you to order Major Hull, with him. N. B.--The detachment will move to-morrow morning early. interim believe me yours, ANTHONY WAYNE, B. G. To Nathaniel Sackett. The public career of Nathaniel Sackett is worthy of more attention than any historian has yet given it. Without title, and, so far as known, without hope of personal reward, he served his country for his country's sake. In close touch with the Legislature of his State, of which he was long a member, and with Washington the commander in chief and his leading generals; ever at the post Page 85 of duty and frequently assuming responsibilities the very thought of which would have made a coward tremble; a soldier without rank whose orders were obeyed without question by the duly commissioned leaders of organized bodies of troops; feared by the secret emissaries of Great Britain; hated alike by Tories on the banks of the Hudson and England's Secretary of State, whose secret schemes for England's advantage he was continually thwarting; loved and honored by his loyal countrymen--respected and implicitly trusted to the last by the glorious band of associate patriots by whose valor and united efforts the United States of America gained her independence, surely Nathaniel Sackett is deserving of a prominent place in the annals of his country as well as of his kinsmen. After the close of the war he served one term in the State Legislature and then retired from public life; and with his fortune greatly reduced by reason of service in the cause of independence, he returned to his store and his farm. He died at the home of one of his sons near Sackett's Lake in Sullivan County, N. Y. No monument marks his last resting place, and even the locality of his burial is unknown. Children. 461. ANANIAS R. SACKETT, b. Jan. 23, 1760, d. Sept. 2, 1838; m. Eunice Meeker. 462. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Aug. 12, 1762, d. Sept. 9, 1841; m. 1, Polly Halstead. 463. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. Oct. 21, 1769; m. Elizabeth Ter Boss. 464. HANNAH SACKETT, b. Oct. 2, 1771, d. Dec. 19, 1832; m. Joshua Arkills. 465. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. Nov. 2, 1778, d. Feb. 3, 1862; m. Eleazer Crosby. 153. DEBORAH SACKETT, 1746-1769, daughter of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, was married, Nov. 11, 1766, to BENJAMIN PECK, 1740-1806, of Greenwich, Conn., son of THEOPHILUS PECK and his wife ELISABETH MEAD. WILLIAM PECK, about 1600-1694, the colonist ancestor of Benjamin Peck, the husband of Deborah Sackett, was bred a merchant in England. He came from London to Boston in 1637, and settled at New Haven in 1638. He was chosen deacon of the church there Page 86 in 1659, and was long known as Deacon William Peck, of New Haven. REV. JEREMIAH PECK, 1623-1699, son of above, was born in England and died at Waterbury, Conn. He was married, Nov. 12, 1656, to JOHANNAH KITCHELL, of Guilford, Conn., where he was at the time teaching school. He subsequently taught in the grammar and Colony school at New Haven, after which he became a minister of the Congregational Church. He preached at Saybrook, Conn., from 1761 to 1765, and then for about a year at Guilford, after which he removed to Newark, New Jersey, and became interested in a large tract of land in Elizabeth, N. J. In 1672 he became one of the twenty-seven proprietors of the common lands in Greenwich, Conn. He subsequently preached for about a year at Greenwich and then located at Waterbury. SAMUEL PECK, 1659-1696, son of Rev. Jeremiah and Johannah Kitchell Peck, was married to Rachel Ferris. They resided at Greenwich and were the parents of Theophilus Peck, of Greenwich, born in 1701, who was the father of Benjamin Peck who married Deborah Sackett. Only child of Benjamin and Deborah Sackett Peck. 466. DEBORAH PECK, b. Feb. 5, 1768, d. Nov. 23, 1838; m. Platt Mead. 154. CAPT. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1749-1780, of Westchester County, N. Y., son of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, died unmarried, after a lingering illness resulting from wounds received and disease contracted in the service of his country. Shortly after attaining his majority he accompanied a party of adventurous young men of Westchester County and Long Island, to the West Indies, and there engaged in business. A letter dated March 3, 1774, written by his cousin Amy, wife of Capt. Richard Lawrence, to his sister Hannah, wife of Stephen De Lancey, mentions having heard from him through a friend just arrived from Santicroix, who told of his being located there in good health and doing a lucrative business. But previous to the breaking out of the Revolution he returned to Westchester County. And the official army records of the period show that he was one of the first young men of that vicinity to openly espouse the cause of American liberty and to take up arms in its Page 87 defence. On June 28, 1775, the New York Provisional Congress, of which his brother Nathaniel was an active member, issued a warrant constituting him a First Lieutenant of the New York Line. He was immediately thereafter assigned to duty with the 4th Regiment and accompanied the expedition ordered to Canada, where, serving under the brave and experienced soldier, General Richard Montgomery, he participated in the taking of the Fortress of St. John, in the capture of Fort Chamley and in the investment of Montreal, which resulted in its capitulation on Nov. 13, 1775; two days after which General Montgomery issued a special order promoting him to the rank of Captain for conspicuous gallantry in action, an honor, so far as shown by records, conferred on no other American officer during that campaign. At Quebec, where General Montgomery was killed, Capt. Sackett was so severely wounded that for several months he was obliged to remain in Canada, where he was devotedly nursed and tenderly cared for by the nuns of the Ursuline Convent. His subsequent return by way of the rough military roads through the intervening wilderness to Albany, in his weakened condition, was a painful and tedious journey, which still further undermined his constitution. He, however, anticipated a speedy recovery and insisted on remaining in the service. And on the reorganization of the New York Line in 1776, his irregular promotion by General Montgomery was duly recognized and he was commissioned accordingly with rank from date of the General's order and assigned to recruiting service. In a letter, dated "Albany, 27 September, 1777," written to his sister, Mrs. De Lancey, who appears to be his special favorite, he says: I have been very poorly which occasions my letter being dated from this place. A fever caught me and like to have sent me--I know not where. But my constitution has at last almost got the better of it, with the help of a few nostrums from the doctors. But it still keeps lurking about me, attacks me as a coward and seizes me every night when I am asleep, which makes me very weak all the day. It has lost me the honor of helping to drub Burgoyne once already, and I fear it will keep me company so long that I shall not be able to join the army before he is entirely destroyed. This chagrins me, but so it is, and so it must be . . . . What Desdamonas have you in your town. Are any of them Christians? This place is forsaken of all those fine lassies you have so often heard me speak of--all fled and left the place as solitary as a hermit's cell. Capt. Sackett never regained his health sufficiently to permit his Page 88 again taking the field. Over two years after date of foregoing letter he writes to the same sister, saying: How can you answer for your conduct, I don't know. So long to neglect writing to your friends. Not a line has been received from you, nor have I but once heard you were in evidence. Surely you might have got some opportunity from so public a place as Sharon before this time. You were likewise to have come down if there was any sleighing. I am sure want of snow will not do for an excuse. So that you are in two respects culpable. What shall I do with you when I see you again! I think you must do penance. Here I have been all winter moped up in the most disagreeable solitude entirely alone, tho' in a thickly inhabited country. When I want to go I know not where to go to, but you have lived here. As to my health, since the cold weather came on it has been indifferent. The intervals between the severe fits of the disorder are short and imperfect, the severe turns longer and more acute. I am just recovering a little from the worst attack I ever had, and indeed many such I can not undergo. I hope Mr. Baldwin's business will permit him to come with you before the sleighing is gone. To see him and you would give me more life, for really I suffer much as to my health by having nothing to amuse or divert the attention from the gloominess of my situation. The two or three books which you lent I have almost got by heart, they are quite worn out. I would write Mr. Baldwin but am not able. It will give me great pleasure to receive a letter from him. I have an errand I want you to attend to, which is, to ask if he could not either now or toward spring exchange the continental horse I have and let me have a better one. I sent him to Fishkill this fall but was a little too late, and at that time there were none so good as the one I have. I think Mr. Baldwin, as the horses are chiefly in his hands before they come to Fishkill, could supply me better than I could be supplied there . . . . I shall expect an answer by the bearer and hope it will not be long before I see you. You must come by the way of Fishkill and then you will have good roads. The other way may not be good this winter and that one is not so much further when you are traveling with a good sleigh and horses. But I am tired tho' I have rested several times. My best respects to your husband. May you live long and happily together, is the sincere wish of Your truly affectionate brother SAMUEL SACKETT. Crompond 19 Jan. '80. P. S.--When I wrote the above I expected the man to go the next day but he was detained. I then thought I was recovering from one of my fits, but it is quite the reverse. I am very very sick--Adien. Capt. Sackett had no need of exchanging his Continental horse for a better one. The above was probably his last letter. He lingered, growing daily weaker and weaker, until Apr. 15 following, when death ended his service and his sufferings. Page 89 155. HANNAH SACKETT, 1751-1836, youngest daughter of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, was married in year 1768, to STEPHEN DE LANCEY, from whom she secured a legal separation during the early part of the Revolutionary period. On Oct. 16, 1779, she was married, by her father, Rev. Samuel Sackett, to MAJ. ISAAC BALDWIN, JR., of Litchfield, Conn. Hannah Sackett, at the date of her marriage to Stephen De Lancey, was not yet seventeen years of age, was possessed of an attractive presence and unusual force of character. She soon won the confidence and respect of her husband's aristocratic kinsfolk, with whom she became and bid fair long to remain a special favorite. But the Revolution came with civil war and its attending woes. The following incident in the life of Hannah Sackett De Lancey is given in the McDonald Manuscripts, and has been printed in "History of Westchester County," and other works, but will bear repeating in this connection: This lady mounted on a fine bay horse was endeavoring to escape from the burning of the meeting house by the British in July (should be June), 1779, when she was overtaken about a mile north of Crompond by some of the enemy's cavalry, who robbed her of her shoe buckles and ear rings and requested her to dismount. She refused, exclaiming, "Is this the way you treat unprotected females? I will inform your superiors. Where is your commander?" On his appearing she informed him she was the wife of Stephen De Lancey, and added, "Is this the proper treatment for her? I demand an escort to a place of safety." The British officer on hearing De Lancey's name granted her request. She carefully abstained from telling him she was the daughter of Mr. Sackett, the whig Presbyterian minister at Crompond. According to family tradition the shoe buckles above referred to were a present from her sister-in-law, Miss Sookey De Lancey, and there are recorded facts which indicate very strongly that Miss Sookey, and her mother as well, sympathized in the great struggle then pending, with the Patriots rather than with the Royalists. STEPHEN DE LANCEY, at the date of his marriage to Hannah Sackett, was about forty years of age, and the proprietor of upwards of ten thousand acres of land of what had been known as Cortland Manor, and is now the town of North Salem, Westchester County, N. Y. He was the second son of Lieut. Governor James De Lancey and his wife Anne Heathcote, daughter of Hon. Caleb Heathcote Page 90 and was the grandson of Stephen De Lancey and his wife Anne Van Cortland, who was the daughter of Hon. Stephanas Van Cortlandt. The extensive estate referred to was deeded to Stephen De Lancey, on his coming of age, by his father, who was at the time Chief Justice of the Province of New York. At the outbreak of the Revolution the Sacketts, with but few exceptions, promptly espoused the Patriot cause, and the brothers of Mrs. Stephen De Lancey were among the very first young men of Westchester County to take up arms in defence of what they believed to be their inalienable rights and outraged liberties. The De Lanceys, with equal unanimity, remained loyal to King George, who had conferred upon their family numerous Royal favors, and to whom nearly every male member of mature age had repeatedly sworn allegiance. From the commencement of hostilities the Sacketts of Westchester took an active part in the recruiting, arming and organizing of Patriot volunteers. Several of the De Lanceys held commissions in the Royal army and played conspicuous parts in the forming and commanding of Loyalist legions. The home of Rev. Samuel Sackett, the Whig Presbyterian minister of Crompond, was but a few miles distant from the Manor House of his Tory son-in-law, Stephen De Lancey, of North Salem. The outposts of the British were established but a few miles to the southward. The advance lines of the Americans were but a few miles to the northward. And the intervening country, miscalled neutral ground, was speedily overrun by marauding bands; first from one side and then from the other. The Royalists destroying or carrying off the property of the Whigs, and the Patriots destroying or carrying off the property of the Tories. On all sides respect and confidence gave place to hatred and distrust. The warmest of friends became the bitterest of enemies. Families were scattered, homes broken up, and the days that tried the souls of men were at hand. Word reached the De Lanceys at the Manor that Capt. Samuel Sackett, the favorite brother of Mrs. Stephen De Lancey, who had accompanied Montgomery in his campaign into Canada, had, after being promoted for gallantry in action, been severely wounded. And again that Nathaniel Sackett, another brother, who was a delegate to the Provisional Congress and an active member of its "Committee for Defeating Conspiracies Against the Liberty of America," Page 91 was causing the arrest and imprisonment of outspoken Tories of high social standing. Meantime word reached the family of Rev. Samuel Sackett at the Manse, that his son-in-law, Stephen De Lancey, was in close and secret communication with the British commander, and that bands of Tories, led by members of the De Lancey family, were arresting and dragging off to prison outspoken Patriots. As a direct result of this deplorable state of affairs there came about an estrangement between Hannah Sackett and her husband which soon led to a legal separation. On May 9, 1776, Stephen De Lancey, in obedience to a summons he dare not ignore, appeared before the Patriots' "Committee of Safety," in session at Albany, and on his refusal to sign the "Association tendered him, or even to hear it read, was ordered disarmed." On the 13th day of June following, he was, by same Committee, declared to be "Notoriously disaffected to the measures pursued by the friends of American Liberty," and sent under guard to Hartford, Conn., where he was held a prisoner for nearly a year, when, by some undiscovered means, he escaped and succeeded in getting within the British lines and into New York City. From there, a short time after his arrival, he wrote and dispatched two letters, which fell into the hands of the Patriot Committee of Safety, and led to the immediate confiscation of his estate and his subsequent departure for England, where he remained until after the termination of the war, when he returned to New York, and seems to have recovered a portion of his estate, including the Manor House. These letters, which led also to the degradation and imprisonment of Capt. Cornelius Steenrod, the "Rebel" to whom they were addressed, read as follows: Ungrateful Cornelius Why don't I hear from you? Why did you not send me a letter, or a message at least by Mr. Townsend? Where is Mother? What made her move? I hear you live there and mother Bostwick. Where is old Agnes, is she alive? Why ar'n't you as good as your word? Why don't you send to Tilfords? I have sent letters twice but no answers. I hope you have my letters. I would not that any body else should see them. I left seven shirts and three stocks and you must bring them to that house where we were, and my trimmed jacket and leather breeches. Take care, don't take arms. You must send me a mortgage on the mills and land adjoining belonging to you soon. Do for Gods sake come down to Tilfords and consult with him. Let me have a letter, and tell me in it that you are sorry you Page 92 took a commission and was over persuaded, and repent and ask pardon of God and the King, and I will do my best and Governor Tryon will assist me. That is absolutely necessary. I wonder you are so careless. Will you never learn wit? I could beat you, you careless toad. I have gold and silver you rebel. Don't you want some. Read my letter to mother Bosworth and tell her I hope that she and little James are well, and tell Agnes I will come to see them before next fall, but never to live in that hateful place again. Remember me to poor David and Esther. I will send him a line. Poor David, I hope he repents. I am going to live in Maronack as soon as it will be safe. Our army is going to take hold soon. Wo! wo!! wo!!! to the rebels. Send me a long letter to my sister and see if my Mother will consent to come down and let me know it. Do it for Gods sake STEPHEN DE LANCEY. To Corn. Steenrod, formerly a rebel Captain but I hope repents. May 7, 1777. Mrs. Bonton I hope David repents. Dont let him take arms for Gods sake. I do not write to him as he is sworn but you are not . . . . If he is taken in arms against the King, hanged he will be, nothing on earth can save him. Let him mind his business and keep at home and be sick or any thing, but dont let him go fight. You see property dont make me forget friends. Let him write me and let him send it to Steinrod. I hope Steinrod is true. I want to know why my mother went to Crompond? Where is Stephen and my poor boy Abraham, is he alive? O God! when will he be pleased to return. Our Armies and Fleets are preparing for war. What ruin and devastation has our poor country to see. What a bloody summer is coming. I wish it was over. God bless you I am yours STEPHEN DE LANCEY. CAPT. ISAAC BALDWIN, the father-in-law of Hannah Sackett (De Lancey) Baldwin, was graduated at Yale College, in 1735, and for nearly half a century was a prominent lawyer at Litchfield, Conn. For many years he was a magistrate, represented his town in the Connecticut Legislature, and was first a Lieutenant and then Captain of the Litchfield Company of Militia. His paternal ancestor, the founder of the family in America, was JOSEPH BALDWIN, colonist, who settled at Milford, Conn., in 1639. ANN COLLINS, the wife of Capt. Isaac Baldwin, was the granddaughter of REV. TIMOTHY COLLINS, the pastor of the church at Litchfield, who graduated from Yale in 1718. She was also a lineal descendant of WILLIAM LEETE, of Guilford, who was the last Governor of New Haven Colony previous to its absorption by Connecticut, Page 93 and the Governor of enlarged Connecticut from 1767 to 1783. MAJOR ISAAC BALDWIN, 1753-1818, of Litchfield, Conn., son of Capt. Isaac and Ann Collins Baldwin, and the husband of Hannah Sackett (De Lancey) Baldwin, was graduated at Yale College in 1774. He had studied law and at the outbreak of the War of the Revolution was practicing his profession with his father at Litchfield, Conn. But the news of the first clash of arms at Lexington sent him into the Patriot army, and during the early part of the war he served on the staff of General Zebulon Butler, and was one of the few survivors of the massacre at Wyoming in July, 1778. Later he was made an Assistant Quartermaster General, and was serving in that capacity when he was married to Hannah Sackett De Lancey. The following letters will unquestionably be of interest to his descendants: Dear Sir:--Mr. Baldwin, who lives in the State of Connecticut, married my sister and has had a regular education in the profession of the law, has an inclination to settle in this State and set up the practice of the law, lately applied to me to recommend a proper stand for the business. Considering the broken situation of the State at present, could think of no place in State so convenient as your house at New Windsor, proposed it to him. On giving my opinion he requested me to make application for it. If it should not be engaged to any other person he would wish to rent it and be glad to know your terms and the time he could enter. His family is small and he tells me that he is well acquainted with Judge Hubbard who can give you his character. If you will be pleased to recollect, some time in the spring I requested a permission for Mr. Sylvanus Pine to go to Long Island, in order to sell an Estate that his Uncle left him since the enemy has taken possession of the Island and is suffering great loss by the destruction of the timber and improvements . . . . you gave your answer that as soon as our Army took the field that you would grant a permission for him to go on and sell it and bring off the proceeds in specia, in consequence of which I would beg leave to suggest that the Army is now in the field and that Mr. Pine would wish to go on immediately fearing that if an attack should take place the convultion that would naturally take place from that circumstance may occasion the loss of the will, and he in the end lose the whole, which is an object of great importance to him. You will be pleased to answer the different parts of this letter by the bearer, who is in waiting, and enclose your permission for Mr. Pine in yours and oblige, Dear Sir your most obedient and most humble servant NATHL SACKETT. Fishkill July 1, 1781. Page 94 P. S.--I should not have troubled you this day but I am obliged to go to Connecticut to-morrow when I shall see Mr. Baldwin, who is waiting your answer. I am Sr. Yrs. N. S. His Excellency Governor Clinton. Governor Clinton's reply to above has been preserved and handed down to the present generation of Mr. Sackett's descendants. In it he says: I should be happy to serve your brother-in-law, but my house at New Windsor is at present occupied by Capt. Bedlow, a gentleman from New York, who has been much injured by the times. I fear it would add to his distress if he was obliged to remove from his present situation. If Capt. Bedlow should have the good fortunte to be otherwise provided for before Mr. Baldwin can suit himself he shall have the preference. Mr. Baldwin did not settle in Orange County. After the war he practiced his profession with success in Litchfield, Conn., until 1810, when he removed with his family to Pompey Hill, N. Y., where he lived in retirement to the close of his life. Children. 467. SAMUEL SACKETT BALDWIN, b. Oct. 22, 1781; m. Julia Ann Yates, 2d wife. 468. ISAAC BALDWIN, b. Feb. 4, 1784, d. Jan. 27, 1844, unmarried. 469. ANN BALDWIN, b. Dec. 19, 1786, d. Oct. 22, 1872; m. 1st, Stephen Sedgwick. 470. JAMES HENRY BALDWIN, b. June 25, 1788, d. in 1811, unmarried. 471. CHARLES AUGUSTUS BALDWIN, b. May 23, 1790, d. in March, 1818, unmarried. 157. JAMES SACKETT, M. D., 1756-1791, youngest child of (32) Rev. Samuel and Hannah Hazard Sackett, served both as a regimental and hospital surgeon during the War of the Revolution; after which he became a successful practitioner in Dutchess County. He died very suddenly from some mysterious and unascertained cause at a time when to all appearances he was in the enjoyment of vigorous health. He is reputed to have been "a close student, a ripe scholar, unmarried, and greatly respected by a large circle of friends." At the time of his death he was the Surgeon of Dutchess County Regiment commanded by Colonel John Drake. Page 95 158. JOHN SACKET, 1723- ---?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (33) John and Sarah Mackerany Sacket, was married, May 16, 1751, to RACHEL CHURCH. Children. 472. Sarah Sacket, b. Jan. 20, 1752. 473. Aaron Sacket, m. Jan. 25, 1753, d. July, 1758. 474. Russell Sacket, b. in 1754, d. July 16, 1758. 159. SETH SACKET, 1725 ----?, ---- ----, son of (33) John and Sarah Mackerany Sacket, was married, Feb. 6, 1753, to ELISABETH WINCHELL. Children. 475. Hannah Sacket, b. Mar. 4, 1755. 476. Nathan Sacket, b. Mar. 7, 1757. 477. Sarah Sacket, b. Feb. 13, 1759. 478. Grace Sacket, b. Mar. 23, 1761. 162. LUCY SACKET, 1736----?, ----- -----, daughter of (33) John and Sarah Mackerany Sacket, was married in the year 1757 to GAD KELLOGG. 165. CAPT. DANIEL SACKET, 1734-1824, of Westfield and Pittsfield, in State of Massachusetts, son of (35) Daniel and Mary Weller Sacket, was married, in 1755, to his first wife, whose name has not been ascertained. In 1768, he was married to his second wife, MRS. MAHITABLE CADWELL DEWEY, daughter of ABEL CADWELL and his wife ANN DWIGHT, and widow of Ashbel Dewey. He was an active participant in the Colonial wars of his time, and in the war of the Revolution. The history of "Massachusetts as Colony and State," records the fact that he served in Captain Horton's Company of Colonel Worthington's Regiment in 1756, and that he was with Captain Benjamin Day when he marched his company to reinforce the army at Crown Point in same year. On Apr. 26, 1776, he was commissioned Captain of 7th Company of Col. John Moseley's Hampshire County Regiment, and on Oct. 21, 1776, he marched with his company under Lieut. Colonel Timothy Robinson for Ticonderoga. Page 96 On Nov. 29, 1777, he was mustered out, but soon reentered the service and continued therein until Nov., 1779, when he resigned, giving as a reason that he was unable to give proper time and attention to the duties of his office. He is also credited with commanding a company in Shay's Rebellion. Children. 482. DANIEL SACKET, b. in 1756; m. Sarah ----. 483. LEMUEL SACKET, b. in 1758, d. in 1834; m. Annie Francis. 484. Alanson Sacket, d. in 1798. 485. Elijah Sacket. 486. NOADIAH SACKET. 487. ---- Sacket. 488. LYDIA SACKET, b. Aug. 7, 1775, d. Dec. 3, 1822; m. Oren Goodrich. 166. OZEM SACKET, 1736-1801, of Westfield, Mass., son of (35) Daniel and Mary Weller Sacket, was married, in 1763, to MERCY WELLER. He participated in the war of the Revolution as a Sergeant in Capt. Daniel Sacket's Company of Col. John Moseley's Hampshire County Regiment, and in October, 1776, marched with said regiment under command of Lieut. Colonel Timothy Robinson to reinforce the Northern Army. WILL OF OZEM SACKET. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Ozem Sacket of Westfield, in the County of Hampshire, yoeman, Being at present in sound and perfect mind and memory (Blessed be God) therefor, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following, viz: My soul and immortal part I commit and resign to God . . . . as to worldly goods and estate I give and bequeath it in manner following, viz: Firstly I give unto my beloved wife MERCY SACKET the use & improvement of one third of my real estate during her natural life, & my lands I give and bequeath to my four sons, JONATHAN SACKET, AARON SACKET, OZEM SACKET, & CHARLES SACKET as follows: To Jonathan Sacket I give my Plumb Lot so called which lies on south side of road below my house and is bounded Northwardly in part on sd road and south on the river and Eastwardly on Israel Moseleys & Mr. Aaron Kings land and contains Six Acres more or less. Likewise I give to my sd son Jonathan one fourth part in quantity and quality of a certain piece of land that I own near Old Mill Pond so called which I bot principally of Moses Weller, but a small part was bot of Warham Parks and John Weller, ye whole contains about forty acres more or less, I also give to my sd son Jonathan the Westerly half of a lot of land I bot of Lt. Silas Bush & Widow Hannah Noble & lies on the mill pond Plain ye whole lot contains fourteen Page 97 acres more or less, I likewise give sd Jonathan one long lot so called bounded on two sides by land of Gent, Wm. Shepherd & on the road at the east end & is four feet in width & the length not known. To my sons Aaron, Ozem and Charles I give and bequeath my house barn & home lot whereon I now live to be divided in equal quantities between them and subject to the incumbrances and reservations that shall be made in this Will. Aaron to take his third on the east side of said lot and Charles his third part in the middle of sd lot and Ozem his third part on the West side, ye whole bounds east on Gad Sackets home lot & west on Moses Sackets home lot and North on the Great Brook & and South on the road and Gad Kelloggs home lot; the buildings altho on the ground that I give to Aaron and Charles are to be considered during the life of said buildings to be the joint property of the sd Aaron Ozem and Charles and likewise subject to the widows dower, and likewise I give to my two daughters SOPHIA SACKET and HARRIET SACKET the right and privilege of living in the dwelling house during the time they shall continue single and unmarried and no longer, and likewise it is my will that my sd sons Aaron Ozem and Charles shall have a joint rite to occupancy and improvement of garden and barnyard during the life of the house and barn and no longer. To my sd son Aaron I give my Handshet lot so called lying South of my house and contains two acres & one quarter & bounds south on the river North on the road West on Saml. Mather, Esqrs, land & East on my Plumb lot so called. I likewise give my sd son Aaron the fourth part in quantity and quality of a lot near the Old Mill Pond bot of Moses Weller & others. Likewise I give to sd Aaron the easterly half of a lot of land I bot of Lt. Silas Bush & Widow Hannah Noble which lies in the mill pond plain. Likewise I give and bequeath to my son Ozem Sacket one fourth part in quantity and quality of my land near the Old Mill Pond which I bot of Moses Weller & others. Likewise I give to my sd son Ozem about six acres of land more or less that lies North of my house & north of the great brook & runs up the hill to Hampton plain field so called at the North end & is bounded westerly on Asher Sackets land. Likewise I give to sd Ozem four acres of land in the New Field so called, bounded Southwardly on Moses Sackets land & Northwardly on John Lees land & I likewise give sd Ozem about six acres of land at the Mill Pond being a piece that I bot of Warham Parks Esqr. & is bounded south on Sackets Brook so called and East on Arm Brook & Northwardly on my own land. To my son Charles Sacket I give and bequeath in addition to his gift of a part of the home lot and buildings & as above described I give him one fourth part of the mill pond lot bot of Moses Weller John Miller and Warham Parks, the whole of which land I consider at forty acres more or less. To my son Warham Sacket I give and bequeath in addition to what I have heretofore given him the sum of One Hundred and sixty eight dollars to be paid to him in one year from the time of my decease in manner as I shall provide in this Instrument. To my daughter Sophia I give the sum of One Hundred & thirty three dollars and thirty three cents to be paid in one year after my decease, one half of it to be paid in furniture and utensils Page 98 out of the house at a price to be agreed upon by my Executors and her or in case they can not agree then the sd articles shall be appraised by two men one to be chosen by each of the parties, and the other half to be paid in money. To my daughter Harriet I give the sum of One Hundred dollars to be paid in the same proportion time and manner as Sophia is to be paid. To my daughter Mercy the wife of Henry Brass I give the sum of Fifty Dollars in addition to what she has already received, to be paid in articles out of the house the whole in the same manner that ye other two daughters are to receive their parts of sd articles and if they can not agree either respecting the price or the articles to be received then each of the parties are to choose one man & they jointly shall determine as to the articles each one shall receive and the price. Furthermore I give unto my son Aaron Sacket all the residue of my property either in stock or cattle or debts due to me or of any other description whatever on condition that he shall pay and settle the legacies which I have given to my son Warham and my daughters Mary Sophia and Harriet in the manner and within the time prescribed by me in this my last Will and Testament & do hereby declare it to be my will and intention that if my wife Mercy Sacket shall choose to have her thirds set out in severality then & in that case that they shall be set out to her in equal and in due proportion from each and every piece of land that I have given to my sons that equal justice may be done to all & furthermore it is my will and order that my son Aaron shall out of the stock and debts due & other personal property bequeathed to him pay and settle all my just debts & charges & I do constitute and appoint my son Aaron Sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament. I give my lot in New Field so called containing sixteen acres more or less the one half to my son Charles and the other half to be equally divided between Aaron and Ozem. In Testimony and Confirmation of all the above matter I hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred & Ninety Nine hereby publishing & declaring this to be my last Will & Testament. OZEM SACKET. Signed, Sealed Published & Declared in presence of us. Frederick Fowler, King Parks, Warham Parks. Record of Children. 489. Jonathan Sacket, b. in year 1763, d. in year 1829; m. Joana ----. 490. AARON SACKET, b. in year 1772, d. in year 1848. 491. Jared Sacket, d. unmarried. 492. Mercy Sacket, m. Henry Brass. 493. Sophia Sackett, m. in year 1770, d. in year 1846. 494. WARHAM SACKET, m. Eunice Foot. 495. Ozem Sacket, b. in year 1777, d. in year 1846. 496. CHARLES SACKET, b. in year 1780, d. in year 1848; m. Sarah Woods. 497. Harriet Sacket, b. in year 1785, d. in year 1875; m. ---- Burt. Page 99 169. MOSES SACKET, 1743----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (35) David and Mary Weller Sacket, was married in 1770 to EUNICE CADWELL. Children. 499. PHILENA SACKET, b. June 23, 1771, d. Mar. 20, 1851; m. William Noble. 500. MARTIN SACKET, b. Dec. 23, 1776, d. June 12, 1862; m. Miriam Bancroft. 501. Olive Sacket, m. Rowland Buell. 502. JOHN SACKET, b. in year 1781, d. Aug. 6, 1839; m. Rachel Morse. 503. HEMAN SACKET, b. in year 1784, d. in year 1851; m. Experience Searle. 504. Frances Sacket. 505. Erastus Sacket. 506. ISRAEL SACKET, m. Lucy Doane. 507. Roxana Sacket, m. (2d) Nathan Henry Stiles. 170. ENSIGN ISRAEL SACKET, 1746-1786, of Westfield, Mass., son of (35) Daniel and Mary Weller Sacket, was married in 1782 to (193) EUNICE SACKET, daughter of (42) ELIAKIM SACKET and his wife BETHESDA FOWLER. His military service in War of Revolution, as given in volume of Massachusetts State Records, published in 1905, reads as follows: Sacket, Israel, Westfield, Corporal in Westfield Co. of Minute Men commanded by Lieut, John Shepard, which marched to the Alarm of April 19, 1775, service 1 week, 1 day, reported enlisted into the Army Apr. 28, 1775. Also Sacket, Israel, Westfield, Sergeant Capt. Warham Parks Co., Col. Timothy Danielson's Regt., muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775, engaged Apr. 28, 1775, service 3 mos. 10 days, also Company return dated Roxbury (probably Oct. 27, 1775). Also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated camp at Roxbury Dec. 23, 1775. Also Lieut. Col. Nathan Tyler's Regt., list of Officers of a regiment ordered to be detached to serve at Rhode Island until Jan. 1, 1780, agreeable to resolve of June 8, 1778, Commissioned Aug. 4, 1779. Also Lieut. Joshua L. Woodridges Co., Col. Nathan Tyler's Regt., Engaged July 25, 1779, service 5 months, 6 days at Rhode Island, roll sworn to Newport. Also service Co. and Regt. payable for Dec. 1779, sworn at Newport, allowed 1 mo. 5 days services at Rhode Island, including travel (110 miles) home. Child. 508. Cynthia Sacket. Page 100 171. GAD SACKET, 1748----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (35) Daniel and Mary Weller Sacket, was married in 1773 to LUCY WILLIAMS. He enlisted, May 4, 1775, in Capt. Warham Parks' Co., of Col. Timothy Danielson's Regiment; served as a Corporal in War of Revolution a term of three months and four days. The Mass. State Records show that he was also mustered at a subsequent date. Children. 509. Derick Sacket. 510. RUSSELL SACKET, b. in 1782, d. in 1839; m. Mary Brass. 511. ELIJAH SACKET, b. in 1784. 512. GAD SACKET. 513. Lucy Sacket, m. John Weller. 172. LIEUT. ABNER SACKET, 1757----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (35) Daniel and Mary Weller Sacket, was married in 1771 to RHODA KELLOGG. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and as shown by Massachusetts State Records, enlisted Apr. 28, 1775, in Capt. Warham Parks' Co. of Col. Timothy Danielson's Regt., and is credited with a term of service lasting 3 months and 10 days in said company. He is also credited with responding to the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, and serving for eight days previous to his enlistment as above stated, in Westfield Company of Minute Men, commanded by Lieut. John Shepard. Mention is also made of his service for an unstated period as First Lieut. of Capt. Daniel Sacket's Company of the 3d Regiment of Hampshire County Militia. Children. 514. NOBLE SACKET, b. in year 1772, d. in year 1828; m. Olive Watkins. 515. Clarissa Sacket. 516. NANCY SACKET, b. Sept. 10, 1775, d. Mar. 7, 1796; m. Heman Noble. 517. Dolly Sacket. 518. Anna Sacket. 519. Rolin Sacket b. in year 1878. 520. Filer Sacket. 521. EDWARD SACKET, m. Sally Eldridge. 174. BENJAMIN SACKET, ----?, of Sheffield, Mass., Litchfield, Conn., and New Lebanon, N. Y., son of (37) Benjamin and Thankful Page 101 King Sacket, was married, about 1761, to MISS DEBORAH BUELL, daughter of EBENEZER BUELL. A parchment deed, dated May 30, 1786, conveying 59 acres of land in the town of Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., was, in 1905, in possession of Mr. Marvin Sackett, of Lebanon, N. Y. The grantor is Ebenezer Buell and the grantee Buell Sacket. The consideration clause reads, "given in consideration of the natural love and affection which I have and do bear unto Buell Sacket, my grandson." WILLIAM BUELL, colonist, came to America prior to 1639 and settled at Windsor, Conn., where his oldest son, SAMUEL BUELL, was born, Sept. 2, 1641, and was married, Nov. 30, 1662, to DEBORAH GRISWOLD, daughter of EDWARD GRISWOLD, Esq., of Killingsworth, Conn. JOHN BUELL, a son of said Samuel and his wife Deborah, was born Feb. 17, 1671, and was married, Nov. 20, 1695, to MARY LOOMIS, and they were the parents of EBENEZER BUELL, the father-in-law of (174) Benjamin Sacket. Children of Benjamin and Deborah Buell Sacket. 540. Deborah Sacket, b. in year 1762. 541. BUELL SACKET, b. July 28, 1763, d. Jan. 18, 1840; m. 1st, Sally E. Beach. 542. John Sacket, b. Nov. 16, 1764. 543. Benjamin Sacket, b. Jan. 17, 1766. 544. Aaron Sacket, b. Jan. 14, 1767. 545. ELIJAH SACKET, b. Jan. 31, 1768; d. Apr. 7, 1813; m. Dorothy Hitchcock. 546. Dorothy Sacket, b. July 29, 1770. 547. Thankful Sacket, b. Feb. 18, 1772. 548. Isaac Sacket, b. Oct. 28, 1773. 549. Calvin Sacket, b. Oct. 21, 1776. 175. KING SACKET, of Westfield, Mass., son of (37) Benjamin and Thankful King Sacket, was married to his cousin, (179) LYDIA SACKET, 1736----?, daughter of (39) ISAAC SACKET and his wife ELISABETH SHEPARD. The following is his official record as soldier of the Revolution: Sacket, King, Private Capt. John King's Co. Col. Hopkins' (Berkshire Co.) Regt. Entered service July 5, 1776, service 12 days, mileage out and home (190 miles) allowed said Sacket; Company marched by order of Brig. Gen. Fellows. Also Capt. Spoor's Co., Col. Benjamin Simond's (Berkshire Page 102 Co.) Regt.; entered service Apr. 26, 1777, discharged May 20, 1777, service 25 days at Saratoga by order of General Gates. Capt. Enoch Noble's Co., entered service Oct. 21, 1777, service 60 days; Enlisted 3 months; company marched to Manchester, Va., thence to Stillwater, by order of Gen. Lincoln. Joined Col. John Ashley's (Berkshire Co.) Regt. and marched to Boltons Kilns and there served until regularly discharged. 180. EZEKIEL SACKET, 1738----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (39) Isaac and Elisabeth Shepard Sacket, was married in 1767 to ANNA GRANGER. Children. 559. MENARDUS SACKET, b. about 1770, d. in year 1854; m. Farmy Nimocks. 560. Martha Sacket, b. in year 1776, d. in year 1862. 182. ENSIGN DAVID SACKET, 1743-1838, of Westfield, Mass., and later of Ohio, son of (39) Isaac and Elisabeth Shepard Sacket, was married to LUCRETIA SHEPARD. His record in the War of the Revolution reads: Sacket, David, Westfield, Ensign Capt. Malcomb Henry's Co., Col. David Brewer's (9th) Regt. Company return dated Oct. 7, 1775. Also recommended in Committee of Safety at Cambridge June 17, 1775, that said officer be commissioned by Congress. Also Ensign Capt. Malcomb Henry's Co., David Brewer's Regt., muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1771; engaged Aug. 9, 1775; service 2 mos. 3 weeks, 6 days. Children. 563. Betsey Sacket, m. Ebenezer Williams. 564. Lucretia Sacket. 565. Lydia Sacket, m. Warren Parke. 566. Polly Sacket, m. ---- Gibb. 567. Mark Sacket. 568. John Sacket. 569. DAVID SACKET, m. Anne Parke. 183. LIEUT. ADNAH SACKETT, 1745-1813, of Westfield, Mass., son of (39) Isaac Sackett and Elisabeth Shepard, was married, Oct. 13, 1767, to JERUSHA POMEROY, 1746-1789, who was the mother of his eight children. On May 4, 1790, he was married to MERCY BUSH, who died April 20, 1791, aged 32. His third wife was a MRS. Page 103 FERNARD, of Southwick, Mass. He was an active participant in the War of the Revolution, and on Apr. 22, 1776, was commissioned First Lieut. of Capt. Daniel Sackett's Company of the Third Hampshire Co., Mass., Regiment, commanded by Col. John Moseley. A monument erected to his memory is yet standing in the historic but sadly neglected burial ground near Mechanic Street in Westfield, Mass. His wife, Jerusha Pomeroy, was the daughter of Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy and Rachel Mosely, of Northampton, Mass. Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy was slain at the battle of Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755. He was a brother of General Seth Pomeroy, who had an early command in the Patriot army and signalized himself by heroic service at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and on other fields of the Revolution. (See Irving's Life of Washington.) Children. 570. JERUSHA SACKETT, b. May 27, 1769; m. Abel Avery. 571. JOHN SACKETT, b. Jan. 27, 1771, d. Dec. 10, 1851; m. Lucinda Mosely. 572. CHARLOTTE SACKETT, b. May 27, 1773; m. ---- Browning. 573. Isaac Sackett, b. in year 1777, d. in year 1797, unmarried. 574. George Sackett. 575. Israel Sackett. 576. OLIVE SACKETT, m. Daniel Ives. 577. LYDIA SACKETT, m. Walter Bush. 184. ZAVEN SACKET, 1751----?, of Westfield, Mass., Chester, Mass., and Meadville, Penn., son of (39) Isaac and Elisabeth Shepard Sacket, was married to ABIGAIL BILLS, of Westfield. His record of service in War of Revolution reads: Sacket, Zaven, Westfield, Private Capt. Warham Parks' Company, Col. Timothy Donulson's Regt. Muster Roll dated Aug. 1, 1775, service 3 mo. 4 days. Also Company return dated Roxbury (probably October, 1775). Also pension bounty coat or its equivalent in money. Children. 577a. Zavin Sacket, b. Aug. 11, 1781, d. Dec. 6, 1857; m. Emily ----. 578. ISAAC SACKET, b. Feb. 26, 1783, d. Mar. 29, 1863; m. Mercy Mansfield. 578a. James Sacket, b. in year 1786, d. Jan. 11, 1862. 579. JABEZ B. SACKET, b. Dec. 14, 1788, d. Nov. 17, 1870; m. Ann Dewey. 580. Emily Sacket. 581. Ann Sacket. 582. Eliza Sacket, d. Aug. 5, 1850. 583. Rolin Sacket. Page 104 584. Joseph Sackett. 584a. Abigail Sackett, m. Charles Collins. 185. ASHER SACKET, 1748-1830, of Westfield, Mass., son of (41) Israel Sacket, was married in 1772 to SARAH KELLOGG. He served in the War of the Revolution in Capt. Daniel Sacket's Company of Col. John Moseley's Hampshire County Regiment. The official state records show that he enlisted Oct. 21, 1776, and marched with his regiment, under Lieut. Colonel Timothy Robinson, to reinforce the Northern Army. The muster roll, giving date of his enlistment, is dated at Westfield. Children. 585. Lovell Sacket. 586. Peggy Sacket, m. Charles Lee. 587. SHUBAEL SACKET, b. in year 1778, d. in year 1831. 588. Clymena Sacket. 589. SALLY SACKET, b. about 1781, d. May 15, 1826; m. Herman Noble. 590. Henry Sacket. 591. Daniel Sacket. 592. ASHER SACKET, JR., b. in 1782. 593. Jerusha Sacket. 189. JUSTICE SACKET, 1745-1778, of Westfield, Mass., son of (42) Eliakim and Bethesda Fowler Sacket, was married in 1771 to NAOMI WELLER. Children. 598. Electa Sacket. 599. ELIAKIM SACKET, b. May 30, 1775, d. July 13, 1851; m. Ann Edwards. 600. Justice Sacket. 190. STEPHEN SACKET, 1748-1830, of Westfield, Mass., son of (42) Eliakim and Bethesda Fowler Sacket, was married in 1776 to EUNICE ROSS. Children. 601. DANIEL SACKET, m. Tryphena Loomis. 602. EUNICE SACKET, b. Apr. 25, 1779, d. Aug. 19, 1859; m. Erastus Grant. Page 105 191. EZRA SACKET, 1750, 1834, of Westfield, Mass., son of (42) Eliakim and Bethesda Fowler Sacket, was married, Feb. 14, 1779, to LYDIA LOVERING, 1751-731, of Ipswich. He was a patriot soldier and served three months, from Oct. 20, 1777, under Capt. Daniel Sacket, in Northern Department. Children. 603. CHARLES SACKET, b. Dec. 6, 1783; m. Abigail Otis. 604. Lydia Sacket, m. Joel Atwater. 605. Charlotte Sacket, m. Horace Nelson. 606. ELECTA SACKET, b. Aug. 5, 1788, d. Feb. 1, 1861; m. C. C. Dewey. 607. CLARISSA SACKET, b. in 1790, d. Feb. 19, 1840; m. Timothy Dewey. 608. Julia Sacket, m. Lymon Norton. 609. Olive Sacket, m. Manning Blakeley. 610. EZRA SACKET. 611. ROLAND SACKET. 192. PLINEY SACKET, 1753----?, of Westfield and Southwick, Mass., son of (42) Eliakim and Bethesda Fowler Sacket, was married in April, 1780, to ELISABETH KELLOGG. Children. 612. ROYAL SACKET, m. Emma Hastings. 613. PLINY SACKET, d. in year 1853; m. Nancy Bartlett. 614. Electa Sacket, m. Reuben Ensign. 196. BEULAH SACKET, 1714-1769, daughter of (44) Joseph and Abigail ----? Sacket, was married, Jan. 26, 1733, to DEACON JOSEPH DEWEY. In the ancient burial ground at Westfield there was standing, in 1902, a stone bearing this inscription: IN MEMORY OF DEACON JOSEPH DEWEY who died 25 Augst. 1799, aged 85 years, also MRS. RULAH HIS WIFE died 27 Oct. 1769, aged 55 Children. 618. Beulah Dewey, b. Feb. 15, 1739, d. July 18, 1739. 619. Joseph Dewey, b. Mar. 5, 1741, d. Dec. 31, 1815; m. Ruth Phelps. 620. Benjamin Dewey, b. Apr. 5, 1743, d. Oct. 7, 1812; m. Rhoda Loomis. 621. Gad Dewey, b. Jan. 14, 1745, d. June 28, 1823; m. Dimodia Wood. 622. Eliab Dewey, b. Nov. 2, 1746, d. May 31, 1820; m. Louiza Day. Page 106 623. Beulah Dewey, b. Oct. 12, 1752, d. Jan. 12, 1753. 624. Sarah Dewey, b. Apr. 12, 1750, d. Oct. 30, 1799, unmarried. 625. Mary Dewey, b. Jan. 23, 1753, d. Jan. 2, 1812; m. Noah Loomis. 197. JESSE SACKET, 1716----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (44) Joseph Sacket and his wife Abigail, was married, Dec. 22, 1743, to SARAH DEWEY, daughter of JEDEDIAH DEWEY. Children. 626. Sarah Sacket, b. Nov. 2, 1744, d. Feb. 21, 1746. 627. Rebecca Sacket, b. June 10, 1746; m. M. S. Clarenton. 628. Sarah Sacket, b. Apr. 17, 1750. 198. ERASTUS SACKET, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of (44) Joseph Sacket and his wife Abigail, was married in May, 1747, to ELISABETH LEONARD, 1730----?, daughter of Abel Leonard and his wife Elisabeth, of Springfield, Mass. His name appears in the list of patriots who, in August, 1776, marched from Pittsfield to Ticonderoga under command of Sergeant Caleb Goodrich, and remained in the field three months and a day. He is also credited with marching from Pittsfield in the latter part of June, 1777, under command of Capt. John Strong, to Fort Ann, and remaining in the field for three weeks and three days. Children. 629. Solomon Sacket, b. Jan. 31, 1752, d. Jan. 3, 1760. 630. Hannah Sacket, b. Dec. 10, 1753, d. Feb. 3, 1754. 631. Ozina Sacket, b. Jan. 18, 1759. 632. PENELOPE SACKET, b. Jan. 17, 1761, d. June 1, 1837; m. Asaph Dewey. 633. SOLOMON SACKET, b. Aug. 7, 1762. 634. Joseph Sacket, b. Dec. 3, 1764. 635. Zelotes Sacket, b. Feb. 17, 1766, d. July 3, 1769. 199. HANNAH SACKET, 1726-1799, daughter of (44) Joseph Sacket and his wife Abigail, was married, May 3, 1750, to JACOB NOBLE. of Westfield, Mass. Children. 636. Jacob Noble, b. Jan. 29, 1751, d. May 3, 1752. 637. Hannah Noble, b. Nov. 22, 1752; m. Samuel Peets. Page 107 638. Elisabeth Noble, b. Nov. 24, 1754; m. Jacob Loomis. 639. Thankful Noble, b. July 17, 1756. 640. Mercy Noble, b. July 17, 1756. 641. Jacob Noble, b. Nov. 28, 1759; m. Eunice Mosely. 642. Benjamin Noble, b. May 13, 1762; m. Mary Sikes. 643. Phineas Noble, b. Sept. 7, 1767; m. Thomas Root. 202. JONATHAN SACKET, JR., 1727-1777, of Hebron, Conn., son of (47) Jonathan and Ann Filer Sacket, was married, Nov. 10, 1748, to HANNAH PHELPS, 17--?-1803. In 1749, his father conveyed to him land in Hebron which became thereafter his permanent place of residence; and there, according to records of the town officials, were born his twelve Children. 644. Hannah Sacket, b. Sept. 22, 1749.(*) 644a. Anna Sacket, b. Oct. 2, 1751.(*) 645. WILLIAM SACKET, b. Nov. 16, 1753, d. in 1842; m. Eunice Bowen. 646. Hulda Sacket, b. in 1755; m. ---- Smith. 647. Aaron Sackett, b. in 1758. 648. Abigail Sacket, b. in 1758(*) 649. Rebecca Sacket, b. Oct. 18, 1760. 650. CHLOE SACKET, b. Mar. 15, 1762, d. Dec. 18, 1823; m. David Abel. 651. Phene Sacket, b. in 1764; m. Jonathan Nichols. 652. FILER SACKET, b. Apr. 10, 1766, d. Apr. 8, 1834; m. Deborah Waterman. 653. Jesse Sacket, b. 1769. 654. Almon Sacket, died unmarried. 203. CAPT. JUSTUS SACKET, 1730-1815, of Kent (now Warren), Conn., son of (47) Jonathan and Ann Filer Sacket, was married in 1757, to LYDIA NEWCOMB, 1738-1808, daughter of BENJAMIN NEWCOMB and his wife HANNAH CLARK. Capt. Sacket was born in East Greenwich (now Hebron), Conn., but in 1750 removed to and became a permanent resident of Kent. He there took an active part in religious, political and military affairs and gained and held the confidence and respect of his townsmen. His name appears in the list of founders of the first church established in Kent, and in 1753 he was appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut to (*) Hannah, Anna and Abigail Sacket were married--one to Joseph Thayer, one to a Mr. Finney, and one to a Mr. Brush. Page 108 collect a tax levied against the property of East Greenwich for support of a minister of the Gospel. He was a Justice of the Peace from 1771 to 1777, and again from 1779 to 1782. In year last named he represented his town in Connecticut Legislature. In 1765 he was commissioned Captain of the Second Train Band of the town of Kent, and during the War of the Revolution he participated in several short campaigns. Children. 655. BENJAMIN SACKET, b. July 28, 1762, d. July 14, 1844; m. Betsey Eldred. 656. SALMON SACKET, b. May 8, 1764, d. Nov. 24, 1846; m. Matilda A. Curtis. 657. HOMER SACKET, b. Aug. 6, 1765, d. May 7, 1853; m. Sarah Carter. 658. LODEMA SACKET, b. Jan. 27, 1767, d. Dec. 5, 1844; m. Augustus Curtis. 659. Lydia Sacket, b. in year 1768, d. in year 1813; m. Benjamin Carter. 660. Betsey Sacket, b. in year 1770, d. Jan. 19, 1821; m. Elisha Swift. 661. Minerva Sacket, b. in year 1772, d. in year 1820; m. Abel Carter. 204. REUBEN SACKET, 1732-1803, of Hebron and East Greenwich, in Conn., son of (47) Jonathan and Ann Filer Sacket, was married, Dec. 21, 1752, to MERCY FINNEY, daughter of John Finney and Ann Toogood, of East Greenwich, Conn. Children. 662. SAMUEL SACKET, b. Apr. 5, 1754, d. Feb. 13, 1833; m. Sarah Manning. 663. ALEXANDER SACKET, b. Mar. 6, 1758, d. May 7, 1829; m. Patience 664. Aaron Sacket, b. Dec. 26, 1760. 665. Cyrus Sacket, b. Jan. 5, 1764. 666. Anne Sacket, b. Apr. 10, 1766. 667. Lucinda Sacket, b. Jan. 23, 1769. 668. Violet Sacket, b. July 18, 1771. 227. WILLIAM SACKET, 1730-1802, of Westfield, Mass., son of (57) William and Hannah Bagg Sacket, was married, Jan. 10, 1760, to LYDIA WELLER, 1739-1828. Children. 673. Mollie Sacket, b. Oct. 14, 1760, d. Apr. 8, 1809. 674. WILLIAM SACKET, b. Aug. 29, 1763; m. Olive Dean. 675. LYDIA SACKET, b. Oct. 27, 1764, d. Aug. 23, 1838; m. 1st, Solomon Noble. Page 109 676. MOSES SACKET, b. Dec. 3, 1766, d. in year 1850; m. Tryphena Hiscock. 677. ROYAL SACKET, b. June 12, 1769, d. May 5, 1804; m. Catherine Noble. 678. Joel Sacket, b. Jan. 23, 1772. 679. James Sacket, b. Sept. 15, 1774; m. Nancy Holcomb. 680. John Sacket, b. Feb. 28, 1780, d. Jan. 5, 1807. dated Aug. 1, 1775. Enlisted May 8, 1775, service 3 months 1 day, also 236. SAMUEL SACKET, 1750----?, of Sheffield, Mass., son of (59) Samuel and Ruth Trumbull Sacket, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. His military record, as given in recently published Massachusetts records, reads as follows: Sacket, Samuel, Sheffield, Private in Capt. William Bacon's Co. Minute Men, Col. Fellow's Regt., which marched Apr. 21, in response to the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; service to May 7, 1775, 17 days; reported enlisted into the army. Also Capt. William Bacon's Co., Col. Fellow's Regt., muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775. Enlisted May 8, 1775, service 3 months 1 day, also company return dated Oct. 6, 1775. 238. ELISABETH SACKET, 1734----?, daughter of (60) BENONI SACKET and Mindwell Smith, was married, Mar. 6, 1755, to JOHN SHEPARD, 1733-1--?, son of JOHN SHEPARD and ELISABETH NOBLE. They resided at Hebron, Washington County, N. Y. 252. MAHITABLE SACKETT, 1732-1--? daughter of (73) Capt. (Deacon) Samuel and Elisabeth Todd Sackett, was married in 1755 to ASA GOODYEAR, 1733-1--?, of Meriden, Conn. 254. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1741-1826, of North Haven, Conn., son of (73) Capt. Samuel Sackett, was married Dec. 24, 1767, to ABIGAIL BLAKELEY. Children. 694. SAMUEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 2, 1771, d. Aug. 27, 1851; m. Sally Donelson. 695. Elisabeth Sackett. 696. Eli Sackett. 697. Solomon Sackett, m. Sept. 1, 1790, Ruth Turner. 698. Amelia Sackett, m. Feb. 9, 1790, Joel Turner. 699. JOEL SACKETT, m. Dec. 6, 1789, Lydia Todd. Page 110 256. SOLOMON SACKETT, 1748-1828, of New Haven and Norfolk, Conn., son of (73) Capt. Samuel Sackett, was twice married. He and both of his wives are buried in the "North End Cemetery," at Norfolk. Several of their descendants resided in 1904 in the adjoining town of Colebrook. Children: 700. SOLOMON SACKETT, b. in year 1785, d. in year 1855; m. Hulda Webster 701. Thomas Sackett, m. Lucy ---- 702. Sylvia Sackett, b. in year 1805, d. May 4, 1833. 259. SARAH SACKETT, 1721-1780, daughter of (74) Jonathan and Ruth Hotchkiss Sackett, was married to Lieut. ELISHA BOOTH, of the Township of New Haven, Conn. In the cemetery at Hamden Plains, Conn., there stands a stone bearing this inscription: This Stone is erected to the Memory of LIEUT. ELISHA BOOTH Who died Jan. 5, 1793, A 70. Also to his Wife MRS. SARAH BOOTH Who died Dec. 5, 1800 A. 80. "The Ritious shall be in everlasting remembrance." Children: 704. JONATHAN BOOTH, b. June 19, 1747, d. Sept. 22, 1806; m. Rebecca Cooper. 705. HANNAH BOOTH, b. Apr. 1, 1755, d. Aug. 25, 1836; m. Capt. Thomas Punderson. 267. RICHARD SACKETT, 1701-1771, eldest son of (75) Capt. Richard and Margery L. Sleade Sackett, was married to MARY ----. Immediately after the death of his father, in 1746, he purchased an improved farm at New Milford, Conn., and removed with his family from Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y., to this farm, which became henceforth his permanent place of abode. It is recorded in Dutchess County records that he refused to qualify as one of the executors of his father's estate, not caring to become involved in several suits at law then pending relative to title to certain extensive tracts of land, covered by his father's will. Not much has been learned of the life of Mr. Sackett at New Milford beyond the Page 111 fact that he was a well-to-do farmer. He seems to have left a will that was not recorded, but several documents are extant, including an inventory of personal property and a memorandum, evidently prepared for the person who was to draw his will, and which undoubtedly cover the bulk of its contents. From these we learn that among his possessions, in addition to several pieces of real estate which he directed divided between his wife Mary and his children Richard Sackett, Jr.; Margery, wife of David Green, and Mary, wife of Israel Camfield, there was a "Great" Bible, a sword and belt, a gun, a service book, household goods, farming utensils, and some tools for coopering. Also that said will was dated Jan. 1, 1771, and proven April 2, 1771, and that the larger share of said estate went to his son Richard. Children: 709. Margery Sackett, m. David Green. 710. Mary Sackett, m. Israel Camfield. 711. RICHARD SACKETT, b. July 15, 1749, d. in 1789; m. Martha Benedict. 712. Elisabeth Sackett, b. Oct. 14, 1751, d. probably in infancy. 713. Catherine Sackett, b. Oct. 14, 1751, d. probably in infancy. 268. JOHN SACKETT, M. D., of Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y., and Stephentown in the present County of Rensselaer, both in the state of New York, son of (75) Capt. Richard and Margery Sleade Sackett, is frequently mentioned in early records of Dutchess County in connection with sales of real estate. In a deed given by him to one Moses Harris for 3,497 acres of land that had been a part of his father's estate, he is referred to as "John Sackett of Dover, sole executor and youngest son of Capt. Richard Sackett." In Hunting's "History of Little Nine Partners," a facsimile of his signature is shown. After about 1760 he resided at Stephentown. Children. 715. EZEKIEL SACKETT, m. Mary Atherton, Nov. 13, 1759. 716. BENJAMIN SACKETT, b. in 1752, d. in 1826; m. Phebe Davis. 717. RICHARD SACKETT, b. June, 1751, d. Sept. 1778; m. Chloe Atherton. 718. Margery Sackett, m. Josiah Beardsley, Jan. 6, 1763. 719. JOHN SACKETT, b. Aug. 18, 1747; m. Prudence Atherton. 720. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. Nov. 22, 1742; d. June 6, 1808; m. Gen. Caleb-Hyde. 721. Mary Sackett, m. Alexander Mackey, Sept. 2, 1760. Page 112 722. Catherine Sackett. 723. Lois Sackett, b. Mar. 1749, d. Jan. 20, 1770; m. Nathaniel Williams. 724. ---- Sackett, m. ---- Wadsworth. 271. JOSIAH CREGO SACKETT, 17 -17 , youngest son of (75) Capt. Richard and Margery L. Sleade Sackett, was born at Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y., and resided for several years previous to his death at New Milford, Conn. He married about 1650 a MISS DOUGLASS, whose mother is supposed to have been a sister of Col. Philip Skeene, of Albany County, N. Y. Mr. Sackett and his wife died several years previous to the commencement of the war of the Revolution, and their orphan children were distributed among their mother's people. Children: 725. Nelly Sackett, m. Simeon Kelsey. 726. Prime Sackett. 727. Prince Sackett. 728. ---- Sackett. 729. SKENE DOUGLAS SACKETT, 1765-1832; m. Hannah Sexton. 280. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1747-1816, son of (81) Joseph Sackett, was born at New Haven, Conn. In 1767 he was married to THANKFUL WOOD, daughter of John Wood, and in same year settled on a 250 acre section of Big Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, N. Y., near Huns Lake. There had been an Indian settlement on the property and a number of their deserted wigwams were yet standing when he took possession. He constructed first, for himself and his bride, a substantial log cabin, but later erected a commodious farm house, in which all but the two oldest of his nine children were born, and all grew to maturity. Gradually, as his children became able to assist him, his wilderness section was transferred into a cleared and exceedingly productive farm, and at his death, which occurred Aug. 20, 1816, he was reputed a man of large means. Several of his children had died previous to his demise and were buried in a family plot on his farm, and there he too was laid to rest. His wife Thankful lived to her 92d year. In the war of the Revolution he was an active patriot, serving through several campaigns in the Sixth Dutchess County Regiment. Page 113 By the terms of his will his Dutchess County farm passed to his sons Isaac and Joel. Children: 730. JEHIAL SACKETT, b. July 24, 1768, d. in 1822; m. Samantha Knapp. 731. SAMUEL W. SACKETT, d. Feb. 10, 1845; m. Anna Hanmore. 732. James Sackett, m. Susan Pulver. 733. Hannah Sackett, m. Mathew Scott. 734. Phoebe Sackett, m. James Jermond. 735. Polly Sackett, m. James Rowe. 736. Betsey Sackett, m. Darius Sweet. 737. JOEL SACKETT, b. in 1786, d. in 1836; m. Betsey Husted. 738. ISAAC SACKETT, b. in 1786, d. in 1836; m. Betsey ----. 281. ELIJAH SACKETT, 1751-1837, of Cumberland County, Penn., and Delaware County, Ohio, son of (82) Thomas and Sarah L. Haywood Sackett, was married in 1779 to CATHERINE GIBSON, daughter of WILLIAM GIBSON, JR., and his wife ANNA SEATON, and grand-daughter of WILLIAM GIBSON, SR., and his wife NANCY HOLMES. Children: 740. SARAH SACKETT, b. in year 1780; m. Richard Gabriel. 741. Ann Sackett, b. in year 1781; m. ---- Hughes. 742. MILTON H. SACKETT, b. Mar. 19, 1783, d. Feb. 22, 1849; m. Anna Sterret. 743. GUY SACKETT, b. in year 1784; m. Sarah Duncan. 744. AUGUSTINE SACKETT, b. in 1786; m. Martha Lusk. 745. Lavina Sackett, b. in year 1787; m. John Slack. 746. Lydia Sackett, b. in year 1787, d. unmarried. 747. Rachel Sackett, b. in year 1791; m. John Herbert. 748. Elijah Sackett, b. in year 1792, m. Mary Cunningham. 749. Esther Sackett, b. in year 1794; m. William Cunningham. 750. Elias Sackett, b. in year 1796, d. unmarried. 751. Rhoda Sackett, b. in year 1798, d. unmarried. 752. Jane Sackett, b. in year 1801, d. unmarried. 282. AZARIAH SACKETT, of Lancaster, Ohio, son of (82) Thomas and Sarah L. Haywood Sackett, was married to ELIZA YOUNG. Children: 753. WILLIAM SACKETT, m. Rachel Young. 754. JONATHAN SACKETT, b. May 8, 1804, d. Nov. 19, 1880; m. Rachel Lush. Page 114 283. JOSEPH SACKETT, son of (82) Thomas and Sarah L. Haywood Sackett, was a resident of Huntington County, Penn. Children: 755. Joseph Sackett. 756. ISAAC A. SACKETT, b. Oct. 1, 1785, d. Feb. 1852; m. Eunice Davis. 757. DAVID H. SACKETT, b. in 1772. 758. Azariah Sackett. 758a. Nancy Sackett. 758b. George Sackett, d. in Nov. 1827. 286. BETHSHEBA SACKETT, daughter of (82) Thomas and Sarah L. Haywood Sackett, was married to JOSEPH EATON. They resided in Delaware County, Ohio. Child. 759. JOSEPH EATON, JR., m. a Miss Caulkins. 295. JOSEPH SACKETT, M. D., 1733-1799, of Newtown, L. I., Paramus, N. J., and New York City, son of (85) Joseph and Millicent Clowes Sackett, was married, April 9, 1752, to HANNAH ALSOP, 1735-1817, daughter of RICHARD ALSOP, 1695-1764, and his wife ELISABETH CROOKE, 1703-1776. Dr. Sackett, previous to the Revolution, had an extensive practice on Long Island, but, in the words of Riker, "being a Whig he, during the war, lived at Paramus, N. J." Shortly after the declaration of peace he located in New York City. His residence there, as shown by the New York Directory for the year 1786, was at what was then No. 46 William Street. Children: 761. JAMES SACKETT, b. Mar. 20, 1755, d. unmarried. 762. PETER SACKETT, b. Nov. 4, 1757; m. Esther Palmer. 763. ELISABETH SACKETT, b. Jan. 16, 1772; m. Capt. Daniel Tingley. 764. JOSEPH SACKETT, b. Aug. 6, 1774; m. Margaret (#). 298. JOHN SACKETT, 17 -1811, of Cornwall, Orange County, N. Y., son of (90) John and Phebe Burling Sackett, purchased on Mar. 12, 1770, from Jonathan Ketcham, for the sum of œ600, 13s, a Page 115 farm in the town of Cornwall, which, nearly a hundred years later, was owned and occupied by Congressman Lewis Beach. His name appears as one of the signers of the Revolutionary Pledge, and is given in State records as that of a resident of Orange County who was entitled to bounty land, by reason of service rendered his country in war of Revolution. His will is dated Sept. 25, 1810, and was recorded in Orange County records the following year. By it he conveys to his sons Nathaniel, Benjamin, Justus, and John, Jr., his farm, bounded on the north by lands of Joseph Ketcham, on the west by Schunemunk Mountains, on the south by lands of the said Joseph Ketcham and Samuel Simons, and on the east by the highway. To his wife Jane he leaves a horse, saddle and bridle, a cow, and certain household goods, and directs his sons to pay her $50 a year. To each of his daughters, whom he designates as Elisabeth, the wife of Robert Wigham, Jr.; Mary, wife of William Ketcham; Anne Sackett, Julia Ann Sackett, and Charity Sackett, he bequeaths specified sums, which he directs be paid by his sons. His personal property other than that given to his wife he sets apart for the payment of his debts and his funeral expenses. Children: 766. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. July 3, 1787, d. Nov. 8, 1834; m. Margaret Lazier. 767. BENJAMIN SACKETT, m. Annie (#). 768. Justus Sackett. 769. John Sackett. 770. Elisabeth Sackett, m. Robert Wigham, Jr. 771. Mary Sackett, m. William Ketcham. 772. Anne Sackett, m. Elijah Horton. 773. Julia A. Sackett, died unmarried. 774. Charity Sackett, died unmarried. 305. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1765-1822, of Jamaica, Long Island, and Brooklyn, N. Y., son of (94) Samuel and Mary Betts Sackett, was married Nov. 9, 1786, to ELISABETH KISSAM, daughter of DANIEL KISSAM and his wife MARY BETTS. The greater part of the adult life of Mr. Sackett was spent in Brooklyn, where he was interested in many public movements having for their object the commercial, industrial, educational and moral advancement of that ambitious and thriving village, which has since become a great Page 116 city. He was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Wallabout and Brooklyn Bridge Company, incorporated Apr. 6, 1805. When in 1815 The Society to Prevent and Suppress Vice in the town of Brooklyn was organized, he was made one of its Executive Committee. He was also for many years a trustee of the Brooklyn Select Academy. Stiles in his "History of Brooklyn," written in the year 1816, says: "On the lower side of the turn of the present Clinton Street into Fulton was the pretty two story frame dwelling of Samuel Sackett, who was a most excellent man. He was for many years Overseer of the Poor of Brooklyn, to which, as well as to the duties of a trustee of the only public school, he gave his undivided attention. He was a man of polished manners and agreeable address, and was highly esteemed by his cotemporaries." Children: 775. Edward K. Sackett. 776. CLARENCE D. SACKETT, b. in 1798, d. Mar. 8, 1858; m. Miss Tredwell. 777. GRANVILLE A. SACKETT, b. in 1804, d. Mar. 9, 1858, unmarried. 778. Elisabeth K. Sackett, m. Thomas W. Titus. 307. AUGUSTUS SACKETT, 1769-1827, founder of the village of Sacketts Harbor, son of (94) Samuel Sackett and Mary Betts, was married at Catskill, Greene County, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1795, to MINERVA CAMP, 1780-1837. Augustus Sackett was born in New York City. He there acquired his education, studied law and began the practice of his profession. He was also interested in a mercantile business there, and at same time invested largely in unimproved real estate located mainly on and near the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. One purchase, in which he was interested equally with John W. Watkins, a noted real estate speculator of the period, contained fifteen thousand acres; a second tract purchased on his own account contained sixteen thousand five hundred acres, and a third, one-half of the township of Houndsfield. He also took a lively interest in local military affairs, holding commissions as Lieutenant, Lieutenant Captain, and Captain of State troops. In 1801 he disposed of his business interests in New York City and removed to his Lake Ontario estate. He there began a settlement on Black River bay since known as Sacketts Harbor. The Page 117 founding of that village, by which his name was to be perpetuated, was begun with energy and prosecuted with success. In 1804 his brother-in-law, Elisha Camp, of Catskill, N. Y., joined him, bringing additional capital and energy to the undertaking. In 1805 a considerable company of English colonists of the better class were induced to settle there, and the same year the General Government organized all that portion of the State bordering on Lake Ontario into a United States Revenue District, and Mr. Sackett was appointed its first Collector. In 1806 the town of Houndsfield, which embraced the village and port of entry of Sacketts Harbor, held its first town meeting and elected Mr. Sackett its first supervisor. In 1807 Jefferson County was orgranized with Mr. Sackett as its first County Judge. Two years later Judge Sackett disposed of all his holdings in Jefferson County, mainly to his brother-in-law, Elisha Camp, and removed to Jamaica on Long Island. During the War of 1812 Sacketts Harbor was made the Headquarters of the Northern Army and Fleet. Several war vessels were built there and the town was twice unsuccessfully attacked by English fleets. It is still a port of entry, but retains little of the commercial and military importance of the period mentioned. In 1812 Judge Sackett moved from Jamaica to Meadville, Penn. where he had purchased several hundred acres of land. But after a short sojourn at Meadville he returned to the place of his birth, New York City. In 1820 he changed his place of abode to Rutherford County, North Carolina, having become interested in a large tract of land located in that vicinity. By a subsequent transaction he became interested in the islands of the St. Lawrence and returned to Sacketts Harbor. His last place of residence was Newburgh, Orange County, N. Y. He died at Albany, N. Y., Sunday, April 22, 1827, from a sudden illness, while enroute from Newburgh to Sacketts Harbor. The Political Index of Newburgh, in its issue of April 24, 1827, contained the following notice: Died at Albany, on Sunday last, Augustus Sackett, Esq., formerly of Sackett's Harbor, but late of Newburgh, in the 59th year of his age. Children: 779. Elisha Sacket,(*) b. Dec. 26, 1797, d. in infancy. (*)Toward the latter part of his life Judge Augustus Sackett dropped the final "t" from his name, and his descendants have very generally followed Page 118 780. Augustus H. Sacket, b. June 14, 1800, d. Jan. 20, 1860, unmarried. 781. ELISHA C. SACKET, b. Oct. 29, 1802, d. Feb. 3, 1851. 782. MINERVA K. SACKET, b. Apr. 12, 1804, d. Aug. 1, 1851; m. Samuel Greenlee. 783. EDWARD SACKET, b. Feb. 27, 1806, d. Jan. 17, 1866; m. Cornelia Beckwith. 784. Charlotte Sacket, b. Nov. 17, 1809, d. Feb. 14, 1810. 785. Thomas O. Sacket, b. Feb. 13, 1811, d. Aug. 13, 1811. 786. GEORGE A. SACKET, b. July 20, 1812, d. Apr. 1, 1880; m. Harriet Camfield. 787. ALEXANDER SACKET, b. Aug. 17, 1814, d. Sept. 24, 1884; m. Harriet Johnson. 788. Enos Camp Sacket, b. Jan. 17, 1817, d. in 1817. 312. COLONEL NICHOLAS FISH, 1758-1833, son of Jonathan Fish and (96) Elisabeth Sackett, was married Apr. 30, 1803, to ELISABETH STUYVESANT, a lineal descendant of PETRUS STUYVESANT, Dutch governor of New Amsterdam. He was born in New York City. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a student at Princeton College, but immediately turned aside from his books, secured a commission as Lieutenant, and entered the Patriot army, serving at first on staff of Brig.-General Charles Scott. In November, 1776, he was commissioned Major of the Second New York Regiment of the Line, and a little later was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He participated in the battle of Saratoga, and in 1778 was Division Inspector under Baron Steuben. At the battle of Monmouth he commanded with credit a body of light infantry, and in 1779 accompanied General Sullivan on his expedition against the Indians. Later he had a command under Lafayette. At the battle of Yorktown he was actively engaged, taking a prominent part in the storming of a redoubt, and was a witness to the surrender of Cornwallis. In 1786 he was appointed Adjutant General of the State of New York, and held that position for several years. In 1794 he was a Supervisor of Revenue; in 1797, President of the New York Society of the Cincinnati; and from 1800 to 1817 an Alderman in the Municipal Government of New York City. Colonel Fish was reported to have been a strict disciplinarian, his example. It is a somewhat peculiar coincidence that at about the same time a prominent branch of the family which for generations had omitted the final "t" in writing their names, again added it. Page 119 had the confidence of Washington, and was on intimate terms with Hamilton and many of the prominent statesmen of his time. Children: 789. Susan Elisabeth Fish, b. July 26, 1805; m. Daniel LeRoy. 790. Margaret Ann Fish, b. Feb. 11, 1807; m. John Neilson, Jr. 791. HAMILTON FISH, b. Aug. 3, 1808, d. Sept. 7, 1893; m. Julia Kean. 792. Elizabeth Sarah Fish, b. May 25, 1810; m. Richard L. Morris, M. D. 793. Petrus Stuyvesant Fish, b. May 13, 1813, d. Nov. 7, 1834. 314. WILLIAM W. SACKET,(*) 1765-1833, of Newtown, Hunting Grove, Monticello and Lumberland, all in the State of New York, son of (97) William and Sarah Fish Sackett, was educated in Columbia College, and was married in 1790 to SUSAN SMITH, 1771, daughter of HON. NATHAN SMITH and his wife SUSAN MACKINTOSH, of Hunting Grove, now Burnside, in the present County of Orange, N. Y. Mr. Sacket was by education and profession a civil engineer and surveyor. On leaving school he read law for a short time in the office of his stepfather, John Woods, Esq., of New York City. On reaching his majority and coming into possession of some property located within the bounds of the present County of Orange, which he had inherited from his grandfather's estate, he decided to locate in Newburgh, then the most promising village on the western bank of the central Hudson. The practice of his profession took him to all parts of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivan, which were being at the time rapidly settled, mainly by former residents of Long Island. In 1793 Mr. Sacket became interested in a general store and fulling, grist and saw mills, which were being conducted by his father-in-law at Hunting Grove, and removed his family to that place, but about 1796, having been appointed Revenue Collector for the ninth division of the New York District, he retransferred his residence to the village of Newburgh. In 1797 he was employed to survey and make a map of the town of Newburgh. This map was filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, and has ever since been regarded as unimpeachable authority in all matters appertaining to boundaries of original land grants within that town, as well as of the dividing line between the present (*)All of his immediate family wrote their names S-a-c-k-e-t-t. Page 120 counties of Orange and Ulster. When in 1801 the Newburgh & Cochecton Turnpike Company was organized, Mr. Sacket became one of its board of directors and was employed to survey and lay out the route to be traversed. This road was of great value to Newburgh, increasing its importance as a commercial centre. While making this survey Mr. Sacket became interested in several extensive tracts of timber land in Sullivan County, on one of which the closing years of his life was spent. During the greater part of the time from 1800 to 1813, Mr. Sacket was associated with one of his brothers-in-law in a general store at Newburgh. But in the year last named he removed to Monticello, Sullivan County, where for a considerable period he had been engaged professionally in the construction of the Narrowsburgh and Sullivan Turnpike, and in the making of numerous surveys of timber lands. While residing at Monticello he erected on an extensive and heavily timbered tract he had purchased in the adjoining town of Lumberland, a commodious dwelling, with all necessary out-buildings, to which he removed with his family in 1818. After he became settled there he constructed near his house a saw mill, and engaged quite extensively in the manufacture of lumber. This with the continued practice of his profession absorbed his time, energies and attention up to within a short period of his death, in 1833. Two pocket receipt books carried by him from 1788 to 1813 have been preserved and are now (1907) the property of his grandson, William W. Sackett, who for many years was a resident of Wilkesbarre, Penn. These old receipt books contain the signatures of several hundred residents of Ulster, Orange and Sullivan Counties who were men of prominence a hundred years ago. They also contain minute genealogical tables of several generations of his ancestors and their families. These receipt books, together with available official records, the files of old Newburgh newspapers, and published histories of the counties mentioned, furnish abundant and interesting data for a more extended history of his life than available space in this volume will admit of publishing. A few extracts from the authorities mentioned, given chronologically, must of necessity suffice. Received of William W. Sacket, two pounds on account of surveying Lot No. 22 in the 3000 acre tract in Wawayanda Patent, it being in part. Jan. 7, 1792. ELIAS OLDFIELD. Page 121 Received of W. W. Sacket ten shillings for his subscription to a school-house at Robert Ross's. Jan. 25, 1793. ABRAM NEELY. Received Newburgh June 6, 1798, of Wm. W. Sacket a note of Abram Snyder's for 26 pounds; an order on David Colden for 5 pounds, and 14 pounds in cash, in full for a negro wench named Candice, purchased from my mother Elisabeth Colden. ALEXANDER COLDEN. Newburgh June 30, 1798. Received of Wm. W. Sacket the sum of 3 dollars in full for road taxes. ELNATHAN FOSTER. Received, Newburgh, August 27, 1798, of Wm. W. Sacket a draft on the Treasurer of the County of Orange for four dollars for assisting in the surveying of the town of Newburgh. JAMES LORIMER. COLLECTOR'S NOTICE. The auctioneers within the ninth division will observe by their licences that the time for which they are granted expires the last of this month. The state has taken up the regulating of sales at auction by appointing auctioneers in said division. In consequence of such regulation I am not authorized to license any in future. Therefore request that every auctioneer complete his returns agreeable to law and take up his bonds. Newburgh N. Y., Sept. 21, 1798. WILLIAM W. SACKET, Collector of the Revenue. P. S.--As there is no auctioneer in this part of the country at present but myself, it will be necessary for those making vendues to consult the auctioneer before they appoint the day of sale, as it may happen to be on the days when he is previously engaged and they be in consequence thereof disappointed. WM. W. SACKET, Auctioneer. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR. All owners of stills within the ninth division of the district of New York must make entry thereof in writing at this office between the last day of May and the first day of July agreeable to law or forfeit 250 dollars. The law requires that all distillers and all places where distilled spirits are deposited shall have the following words written over the door "Distiller of Spirits." This and every other duty the law requires, is expected to be complied with under penalty annexed thereto. It must be observed that no new license will be given per this until the duties in arrears are paid. Newburgh May 28, 1799. WM. W. SACKET, Collector of the Revenue. Page 122 N. B.--The office of the Inspector is removed to the house next fourth of Benjamin Smiths, on the hill back of the village of Newburgh. Conveyancing and surveying will be done at a moderate price, at short notice. Received Newburgh June 8, 1799 of Messrs Sacket & Smith their note of hand for one hundred and twenty six 76-100 dollars, which when paid will be in full for nails, shovels and hollow ware sold them this day. APPOLLAS B. LEONARD. Received Newburgh Dec. 13, 1799, of William W. Sacket, forty dollars on account of a negro man named Will, sold him 27 November, last. CAD. R. COLDEN. Received Newburgh Mar. 20, 1800, of Wm. W. Sackett two pounds 15 shilling in full for combs for Sacket & Smith. URIAH BRETT. AT PUBLIC AUCTION. Will be sold without reserve on Tuesday, the 14th February next, at twelve o'clock on the premises, a lot of land with a house, barn and still house thereon, containing two acres, joining Van Dusers Mills in Hunting Grove, and about 8 acres of wood land within one mile of said lot. And on Wednesday the fifteenth, at the house of Thomas Gardner in the Village of Newburgh at two o'clock P. M. a house and lot (eighty by one hundred corner lot) on Smith Street, also a lot fifty by one hundred on said street, also lot no Eighty-three, a ten acre lot in the Village of New Windsor. Good title will be executed for same and terms of payment made known on said day. January 23, 1804. WM. W. SACKET. MR. SMITH, the paternal grandfather of Sarah, wife of William W. Sacket, was, according to family tradition, a Presbyterian minister who left England on account of religious persecution, and after being in America a short time settled on Long Island, where he married a Miss Mowbray. HON. NATHAN SMITH, son of above and father of Mrs. Susan Sacket, was born in town of Huntington, L. I., and married SUSAN MACKINTOSH, of Paramus, N. J., whose grandfather, THOMAS MACKINTOSH, came into possession of 2,000 acres of land in the western portion of the old town of New Windsor, then within the boundary line of Ulster County, N. Y. This tract was Patented to "Phineas McIntosh" in 1719. A short time after Nathan Smith and Susan Mackintosh were married they were induced to go to New Windsor and locate in the heart of this as yet but partially Page 123 improved estate. There Mr. Smith built a house, and on a stream called the Otterkill erected a grist mill, a saw mill, and a fulling mill. He also opened and conducted a general store, and named the settlement Hunting Grove. The young couple "grew up with the country," and Mr. Smith speedily attained a prominence which for a time rivaled that of his ultimately more illustrious townsmen, the Clintons. At the breaking out of the Revolution Mr. Smith was one of the early signers of the Revolutionary Pledge, and in 1776 he was made a member of the New Windsor Committee of Safety and Observation. During the same year his name appears on the records as one of the associate justices of the Court of Common Pleas. From 1777 to 1793 he was almost continuously a member of the State Legislature. In the year last named he was appointed first judge of Ulster County Common Pleas and served as such until his untimely death in 1798; the following account of which is given in a letter written by his granddaughter Miss Mariah Hunter, of New York City, to E. M. Ruttenber, the historian, under date of Jan. 15, 1879: Judge Smith was in New York in Sept. 1798 and had been dining with Governor Clinton and some friends. When on his way to the sloop, in apparently his usual health, he was attacked on the street with yellow fever, and carried to the hospital. Some friends heard of his situation and with noble self sacrifice came and cared for him. One of these, John Woods, Esq., conveyed the tidings of his death and burial to his friends at Newburg before the tidings of his sickness had reached them. The year 1798 is known as one of New York City's fatal yellow fever years, and Judge Smith, like all other victims of the scourge, had hardly taken his last breath when his volunteer attendants were dismissed, and under the hospital rules his body was placed in a rough box and unceremoniously hurried to the potters' field and buried in an unmarked grave. The John Woods, Esq., referred to above was the stepfather of his daughter's husband, Wm. W. Sacket. Politically Judge Smith was an ardent Whig, and the close attention he gave to public affairs in the troublous times in which he lived eventually interfered with his private business to such an extent that he disposed of all his interests at Hunting Grove and settled on a farm he had purchased of Selah Van Duser, some two miles west of the village of Newburgh. It was there that the sad news of his death and hasty burial reached his family in 1798. Page 124 Children of William W. and Susan Smith Sacket. 795. WILLIAM WOODS SACKETT, b. Jan. 27, 1791, d. July 14, 1836, unmarried. 796. LOUISE SACKETT, b. Apr. 22, 1792, d. at Honesdale, Pa., unmarried. 797. HARRIET SACKETT, b. Apr. 20, 1793; m. Spicer McNish. 798. Nathan Smith Sackett, b. Mar. 5, 1795, d. Oct. 15, 1853, unmarried. 799. Canoline Sackett, b. Nov. 15, 1796, d. unmarried. 800. Nicholas Fish Sackett, b. Aug. 14, 1799. 801. Augustus Mowbray Sackett, b. Mar. 16, 1801, d. in Feb. 1871. 802. JAMES W. SACKETT, b. Jan 8, 1803, d. Dec. 15, 1887; m. Nancy Beers. 803. Sarah Case Sackett, b. Feb. 19, 1805; m. Herberdon S. Murray. 804. Susan Sackett, b. Mar. 1, 1807, d. Dec. 24, 1808. 805. SUSAN SMITH SACKETT, b. Mar. 3, 1809, d. in 1881; m. Isaac Gould. 806. ELISABETH SMITH SACKETT, b. Sept. 15, 1812; m. Henry Stark. 807. Augustus M. Sackett, b. 1814. 808. CHARLES J. SACKETT, b. Apr. 21, 1816, d. Feb. 28, 1885; m. Miss Schoonover. 315. BENJAMIN MOORE, S. T. D., 1748-1816, fifth President of Columbia College, son of Lieut. Samuel and Sarah Fish Moore, was married before 1879 to CHARITY CLARKE, daughter of Maj. Clement Clarke, of New York City. He was educated at Kings (now Columbia) College, where he was graduated in 1768, and from which he received the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1789. Following graduation he taught Greek and Latin for a time, and studied theology. Later he went to England, where, in 1774, he was ordained Deacon and Priest in Chapel of Fulham Palace by the Bishop of London. On returning to America he became assistant rector of Trinity Church, New York City; of which in 1800 he became rector. The following year he was consecrated Bishop--Coadjutor of St. Michael's Church, Trenton, N. J. A few months later he was elected to succeed Bishop Provost as Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the State of New York. From 1801 to 1811 he was President of Columbia College. Child, 809. CLEMENT C. MOORE, b. July 15, 1779, d. July 10, 1863. 316. WILLIAM MOORE, M. D., 1754-1824, of Newtown, N. Y., and New York City, son of (98) Lieut. Samuel and Sarah Fish Moore, was married Feb. 4, 1782, to JANE FISH, daughter of NATHANIEL Page 125 FISH, of Newtown. Dr. Moore was a graduate of Columbia College and continued his studies at Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was graduated a Doctor of Medicine in 1780. Returning to America he soon acquired an extensive practice in New York City and on Long Island, in the arduous duties of which he was unremittingly engaged for forty years. During a considerable portion of that period he was President of the New York Medical Society and a Trustee of the College of Physicians, as well as a Vestryman of Trinity Church. Children: 810. Nathaniel F. Moore. 811. Maria Theressa Moore, m. Henry C. DeRhom. 812. Samuel W. Moore. 813. Jane Moore, m. Henry Mayor. 814. Susan Moore. 815. Benjamin Moore. 816. Sarah Moore, m. Edward Hodge. 817. William Moore. 340. JUSTUS SACKETT, 1740-1827, of Greenwich, Conn., son of (118) Nathaniel and Anne Bush Sackett, was married to ANNA LYON. The records of St. John's Episcopal Church at Stamford, Conn., show that on Mar. 11, 1787, Sally, Justus, Betsey, William Henry, and John, children of Justus and Anna Sackett, of Greenwich, were baptized there. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett were both buried in the cemetery at Greenwich, where their graves are marked by stones bearing these inscriptions: In memory of JUSTUS SACKETT who died Jan. 15, 1827 in the 87th year of his age. In memory of ANNE SACKETT widow of Justus Sackett who died Jan. 15, 1837 aged 99 years, 4 months, 9 days. Children: 830. JUSTUS SACKETT, b. in 1778, d. May 7, 1854; m. Clarissa Belcher. 831. JOHN SACKETT, d. in year 1864; m. Mary Meed. 832. MARY SACKETT, m. Josiah Brown. Page 126 833. SALLY SACKETT, m. Jonathan Secor. 834. BETSEY SACKETT, b. about 1783, d. May 21, 1837; m. Thomas M. Wilson. 835. WILLIAM H. SACKETT, b. 1779, d. Dec. 29, 1820; m. Rebecca Holly. 341. COLONEL RICHARD SACKETT, 17 -1799, of Westchester County, N. Y., and New York City, son of (118) Nathaniel Sackett, was married to RACHEL HOLMES, daughter of ISAAC HOLMES and his wife ABIGAIL MEAD. He was an active participant in the war of the Revolution, serving almost continuously, as a commissioned officer, from the commencement to the end of the seven years' struggle for independence. On May 26, 1776, he was commissioned First Lieutenant of Grenadiers in the 2d Midland Regiment, and on May 26, 1778, was promoted to a Captaincy. Heath's Memoirs give an account of his capture on the 4th of December, 1781, by the British, on a road called Kings Street, at a point now embraced within the limits of greater New York City. After being confined for several months he was exchanged and served in both the 1st and 2d Westchester County Regiments. He is also reported as commanding for a time a company in Pawling's Levies. Immediately after the disbandment of the Continental army he was appointed and commissioned Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the Westchester County Regiment of Militia, and held that position until 1792, when having determined to change his residence to New York City, he resigned his commission. In 1786 he was made one of the commissioners to carry out the provisions of an act of the State Legislature, appropriating One thousand eight hundred pounds for the erection of a court house in Westchester County. About one year after his removal to New York City he purchased a considerable tract of land in Tioga County and settled his son Nathaniel upon it. In 1799, while on a visit to his Tioga County estate he was taken ill and died there. He was buried near the present Court House in Owego. His will, which was executed in 1798 and probated in 1799, reads as follows: IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Richard Sackett of the City of New York, being in perfect health of body and of perfect mind and memory . . . . do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament . . . . First I give and bequeath to Rachel my dearly beloved wife one third of all my estate both Real and Personal to her use during her natural life Page 127 and at her decease to be divided equally between my well beloved sons NATHANIEL and CALEB. Second, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter BETSEY HOLMES, the wife of William Holmes the use of Sixty five pounds during her natural life, and if she shall die without any heirs then to be equally divided between my beloved sons and daughter and if she should have an heir then to the heir or heirs after her death. Third, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter POLLY the use of one hundred pounds during her natural life, and if she should have an heir or heirs the one hundred pounds to be paid to them after her decease, and if she have no heir or heirs then to be equally divided between my beloved sons and daughter. Fourth, I give and bequeath all the residue of my estate both Real and Personal to my well beloved sons NATHANIEL and CALEB, to be equally divided between them excepting NATHANIEL to have paid him fifty pounds first out of my estate before the division to be made between them, and then to be divided equally. And Lastly, I order that my executors or the survivors of them take care to have the monies given to my two daughters BETSEY HOLMES and POLLY put out at interest so as not to have any loss or damage thereto, so that they may have the full use or interest therefrom as above said. And I do likewise constitute make and ordain the following persons my sole executors: My sons NATHANIEL and CALEB and my beloved cousin Richard Sackett of the town of Bedford. And I do by these presents fully authorize my said Executors and empower them to sell and dispose of all my real and personal estate or divide the same as they think best. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul any other former testament, wills, legacies, bequests and executors & co. Children: 840. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. Apr. 9, 1770, d. Nov. 5, 1817; m. Sarah Waring. 841. CALER H. SACKETT, b. Apr. 9, 1770. 842. Betsey Sackett, m. William Holmes. 843. Polly Sackett. 348. WILLIAM SACKETT, 17 -1--?, of Greenwich, Conn., son of (118) Nathaniel Sackett, was a Revolutionary soldier and served in Capt. Thomas Hobby's Greenwich Company of the 5th Regiment of the Connecticut Line, commanded by Col. Waterbury. 374. LIEUT. JAMES SACKETT, 1762-1--?, of Westchester County, N. Y., son of (120) Joseph and Hannah Budson Sackett, served during the war of the Revolution and for fifteen years after the declaration Page 128 of peace as a private soldier and a commissioned officer in 2d Westchester County Regiment. Throughout the greater part of his long term he served under his cousin, Richard Sackett, who during the war was the Captain of his Company, and after the war commanded the Regiment in which he for five years served as Adjutant. 375. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1763-1812, of Greenwich, Conn., and Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., son of (120) Joseph and Hannah Budson Sackett, was married Feb. 19, 1787, to BETHIAH REYNOLDS. His will is dated "Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., Mar. 13, 1812," and was probated May 14, 1812. In it he mentions his children Joseph, William, James, Fanny, the wife of Henry Reynolds; Maria, Hannah, and Jane Ann. He names as his Executors his brothers Joseph and James and his daughter Maria. Children: 920. JOSEPH SACKETT, m. Augusta Downing. 921. WILLIAM H. SACKETT, b. in 1803, d. Feb. 28, 1846; m. Alethia Higgins. 922. JAMES H. SACKETT, m. Jerusha Post. 923. Fanny Sackett, m. Henry Raymond. 924. Maria Sackett, m. (#) Weed. 925. Hannah Sackett, b. in year 1794, d. in year 1814. 926. Jane Ann Sackett, b. in 1805, d. Sept. 11, 1836; m. Charles Hicks. 927. Harriet B. Sackett, b. Dec. 2, 1795, d. Feb. 1, 1811. 388. CAPT. JOHN SACKETT, 1755-1819, of Newtown, L. I., son of (122) William and Anne Lawrence Sackett, was married to ELISABETH GIBBS, of Connecticut. Mr. Sackett was a Revolutionary soldier. He served in the ranks of Col. John Harper's Levies and in other commands. After the war he took an active part in reorganization of the Militia, and in 1798 was commissioned First Lieutenant of Capt. Remson's Company of the Queens County Regiment, and served as such until 1793, when he succeeded Capt. Remson and commanded his company until 1804. Children: 930. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. Feb. 23, 1784, d. Feb. 4, 1849; m. Gertrude Meserole. 931. Lawrence Sackett, b. Sept. 14, 1786. Page 129 932. Anne Sackett, b. Feb. 24, 1791; m. Peter Gorsline. 933. MARY SACKETT, b. Apr. 28, 1793; m. Joseph Lawrence. 934. Patience Sackett, b. July 21, 1795, d. unmarried. 935. Elisabeth Sackett, b. Dec. 18, 1799, d. unmarried. 936. Amy Sackett, b. June 6, 1804, d. unmarried. 389. LIEUT. DANIEL SACKETT, 1759-1822, of Newtown, L. I., and Old Milford, Conn., son of (122) William and Anne Lawrence Sackett, was married to MARTHA GREEN. He died at Old Milford, leaving no descendants. In the war of the Revolution he was Lieutenant of Capt. Livingston's Company, of Colonel Malcomb's Regiment. 390. JONATHAN SACKETT, 1761-18--?, of Newtown, L. I., son of (122) William and Anne Lawrence Sackett, was married to SARAH BANKS, daughter of CAPT. JACOB BANKS. Children: 937. Jacob B. Sackett, b. June 4, 1786. 938. Anne Sackett, b. May 7, 1789. 939. William Sackett, b. Sept. 28, 1792, d. July 2, 1802. 940. John L. Sackett, b. May 7, 1794. 941. Jonathan Sackett, b. May 9, 1801. 400. MARY ALSOP, daughter of (133) Hon. John and Mary Fragot Alsop, was married Mar. 30, 1786, to HON. RUFUS KING, 1755-1827. Mary Alsop is described, at the time of her marriage, by Mrs. Lamb, as "remarkable for personal beauty--face oval, with a clear brunette complexion, delicately formed features, expressive blue eyes, black hair, and exquisite teeth, her motions all grace, her bearing gracious, her voice musical, and her education exceptional." Her husband, Hon. Rufus King, is described by Mrs. Lamb in same connection, as "thirty-three and passing for the most eloquent man in the United States." RUFUS KING was born at Scarborough, Me., in 1755, and graduated from Yale College in 1777. He entered the Continental Army in 1778 and served on the staff of General Sullivan. In 1783 he became a member of the General Court of Massachusetts, and was a delegate to Congress from that State for the years 1784, 1785 and Page 130 1786. In 1787 he was a delegate to the convention that met at Philadelphia to establish a more permanent form of Government, and was made a member of the committee appointed to draft the Constitution. In 1788 he took up his residence in New York City, and the following year was elected a member of the Legislature of that State, which forthwith elected him, with General Schuyler, to the United States Senate. It may be recalled that General Washington was that year inaugurated first President of the United States in New York City. The part taken by Senator King and his accomplished wife at the ceremonies and festivities attending that most memorable event have not been made a matter of record, but the following extract from Washington's Journal, under date of November 24, 1789, referring to his first visit to a theatre after his inauguration, is not devoid of interest in this connection: Sent tickets to following ladies and gentlemen and invited them to a seat in my box, viz: Mrs. Adams, lady of Vice-President, General Scuyler and lady, Mr. King and lady, Major Butler and lady, Colonel Hamilton and lady, Mrs. Green. All of whom accepted and came except Mrs. Butler, who was indisposed. In 1795 President Washington appointed Senator King minister plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, in which important post he was retained through the administration of President John Adams and into the second year of President Jefferson's term, when he asked to be recalled. In 1813 he was for the third time sent to the United States Senate, and his speech there on the burning of Washington by the English was a most striking display of oratory. In 1817 he was a candidate for the Presidency, but was defeated by James Monroe. In 1819 he was again sent to the United State Senate and served out a full term of six years; at the expiration of which President John Quincy Adams induced him to again accept the appointment of Minister to England. Soon after reaching London he was taken ill, returned home and died in New York City, Apr. 29, 1827. Children. 950. JOHN ALSOP KING, b. Mar. 3, 1788, d. July 7, 1867. 951. CHARLES KING, b. Mar 16, 1789, d. in Oct. 1867; m. Eliza Gracie. 952. JAMES GORE KING, b. May 8, 1791, d. Oct. 3, 1853; m. Sarah Rogers Gracie. 953. EDWARD KING, b. Mar. 3, 1795, d. Feb. 6, 1836. 954. FREDERICK GORE KING, b. in year 1795, d. in Apr. 1829. Page 131 401. RICHARD ALSOP, 1761-1815, of Middletown, Conn., and Flatbush, L. I., son of (134) Richard and Mary Wright Alsop, studied at Yale, and devoted the greater part of his life to literary pursuits. He was one of the so called "Hartford Wits," and the principal contributor to a series of satirical papers which appeared from 1791 to 1805, and which in 1805 were collected in "The Echo." Among his other writings are "The Enchanted Lake, or the Fairy Morgana," and "A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of Washington." Children: 955. Richard Alsop, d. May 29, 1842. 956. ---- Alsop. 957. ---- Alsop, m. Francis J. Oliver. 402. JOSEPH WRIGHT ALSOP, 1772-1844, was the son of (134) Richard and Mary Wright Alsop. Children: 958. Lucy W. Alsop, m. Henry Chauncey. 959. Charles R. Alsop. 960. Joseph W. Alsop. 961. Clara P. Alsop. 962. Elisabeth W. Alsop, m. George H. Hoppins. 963. Mary W. Alsop, m. Thomas M. Mutter, M. D. 437. JONATHAN LAWRENCE, 1767-1850, son of (144) Hon. Jonathan and Judith Fish Lawrence, was married to ELISABETH ROGERS. Early in life he became a clerk in the newly established Bank of New York. Later he united with Henry Whitney in the commercial firm of Lawrence & Whitney, and still later became President of the Merchants' Fire Insurance Company. The only political office he appears to have held was that of Alderman of New York City. Children: 965. Henry Lawrence, a merchant at Manilla. 966. William Anson Lawrence, a merchant at Canton, China. 967. Jonathan Lawrence, a counsellor-at-law, New York City. 968. Richard Lawrence, a merchant at New York City. 969. Isabelle Lawrence, died young. Page 132 970. Judith Lawrence, died young. 971. Margaret Lawrence, m. John Slawson, of Geneva. 972. Adriana Lawrence, m. W. T. Whittmore, of Liverpood. 438. JUDITH LAWRENCE, 1769-1--?, daughter of Hon. Jonathan and his second wife Ruth Riker Lawrence, was married to JOHN IRELAND. Children: 973. MARGARET IRELAND, m. Thomas Lawrence. 974. William Busteed Ireland, m. Anne Wall. 975. Andrew Lawrence Ireland, b. 1808, d. unmarried. 976. Louisa Anna Ireland, b. Dec. 31, 1800, d. in 1845; had three husbands. 977. John L. Ireland, m. Miss Floyd. 460. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1757-1816, only child of (147) Joseph and Eliza Strang Sackett, was born several weeks after the death of his father. He died at Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y., which would seem to have been his place of residence during the latter part of his life. His will, dated May 14, 1812, and probated Feb. 27, 1718, is recorded on page 385 of Liber D, of Westchester County, N. Y. records. By this instrument he conveys his property, first to his "Cousin Sarah Strang, single woman, daughter of Henry Strang, deceased, and second to Joseph Sackett Strang, son of Thomas Strang, Esq." So far as known he never married. His name appears in list of residents of Dutchess County, N. Y., entitled to land bounties because of service rendered his country in war of Revolution. 461. ANANIAS ROGERS SACKETT, 1760-1839, of the counties of Dutchess and Sullivan, N. Y., and of Forest Dale, Ohio, son of (148) Hon. Nathaniel and Mary Rogers Sackett, was married about 1785 to EUNICE MEEKER, daughter of SOLOMON MEEKER, of Cape Cod, Mass. He was born, and for several years previous to attaining his majority was employed as a clerk in his father's store at Fishkill, N. Y. During the war of the Revolution he was an active member of Capt. Van Wyck's Company, of Col. Brinkerhoff's Dutchess County Regiment. From the close of the war to 1803 Page 133 Mr. Sackett was engaged mainly in conducting a general store and a farm in the town of his birth. In 1803 he purchased two tracts of timber land containing together upwards of 500 acres, located a few miles west of Monticello, in the town of Thompson, in the present county of Sullivan, N. Y., and took up his residence there. At same time he leased for a long term of years, from Guillian Verplank, Esq., a third tract in same vicinity, which contained a water power, on which he built a saw mill, and there engaged in the manufacture of lumber. In connection with this business he built a wagon road through the wilderness from Mamakating westward, which passed through his principal purchase and extended to Klines Flats, several miles beyond. This road was known as Sackett's Pike until it was taken up by and became a part of the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike, a highway which for over half a century was the principal avenue of travel from Cochecton on the Delaware to tide water at Newburgh on the Hudson. Mr. Sackett was one of the principal settlers of western Sullivan. Sackett's Lake, one of the most attractive sheets of water in Sullivan County was named for him. In 1814 he sold the before mentioned lands and leasehold to his brother Samuel for $6,400, and again "moving on into the wilderness beyond." He journeyed in his own conveyance and took with him his wife and daughters, and a few household goods, including cooking utensils. This was the usual mode of "moving west" in those days. Their starting point was Newburgh, from which they took their departure in 1814-15, and drove through to Benton, in the present county of Yates, N. Y. There they remained a year with Mrs. Sackett's brothers, David and Archibald Meeker. Then they resumed their journey, accompanied by two families from Benton named Green and Sales, but leaving behind them at Benton their eldest daughter, Sarah. In this second stage of their journey they frequently encountered wandering bands of Indians, and suffered many hardships as they made their way through the forest over almost impassable roads. Their start from Benton was made early in the year, and when they reached Alleghany River, down which it was their purpose to journey, they found it was yet frozen over. Here they encamped and built a flat boat while waiting for the ice to break. When at length the ice was out they sailed down the Alleghany to its junction with the Ohio, and then on down the Ohio to Gallipolis, where they tarried Page 134 for a few weeks. While there the second daughter, Elisabeth, who had been educated for a teacher, secured her first school, at a settiement near the Sand Forks, on Symmes Creek. Mr. Sackett, with his wife and youngest daughter, Charlotte, then journeyed down the Ohio to Kentucky, and spent a year there on a hired farm near the mouth of the Big Sandy River, after which they crossed over into Ohio and settled permanently at Forest Dale. Children: 990. SARAH SACKETT, m. Rosell Tubs. 991. James Sackett, d. aged 5 years. 992. ELIZABETH SACKETT, b. in 1797, d. May 22, 1837. 993. CHARLOTTE SACKETT, b. May 20, 1805, d. Feb. 12, 1899; m. David Hughes. 462. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1762-1841, of the counties of Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan, in the State of New York, son of (148) Hon. Nathaniel and Mary Rogers Sackett, was married, at Fishkill, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1788, to POLLY HALSTEAD, 17--?-1796, daughter of JOHN HALSTEAD. On Oct. 20, 1803, he was married to his second wife, MARY BAILEY, daughter of NATHAN BAILEY, and his wife ABIGAIL PINE. When a mere lad he met with an accident which shortened one of his legs. This unfitted him for military service, and during the Revolutionary War he was engaged in his father's store at Fishkill. At first under the direction of his uncle, James Sackett, who had charge in the absence of Nathaniel, whose time was almost wholly given up to public duties. But presently, James Sackett threw down his pen, shouldered his musket and marched away with the patriot army, leaving the lad to conduct the business as best he could. That he succeeded as well as could have been expected under the circumstances, is made apparent by the fact that his father, a few years later, made him a partner in the business. About the year 1800, Samuel Sackett removed from Fishkill to Moodna, Orange County, where he had purchased a property with water power, and there engaged quite extensively in the milling business, and in the purchase of grain from farmers of Orange and adjoining counties, which he shipped in sloop loads to merchants in New York City. In 1813 he disposed of his mill and grain business and purchased a farm at Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y., on which he remained for twelve years. He then returned to Orange County, Page 135 N. Y., and in addition to conducting a farm, established a general store at Little Britain Square, New Windsor, which, with the aid of Samuel B., his oldest son by his second wife, Mary Bailey, he conducted in a successful manner during the remainder of his life. His death occurred September 9, 1841, in his 79th year. It does not appear that Samuel Sackett ever held any public office of importance, but the records show that in the year 1897 he was sent by the "National Appean Highway Company" to explore a suitable route for the proposed turnpike road from Newburgh, N. Y., westward to Cochecton. He, however, took an active part in public affairs and was a pronounced partisan and outspoken man of business. This is shown by the following extracts from a letter now lying before the writer, which is dated, "Windsor Mills, Oct. 22, 1812," and was written by him to his oldest son, Dr. John Sackett, who had a short time previously been appointed an assistant surgeon in the Regular United States Army and assigned to duty at Charleston, S. C. Before this reaches you, you will probably be, and I hope safely, arrived at your destination. * * * We have no news of consequence, only that the dispicable Clinton faction are crowing loudly at the success of Federalists in the states of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, and are, as they pretend, calculating with great certainty on Pennsylvania; and of course, as they would have us believe, on the success of their infamous candidate. But as the election approaches such things are to be expected from such characters as compose that truly contemptible faction. Genl. Wilkin and Ross, who, as you know, are of the Clintonian State Committee of Correspondence, are, I am creditably informed, both ashamed of their conduct in this affair, and if I mistake not, are in opposition to their leader's wishes. The same day I received your letter I took one out of the post office for you, and knowing it to be from Dr. Little broke it open with the intention of reading it and informing you of the contents. But I have not been able to read it on account of the shamefully bad hand writing; however, I will endeavor to decipher it and inform you of the contents in my next. I think you had better acquaint him of your present situation in order that he may know where to direct to you in the future, and inform him that there is no occasion for sealing his letters. I am in much greater haste than I could wish, being under engagement to be at Newburgh before two o'clock, so that I have only leisure to add the assurance of my regard with great sincerity. Your ever affectionate father, SAML. SACKETT. Polly Halstead, daughter of John Halsted, and the first wife of Samuel Sackett, died at Fishkill, Sept. 1, 1796. She was survived Page 136 by her husband and two sons, but left no daughters. The following inventory, made by her husband after her death and previous to her burial, for the evident purpose of making a satisfactory distribution of the articles mentioned to her female relatives, immediately after the funeral was over, in accordance with a custom of the times, is too interesting to be omitted from this record. I copy it from the original, word for word, not omitting an added schedule of articles he possessed which she had made for him with her own hands: INVENTORY, 3d SEPT., 1796. 8 white and 3 striped flannel sheets 1 white Do found afterwards 2 carpet coverlids--1 large blue Do--5 coarse Do 1 large cotton Do used for an ironing blanket 12 petticoats--16 short gowns 8 long gowns--3 of which are silk 1 double gown--1 long scarlet cloak 1 short stuff Do--1 silk shade 9 pr linen and cotton stockings 3 Diaper table cloths--1 Huckaback Do 11 shifts--33 pillow cases--4 more Do 3 Diaper and 1 Irish stitch towel 3 twill Do--52 linen and tow sheets 1 more petticoate, making in all 13 4 pr linen stockings found afterwards 2 pr good woolen stockings and 2 pr poor Do My own Wearing Apparel. 8 pr woolen stockings--3 pair worsted Do 21 shirts--8 pr linen stockings 4 pr striped trousers Children. 994. JOHN HALSTEAD SACKETT, b. Feb. 8, 1789, d. June 15, 1822, unmarried. 995. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. Apr. 6, 1792, d. in Jan. 1825, unmarried. 996. Mary Sackett, b. Aug. 23, 1794, d. Sept. 29, 1797. 997. SAMUEL B. SACKETT, b. Dec. 4, 1805, d. Apr. 11, 1887; m. Elisabeth T. McCoun. 998. Mary Sackett, b. Mar. 4, 1809, d. Aug. 29, 1884, unmarried. 999. Elisabeth Sackett, b. Mar. 14, 1811, d. July 15, 1824. 1000. Frederick Augustus Sackett, b. Oct. 5, 1815, d. Feb. 18, 1891, unmarried. 1001. William H. Sackett, b. Oct. 5, 1815, d. in 1888, unmarried. Page 137 463. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1768-1854, of Dutchess County, N. Y., and Butler County, Ohio, son of (148) Hon. Nathaniel and Mary Rogers Sackett, was married, in 1792, to ELISABETH TERBOSS, daughter of JACOB TERBOSS, JR., and his wife SARAH DUBOIS. Elisabeth Terboss Sackett died in 1822, and Nathaniel Sackett, at an unascertained date, was married to his second wife, JANE STITT, of Woodford County, Ky. Mr. Sackett, shortly after his marriage to Miss Terboss, settled on a farm near Wappingers, Dutchess County. Just how long he remained there is uncertain, but in 1814 he was a resident of Fishkill, in same county. In 1816 he determined to remove to the "far west," and disposing of his property in Ulster County, he set out with a two-horse conveyance on a seven hundred mile journey to Cincinnati, Ohio. He took with him his wife and two children, together with such provision and household goods as would be needed in camping out along the way, for a considerable portion of the route to be traversed ran through a wild and uninhabited country. Cincinnati was, at that period, a flourishing city of about twenty thousand souls. It was Mr. Sackett's intention, when he started on this long journey, to make Cincinnati his permanent home, but on reaching that city concluded he could best provide for the future of his family by settling on a farm within marketing distance of the place, especially as farming land was cheap, rich and easily cultivated, while the market value of all farm products was unusually high. He therefore joined with a Mr. Piatt in the purchase of an extensive tract at what was then called Baker's Hill, in Butler County. Now Baker's Hill was in fact an extensive plain and a hill only in the sense that it was the highest ground in all that region. Nearly four long years passed away after Nathaniel Sackett left his home on the banks of the Hudson before his relatives in that vicinity heard a word from him. Then there came a long letter which eventually found a place among the treasured archives of the family. This well written old letter, folded after the manner of those days, is in scribed: Mr. Samuel Sackett, 250. Monticello, Sullivan County, State of New York. Page 138 Opening it with care and spreading it out we read: Ohio, March 12, 1820. Dear Brother: Next May it will be four years since I had the pleasure of seeing you. Then you would not believe I would move to this country. I am engaged in farming. The land here is far richer than I expected to find it. In some places there are large plains of the richest and finest soil, without any trees growing on it, and then there are large tracts of equally rich land covered with timber. Black walnut, ash and buckeye poplar abound. Other land not quite so rich is covered with white oak, beech, and whitewood. All the trees grow large and tall. There are no mountains, rocks, or stones. The land is very easy to plow. We use but two horses to turn the stiffest sod. Everything grows larger than with you. If well cultivated it is the best land I ever saw for rye, wheat, oats, Indian corn, flax, potatoes, and all kinds of fruit and vegetables that can be grown in New York State. I have this season killed 7,000 weight of pork, all of my own raising. I have a good stock of cattle and 4 horses, one of which is the sorrel I had when I lived in Fishkill. The other three are just as good. I have 45 sheep and we make plenty of homespun cloth and blankets. I have fatted a great deal of beef as well as pork and it is all first-rate. I feed all my stock all they will eat the year round. We are in a favored land. But I have nevertheless had many a heartache since I saw you last, thinking of relatives and friends and native country seven hundred miles away, and I, with my little family among strangers in a strange land. We live in a thickly settled neighborhood of friendly people, many of whom came in this country when land was cheap and now have large and well cultivated farms that are worth many times what they cost. If some of you would only come and spend a little time with us how it would sweeten our solitude and cheer us up. I have laid out a town on my farm and sold a number of lots. There are already 20 houses up and two stores and two taverns, and there is a Presbyterian Meeting-house in sight. I have called it Monroe. Where are John and Nathaniel, and what are they doing? And where are Joshua Arkills and his family, and Betsey Sackett, and what are they doing? What has become of Ananias? I forgot to mention that my wheat weighed from 62 to 66 lbs. per bushel. I must stop writing now for Betsey claims part of the paper on which to write to Polly. Your affectionate brother, NATHANIEL SACKETT. Mr. Samuel Sackett. Dear Sister: It is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you. Perhaps the time seems longer to me than it does to you. When traveling over craggy mountains and through lonely vales, leaving all my near and dear relatives and friends far behind, no one with me but my little family, many a tear trickled down my cheek. But my Heavenly Father was my stay and support, Page 139 and his providence has brought us safely to this goodly land, where everything needed for the support of man and beast is in abundance. I want for nothing essential that the world affords, only the good company of you and some of my old friends. I think it would be better for you and yours here than where you are. We have no banks where there are notes to pay off. I will try and tell you what we have accomplished since we came here with our wagon load, not quite four years ago. This summer we will milk fifteen cows. Last summer I sold a great quantity of butter, and this year shall sell a great deal more. We sell our butter for from 2 to 3 shillings per pound; and for cheese we get 16 and 18 pence. We have 15 cows, 4 horses, a yoke of oxen, between 30 and 40 hogs and young cattle, and 46 sheep, nearly all of our own raising, from which and their product I clothe my family. I have made since we came here about 100 yards of fulled cloth and blankets. This year I have made 4 very handsome red and blue coverlets, besides linen and a piece of diaper. It makes me proud when I put the scissors into a piece of it, for, as you know, it is a thing quite new to me. We have poultry of all kinds, and frequently go to market with a load. Turkeys sell for 8 and 10 shillings each, fowls 3 and 4 shillings a pair, ducks 4 and geese 8 shillings a pair. I have three firkins of lard and a cwt. of butter now ready for market. And now you will want to hear about my children. Almira has grown to be a woman. She is about the size of her Aunt Betsey and looks very much like her. William A. has grown very much and is now going to school. He ciphers to the rule of three and is studying grammar. How are all your children? O how I long to see you all! Give my love to all your family, not forgetting Nan, if she is alive. My children want to be remembered to you all. Your ever affectionate sister, ELIZABETH SACKETT. Mrs. Mary Sackett. Mrs. Elisabeth Terboss Sackett died suddenly in her home in Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, a little less than two years after writing above letter. Her death was supposed to have been the result of copperas poison contained in some pickles, of which she partook at a dinner party given at the house of a neighbor. Nathaniel Sackett died in 1848. He was buried in the village graveyard at Monroe, which during his life time had become a settlement of nearly three hundred inhabitants. He had founded and named the place and no other man had done so much for it as he. The sites of its churches, schools, a public park, and a cemetery, were his free gifts, and its townsmen sincerely mourned his loss. Children. 1002. ALMIRA SACKETT, b. Sept. 4, 1804, d. in year 1882; m. George P. Williamson. Page 140 1003. WILLIAM A. SACKETT, b. Sept. 8, 1808, d. Mar. 6, 1891; m. Mary G. Ross. 464. HANNAH SACKETT, 1771-1832, daughter of (148) Nathaniel and Mary Rogers Sackett, was married, Dec. 19, 1703, to JOSHUA ARKILLS, 1766-1849. Children. 1004. Mary Arkills, 1795-1852. 1005. Nathaniel S. Arkills, 1798-1863. 1006. Samuel P. Arkills, 1800-1828. 1007. James Arkills, 1802-1834. 1008. John W. Arkills, 1804-1883. 1009. ELISABETH ARKILLS, 1807-1890, m. Erastus D. Conant. 1010. Peter E. Arkills, 1809-1812. 1011. Eleanor Arkills, 1811-1812. 1012. Charles A. Arkills, 1814 465. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1778-1862, daughter of (148) Hon. Nathaniel and Mary Rogers Sackett, was married to ELEAZER CROSBY. Children. 1013. ---- Crosby, m. David Fancher. 1014. ---- Crosby, m. ---- Counant. 1015. Nathaniel Crosby. 1016. Peter E. Crosby. 1017. Charles A. Crosby. 466. DEBORAH PECK, 1768-1838, daughter of Benjamin and (153) Deborah Sackett Peck, was married, July 24, 1790, to PLATT MEAD, of Greenwich, Conn., son of SYLVANUS MEAD. Children. 1018. Sackett Mead. 1019. Sylvanus Mead. 1020. SARAH MEAD, m. John Robbins. 1021. Hannah Mead, m. Daniel Peck. 1022. Gideon Mead. 1023. Nathan Mead. 1024. Harriet Mead, m. Bradley Redfield. Page 141 467. SAMUEL SACKETT BALDWIN, 1781-1854, of Litchfield, Conn., and of Pompey Hill, Lafayette and Geneva, in N. Y., son of Major Isaac and (155) Hannah Sackett (DeLancey) Baldwin, was married, Mar. 23, 1808, to MALINDA RAWSON, daughter of THOMAS RAWSON, M. D., of Salina, N. Y. Mrs. Baldwin lived but a short time after her marriage, and on Apr. 15, 1812, Mr. Baldwin was married to his second wife, JULIA ANN YATES, daughter of PETER W. YATES, of Albany, N. Y. Children. 1025. Yates Baldwin. 1026. Angelica Baldwin, died in childhood. 1027. JULIA BALDWIN, m. ---- Titus. 468. ISAAC BALDWIN, 1784-1844, son of Maj, Isaac and (155) Hannah Sackett (DeLancey) Baldwin, entered Yale College at the age of 13 and graduated with honors at the age of 17. He then studied theology with the view of taking orders in the Episcopal Church. In meantime he went as a tutor to New Orleans, where he suffered an attack of yellow fever, which completely dethroned his reason. He recovered his physical strength and lived on for 40 years, but remained a mental wreck to the end of his days. 469. ANNA BALDWIN, 1786-1872, daughter of Maj. Isaac and (155) Hannah Sackett (DeLancey) Baldwin, was married, July 17, 1811, to STEPHEN SEDGWICK, of Ithaca, N. Y., son of GEN. JOHN SEDGWICK, of Cornwall, Conn. On Sept. 12, 1819, she was married to her second husband, HON. DANIEL GOTT, of Pompey Hill and Syracuse, N. Y., son of HAZARD GOTT, of Hebron, Conn. Anna Baldwin Sedgwick-Gott is reputed to have been a woman of great beauty, remarkable intellect and unusual scholastic attainments. Both of her husbands were able lawyers. Stephen Sedgwick, her first husband, died comparatively young. Daniel Gott. her second husband, served two terms in Congress. Children. 1028. HENRY J. SEDGWICK, b. June 4, 1812, d. in June, 1868; m. Lucinda Snow. Page 142 1029. John Sedgwick, b. Aug. 2, 1813, d. in year 1823. 1030. CHARLES B. SEDGWICK, b. Mar. 5, 1815, d. in 1883; m. 1st, Ella C. Smith. 1031. Samuel S. Gott, b. July 5, 1820, d. Jan. 18, 1856, unmarried. 1032. ANNA B. GOTT, b. Feb. 28, 1823, d. May 27, 1847; m. George H. Woodruff. 1033. AMELIA H. GOTT, b. Aug. 27, 1825; m. F. H. Hastings. 1034. DANIEL F. GOTT, b. Apr. 24, 1828, d. Dec. 15, 1899; m. Hannah E. Clary. 1035. Charles A. Gott, b. May 23, 1830. 470. JAMES HENRY BALDWIN, 1788-1811, son of Major Isaac and (155) Hannah Sackett (DeLancey) Baldwin, entered Yale College, but was prevented by loss of health from completing his course, and died aged 23. 471. CHARLES AUGUSTUS BALDWIN, 1790-1818, son of Major Isaac and (155) Hannah Sackett (DeLancey) Baldwin, graduated from Williams College in class of 1810; began the practice of law and died aged 28. 482. DANIEL SACKET, 1756-18--?, of Bridgeport, Conn., son of (165) Capt. Daniel Sacket, was married to SARAH ----? Children. 1047. ISAAC SACKET, b. in 1806, d. Oct. 28, 1861; m. Sophronia Richards. 1048. DANIEL SACKET, d. in 1853. 1049. (GAD(*)) JAMES SACKET, b. Jan. 20, 1804, d. Mar. 8, 1884; m. Sally J. Parker. 483. LEMUEL SACKET, 1758-1834, of Westfield, Mass., Pittsford, N. Y., and Macomb Co., Mich., son of (165) Capt. Daniel Sacket, was married before 1788 to ANNIE FRANCIS. Children. 1050. NOADIAH SACKET, b. Aug. 6, 1789, d. Jan. 11, 1875; m. Sophia Allen. 1051. DANIEL SACKET, b. June 29, 1792, d. Aug. 8, 1879; m. Mary Fulton. 1052. HARVEY SACKET, b. in 1794; m. Melinda Spaulding. (*)Christened Gad but renamed James. Page 143 1053. RALPH SACKET, b. in 1797; m. Polly Stack. 1054. ROXONA SACKET, b. in 1800, d. in 1855; m. Hiram Peets. 1055. LEMUEL, SACKET, b. in 1803, d. in 1882; m. Mary Miller. 1056. ROBERT SACKET, b. in 1805, d. in 1843, unmarried. 1057. MARY SACKET, b. Feb. 12, 1807, d. Apr. 29, 1888; m. William W. Bonney. 486. NOADIAH SACKET, 17--?----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (165) Capt. Daniel Sacket, served in War of Revolution as a private soldier in Capt. Preserved Leonard's Company of Col. Elisha Potter's Hampshire Co. Regiment. He enlisted July 28, 1779, and was discharged Sept. 2, 1779. No other account of service given in published records. 488. LYDIA SACKET, 1775-1822, daughter of (165) Capt. Daniel and Mahitable Cadwell (Dewey) Sacket, was married, in 1793, to OREN GOODRICH, 1771-1855, son of CALEB GOODRICH and his wife HULDAH BUTLER. One of their descendants, Willys King, Esq., resided, in 1906, in Chicago, Ill. 490. AARON SACKET, 1772-1848, of Westfield, Mass., son of (166) Ozem and Mercy Weller Sacket, was married to LYDIA ----? Children. 1075. Emily Sacket, m. Jacob Fox. 1076. Mary Sacket, m. Caleb Williams. 1077. ENOCH SACKET, m. ---- Doane. 1078. Lydia Sacket, m. Martha Burt. 1079. Julia Ann Sacket, d. unmarried. 494. WARHAM SACKET, 17--?-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (166) Ozem and Mercy Weller Sacket, was married to EUNICE FOOTE. Child. 1090. HARRIET S. SACKET, b. Nov. 16, 1801, d. in Dec. 1890; m. Seth Dewey 496. CHARLES SACKETT, 1780-1848, of Westfield, Mass., son of (166) Ozem Sacket and Mercy Weller, was married, Oct. 21, 1810, to Page 144 SARAH WOODS. In 1824, Mr. Sackett determined to leave New England with his family and find a new place of abode in the southwest. From Boston he traveled first by water to Philadelphia, and from thence, after a short sojourn. by wagons to Pittsburg, where he secured passage on a flat boat, which carried the family down the Ohio River to Harrison's Creek. From there they, after a short period, again moved in a flat-boat on down the Ohio to Mauckport, from which point they journeyed in wagons through the wilderness to Corydon, Ind., where they purchased a farm; but a little later removed to Louisville, Ky., which become their permanent home. In 1849, Mr. Sackett revisited Westfield, and died and was buried there. Children. 1092. Lucy Ann Sackett, b. Oct. 3, 1811, d. Apr. 23, 1871; m. Thomas Guinn. 1093. CHARLES SACKETT, b. May 13, 1813, d. Ap. 7, 1904; m. Joyce Gresham 1094. Ozem Sackett, d. unmarried. 499. PHILENA SACKET, 1771-1851, daughter of (169) Moses and Eunice Cadwell Sackett, was married, Sept. 3, 1795, to WILLIAM NOBLE, 1768-1858, son of MATHEW NOBLE, of Westfield, Mass. Children. 1096. Dwight Noble, b. Mar. 1, 1796; m. Olive Harvey. 1097. William Noble, b. Nov. 10, 1800, d. Aug. 28, 1803. 1098. William Noble, b. Mar. 3, 1805; m. (1116) Eunice Sacket. 1099. Seth Noble, b. Nov. 1, 1809; m. Eliza Wheeler. 500. LIEUT. MARTIN SACKET, 1776-1862, farmer, of Westfield, Mass., and South Plymouth, Chenango County, N. Y., son of (169) Moses Sacket and Eunice Cadwell, was married, at West Springfield, Mass., Jan. 11, 1802, by Rev. Mr. Lathrop, to MIRIAM BANCROFT, 1782-1876, daughter of ISAAC BANCROFT and MARY BARRETT. Martin Sacket was, during the war of 1812, a member of a Chenango County militia company, and is believed to have seen some active service. In 1816 he was commissioned First Lieut in the 12th Regt. N. Y. S. Artillery, and served as such for several years. Miriam Bancroft Sackett was a lineal descendant of the colonial JOHN BANCROFT, who came from England to America in 1632. Page 145 (For a record of the Bancroft Family, see "Ancient Windsor," by Stiles.) Children. 1100. Clarissa Sackett, b. Apr. 1, 1803, d. May 29, 1803. 1101. MARIA SACKETT, b. Sept. 15, 1809, d. Nov. 1, 1863; m. Winstow Newton. 1102. DEXTER B. SACKETT, b. June 1, 1806, d. Feb. 13, 1897; m. Electa Bement. 1103. WILLIAM D. SACKETT, b. Mar. 22, 1808, d. Mar. 2, 1883; m. Julia A. Harrington. 1104. MARTHA DIANA SACKETT, b. May 25, 1810, d. May 9, 1879; m. William Tower. 1105. HENRIETTA SACKETT, b. Nov. 4, 1811, d. June 25, 1898; m. John Bennett. 1106. EDWIN C. SACKETT, b. Feb. 3, 1815, d. Apr. 9, 1891; m. Roba Peace. 1107. HARVEY B. SACKETT, b. Oct. 3, 1816 d. Jan. 23, 1894; m. Lucy Brooks 1108. RUSSEL R. SACKETT, b. May 23, 1819, d. May 12, 1884; m. Deborah Brown. 1109. LESTER M. SACKETT, b. Nov. 29, 1822, d. Oct. 17, 1860; m. Calphurnina Garrett. 1110. Lucinda Sackett, b. May 20, 1827, d. Jan. 23, 1834. 502. JOHN SACKET, 1781-1839, of Westfield, Mass., son of (169) Moses and Eunice Cadwell Sacket, was married, Nov. 26, 1807, to RACHEL MORSE 1784-1856, daughter of CHESTER MORSE and his wife RACHEL WOOD. Children. 1115. William Sacket, b. Sept. 25, 1808, d. Oct. 24, 1836; m. Philander Cotton. 1116. Eunice Sacket, b. July 1, 1810; m. William Noble. 1117. ANNA SACKET, b. Mar. 28, 1812, d. Feb. 12, 1853; m. Nathan Noble. 1118. Orren Sacket, b. Oct. 26, 1814, d. Feb. 21, 1886; m. M. Morse and J. Ensign. 1119. ROXANA SACKET, b. Jan. 19, 1819, d. May 11, 1892; m. Nathan Noble. 1120. Cordelia Sacket, b. Jan. 22, 1821; m. (1126) Heman Sacket, Jr. 1121. CLARISSA SACKET, b. July 24, 1826; m. Aaron W. Dewey. 1122. Melissa Sacket, b. June 11, 1828; d. Apr. 23, 1853; m. Isaac Tirrell. 503. HERMAN SACKET, 1784-1851, of Westfield, Mass., son of (169) Moses and Eunice Cadwell Sacket, was married to EXPERIENCE SEARLE, 1788-1873, of Southampton, Mass. Page 146 Children. 1123. GEORGE SACKET, b. in 1808. 1124. AUSTIN SACKET, b. in 1812. 1125. Mary Sacket, b. in 1816; m. Samuel N. Lewis. 1126. HEMAN SACKET, JR., b. in 1819, d. Sept. 26, 1867; m. (1120) Cordelia Sacket. 506. ISRAEL SACKET, 1786-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (169) Moses and Eunice Cadwell Sacket, was married to LUCY DOANE, 1799----?, daughter of BETHUEL DOANE and his wife LUCY GREENE, of Springfield, Mass. Children. 1130. Frank Sacket, m. Mary Ann Morse. 1131. Charles Sacket. 1132. Harriet Sacket, m. Simeon Southworth. 1133. Mary Sacket, m. Henry Plumpton. 510. RUSSELL SACKET, 1782-1839, of Westfield, Mass., son of (171) Gad and Lucy Williams Sacket, was married in 1808 to MARY BRASS, 1787-1870, daughter of HENRY BRASS. Children. 1140. Lucy Sacket, m. Samuel Judd. 1141. Mercy Sacket, d. unmarried. 1142. CALEB SACKET, b. in 1815, d. in 1882; m. Jerusha Blood. 1143. Juliet Sacket, m. George Dow. 1144. HENRY SACKET, b. in 1819; m. Sophia Hunter. 1145. Lemuel Sacket. 1146. Charles Sacket, m. Jane Furrow. 1147. Eliza Ann Sacket. 1148. ROWLAND SACKET, b. July 13, 1827, d. Feb. 5, 1868; m. Chloe B. Stebbins. 1149. Joseph L. Sacket. 1150. SETH SACKET, b. in 1831, d. in 1891; m. Ella R. Smith. 511. ELIJAH SACKET, 1784-18--?, of West Springfield, Mass., was the son of (171) Gad and Lucy Williams Sacket. Children. 1151. JUSTIN SACKET, b. in 1815, d. Mar. 3, 1897. 1152. Elijah Sacket. Page 147 512. GAD SACKET, of Russell and Westfield, Mass., was the son of (171) Gad and Lucy Williams Sacket. Children. 1153. FREDERICK SACKET, b. in Nov. 1819, d. in 1882; m. Jane M. Gamwell 1154. Elisabeth Sacket. 514. NOBLE SACKET, 1772-1828, of Westfield, Mass., son of (172) Abner and Rhoda Kellogg Sacket, was married, in 1793, to OLIVE WATKINS, 1779-1829. Children. 1158. HIRAM SACKET, b. in 1794, d. in 1846; m. Sophronia Clapp. 1159. Thomas Sacket, d. young. 1160. LOREN SACKET, b. in 1801, d. in 1893; m. 1st, Ann Smith. 1161. Abner Sacket, d. young. 1162. ABNER SACKET, 2d, b. in 1812; m. Electa Dewey. 1163. Oldridge Sacket, b. in 1804, d. unmarried. 1164. EDWARD SACKET, m. Cynthia Field. 1165. NOBLE SACKET, b. in 1814; m. Ella Rathburn. 1166. MARRIETTA SACKET, b. in 1816, d. in 1894; m. Joseph Washburn. 1167. David Sacket, d. in 1846. 516. NANCY SACKET, 1775-1796, daughter of (172) Abner and Rhoda Kellogg Sacket, was married in 1791, to HEMAN NOBLE, 1775-1832, son of ASA NOBLE and his wife ADA FOWLER. Child. 1170. George Noble, b. Mar. 2, 1792. 521. EDWARD SACKET, 17--?-18--?, of West Springfield, Mass., son of (172) Abner and Rhoda Kellogg Sacket, was married to SALLY ELDRIDGE. Children. 1187. BENJAMIN F. SACKET, b. Dec. 3, 1810; m. Elizabeth Aiken. 1188. HANNAH D. SACKET, m. Edward Hume. 541. MAJOR BUEL SACKETT, 1763-1840, of Litchfield, Conn., and New Lebanon (formerly Canaan), N. Y., son of (174) Benjamin and Page 148 Deborah Buel Sacket, was married, about 1784, to SALLY EARL BEACH, 1761-1815. About 1818, he was married to his second wife, LYDIA BUELL, 1775-1832. When but 16 years of age he enlisted in 5th Continental Regiment, which at the time was encamped at New Windsor, about two miles distant from General Washington's Headquarters, at Newburgh, N. Y. This regiment subsequently served on both sides of the Hudson and was on duty at West Point when Major Andre was executed. After the close of the war Mr. Sackett became a resident of Lebanon, N. Y., and joined the Lebanon company of the Columbia County regiment of militia, which was composed mainly of veterans of the Revolutionary army. In this company he served first as a private and then passed through the noncommissioned grades to Ensign, receiving a commission as such in March, 1803. The following year he was promoted to Lieutenant, and in 1805 to Captain. In 1807 he retired from the militia service with the rank of Major. A newspaper notice of his death, published at the time, closes as follows: "He was a soldier of the Revolution, and was one of the guard at the execution of Major Andre Thus, one after another, fall and are deposited beneath the clods of the valley, the few remaining patriots of early days. Very shortly the death knell of the last one must sound in the ears of those who have inherited the rich legacy left by these patriots." Children. 1200. JOHN SACKETT, b. July 31, 1785, d. Feb. 17, 1827; m. Loraine ---- 1201. PHILO SACKETT, b. June 13, 1786, d. Oct. 12, 1863; m. Grace Perkins. 1202. NORMAN SACKETT, b. Mar. 27, 1791, d. July 11, 1868; m. Esther Waterman. 1203. Nathan Sackett, b. May 15, 1794, d. Ap. 25, 1874; m. Martha Daukin. 1204. Ebenezer Sackett, b. Nov. 9, 1799, d. Oct. 16, 1846. 1205. Henry C. Sackett, b. June 25, 1805, d. July 28, 1886. 545. LIEUT. ELIJAH SACKET, 1768-1813, farmer, son of (174) Benjamin and Deborah Buel Sacket, was married, June 17, 1789, to DOROTHY HITCHCOCK, daughter of Russell Hitchcock, of Springfield, Mass. He was born at Sheffield, Mass., but previous to commencement of Revolution removed with his parents to New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y. Shortly after his marriage he settled in Washington County, where he became interested in local military affairs, and after serving for several years as a private and non-commissioned Page 149 officer, was commissioned, first as Ensign and later as Lieutenant in Washington County Regiment. In 1809 he removed to Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and resided there until his death in 1813. Children. 1207. Elisabeth Stebbins Sackett, b. Dec. 11, 1791, d. Mar. 1860; m. John Parker. 1218. ERMINIA SACKETT, b. Dec. 11, 1796, d. Apr. 22, 1876; m. James Parker. 1219. ELECTA SACKETT, b. July 26, 1800; m. Homer Van Buren. 1220. EBENEZER B. SACKETT, b. Dec. 2, 1803, d. Nov. 5, 1867; m. Emily Taylor. 1221. ERWIN SACKETT, b. Sept. 25, 1807; m. Lucinda Bacon. 548. ISAAC SACKET, 1773-1854, son of (174) Benjamin and Deborah Buel Sacket, was married, Dec. 25, 1799, to POLLY HAMMOND, 1780-18--?, and on Apr. 26, 1818, to SILENCE WASHBURN, 1770-1865. Children. 1225. Mary H. Sackett, b. Oct. 30, 1800, d. in 1888; m. T. Brownell. 1226. Nancy B. Sackett, b. Nov. 27, 1802, d. Jan. 8, 1892; m. T. Martin. 1227. David H. Sackett, b. Aug. 9, 1804, d. May 3, 1880; m. C. Ames. 1228. Martha A. Sackett, b. Nov. 7, 1806, d. Dec. 10, 1853; m. ---- Martin. 1229. JOSHUA S. SACKETT, b. Oct. 12, 1808, d. Jan. 29, 1854; m. E. E. Brownell. 1230. Morris Sackett, b. July 22, 1811, d. May 12, 1812. 1231. George C. Sackett, b. Feb. 22, 1813, d. Oct. 14, 1839; m. Maria. Winters. 559. MENARDUS SACKET, about 1770-1854, of Westfield, Mass., and Cape Vincent, N. Y., son of (180) Ezekiel and Anna Granger Sacket, was married, in 1791, to FANNY NIMOCKS, 1773----?, daughter of RICHARD NIMOCKS and his wife ZERVIAH NOBLE. Children. 1240. GIDEON S. SACKET, b. Nov. 29, 1792, d. Sept. 24, 1860; m. Frances E. Bush. 1241. GEORGE SACKET, m. Eliza A. Peake. 1242. Porter Sacket. 1243. Corydon Sacket. 1244. Ezekiel Sacket. 1245. FRANCES SACKET, b. June 27, 1789, d. Sept. 7, 1858; m. Walter Noble Page 150 569. DAVID SACKET, son of (182) Ensign David and Lucretia Shepard Sacket, was married to ANNE PARKE. Children. 1270. Charlotte Sackett, b. in 1804. 1271. LEVERETT SACKETT, b. Apr. 21, 1805, d. in 1887; m. Mary Culver. 1272. BETSEY ELVIRA SACKETT, b. Jan. 23, 1820; m. ---- Otis. 570. JERUSHA SACKET, 1769-1--?, daughter of (183) Lieut. Adnah and Jerusha Pomeroy Sacket, was married to ABEL AVERY, of "The Farms," in northern part of Westfield, Mass. 571. JOHN SACKETT, 1771-1851, of Southwick, Mass., son of (183) Lieut. Adnah and Jerusha Pomeroy Sackett, was married, Oct. 23, 1793, by Mr. Atwater, to LUCINDA MOSELEY, 1773-1855, daughter of ISRAEL MOSELEY and his wife ABIGAIL CHAPIN. Children. 1280. ELIZA SACKETT, b. Aug. 25, 1794, d. April 27, 1864; m. Homer Preston. 1281. ADNAH SACKETT, b. Oct. 6, 1796, d. Feb. 15, 1860; had four wives. 1282. ISAAC SACKETT, b. Nov. 20, 1788, d. Apr. 3, 1881; m. Mary Johnson. 1283. John Pomeroy Sackett, b. Jan. 30, 1801, d. July 3, 1822. 1284. Jefferson Moseley Sackett, b. Aug. 21, 1803, d. July 31, 1804. 1285. ABIGAIL H. SACKETT, b. Mar. 14, 1806, d. Mar. 30, 1850; m. Charles J. Cleveland. 1286. ISRAEL SACKETT, b. Mar. 30, 1809, d. Aug. 28, 1880; m. Margaret L. Allen. 1287. LUCINDA SACKETT, b. Nov. 25, 1811; d. Nov. 24, 1893; m. Thomas H. Parker. 572. CHARLOTTE SACKETT, 1773-18--?, daughter of (183) Lieut. Adnah and Jerusha Pomeroy Sackett, was married to a MR. BROWNING, and resided at Whitestone, near Utica, N. Y. 576. OLIVE SACKETT, daughter of (183) Lieut. Adnah and Jerusha Pomeroy Sackett, was married to DAVID IVES, of Southwick, Mass. Children. 1290. David Ives. Page 151 579. JABEZ B. SACKET, 1788-1870, of Meadville, Pa., son of (184) Zaven and Abigail Bills Sacket, was married, May 4, 1815, to ANN DEWEY, 17--?-1832, daughter of LEVI DEWEY. His second wife, EMILY ----?, died May 15, 1852, aged 52. Children. 1300. EDWARD B. R. SACKET, b. July 6, 1816; m. Sabrino S. Wright. 1301. CHARLES D. SACKET, b. June 21, 1820, d. May 27, 1862; m. Mary A. Dickson. 1302. JAMES W. SACKET, b. Aug. 30, 1822; m. Lizzie Johnson. 1303. JABEZ B. SACKET, b. Feb. 1, 1827; m. Esther M. White. 1304. DEWEY SACKET, b. Dec. 3, 1828; m. Sarah E. and Harriet Palmer. 1305. Ann A. Sacket, b. Jan. 1, 1832. 1306. Ozias H. Sacket, b. Dec. 23, 1836, d. Nov. 23, 1859. 1307. L. Dewey Sacket, m. Sarah ----. 587. SHUBAEL SACKET, 1778-1831, of Westfield, Mass., was the son of (185) Asher and Leah Kellogg Sacket. Child. 1315. REBECCA SACKET, b. Apr. 26, 1807, d. Dec. 30, 1878; m. Elijah Dewey. 589. SALLY SACKET, 1780-1826, daughter of (185) Asher and Sarah Kellogg Sacket, was married, Aug. 10, 1797, to HOMER NOBLE (his second wife), son of ASA NOBLE and his wife ADA FOWLER. Children. 1316. Eliza Noble. 1317. James Noble. 1318. Henry Noble. 1319. Mary Noble. 1319a. Mercy Noble. 1319b. Clarissa Noble, b. Dec. 3, 1812. 1319c. Frances Noble. 592. ASHER SACKET, about 1782----?, of Westfield, Mass., was the son of (185) Asher and Sarah Kellogg Sacket. Children. 1320. Edward Sacket. Page 152 1321. Henry Sacket. 1322. Dwight Sacket. 1323. Jane Sacket, m. Elijah Wheadon. 1324. John Sacket, m. ---- Benton. 599. ELIAKIM SACKET, 1775-1751, of Westfield, Mass., son of (189) Justus Sacket and Naomi Weller, was married Sept. 5, 1799, to ANNIE EDWARDS, of Westhampton, Mass. Children. 1329. Noah Edward Sacket, b. Aug. 1, 1800, d. Oct. 11, 1858. 1320. Belinda Sacket, b. Dec. 16, 1802, d. July 31, 1887; m. Chauncey Chane. 1331. JUSTUS SACKET, b. July 13, 1804, d. Nov. 8, 1893; m. Electa Clark. 1332. RUFUS SACKET, b. Jan. 3, 1808, d. Aug. 1875; m. Frances Parsons. 601. DANIEL SACKET, of Westfield, Mass., son of (190) Stephen and Eunice Ross Sacket, was married to TRYPHENIA LOOMIS. Children. 1334. TRYPHENIA SACKET, b. Mar. 1, 1821; m. Joshua Eager Loomis. 1335. DANIEL SACKET, m. Carlestine Loomis. 1336. MARIA SACKET, m. Daniel Hale. 1337. JULIA SACKET, m. Leonard Atwater. 1338. Electa Sacket, m. George Hills. 1339. LOOMIS J. SACKET, m. Cordelia Stephens. 602. EUNICE SACKET, 1779-1859, daughter of (190) Stephen and Eunice Ross Sacket, was married, May 4, 1800, to ERASTUS GRANT, 1774-1865. Children. 1342. Ralph Grant, b. July 17, 1801, d. Sept. 6, 1802. 1343. Ralph Grant, b. Feb. 12, 1803, d. May 13, 1823. 1344. Seth Grant, b. Sept. 11, 1804, d. Oct. 10, 1801. 1345. James Grant, b. Sept. 8, 1806, d. Oct. 5, 1850; m. Mary Pomeroy. 1346. Jane Grant, b. Mar. 12, 1809, d. Sept. 26, 1835; m. William A. Bull. 1347. Charles W. Grant, b. May 8, 1812, d. Aug. 2, 1867; m. ---- Manchester. 1348. Miriam S. Grant, b. Jan. 6, 1820, d. Oct. 26, 1846; m. William A. Bull. 1349. John Grant, b. Dec. 4, 1822, d. July 11, 1874; m. Julia C. Gates. Page 153 603. CHARLES SACKET, 1783----?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (191) Ezra and Lydia Lovering Sacket, was married, Feb. 9, 1803, to ABIGAIL OTIS, daughter of JAMES OTIS and his wife SARAH HOLMES. Children. 1350. Sophia Sacket, b. Apr. 6, 1804; m. John Mallory. 1351. Mary A. Sacket, b. May 15, 1812; m. Walter Bates. 1352. Sarah Sacket, b. Nov. 16, 1808, d. unmarried. 1353. Orlinda Sacket, b. Oct. 9, 1810; m. Zeras Cronk. 1354. Harriet Sacket, b. Dec. 1, 1816; m. Solomon Williams. 1355. Clerinda Sacket, b. June 23, 1823; m. Alfred R. Porter. 1356. URSULA SACKET, b. July 3, 1825; m. Lyman Prebels. 1357. CHARLES SACKET, b. July 5, 1818; m. Hannah M. Griggs. 1358. KING SACKET, b. Jan. 26, 1806, d. in 1895; m. Mary C. Holcomb. 1359. Elvira Sacket, b. Oct. 1, 1820. 606. ELECTA SACKET, 1788-1861, daughter of (191) Ezra and Lydia Lovering Sacket, was married, July 31, 1806, to CHARLES C. DEWEY, 1784-1871, son of TIMOTHY DEWEY. Children. 1360. Daniel L. Dewey, b. June 13, 1807; m. Orange Wadsworth. 1361. Charles C. Dewey, b. June 13, 1810; m. (1309) Olive Sacket. 1362. Ezra Dewey, b. July 20, 1812; m. Cynthia Granger. 1363. Emeline Dewey, b. Dec. 26, 1814, d. in 1819. 1364. Lemuel Dewey, b. Dec. 17, 1816, d. Feb. 19, 1847; m. Maria Coles. 1365. Mary Dewey, b. May 26, 1819. 1366. Frederick Dewey, b. July 1, 1823; m. Lucy Foot and Lucy Bond. 1367. Thomas J. Dewey, b. May 10, 1827; m. Tirzah Bliss. 1368. Solomon Dewey, b. Jan. 1, 1829, d. in 1831. 1369. Gay Dewey, b. Mar. 2, 1832, d. in Union Army. 607. CLARISSA SACKET, 1790-1840, daughter of (191) Ezra and Lydia Lovering Sacket, was married to TIMOTHY DEWEY, JR., son of TIMOTHY DEWEY, SR. Children. 1370. Schuyler Dewey, b. in 1813, d. Oct. 17, 1831, unmarried. 1371. Enoch Dewey, b. in 1815, d. unmarried. 1372. Elisabeth Dewey, b. in 1817, d. in 1839; m. Benjamin Bassett. 1373. Ralph Dewey, b. in 1818, d. Mar. 9, 1863; m. Mary A. Brownley. 1374. Caroline Dewey, b. in 1820, d. in 1820. Page 154 610. EZRA SACKET, 17--?-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (191) Ezra and Lydia Lovering Sacket. Of their sons and daughters we have the record of but one Child: 1375. OLIVE SACKET, b. Nov. 15, 1805, d. Sept. 7, 1868; m. (1373) Charles E. Dewey. 611. ROWLAND SACKET, 17--?-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (191) Ezra and Lydia Lovering Sacket, was married. Child. 1376. Enoch Sacket. m. Celestia Doane. 612. ROYAL SACKET, 1784-18--?, of Southwick, Mass., son of (192) Pliny and Elizabeth Kellogg Sacket, was married to EMMA HASTINGS, of Suffield, Conn. Children. 1377. Eunice Lauretta Sacket, b. Aug. 13, 1809; m. ---- Chandler. 1378. LUCRETIA M. SACKET, b. July 6, 1814. 1379. Lucinda Emily Sacket, b. Aug. 19, 1817. 1380. Laura A. Sacket, b. Aug. 14, 1819. 1381. Royal A. Sacket, b. Feb. 4, 1822. 613. PLINY SACKET, 17--?-18--?, of Southwick, Mass., Boston Center, Erie County, N. Y., and Berien County, Mich., son of (192) Pliny and Elizabeth Kellogg Sacket, was married, in 1814, to NANCY BARTLETT, daughter of CHRISTOPHER BARTLETT. The family removed from Boston Center, N. Y., to Berien County, Mich., in 1838, shipping their household goods by water from Buffalo to Chicago, and transporting them from thence in wagons to Berien Co., Mich., where Mrs. Sacket died in 1841, leaving surviving her husband and six of their seven Children. 1382. Israel Sacket, b. in 1815, d. in 1848; m. Hannah Aldridge. 1383. Isaac Sacket, b. in 1817, d. in 1856. 1384. Samuel Sacket, b. in 1819, d. in 1838, unmarried. 1385. Maryette Sacket, b. in 1821; m. Hiram Roodrich. Page 155 1386. EDWIN SACKET, b. in 1823, d. in 1896; m. Elizabeth Hall. 1387. Chauncey Sacket, b. in 1826, d. in 1890; m. Widow Miles. 1388. KIRTLAND SACKET, b. in 1831; m. Nancy Henery. 632. PENELOPE SACKET, 1761-1837, daughter of (198) Erastus and Elizabeth Leonard Sacket, was married at Pittsfield, Mass., Nov. 16, 1782, to ASAPH DEWEY, 1758-1833. son of David Dewey and his wife Rebecca Phelps, of Westfield, Hancock and Richmond, Mass. Children. 1398. Roxana Dewey, b. Oct. 13, 1783; m. James Foote. 1399. Zelotes Dewey, b. in 1758, d. Dec. 30, 1843; m. Mehitable Roberts. 1400. ASAPH DEWEY, JR., b. Mar. 7, 1787, d. Feb. 11, 1845; m. Miss Sidney Howland. 1401. Erastus Dewey, b. Apr. 15, 1789, d. Apr. 15, 1865; m. Matilda Millard. 1402. Lyman Dewey, b. in 1793, d. July 3, 1853; m. Phebe Burt. 1403. Jerusha Dewey, b. in 1793; m. Joseph Howland, Jr. 1404. Elias Dewey, b. July 5, 1794, d. Mar. 9, 1878; m. Nancy Wood. 1405. Solomon Dewey, b. Oct. 13, 1799, d. Oct. 30, 1860; m. Sophia Henry. 633. SOLOMAN SACKET, 1762----?, of Pittsfield, Mass., son of (198) Erastus and Elizabeth Leonard Sacket, has the following record of service in war of the Revolution: "Sacket, Solomon, private, Capt. Joel Stevens' Co., Col. David Roseter's Regt. Entered service Oct. 12, 1781; discharged Oct. 25, 1781; service 13 days, on an alarm at Saratoga. Roll dated Pittsfield." 645. WILLIAM SACKET, 1753-1842, of Warren, Conn., Treaford, Vt., and Cayuga County, N. Y., son of (202) Jonathan and Hulda Phelps Sacket, was married in spring of 1774 to EUNICE BOWMAN, who died Mar. 10, 1784. On May 29, 1786, he was married to PARTHENIA PATTERSON. At the outbreak of the war of the Revoiution he enlisted in the 5th Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Watterbury, and attached to Gen. Wooster's Brigade. He was by occupation a farmer, and settled first at Warren, Conn. In February, 1788, he sold his farm at Warren and removed to Tredford, Vt., where he had purchased a farm, located some four miles west of the Connecticut River. This farm he in 1801 sold to Page 156 Judge Buckingham and removed to another a few miles distant on the banks of the Connecticut. In 1805 he disposed of this farm also and migrated with his large family to Aurelius, Cayuga County, N. Y., where he subsequently purchased another farm and built upon it a house, in which he lived until 1832. His son, Garry V., and other members of his family became meantime interested in the settlement and building up of a new village, now called Seneca Falls, ten miles to the westward of the Sacket homestead at Aurelius. In 1832 William Sacket removed to the new village, where he had purchased a comfortable cottage, in which he spent his remaining years. "WAR DEPARTMENT, REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM." "I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, WILLIAM SACKET, of the State of New York, who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary War, is entitled to receive Sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. "Given at the War Office of the United States this thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. "LEW CASS, (Seal) "Secretary of War. "Examined and countersigned. "J. L. EDWARDS, "Commissioner of Pensions." Children. 1440. Prudence Sacket, m. ---- Howard. 1441. Ruby Sacket. 1442. Vina Sacket, m. ---- Green. 1443. RUSSELL SACKET, b. Mar. 12, 1787, d. Jan. 15, 1824; m. Jane Stephenson. 1444. Eunice Sacket, b. Aug. 20, 1788, d. in 1847; m. David Higgins. 1445. GARRY V. SACKET, b. Aug. 9, 1790, d. June 15, 1865; m. 1st, Nancy Vance. 1446. Jonathan Sacket, b. May 3, 1792, d. July 20, 1869, unmarried. 1447. Matilda Sacket, b. Apr. 2, 1796, d. Nov. 22, 1877, unmarried. 1448. Anna Sacket, b. Aug. 8, 1798, d. Nov. 10, 1881; m. William Gilmore. 1449. Caroline Sacket, b. Apr. 3, 1801, d. in 1894; m. Amos Halstead. 1450. Amanda Sacket, b. Nov. 18, 1803, d. in 1889, unmarried. 1451. Fanny Sacket, b. Feb. 14, 1808; m. Pliny Dickinson. 1452. WILLIAM A. SACKET, b. Nov. 8, 1811, d. in 1895; m. 1st, Zade Thorn. Page 157 650. CHLOE SACKET, 1762-1822, daughter of (202) Jonathan and Hulda Phelps Sacket, 17 -1803, was married in the town of Kent, Litohfield Co., Conn., Nov. 30, 1778 to DAVID ABEL. They had several children, among whom was a Son. 1460. JULIUS CAESAR ABEL, b. Sept. 13, 1793; m. Rachel Bristoe. 652. FILER SACKET, 1766-1834, of Litchfield, Conn.; Adison, Vt.; Aurelius, N. Y., and Chautauqua Co., N. Y., son of (202) Jonathan and Hulda Phelps Sacket, was married Dec. 12, 1787, to DEBORAH WATERMAN, of Lynn, N. H. Children. 1462. Jonathan Sacket, b. Oct. 7, 1789; d. Oct. 17, 1789. 1463. LETUS SACKET, b. Aug. 23, 1793, d. Feb. 3, 1853; m. five wives. 1464. Clara Sacket, b. Aug. 28, 1799, d. June 16, 1883; m. Alpheus Atwood 1465. Harriet Sacket, b. Jan. 31, 1803, d. Sept. 11, 1879; m. Hanford Hall. 1466. Eliza Sacket, b. Dec. 24, 1806, d. Oct. 28, 1879; m. Joseph See. 1467. RUSSEL SACKET, b. May 27, 1809, d. May 6, 1873; m. Mary Hovey 1468. Almira Sacket, b. Feb. 4, 1812, d. Nov. 1, 1895; m. Pleasant S. Wilson. 1469. Martha L. Sacket, b. Feb. 20, 1815; m. Alexander Griffith. 655. BENJAMIN SACKET, 1762-1844, of Warren, Litchfield County, Conn., son of (203) Capt. Justus Sacket, was married Nov. 22, 1782, to BETSEY ELDRED, who died Mar. 9, 1819. On Oct. 5, 1819, he was married to his second wife MARY GAYLORD, who died in 1856. He was a soldier in war of the Revolution, serving in Capt. David Olmstead's Company, of Col. Enas' Regiment. His name appears on pension rolls of 1832 and 1840 as a resident of Warren, Conn. Children. 1500. JUSTUS SACKET, b. Aug. 30, 1784, d. Apr. 5, 1846; m. Mary Bradley. 1501. ASHSAH SACKET, b. Jan. 21, 1786, d. Nov. 23, 1831; m. David Hine. 1502. MYRON SACKET, b. Feb. 14, 1787, d. in year 1849; m. Orphia Dean. 1503. SIMMONS SACKET, b. Dec. 8, 1788, d. Sept. 19, 1863; m. Eda Hayes. 1504. LYDIA SACKET, b. Nov. 1, 1790, d. July 23, 1812; m. Erastus Chidchester. 1505. CLARK SACKET, b. Feb. 4, 1793, d. in June, 1864; m. Cynthia Preston. Page 158 1506. MOSES SACKET, b. May 21, 1795, d. Apr. 25, 1871; m. Celia L. Fox. 1507. JOANNA SACKET, b. July 2, 1797; m. Charles Bingham. 1508. BENJAMIN SACKET, b. Aug. 29, 1799, d. Nov. 16, 1865; m. Thalea Moulthrop. 1509. ORPHEA SACKET, b. July 6, 1801, d. Oct. 28, 1885; m. Daniel E. Brinswold. 1510. MINERVA SACKET, b. Dec. 5, 1803; m. Silas Comstock. 1511. Frances A. Sacket, b. Aug. 31, 1820, d. Sept. 29, 1852, without issue. 656. SALMON SACKET, 1764-1846, of Warren, Conn., and Talmadge, Ohio, son of (203) Justus and Lydia Newcomb Sacket, married, May 3, 1787, MERCY MATILDA CURTIS. Children. 1511a. Mercy M. Sacket, b. Feb. 6, 1788. 1512. Harvey Sacket. b. Dec. 24, 1793, d. Aug. 11, 1815; m. Thelia Eldred. 1513. Leander Sacket, b. Apr. 20, 1795; m. Rebecca Conant. 1514. Eleazer C. Sacket, b. Mar. 1, 1802, d. in 1789; m. (1521) Patty Sacket 1515. Ann Filer Sackett, b. Mar. 16, 1809; m. William Russell. 1516. Norman Sackett, b. Mar. 11, 1789, d. in 1834; m. Mary Goudy. 1517. Lorinda Sacket, b. Dec. 17, 1791; m. David Beach. 1518. Cassander Sacket, b. Dec. 24, 1796; m. Henrietta Beach. 1519. Lodemia Sacket, b. Nov. 7, 1798; m. Sherman Loomis. 1519a. Betsey Sacket, m. Apr. 22, 1800; m. William Beach. 1519b. Solomon D. Sacket, b. Mar. 27, 1804; m. Mary A. Wright. 1519v. Miranda A. Sacket, b. June 10, 1806. 1519d. Ebenezer T. Sacket, b. June 8, 1812. 657. HOMER SACKET, 1765-1853, of Warren, Litchfield County, Conn., son of (203) Justus and Lydia Newcomb Sacket, was married to SARAH CARTER, daughter of SAMUEL CARTER and his wife BERTHA BUELL. Children. 1520. Theron Sacket, b. Jan. 19, 1788, d. Aug. 3, 1843. 1521. AUGUSTUS SACKET, b. Apr. 21, 1789; m. Azie Starr. 1522. AARON SACKET, b. Jan. 7, 1791, d. Jan. 8, 1872; m. Huldah C. Tanner 1523. ARRILLA SACKET, b. Nov. 29, 1792, d. in 1874; m. Adiniram Carter. 1524. PATTY SACKET, b. Jan. 13, 1794; m. (1514) Eleazer C. Sackett. 1525. ORANGE SACKET, b. Apr. 21, 1796; m. Mariah Sheldon. 1526. SARAH SACKET, b. Feb. 6, 1800; m. Harriet Griffin. 1528. HOMER SACKET, b. Dec. 8, 1801, d. Jan. 12, 1871; m. Flora Skipp. 1529. POLLY SACKET, b. May 8, 1804, d. July 25, 1892; m. Harry Swift. Page 159 1530. PHEBE M. SACKET, b. June 6, 1807; m. Joseph Hatch. 1531. Charles B. Sacket, b. Oct. 11, 1812, d. Mar. 11, 1813. 658. LODEMA SACKET, 1767-1844, daughter of (203) Justus and Lydia Newcomb Sacket, was married about 1787 to AUGUSTUS CURTIS. Children. 1532. LUCINDA CURTIS, m. Joseph Peters. 1533. HOMER CURTIS. 1533a. ERASTUS CURTIS. 662. SAMUEL SACKET, M. D., 1754-1833, of East Greenwich. Conn., and Fayette County, Penn., son of (204) Reuben and Mercy Finney Sacket, was married Feb. 10, 1777, to SARAH MANNING, 17 -1813. Dr. Sacket began the practice of his profession as a physician and surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. In 1781 he was at Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn., and seven years later settled permanently at Morgantown, in same county. He was a farmer as well as a physician, and the farm he then lived on was at a recent date in the possession of one of his descendants. Children. 1534. Reuben Sacket, b. Jan. 16, 1778, d. in year 1823. 1535. DAVID FILER SACKET, b. Jan. 18, 1780, d. in 1864; m. Martha Milliken. 1536. Betsey Sacket, b. Apr. 4, 1782. 1537. Lucinda Sacket, b. Mar. 5, 1784. 1538. Alexander Sacket, M. D., b. Jan. 10, 1786, d. in year 1814. 1539. Mary A. Sacket, b. Sept. 3, 1788. 1540. Anne Sacket, b. Nov. 9, 1790. 1541. Lydia Sacket, b. Nov. 22, 1792. 1542. SAMUEL SACKET, b. Sept. 20, 1795, d. Apr. 27, 1860; m. Priscilla. Caldwell. 1543. Sarah Sacket, b. Oct. 20, 1797. 663. ALEXANDER SACKET, 1758-1829, of Hebron, East Greenwich, and Warren, in Conn., son of (204) Reuben and Mercy Finney Sacket, was married to PATIENCE ----, 1761-1829. He was a Revolutionary soldier. The records of Connecticut troops show that he was a fifer in Capt. Joseph Carter's Company of the 13th Page 160 Connecticut Regiment, in August and September, 1776; that he was a sergeant in Capt. Olmstead's Company, of Col. Enos' Regiment, from June to September in 1778, serving at Fort Montgomery and West Point, and was also a sergeant in Capt Mix's Company, attached to regiment commanded by Col. Increase Moseley. 674. WILLIAM SACKET, 1763-1--?, of Westfield, Mass., and Jefferson County, N. Y., son of (227) Capt. William and Lydia Weller Sacket, was married in 1788 to OLIVE DEAN. Children. 1560. William Sacket. 1561. Samuel Sacket. 1562. JULIA SACKET, b. Mar. 11, 1792, d. Apr. 9, 1852; m. James Noble. 1563. MARVIN SACKET. 1564. Laura Sacket. 675. LYDIA SACKET, 1764-1838, daughter of (227) Capt. William and Lydia Weller Sacket, was married Mar. 16, 1785, to SOLOMON NOBLE, 1760-178--?, son of Samuel Noble, of Westfield, Mass. On July 27, 1797, she was married to her second husband, Amos Bush, 1754-1810, and about 1813 to her third husband, Samuel Judd, 1775-1832. Child. 1565 Lydia Noble, b. Dec. 23, 1785; m. Daniel Moseley. 676. MOSES SACKET, 1766-1850, of Westfield, Mass., son of (227) Capt. William and Lydia Weller Sacket, was married to TRYPHENA HISCOCK. Children. 1570. MARTIN SACKET, b. in year 1809, d. in year 1886; m. Eliza Hale. 1573. Laura Sacket, b. June 30, 1817; m. in 1872 to James Noble, 2d wife. 677. ROYAL SACKET, 1769-1804, of Westfield, Mass., son of (227) Capt. William and Lydia Weller Sacket, was married Jan. 30, 1794, to Catherine Noble, daughter of Gad Noble, 1769-1818. Page 161 Children. 1576. Edmond Sacket, b. Mar. 28, 1795; m. Ann Kentner, of Brooklyn, O. 1577. CHESTER SACKET, b. Dec. 20, 1796, d. June 16, 1848; m. Maria Bush. 1578. Marvin Sacket, b. Dec. 2, 1799, d. Nov. 17, 1801. 694. SAMUEL SACKETT, 1771-1851, of New Haven, Conn., and Verona and Trenton, in Oneida County, N. Y., son of (254) Samuel and Abigail Blakeley Sackett, was married to SALLY DONELSON. Child. 1647. JOHN B. SACKETT, b. Dec. 18, 1820, d. June 19, 1897; m. Mary B. Lincoln. 699. JOEL SACKETT, son of (254) Samuel and Abigail Blakeley Sackett, was married to LYDIA TODD, daughter of HESEKIAH TODD and his wife LYDIA FROST, of North Haven, Conn. 700. SOLOMON SACKETT, 1785-1855, of Sandsfield, Mass., and North Canaan, Conn., son of (256) Solomon Sackett, was married to HULDA WEBSTER. Children. 1650. GEORGE SACKETT, b. June 9, 1820; m. 1st, Orphia Cowles. 1651. SOLOMON SACKETT, b. May 24, 1823, d. Feb. 1904; m. Melissa Fargo. 1652. Harvey Sackett, b. in 1825, d. Jan. 5, 1831. 1653. Rhoda Sackett; m. ---- Spaulding. 704. JONATHAN BOOTH, 1747-1806, of Hamden, Conn., son of Lieut. Elisha and (259) Hannah Sackett Booth, was married to REBECCA COOPER. Children. 1662. Alexander Booth, b. Dec. 11, 1767, d. July 11, 1829; m. Huldah Thompson. 1663. Sarah Booth, m. Joshua Munson. 1664. Jonathan Booth, m. Mabel Mix. 705. HANNAH BOOTH, 1755-1836, daughter of Lieut. Elisha and (259) Hannah Sackett Booth, was married to Capt. Thomas Punderson, of New Haven, Conn. Page 162 Children. 1665. Ruth Punderson. 1666. Elisha Punderson. 1667. Thomas Punderson (Rev.). 710. MARY SACKETT, daughter of (267) Richard Sackett, was married to ISRAEL CAMFIELD. About 1768 they settled at Arlington, Vt. Children. 1676. Sackett Camfield. 1677. John Camfield. 1678. Nathaniel Camfield. 1679. Anson Camfield. 711. RICHARD SACKETT, 1749-1789, of New Milford, Conn., and Arlington, Vt., son of (267) Richard Sackett, was married previous to 1776 to MARTHA BENEDICT, 1756-1812. He appears to have been a well-to-do husbandman. On Jan. 4, 1770, nearly six months previous to reaching his majority, he purchased from his father, for the sum of "Four Hundred Pounds lawful money of the Colony" of Connecticut, fifty acres of land adjoining the homestead farm at New Milford. The deed given him is in the hand writing of his uncle, Dr. John Sackett, who is also one of the witnesses to the signing of it. This deed is now in the possession of Mr. James D. Sackett, of Cleveland, O., to whom it was recently presented by a kinsman whom he visited at Poultney, Vt. This Richard Sackett is not shown by public records to have been especially active in public affairs. On the death of his father, in 1771, he came into possession of several pieces of real estate at New Milford, including the homestead farm. In 1775 he disposed of the last piece of his property at New Milford and became a permanent resident of Arlington, Vt., where he was an active member of a military company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Wallace, in the ranks of which he participated in one or more campaigns during the war of the Revolution. He died at Arlington in the spring of 1789, survived by his wife Martha, three sons and a daughter. On June 24, following, Mrs. Sackett gave birth to a second daughter. THOMAS BENEDICT (or Bennydick), the colonist ancestor of Martha Benedict Sackett, was a native of Nottinghamshire. England, Page 163 and came to Massachusetts Bay in 1638, and there married MARY BRIDGMAN. They lived for several years at Southold, and in 1662 resided at Jamaica, L. I. Still later they were at Norwalk, Conn., where Mr. Benedict was made a deacon of the church. JOHN BENEDICT, one of the nine children of Thomas and Mary Bridgman Benedict, was born at Southold, L. I., and removed with his parents to Norwalk, Conn., where, on Nov. 11, 1670, he was married to PHEBE GREGORY. He was there sworn a freeman in 1680, succeeded his father as deacon, and from 1689 to 1699 held the office of selectman. JOSEPH BENEDICT, one of seven children of John and Phebe Gregory Benedict, was born at Norwalk, Conn., where he was married to his first wife ANNE, previous to whose death, in 1716, they removed to Ridgefield, Conn. There, on Mar. 21, 1720, he was married to his second wife, MARY. JONATHAN BENEDICT, 1723-1800, son of Joseph Benedict and his wife Mary, was married to LUCY CASTLE, who was the mother of his ten oldest children, and who died at North Milford, Vt. Mr. Benedict shortly after the death of his wife Lucy, moved to Manchester and was there married to widow MARGARET SEELYE (Pinnock). MARTHA BENEDICT, 1756-1812, eldest daughter of Jonathan and Lucy Castle Benedict, some two years after the death of her husband, Richard Sackett, in 1789, was married to Jason Kellogg. Children of Richard and Martha Benedict Sackett. 1680. RICHARD SACKETT, b. Apr. 22, 1777; m. Cahziah Conger. 1681. LUCY SACKETT, b. Oct. 8, 1780; m. Potter Conger. 1682. JONATHAN SACKETT, b. Mar. 12, 1783, d. Aug. 3, 1851; m. Lucy Wright. 1683. ANSON SACKETT, b. May 27, 1785, d. Aug. 24, 1869; m. Docia Ruggles. 1684. HESTER SACKETT, b. June 24, 1789, d. Aug. 20, 1877; m. Wm. Cadman, M. D. 715. EZEKIEL SACKETT, of Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (268) Dr. John Sackett, was married Nov. 13, 1759, to MARY ATHERTON, daughter of JAMES ATHERTON, who came from Canterbury, Conn., to Dutchess County, N. Y., and removed from there in 1769 to Wilkesbarre, Penn., where he died in 1790. The New York records show that Ezekiel Sackett, of Dutchess County, was adjudged Page 164 entitled to bounty lands by reason of service rendered in the war of the Revolution. Children. 1690. Jesse Sackett, m. ---- Blackmeath. 1691. Reuben Sackett, m. ---- Dibble. 1692. Nathaniel Sackett. 1693. Anne Sackett, m. Eliphalet Reed. 1694. Joanna Sackett, was married Jan. 7, 1779, to Reuben Delano. 1695. Della Sackett. 1696. Polly Sackett, m. Reuben Martin. 716. CAPT. BENJAMIN SACKETT, 1752-1826, of Stephentown, in what is now Rensselaer County, N. Y., son of (268) Dr. John Sackett, was married Nov. 11, 1773, to PHEBE DAVIS. He was an active participant in the war of the Revolution and is credited with service under Colonels Whitney, Harper, and Van Rensselaer. He also served the State as Captain of Militia for several years after close of war. Children. 1698. JOHN SACKETT, b. in 1774, d. in 1841; m. Abigail Robbins. 1699. Betsey Sackett, b. in 1777, d. in 1814; m. Uriah Hill. 1700. EZRA D. SACKETT, b. in 1779, d. in 1858; m. Chloe Pachin. 1701. Richard Sackett, b. in 1781, d. in 1814. 1702. CALVIN P. SACKETT, b. in 1783, d. in 1853; m. Hannah Douglas. 1703. Lois Sackett, b. in 1786. 1704. DANIEL SACKETT, b. in 1788, m. Abigail Smith. 1705. Almiron Sackett, b. in 1789, d. in 1801. 1706. Benjamin Sackett, b. in 1792. 1707. LAVINIA SACKETT, b. in 1795, d. in 1819; m. Joseph Lord. 717. RICHARD SACKETT, 1751-1778, son of (268) Dr. John Sackett, was married at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., Apr. 15, 1771, to CHLOE ATHERTON, daughter of JAMES ATHERTON. He died at Stephentown, N. Y., in September, 1778. Children. 1708. Richard Sackett, m. a Miss Carpenter. 1709. Elisha Sackett. 1710. MARGARET SACKETT, b. Feb. 22, 1775, d. Dec. 30, 1843; m. Truman Merchant. 1711. Miss ---- Sackett. Page 165 719. JOHN SACKETT, 1747-1--?, of Albany (now Rensselaer) County, N. Y., son of (268) Dr. John Sackett, was married Oct. 26, 1769, to PRUDENCE ATHERTON, 1748-1--?, daughter of JAMES ATHERTON, John Sackett was a Revolutionary soldier and is credited with service in regiments commanded by Colonels John Field and Henry Luddington. Children. 1713. JAMES SACKETT, b. June 6, 1770; m. ---- Chittendon. 1714. SIMEON SACKETT, b. Nov. 30, 1771; m. Hannah Woodard. 1715. Sarah Sackett, b. Nov. 21, 1773. 1716. Jacob Sackett, b. Nov. 5, 1775. 1717. Benjamin Sackett, b. Oct. 22, 1777. (Of Tryon, Steuben Co., N. Y.) 1718. Betsey Sackett, b. Nov. 22, 1779. 1719. Chloe Sackett, b. May 17, 1782. 1720. Amelia Sackett, June 15, 1784. 1721. Ezekiel Sackett, b. Nov. 22, 1786. 1722. Lois Sackett, b. Nov. 17, 1788. 720. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1742-1806, daughter of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married in 1761 to CALEB HYDE, son of ELIJAH HYDE and his wife RUTH TRACEY, of Lebanon, Conn. Caleb Hyde was born at West Farms, Conn., and after his marriage settled at Lenox, Mass. At the commencement of the war of the Revolution he was Captain of the Lenox Company of Militia, which was attached to Regiment commanded by Col. James Eaton. On May 10, 1775, he responded promptly to an alarm notice and marched with his company from Lenox to Ticonderoga, and from that date to the end of the war was an active patriot and frequently on duty in the field. On Aug. 30, 1775, he was commissioned Junior Major, and subsequently Senior Major, and still later Lieut. Colonel of Colonel Simons' regiment. In October, 1781, he commanded a battalion of militia sent from Massachusetts to reinforce the Continental Army at Saratoga and served with credit under General Stark. After the close of the war he was commissioned Brig. General of Mass. Militia, and was Sheriff of the county of Berkshire. Later he removed to Lysle, N. Y. He served several terms both as Assemblyman and State Senator in New York Legislature, and in 1804 was a member of the Council of Appointment. Page 166 Children. (Twins born in 1762 died unnamed.) 1723. Charles Hyde, b. Feb. 12, 1764, d. Oct. 3, 1806, unmarried. 1724. Caleb Hyde, b. Aug. 6, 1765; m. Rhoda Steel. 1725. Clarissa Hyde, b. Apr. 17, 1767; m. Josiah L. Patterson. 1726. CHAUNCEY HYDE, b. Jan. 29, 1769; m. Alice Slaughter. 1727. Calvin Hyde, b. Feb. 9, 1770; m. Ornney Stanley. 1728. Elisabeth Hyde, b. Nov. 3, 1772, d. May 15, 1797; m. Thomas Steel. 1729. Ruth Hyde, b. May 16, 1774; m. O. W. Seymour. 1730. Prudence Hyde, b. Nov. 2, 1775; m. William Woodruff. 1731. Elijah Hyde, b. July 2, 1777, d. Feb. 13, 1790. 1732. John Hyde, b. Jan. 15, 1779, d. May 19, 1779. 1733. Ebby Hyde, b. Jan. 27, 1781; m. Elisabeth Osborne. 1734. Harris Hyde, b. Feb. 18, 1784; m. Isaac Foote. 1735. Melinda Hyde, b. Dec. 16, 1786; m. James Parke. 729. SKENE DOUGLAS SACKETT, 1765-1852, of New Milford, Conn., and Astabula County, Ohio, youngest child of (272) Josiah Crego Sackett, was married about 1788 to HANNAH SAXTON, of Waterbury, Conn. Both of his parents having died while he was quite young, he was sent to live with a Mr. Bull, who had married one of his mother's sisters. According to family tradition he was a strong, healthy lad, who in appearance was a full grown man before he had completed his 14th year. The records of "Connecticut in the Revolution" show that "Skene Douglas, residence N. Milford, enlisted Jan. 23, 1780, for three years, in Captain Samuel Comstock's Company, of Colonel Heman Swift's Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line." Also that "Skene Douglas, a member of Captain Joseph Allen Wright's Company, of Second Regiment of Connecticut Line, commanded by Colonel Heman Swift, was paid from January 31, 1781, to Dec. 31, 1781." And also that "Skene Douglas Sackett, a Connecticut Revolutionary soldier, residing in the State of Ohio, was a pensioner, under the law of 1818." The traditional explanation of the dropping of his surname when he enlisted is that he hoped by so doing to prevent his uncle discovering his whereabout and securing his discharge on account of his being under the prescribed age, the inference being that his uncle was a Tory. The following additional records relating to him were furnished the compiler of this volume by Mr. F. J. Sackett, of Cincinnati, Page 167 Ohio, one of his lineal descendants: "Skene Douglas Sackett removed from Connecticut to the Whitestone country, as it was then called, in 1798, where he rented a farm on the reservation of the Brotherton Indians, in Oneida County, N. Y. About 1800 he came to Thompson, Geauga County, Ohio . . . . and lived on land that is now a portion of the city of Painesville, until about 1803, when he removed to the township of Mesopotamia. Trumbell County, Ohio, where he lived some two years, removing from there to Windsor, Astabula County, Ohio, where he lived the balance of his life, dying June 9, 1852." Children. 1744. GERY SACKETT, b. Feb. 7, 1789, d. Feb. 13, 1866; m. Julia Adams. 1745. POLLY SACKETT, b. Dec. 25, 1791, d. in Nov. 1855; m. 1st A. Crandal. 1746. Elisabeth Sackett, b. Sept. 7, 1893, d. before reaching maturity. 1747. Marvin Sackett, b. Jan. 23, 1796, d. before reaching maturity. 1748. CHAUNCEY SACKETT, b. Apr. 28, 1798; d. Oct. 9, 1863; m. Sarah Gladding. 1749. Horace Sackett, b. Sept. 25, 1803, d. Mar. 22, 1870; m. Dirmeriss Olin. 730. HON. JEHIAL SACKETT, 1768-1832, of Stamford, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (280) Samuel and Thankful Wood Sackett, was married to SEMANTHA KNAPP, 1773-1--?, daughter of PHINEAS KNAPP. Jehial Sackett was a life-long and highly respected resident of Dutchess County. He took an intelligent interest in public affairs. In 1805 and for several years thereafter he was Superintendent of the Poor. In 1816 and 1817 he represented the town of Bangall in the County Board of Supervisors, and in 1818 was a member of the Lower House of the State Legislature. Children. 1750. Camelia Sackett, b. June 19, 1792; m. Asa Alling. 1751. STEPHEN SACKETT, b. Jan. 26, 1794, d. in 1871; m. Rachel Barton. 1752. Sally Sackett, b. Nov. 2; m. George Guernsey. 1753. NIRAM SACKETT, b. Oct. 31, 1797, d. Oct. 22, 1869; m. Catherine Thorn. 1754. ARTEMUS E. SACKETT, b. Dec. 12, 1799; m. Laura Hoffman. 1755. Tamena Sackett, b. Nov. 28, 1801; m. Ezekiel B. Guernsey. 1756. PHINEAS SACKETT, b. Nov. 20, 1803; m. Eunice Guernsey. 1757. SAMUEL J. SACKETT, b. Apr. 25, 1806; m. ---- Case. 1758. JOHN T. SACKETT, b. Nov. 27, 1808, d. in 1882; m. Maria Guernsey. 1759. Isaac H. Sackett, b. Nov. 28, 1810. Page 168 1760. ASA ALLING SACKETT, b. Jan. 6, 1813; m. Rhoda Green. 1761. Semantha Sackett, b. Apr. 20, 1816; m. Smith Tompkins. 731. SAMUEL W. SACKETT, 17 -1845, of Stamford, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (280) Samuel and Thankful Wood Sackett, was married to ANNA HAMMOND, of New Haven, Conn. Children. 1762. Lucinda Sackett, b. Apr. 11, 1796, d. Jan. 8, 1839; m. Levi Terry. 1763. ORVILLE SACKETT, b. May 16, 1798, d. Apr. 28, 1866; m. Amy Briggs. 1764. HARRY SACKETT, b. Oct. 1, 1800, d. Mar. 31, 1874; m. 1st, Catherine Pulver. 1765. William Sackett, b. May 20, 1802, d. Dec. 8, 1805. 1766. CLARA SACKETT, b. Aug. 30, 1804, d. Oct. 17, 1872; m. John Humphrey. 1767. Jane Sackett, b. Sept. 29, 1807, d. May 10, 1815. 1768. ANN SACKETT, b. Apr. 9, 1812; m. Elias Case. 1769. SAMUEL H. SACKETT, m. Amy Case. 1770. JANETTE SACKETT, b. May 3, 1816; m. George Travis. 1771. Polly Sackett, b. Sept. 9, 1819; m. Leonard Carman. 737. JOEL SACKETT, 17 -17 , of Stamford, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (280) Samuel and Thankful Wood Sackett, was married to BETSEY HUSTED. Children. 1775. NATHAN SACKETT, b. Nov. 1796, d. Nov. 1876; m. Martha Wilson. 1776. LEONARD SACKETT, b. in 1798, d. in 1868; m. Ruth Gildersleve. 1777. THERON SACKETT, b. in 1800, d. in 1882; m. 2d, Flora Blake. 1778. EGBERT SACKETT, b. in 1802, d. in 1877; m. Harriet Latham. 1779. Maria Sackett, b. in 1804, d. in 1883; m. ---- Gildersleve. 1780. Cynthia Sackett, b. in 1806; m. ---- Ward. 1781. JOHN SACKETT, b. in 1808, d. in 1895; m. Jane Brown. 1782. Julia Sackett, b. in 1810, d. Dec. 18, 1883; m. Edward Latham. 1783. HIRAM SACKETT, b. Dec. 6, 1812, d. in 1895; m. Millicent Smith. 1784. MORGAN SACKETT, b. Sept. 8, 1814; m. Almira Ward. 1785. ELIZA SACKETT, b. in 1818; m. ---- Smith. 1786. Emma Sackett, b. in 1822; m. Richard Bartlett. 738. CAPT. ISAAC SACKETT, 1786-1836, of Dutchess County, N. Y., was the son of (280) Samuel and Thankful Wood Sackett. He was in 1815 commissioned a Lieutenant in 29th Regiment N. Y. Infantry, and the following year was promoted to a Captaincy in same organization. Page 169 Children. 1787. Edward Sackett, died in infancy. 1788. Minerva Sackett, m. Coville Case. 1789. Mary Sackett, m. Levi Case. GENERATION VII. 740. SARAH SACKETT, 1780-1853, daughter of (281) Elijah and Sarah Gibson Sackett, was married, in 1818, to RICHARD GABRIEL. In 1800 they settled near Milford Centre, Union County, Ohio, where Mr. Gabriel built the first brick dwelling erected in Union County. In 1905 this house, though uninhabited, was yet standing. Children. 1801. JAMES GABRIEL, b. in 1818, d. in 1888; m. Rebecca Swartz. 1802. Eli Gabriel, b. in 1820, d. in 1848, unmarried. 1803. Mary Gabriel, b. in 1822, d. in 1847; m. S. Jago. 742. MILTON H. SACKETT, 1783-1849, son of (281) Elijah and Catherine Gibson Sackett, was married at Williamsport, Md., in 1806, to ANN STERRITT, who died in 1816. Prior to 1829 he was married at New Boston, N. H., to his second wife, SARAH FERSON, 1788-1849. Their home from 1815 to the end of their lives was in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio. Children. 1804. Catherine Sackett, b. in 1808, d. in 1862; m. E. Thompson. 1805. Elijah Sackett, b. in 1810, d. in 1829, unmarried. 1806. MILTON A. SACKETT, b. in 1813, d. in 1896; m. Susan P. Hoge. 1807. JAMES F. SACKETT, b. in 1830; m. Elisabeth Havens. 743. GUY SACKETT, 1784-1853, of Delaware County, Ohio, son of (281) Elijah and Catherine Gibson Sackett, was married about 1805 to SARAH DUNKAN. Children. 1808. Robert Sackett. 1809. Milton Sackett. 1810. ELIJAH G. SACKETT, b. in June, 1809, d. July 5, 1881; m. Malinda Lee. 1811. AUGUSTUS SACKETT, b. in 1813, d. Sept. 13, 1862; m. Mary E. Garye. Page 170 744. AUGUSTINE SACKETT, 1786-1857, of Delaware, Ohio, son of (281) Elijah and Catherine Gibson Sackett, was married to MARTHA LUSK, of Lancaster, Ohio. Children. 1812. MILTON SACKETT, b. in 1820; m. Rachel Wiley. 1813. ISAAC SACKETT, b. in 1824; m. Lydia A. Ferguson. 1814. RACHEL SACKETT, b. in 1826; m. John Strain. 1815. ELIJAH SACKETT, b. in 1828; m. Nancy Hendren. 1816. Martha Sackett, died in childhood. 753. WILLIAM SACKETT, of Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio, son of (282) Azariah and Elisabeth Young Sackett, was married in 1822 to RACHEL LISLE. Children. 1835. JOHN SACKETT, m. Amanda Wilkins. 1836. Elisabeth Sackett, m. George Agnew. 1837. Rebecca Sackett, m. Henry Agnew. 1838. Robert Sackett, d. unmarried. 1839. JAMES SACKETT, m. Catherine Guisenger. 754. JONATHAN Y. SACKETT, 1804-1880, of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, and of Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio, son of (282) Azariah and Elisabeth Young Sackett, was married in 1832 to RACHEL WELLS LUSK. He migrated to Putnam County, O., in 1833, and there entered a half section and purchased 260 acres of land, which he turned into a productive farm, on which he resided to his death in 1880. Mr. Sackett, in addition to farming, practiced law, and for several years was an Associate Judge of Putnam County Court. Children. 1840. Elisabeth Sackett. 1841. HOMER W. SACKETT, m. Mary E. Cartwright. 1842. Putnam Sackett, d. while serving in Union Army in 1862. 1843. Margaret Sackett, m. Samuel McDowell. 1844. Almira Sackett, m. Ezra McDowell. 1845. Phebe Sackett, m. William Hale. 1846. Nancy Sackett, m. David Jenkins. Page 171 756. ISAAC ANSON SACKETT, 1785-1852, of Stamford. Delaware County, N. Y., son of (283) Joseph Sackett, was married, May 18, 1809, to EUNICE DAVIS, daughter of NEHEMIAH DAVIS, 1785----?, and his wife HANNAH THORP. He was by occupation in early life a blacksmith, but in his later years followed farming. There is a mystery surrounding his death. He left his home, not saying where he was going, and did not return. After a considerable lapse of time a search was determined upon and his dead body was found in a nearby piece of woods. An examination of his remains revealed the fact that his death had resulted from a gunshot wound. Children. 1846a. Louisa W. Sackett, b. Oct. 24, 1810. 1846b. Orramel E. Sackett, b. Sept. 25, 1812. 1846c. Emily Sackett, b. June 24, 1815, d. Mar. 15, 1905. 1846d. Nehemiah Sackett, b. June 12, 1817. 1846e. Ornano H. Sackett, b. Dec. 21, 1818. 1846f. Hannah Sackett, b. June 3, 1821. 1846g. Edwin O. Sackett, b. July 2, 1823. 1846h. SOCRATES SACKETT, b. Dec. 16, 1827; m. Ruby M. Davis. 757. DAVID H. SACKETT, 1772----?, of Butler County, Penn., son of (283) Joseph Sackett, was married, first to a MISS CARNES, and second to a MISS HUGHES. Children. 1847. Jane Sackett. 1848. William Sackett. 1849. GEORGE SACKETT, d. in year 1856; m. Sophia A. ----. 1850. Esther Sackett, d. Jan. 8, 1847. 1851. Elisabeth Sackett, d. Feb. 10, 1853, unmarried. 1852. Sarah A. Sackett, m. Josiah Sloan. 759. JOSEPH EATON, JR., civil engineer, of Delaware, Ohio, son of Joseph and (286) Bethesda Sackett Eaton, was married to a MISS CAULKINS. Children. 1860. George Eaton, civil engineer. 1861. Henry Eaton, attorney at law. Page 172 761. DR. JAMES SACKETT, 1755----?, of Newtown, L. I., Paramus, N. J., and New York City, oldest son of (295) Dr. Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was, at the outbreak of the war of the Revolution, studying medicine with his father at Newtown, L. I. When a few months later his parents removed to Paramus, N. J., he went with them, and was there commissioned a Lieutenant in "Spencer's Additional Regiment." In the latter part of 1777, he resigned his commission in Spencer's Regiment and accepted the appointment of Surgeon's Mate in the 14th Virginia Infantry. Later he became a Surgeon in the Navy, and, according to Riker, died unmarried. 762. PETER SACKETT, 1757-18--, son of (295) Dr. Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was born and spent his boyhood days at Newtown on Long Island. In the same town dwelt Esther Palmer, daughter of Mr. Charles Palmer, a prominent and highly respected citizen. Peter Sackett and Esther Palmer were playmates, schoolmates, and lovers. The relation existing between the other members of the two families was that of mutual respect and cordial friendship. Peter Sackett was four years older than Esther Palmer, and to all appearance a bright and prospenous future awaited them. But the war of the Revolution came. The Palmers remained loyal to King George. The Sacketts espoused the Patriot cause, and all was changed. Peter Sackett joined one of the first Continental companies organized on the banks of the Hudson and was soon marching in General Montgomery's command, which was dispatched to strike a timely blow at the British forces in Canada. He was scarcely out of his teens when he entered the service of his country as a private soldier. When he returned at the end of the campaign he was the Sergeant Major of his regiment. During his absence his father and the remaining members of his family had been forced to leave Long Island and had gone to Paramus, N. J. Newtown had meantime been captured and was being held by the British. In November, 1776, the New York troops were re-organized and Lieut. Colonel Henry B. Livingston was commissioned Colonel, and Sergeant Major Peter Sackett, Adjutant, of the 4th Regiment of the Continental Line. During the year 1777, among the special duties to which Colonel Page 173 Livingston's regiment was assigned was that of making incursions through the more loosely guarded portions of the British lines on Long Island, and forceibly taking from Loyalists there all such firearms and military stores, as could by any possibility be gotten away with, which would be of service to the Continental army. It is not at all improbable that on some of these incursions Adjutant Peter Sackett found honorable means of communicating with Miss Esther Palmer. Toward the close of the year last mentioned the relations existing between Colonel Livingston and his immediate superior, General McDougle, became so strained that General McDougle preferred charges against Colonel Livingston, and a Court Martial was convened by order of General Putnam, to try the Colonel. The president of this military court was General George Clinton, then and for years afterward Governor of the State of New York. Colonel Livingston was acquitted of the principal charges, but was found guilty of a minor charge, which reads as follows: "Delaying the returns of his Regiment and Brigade by orders and whims of his own contrary to known Rules of the Army, and thereby delaying the returns of the Army in this Department." Unfortunately the testimony on which Colonel Livingston was convicted of this charge was that given, albeit, with evident reluctance, by Adjutant Peter Sackett. It is reported as follows: "Adjutant Sackett says that Colonel Livingston told him he had no business to keep copies of his weekly returns, did not positively forbid him but said he did not think it proper that Adjutants should keep copies of returns and that he should give them to him. Witness believed it customary for Adjutants to keep copies of their returns, says that he did not keep copies of his returns after the Colonel said it was improper, until lately." The sentence imposed by the court martial was "That the said Coll. Henry B. Livingston be reprimanded for his offences in General Orders for this department and cautioned against the like offense in future." From the date of findings of said court martial it is apparent that the feelings of intense hostility entertained previously by Colonel Livingston toward his superior, General McDougle, were with increased force turned against his subordinate, Adjutant Sackett, who endured the ordeal until August 25, 1778, when broken in spirit and health he threw up his commission and left the service. A year later, or to be exact, on the 14th of August, 1779, Peter Sackett obtained from Governor Clinton, who had a thorough knowledge Page 174 of the cause of his trouble with Colonel Livingston and the facts and circumstances of his leaving the service, authority to pass through the Continental lines and visit friends on Long Island. The pass referred to has been printed on page 184 of Vol. V of "Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York," and reads as follows: "The bearer Peter Sacket has permission to pass to Long Island to Visit his friends there and return unmolested. Given at Poughkeepsie in the State of New York this 14th August 1779. G. C. Gov'r." On reaching Newtown, Peter Sackett was married to Esther Palmer and they sailed on a wedding tour to Europe and remained there until the war was over. In a record of Colonel Livingston's regiment, made at the close of the war, some one who had doubtless heard that Peter Sackett had left the service and the country during the war, wrote after his name the word "deserted," a cruel piece of injustice, which has ever since been a source of annoyance to his patriotic descendants. On returning to New York after peace was declared Peter Sackett resided at one time in New York City and at another near Greenwich, Conn. Children. 1864. Peter Sackett. 1865. Charles Sackett. 1866. Sarah Sackett. 1867. JAMES JOSEPH SACKETT, d. Aug. 8, 1830; m. Ann Black. 1868. HANNAH ALSOP SACKETT, m. ---- Shute. 1869. Esther Palmer Sackett. 764. JOSEPH SACKETT, 1774-18--, of New York City, son of (295) Dr. Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married to MARGARET ----. Children. 1872. Millicent Sackett, b. Mar. 1, 1815.(*) 1873. James Sackett, b. Aug. 28, 1808. 1874. Mary Sackett, b. Oct. 7, 1811, d. May 22, 1904, unmarried. 1875. Hannah Sackett, b. Apr. 9, 1814. (*)The dates of birth of above mentioned children of Joseph Sackett and his wife Margaret are from the baptismal records of Trinity Parish, New York City. The date of baptism being Dec. 9, 1819. Page 175 766. REV. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1787-1834, of Cornwall, Orange County, N. Y., and Benton, Yates County, N. Y., son of (298) John Sackett and his wife Jane ----, was married, January 26, 1815, to Margaret Lazier, 1790-1876, of Warwick, Orange County, N. Y. From about 1810, to his removal to Yates County in 1831, he was one of the most influential members of the Methodist denomination residing within the limits of Orange County. During the period mentioned he was instrumental in securing the building of several "Methodist Meeting Houses," collecting the bulk of the funds needed, and serving on the building committees. The original record book of the New Windsor Circuit, Hudson River District, New York Conference, now in possession of the compiler of this record, shows that Nathaniel Sackett was licensed to exhort Nov. 7, 1812; recommended for license to preach Apr. 24, 1813; given permission to preach one year on trial Aug. 14, 1814; licensed a local preacher July 22, 1815, and was reported in Deacons' Orders Nov. 15, 1828. Children. 1900. CORNELIUS SACKETT, b. Nov. 4, 1815; m. Rosanna Bailey. 1901. CATHERINE SACKETT, b. Feb. 8, 1817; m. Daniel Bailey. 1902. ROSETTA SACKETT, b. July 4, 1819, d. June 18, 1903; m. Albert Chellborg. 1903. SALLY SACKETT, b. Feb. 13, 1821; m. George W. Bailey. 1904. RICHARD SACKETT, b. July 28, 1825. 1905. NATHANIEL SACKETT, b. about 1827, d. unmarried. 1906. SAMUEL L. SACKETT, b. about 1827; m. Ann Larkin. 767. BENJAMIN SACKETT, of Cornwall, Orange County, N. Y., son of (298) John Sackett, was married and had two Children. 1907. John H. Sackett, d. in 1903; m. Catherine Lazier. 1908. James Sackett, d. aged about eight years. 776. HON. CLARENCE DANIEL SACKETT, 1798-1858, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and New York City, son of (305) Samuel and Elisabeth Kissam Sackett, was married, Dec. 19, 1828, to GERTRUDE ONDERDONK TREDWELL, daughter of ADAM TREDWELL and his wife JANE MOORE. Page 176 He was a lawyer. His principal business offices were in New York City, but for many years he maintained his residence in Brooklyn, where, like his honored father, he took a deep interest in local public affairs. When a young man he entered the militia service and held commissions as Ensign, Lieutenant, and Captain in the 82d Regiment of N. Y. Infantry. He was for several years a member of the Village Board of Trustees. In 1823 he delivered a Fourth of July oration which attracted wide attention, and the same year became one of the contributors to and organizers of the Mechanics Library, which became the Brooklyn Institute. In 1827 and 1828 he represented Kings County in the State Legislature. In 1834 he aided in securing for Brooklyn a city charter, and served as a member of its first board of Alderman. A few years later he removed his home to New York City. The following is copied from New York Evening Post of March 9, 1858: "The bar of this city has sustained a severe loss in the death of two of its most worthy and respected members, the brothers C. D. and G. A. Sackett. The elder brother, C. D. Sackett, died yesterday afternoon of congestion of the lungs. His brother died this morning of apoplexy, a consequence of the extreme excitement and grief which the decease of his brother had induced. They were most estimable men. Their relations through life had been singularly close. They lived together, worked together, and died together. The older brother was married and died in his 60th year; the younger was a bachelor and died in his 54th year." Only Child. 2001. ADAM T. SACKETT, b. June 13, 1828, d. Dec. 7, 1878; m. Sarah E. Ostrander. 781. ELISHA C. SACKET, 1802-1851, of Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., was for many years an invalid and great sufferer. The old family Bible contains the following entry: "Elisha C. Sacket, son of Augustus and Minerva Sacket, died Feb. 3, 1851, aged 48 years, of spinal affection, after a confinement to his bed of twelve years and six months." 782. MINERVA KEZIA SACKET, 1804-1851, daughter of (307) Augustus and Minerva Camp Sackett, was married, June 4, 1822, to SAMUEL GREENLEE, about 1782-1850, of Morganton, N. C., son of JAMES A. GREENLEE and MARY MITCHELL. SAMUEL GREENLEE was a college graduate, and when about to marry was a bachelor of 40 and a prosperous planter, noted alike Page 177 for his temperate habits, his hospitality, and his business ability; and withal was a courtly gentleman. At the time of his death he was reputed to be the wealthiest man in his county, possessing an extensive landed estate and many slaves. Children. 2007. Mary Minerva Greenlee, b. June 30, 1823, d. Apr. 18, 1887; m. Dr. Wm. L. McRee. 2008. JAMES AUGUSTUS GREENLEE, b. Mar. 1825; m. Augusta Denson. 2009. Samuel Bloir Greenlee, b. Dec. 31, 1826, d. July 17, 1865, unmarried. 2010. EMILY AMELIA GREENLEE, b. June 11, 1829, d. Sept. 29, 1883; m. Dr. Christopher Happoldt. 2011. EPHRAIM EDWARD GREENLEE, b. Nov. 16, 1830, d. Apr. 29, 1886; m. Sarah Louisa Butler. 2012. ELISABETH SACKETT GREENLEE, b. Sept. 10, 1832, d. Nov. 29, 1900; m. John A. Dickson. 2013. ALEXANDER SACKETT GREENLEE, b. Nov. 11, 1834; m. Elizabeth Glass. 2014. GEORGE ELISHA GREENLEE, b. Jan. 12, 1837; m. Jane E. McKinney. 2015. Adelia Augusta Greenlee, b. May 18, 1839, d. Nov. 4, 1841. 783. EDWARD SACKET, 1806-1866, of Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., and Chicago, Ill., son of (307) Hon. Augustus and Minerva Camp Sackett, was married, March 29, 1843, to CORNELIA E. BECKWITH, 1822-1854, of Lyme, Conn. On October 16, 1856, he was married to his second wife, H. LOUISE DOE, 1818-1892, daughter of WALTER DOE and his wife MARY EMMERSON, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Edward Sacket was for a number of years associated with his brother, George A. Sackett, in conducting a mercantile business, first at Sacketts Harbor, and then at Chicago. Later in life he became engaged in the raising of cranberries on an extensive scale, marketing as many as eleven thousand barrels from a single crop. He is said to have introduced cranberry culture in the west and one of his sons was still engaged in it in 1899. He died suddenly of heart disease at Waupun, Wis., enroute to his home at Chicago from Berlin, Wis. Children. 2016. HOBART S. SACKET, b. Feb. 14, 1844; m. Martha A. Farley. 2017. GEORGE B. SACKET, b. June 7, 1849, d. May 30, 1894; m. Elma C. Dunham. 2018. FREDERICK W. SACKET, b. July 28, 1852; m. Frances E. Campbell. 2018a. Walter A. Sackett, b. July 17, 1857, d. Jan. 21, 1874. Page 178 786. GEORGE A. SACKET, 1812-1883, son of (307) Hon. Augustus Sacket, was for many years engaged with his brother Edward in the mercantile business, and in commerce on the lakes, first at Sacketts Harbor and later at Chicago. He was thrice married: 1st to HARRIET CANFIELD, daughter of J. M. CANFIELD; 2d to ELIZA KELLOGG, 18 -1862, daughter of ISRAEL KELLOGG and his wife HONOR BURT, and 3d to HARRIET WOODRUFF, 18 -1905, daughter of H. WOODRUFF and LODEMA ANDUS. Children. 2019. Frederick A. Sacket, b. in 1845, d. in 1894, unmarried. 2020. JANE M. SACKET, b. in 1846; m. Fred W. Wood. 2021. Edward A. Sackett, b. in 1847; m. Sallie Rankin. 2022. CHARLES K. SACKET, b. in 1851; not married in 1907. 2023. Lilley Sacket, b. in 1858, d. in 1866. 2024. George W. Sacket, b. in 1866, d. in 1895; m. Belle M. Wilbur. 787. ALEXANDER SACKET, 1814-1884, of Meadville, Pa., New York City, and Cleveland, Ohio, son of (307) Hon. Augustus and Minerva Camp Sackett, was married at Cleveland, Ohio, July 15, 1836, to HARRIET JOHNSON, daughter of LEVI JOHNSON and his wife MARGARET MONTEETH. Children. 2025. MARGARET M. SACKET, b. May 3, 1838; m. Virgil C. Taylor. 2026. Edward Sacket, b. Aug. 10, 1839, d. Aug. 11, 1840. 2027. LEVI A. SACKET, b. Aug. 5, 1842, d. Apr. 12, 1897; m. Rose Barclay. 2028. HARRIET O. SACKET, b. Nov. 6, 1844; m. Henry T. Rambough. 2029. MARY G. SACKET, b. June 19, 1847; m. Charles E. Brown. 2030. ELLEN H. SACKETT, b. Nov. 27, 1850; m. Harris H. Baxter. 2031. Sophia C. Sacket, b. Oct. 15, 1855, d. Mar. 31, 1856. 791. HON. HAMILTON FISH, 1808-1893, son of (312) Col. Nicholas and Elisabeth Stuyvesant Fish, was married, Dec. 15, 1836, to JULIA KEARN, daughter of PETER KEARN, and granddaughter of HON. JOHN KEARN, of South Carolina, who was a member of Congress of the Confederation, 1786-9. Hamilton Fish was born in New York City, and there received his instruction preparatory for college at the famous school of Monsieur Bancel, an exiled French Legitimist, from whom he obtained a well grounded and lasting Page 179 knowledge of the French language, which was of service to him in after years. In 1827 he was graduated from Columbia College with highest honors, and immediately began the study of law with Peter A. Jay, son of Chief Justice Jay. Three years later he was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with William Beach Lawrence, editor and commentator of Wheaton's International Law. He devoted himself to chancery and real estate practice and gave much time to the study of international law. Outside of his profession he took an interest in political affairs, in promoting movements for advancing the welfare of Columbia College, and the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a member; and also in the establishment of public libraries and other institutions and charities in New York City. In 1842, at the age of thirty-four, he was elected to Congress and served one term. In 1847 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York for the unexpired term of one year, occasioned by the resignation of Lieut. Governor Gardner. In 1848 he was elected Governor of said State, beginning his term on the first of January, 1849. On the expiration of his term as Governor he was chosen by the New York Legislature, United States Senator, for the term commencing that year, 1851. On the expiration of his term as Senator, in 1857, he with his family visited Europe and made an extended tour, increasing his knowledge of foreign countries and foreign affairs by personal observation and intercourse, having after attaining his majority come into possession of three separate fortunes, one from his father, one from his mother, and one from his uncle, Petrus Stuyvesant, he was free to use his time and his talents as to him seemed best. He, however, returned to his native land in time to give his earnest and effective aid to the election of Abraham Lincoln. When the Rebellion broke out in the spring of 1861, he united in the formation of the Union Defence Committee, and soon afterwards, when General Dix, its first chairman, went into military service, he became chairman of the committee. This committee in its influence and labors was of immense value to the Union cause. Later in the war of the Rebellion, Mr. Fish was the leading member of the commission appointed by President Lincoln to arrange with the Confederate authorities for the exchange of prisoners. Through the efforts of Mr. Fish and his associates, an arrangement after much difficulty was agreed upon, which continued to the end Page 180 of the war. In March, 1869, Mr. Fish became Secretary of State and continued in that office throughout the entire eight years of General Grant's terms as President, during which he was General Grant's most trusted advisor. The invaluable services rendered his country by Mr. Fish during these eight years, form an important chapter in the history of this Republic. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him in 1850 by Columbia College, in 1869 by Union College, and in 1871 by Harvard University. He was President of the National Society of the Cincinnati for nearly forty years; a trustee of Columbia College for more than fifty years, during thirty-five of which he was their chairman; a trustee of the Astor Library; one of the presidents of the New York Historical Society; and frequently a delegate to the Diocesan and General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. A fitting tribute to his memory was paid by the Legislature of New York State on the evening of April 5, 1894, at the Capitol, at which the Governor and State Officers were present, and an eloquent oration upon his life and public services was delivered by Senator Edmunds of Vermont. Children. 2045. NICHOLAS FISH, m. Clemence S. Brice. 2046. Hamilton Fish, b. Apr. 17, 1859. 2047. STUYVESANT FISH, b. June 24, 1851. 795. WILLIAM WOODS SACKETT, 1791-1836, of Sullivan County, N. Y., son of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, never married. He was educated at Columbia College, was admitted to the bar in 1815, and practiced his profession with marked success. His reputation for strict honesty and a thorough knowledge of the law brought him into many cases of importance and he became a well known figure in the higher courts of the State. He died at the Sackett Homestead, in Lumberland, and was buried by the side of his father in the cemetery at Halfway Brook Village, now called Eldred. 796. LOUISA SACKETT, 1792-18, daughter of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, never married. After reaching maturity she became a school teacher and taught in various places in Sullivan Page 181 County, N. Y., and in Carbon County, Penn. For a considerable period she made her home with her sister, Mrs. Isaac Gould, at Hickory Run. She died at an advanced age at the home of her brother, Nicholas Fish Sackett, at Honesdale, Penn. 797. HARRIET SACKETT, 1793-18, daughter of (314) William and Susan Smith Sackett, was married, Oct. 12, 1822, to SPICER MCNISH, 1795-1848, of Middletown, Orange County, N. Y. Mr. McNish, a short time after his marriage, removed with his family from Middletown to Forestburgh, in the county of Sullivan, where he engaged in the lumbering business, and was there, on Sept. 7, 1848, so badly injured by the falling of a tree that he lived but a few days thereafter. Mrs. McNish removed, several years after her husband's death, to Honesdale, Penn., and from there to Port Jervis, Orange County, N. Y. She died at Pittsburg, Pa. Children. 2070. William Franklin McNish, b. Aug. 9, 1823, d. July 24, 1837. 2071. Henry Lewis McNish, b. May 30, 1825, d. Apr. 2, 1871. 2072. Augustus M. McNish, b. Apr. 17, 1827. 2073. Nathan Sackett McNish, b. May 25, 1830, d. Dec. 17, 1853. 2074. Susan E. McNish, b. May 4, 1833, d. Feb. 11, 1906; m. J. Geegon. 2075. Charles Alexander McNish, b. June 27, 1835. 2076. James Edgar McNish, b. Feb. 5, 1839, d. Mar. 4, 1842. 802. JAMES W. SACKETT, 1803-1887, of Lumberland, Sullivan County, N. Y.; Hickory Run, Carbon County, Pa., and Allegan County, Mich., son of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, was married, July 31, 1834, to NANCY BEERS, 1815-1890, daughter of SILAS BEERS, of Neversink, Sullivan County, N. Y. He was by occupation a surveyor, millwright, lumberman and farmer. Early in life he became an ardent abolitionist and his house in Sullivan County was at one time a station on the so called Under Ground Railway, leading from the South to Canada. His removal from Sullivan County, N. Y., to Carbon County, was in 1835, and while residing there he built a number of mills for his brother-in-law, Isaac Gould. After remaining in Carbon County a few years he returned to his home in Sullivan County, and for some years held the offices of school director and assessor of his town. His removal Page 182 to Allegan County, Mich., was in the year 1854. He there built several large mills and served his town as Justice of the Peace and Postmaster. A short time before his death he returned to Pennsylvania, and died and was buried at Wilkes Barre in that State. Children. 2090. Laura Jane Sackett, b. June 3, 1835; m. Chandler D. Frew. 2091. WILLIAM W. SACKETT, b. Oct. 25, 1836; m. Anna M. Lentz. 2093. Susan E. Sackett, b. Sept. 25, 1838; m. George J. Stanton. 2094. James E. Sackett, b. Sept. 29, 1840; m. Eliza Evans. 2094a. George Oscar Sackett, b. Apr. 2, 1843; m. Eliza Carroll. 2095. Nicholas Fish Sackett, b. July 19, 1846, d. Aug. 6, 1848. 2096. Wesley N. Sackett, b. Sept. 24, 1847, d. Mar. 11, 1864, unmarried. 2097. Frances A. Sackett, b. July 8, 1848, d. Apr. 18, 1870; m. Albert Stanton. 2098. Martha M. Sackett, b. June 22, 1850; m. Rivelo Dunham. 803. SARAH CASE SACKETT, 1805-1876, daughter of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, was married, Jan. 25, 1827, to HEBARDON NICHOLAS MURRAY, Honesdale, Penn. Children. 2099. Susan M. Murray, b. Feb. 16, 1828, d. Mar. 15, 1881; m. E. M. Hunter 2100. Cornelia H. Murray, b. May 30, 1831, d. May 12, 1885; m. J. B. Bryant. 2101. W. S. Murray, b. Oct. 20, 1833, d. Nov. 26, 1902; m. Ruth Carpenter. 2102. Gertrude W. Murray, b. Nov. 30, 1835, d. Feb. 18, 1896; m. E. C. Lynde. 2103. Frances H. Murray, b. Aug. 9, 1839, Milwaukee, Wis. 805. SUSAN SMITH SACKETT, 1809-1881, daughter of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, was married about 1830 to ISAAC GOULD, a young lumberman of the town of Plains, Luserne County, Penn. Isaac Gould at the time of his marriage owned jointly with his brother, Stephen Gould, several extensive tracts of Pensylvania timber land, located mainly in the counties of Carbon and Lycoming. On one of these wilderness tracts the young couple, soon after their marriage, established themselves in a comfortable pioneer cottage, on the banks of a mountain stream called Hickory Run. On this stream, about two miles below the Gould cottage, was a quaint hamlet containing a score or more wood choppers' cabins, a blacksmith Page 183 shop, a store, and a church. Some three or four miles below this hamlet the mountain stream emptied into the Lehigh River. This hamlet took its name from the stream and was called Hickory Run: and the stream derived its name from a large and solitary hickory tree which grew among the tall pines at its junction with the river, On the night of November 1, 1849, Mrs. Gould and her family were involved in a frightful disaster, the following graphic account of which is from the pen of one of her daughters, Mrs. Josie Gould Truesdell: When I was a girl of six years I was living with my parents at Hickory Run. There were seven of us children who were often left alone with our mother, as my father's extensive lumber business frequently required him to travel long distances through the unbroken wilderness, blazing the trees as he went that he might find his way back. It was after a tramp of sixty miles in this fashion that he purchased the well known Beunavista tract, which proved highly remunerative to him. My mother was carefully reared among educated and cultured people, but nature evidently intended her for the helpmate of a pioneer, and she cheerfully accompanied her young husband into these lonely solitudes. And never during the long years of toil, danger and sorrow did she utter a complaining word. She cheered him when he was discouraged, counseled with him when he was perplexed, and by the example of a sweet Christian life commanded and maintained the love and respect of every member of her household. On coming to Hickory Run our father began without delay the erection of a number of saw mills. Each of these required a dam for accommodation of water power. The first of these was three miles from the mouth of the run, which was the point of shipment, and the others were about half a mile apart. Several hundred men were employed at these mills, for whom comfortable homes were built at convenient distances. Just above the boundary line of my father's property, a wealthy Philadelphian owned a fine tract of timber land, on which he erected and operated a mill. This gentleman made the mistake of laying the foundation of his dam on a bed of treacherous quicksand. While he was building it my father went to him and pointed out the danger, and begged him to desist, and went so far as to serve legal notice upon him, without avail, and the dam was finished. Our house, a one and a half story building, stood about midway between this dam and the river. Two hundred feet below our house was the barn, and about a mile further down the run were a number of other houses, in one of which lived the village blacksmith and his large family. From this point could be seen the country school house, on the summit of a hill. Near the school house dwelt an uncle of ours, and half a mile further on, near the village of Hickory Run, was the home of another uncle. During the last week of October it rained continually day and night Page 184 The streams were greatly swollen and all the mill dams were placed in imminent peril. I remember that on the last day of the month, when the rain was coming down in torrents, one of the mill hands visited our house and urged mother to move at once to higher ground, saying the dams above would almost certainly be carried away before morning. My father was absent at the time, while my oldest brother was at boarding school. My mother was in sore distress. She went to the door several times and peered longingly into the gathering gloom, anxiously praying for the speedy return of father. She was so accustomed to leaning on his strong arm that she could not be induced to move until he should return and advise it. At her earnest request, two of the most trusty mill hands came to stay at our house throughout the night. My sister Lizzie, aged eleven years, had been on an errand, and returning about dusk, added to our fears by saying she had heard many say that the dam above us could not withstand the fearful pressure much longer. When night had fully come mother took three of us with her into her own chamber, which was on the first floor, adjoining the sitting room. Lizzie, after disrobing, rolled up her clothing and placed it on the chair which held mother's, saying, "If the water does come, my clothes will go with yours, mother, and that is what I want them to do." In the bedroom directly above were two small brothers and another sister. The children soon fell asleep, but mother did not close her eyes. It was about four o'clock when she heard a faint rumbling sound, which increased rapidly to an overwhelming roar. There was no mistaking its awful meaning. She threw open the window and called, "Heaven save us, the waters are coming!" It was utter darkness within and without the house. Not the faintest ray of light appeared in any direction. She had hardly time to close the window when the onrushing flood struck the house, lifting it from its foundation as though it had been an egg-shell. It sped downward with the torrent, spinning as it went, for five hundred feet, when it crashed against the fragments of the barn which had been caught by the stumps of trees. Incredible as it may seem, the house was submerged the entire distance, and thousands of feet of lumber shot over it, while we escaped drowning because of the air that remained within when the flood ingulfed it. The breaking of the dam formed one prodigious wave that passed so rapidly that almost immediately after the house was caught by the drift pile made by fragments of the barn being caught by the stumps, the roof arose above the submerging waters. Had the torrent continued a few moments longer not one of us could have escaped. Mother, groping in the darkness, found that the floor overhead had settled on our bed and we were captives. She was able, however, to loosen the boards enough to push me through. She then handed me my infant brother, bidding me to sit quietly there until she joined us. Then I heard mother calling for Lizzie, who had been in the room with us, but there was no response to her calls. I was now benumbed with the cold and do not remember anything more that occurred until daybreak. Then the rain was still falling in torrents. Page 185 I was sitting in my night clothes beside my mother on the drift pile. She was holding my baby brother on her lap and the water was still flowing about us, but was only a few inches deep. I remember that I took several steps in different directions, and finding the water on every side ran back to mother saying we would all have to die. She replied, saying, I hope not, and wrapped her night robe about me. The roof having fallen upon the bed in which my brother lay, they managed with great difficulty to struggle out upon the floor, only to find that the stairs had been washed away. By this time the two mill hands hearing the voice of mother calling for help, leaped down to her. She was almost insensible from cold but was still guarding me and the baby. By means of a standing board the men now climbed to the upper story and released my brothers and little sister. But one was missing. Never can I forget the anguish of my mother when she said, "I can't find Lizzie, but she is near me. I hear her voice, look for her! I hear her now! Listen, she is calling me!" No one heard Lizzie call, but mother was right and Lizzie was indeed near her. Under mother's direction the men wrought diligently, and down under the driftwood beneath the wrecked house they found the lifeless body of Lizzie. By this time the neighbors were flocking to the spot, and it was decided that we go to our nearest uncle's house. The body of Lizzie was wrapped in a bedspread and tenderly borne thither. My mother, whose knee was found to be badly injured, was assisted by two mill hands, while another carried me all the way on his back. He held my bare feet--one in each hand--and often slapped my chilled limbs to keep up the circulation. On the way to my uncle's we saw the havoc which had been created on every side. In the sandbank was found the body of one of the blacksmith's little daughters. His wife and four of their children were drowned and many other lives were lost. Investigation proved that the disaster had been caused by the breaking of the upper dam, against the faulty construction of which father had protested in vain. The very disaster he had feared and warned the owner against had occurred. The indignation against the owner was so great that he was obliged to flee from the neighborhood to escape violence at the hands of the community. A messenger was dispatched to the woods to hunt for father, who arrived about the middle of the afternoon. He looked eagerly into the face of mother and the little ones, clasping each in turn in his arms; and he wept over the cold form of Lizzie, who could not respond to his caresses. My baby brother died a few weeks later as a result of the exposure to which he had been subjected that awful night. For weeks and months articles which had been washed from our house were found, some of them miles distant. The floor of mother's bedroom, with the carpet intact, was discovered near the river, and a bag of gold coins was picked up more than four miles distant. Fully a year after the disaster a small boy picked up and brought to our house a gold chain that father had worn for years. Page 186 A few years after the Hickory Run disaster, Mr. Gould purchased a beautiful home in the city of Trenton, N. J., into which he established his family and spent the remainder of his days. Children. 2110. Susan Sackett Gould, b. Dec. 1, 1832, d. June 5, 1837. 2111. Elijah Gould, b. Apr. 19, 1834, d. Jan. 15, 1871. 2112. William Sackett Gould, b. Feb. 16, 1837, d. Feb. 13, 1863. 2113. Elisabeth Louisa Gould, b. May 26, 1839, d. Oct. 30, 1849. 2114. Robert Stephen Gould, b. Aug. 9, 1849, d. about Oct. 1849. 2115. JOANNA GOULD, b. July 21, 1843, d. Sept. 3, 1896; m. Thos. Wescott. 2116. Caroline Gould, b. Nov. 20, 1845. 2117. Winfield Scott Gould, b. July 4, 1848, d. Feb. 14, 1850. 2118. Isabella Child Gould, b. Mar. 25, 1850, d. Mar. 10, 1857. 806. ELISABETH SMITH SACKETT, 1812-189, daughter of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, was married about 1840, to Henry Starks, of Plains, Luserne County, Penn. They had no children. Mr. Starks was early in life a farmer. Later, after serving for several years as the superintendent of the extensive lumber plant of his brother-in-law, Isaac Gould, at Hickory Run, in Carbon County, Penn., he engaged in the lumber business on his own account and at same time became interested in Pennsylvania coal lands. In these ventures he soon amassed a satisfying fortune, and retiring from business builded for himself and wife at West Pittston, Pa., a spacious home, in which they lived in winter, spending the great part of the remainder of the year in travel, and at summer resorts. Mr. Starks died June 25, 1888, aged 74, and was buried at Wilkesbarre City, near the place of his birth. Mrs. Starks outlived her husband several years. 808. CHARLES JOSEPH SACKETT, 1816-1885, of Narrowsburgh, N. Y., son of (314) William W. and Susan Smith Sackett, was married about 1850 to MARGARET SCHOONOVER. He married for his second wife, Eveline Bond, widow of Paul Tyler. For the greater part of his adult life he was in the employ of the Erie R. R. Company, and for many years was their freight agent at Narrowsburgh. During the latter part of his life he resided in a pretty cottage near the Delaware bridge at that place. Page 187 Children. 2120. Charles Joseph Sackett, d. in infancy. 2121. Walter J. Sackett, b. Feb. 3, 1859. 809. PROF. CLEMENT CLARK MOORE, 1779-1863, was the son of (315) Bishop Benjamin Moore and Charity Clark. He was a graduate of Columbia College and became a noted Greek scholar. For many years he was a professor in the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and gave to that institution the plot of ground on which it stands. In addition to compiling the earliest Hebrew and Greek lexicon published in this country, he wrote several prose works and a volume of poems. The most noted of the latter is that matchless child lore poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," beginning: "'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." 830. JUSTUS SACKETT, 1778-1854, of Greenwich, Conn., son of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married, Dec. 25, 1800, to CLARISSA BELCHER, 1783-1844, daughter of DR. ELISHA BELCHER and his wife LYDIA REYNOLDS. About the year 1847, he was married to his second wife, EUNICE PECK, 1793-1854, daughter of GIDEON PECK and his wife EUNICE CLOSE. Children. 2210. ELISHA B. SACKETT, b. Feb. 24, 1802, d. in 1884; m. 1st, Abigail E. Moore. 2211. Justus R. Sackett, b. Mar. 29, 1804, d. Aug. 29, 1820. 2212. Mary Sackett, b. Feb. 6, 1806, d. Mar. 5, 1829. 2213. WILLIAM H. SACKETT, b. Jan. 27, 1807, d. Jan. 29, 1886; m. Amanda Harper. 2214. CLARISSA SACKETT, b. Aug. 10, 1810, d. Dec. 31, 1838; m. William E. Smith. 2215. AMOS MEAD SACKETT, b. Dec. 29, 1812, d. in May, 1869; m. Sarah E. A. Mead. 2216. Alice B. Sackett, b. Feb. 2, 1814, d. Sept. 19, 1846; m. William E. Smith. 2217. MARTHA W. SACKETT, b. Aug. 6, 1816; m. Rev. Wm. A. Hyde. 2218. Lyman Sackett, b. May 21, 1818; m. Lydia Ostrander. 2219. JUSTUS R. SACKETT, b. July 29, 1819, d. Nov. 27, 1889; m. Mary E. Mead. Page 188 2220. SARAH P. SACKETT, b. Aug. 5, 1822, d. Mar. 3, 1897; m. William K. Mead. 2221. Martha B. Sackett, b. Jan. 29, 1825; m. Gertrude Van Rayner. 2222. Lydia A. Sackett, b. May 29, 1827, d. Mar. 24, 1828. 831. JOHN SACKETT, 17 -1864, of Greenwich, Conn., son of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married, Jan. 12, 1809, to MARY MEAD, daughter of WHITMAN MEAD and his wife RACHEL MEAD. Children. 2224. Henry L. Sackett, b. Nov. 24, 1809, d. Sept. 15, 1895, unmarried. 2225. RACHEL E. SACKETT, b. Dec. 19, 1811, d. July 18, 1885; m. Charles Mead. 2226. Whitman M. Sackett, b. Nov. 2, 1813, d. Sept. 30, 1835. 2227. Abigail Sackett, b. Dec. 4, 1816, d. June 14, 1882. 2228. Mary Ann Sackett, b. May 8, 1820, d. Mar. 5, 1900. 2229. William H. Sackett, b. Apr. 18, 1822, d. Feb. 13, 1903. 2230. Thomas Sackett, b. Aug. 5, 1824. 832. MARY SACKETT, daughter of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married, Jan. 27, 1788, to Josiah Brown. Child. 2231. Rachel Brown, m. a Mr. Halsey. 833. SALLY SACKETT, daughter of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married to JONATHAN SECOR. Children. 2232. Sackett Secor. 2233. Ann Secor, who was married to George Webb. 834. BETSEY SACKETT, 178 -1837, daughter of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married, July 1, 1810, to THOMAS MERRITT WILSON. Children. 2234. Mary Lyon Wilson, b. Nov. 9, 1811, d. Feb. 11, 1884, unmarried. 2235. Elisabeth Ann Wilson, b. Apr. 27, 1816, d. July 13, 1889, unmarried. 2236. SARAH S. WILSON, b. Dec. 22, 1819, d. May 27, 1903; m. Elkanah M. Reynolds. Page 189 835. WILLIAM HENRY SACKETT, M. D., 1779-1820, of Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., son of (340) Justus and Ann Lyon Sackett, was married, Sept. 28, 1808, by Rev. Ebenezer Grant, to REBECCA HOLLY, daughter of COL. JESSE HOLLY and his wife CATHERINE HOLMES. Dr. Sackett was born in Greenwich, Conn. After graduating at Yale College he studied medicine under Dr. Perry at Ridgefield, Conn. In 1806 he began the practice of his profession at Bedford, and soon became the leading physician in Westchester County. Scharf, the historian of Westchester, says that he was "A man of splendid general culture and a keen student of the new lights then being thrown upon the science of medicine by Cullen, Brown, Darwin, and Rush," and that he "was esteemed the most accomplished physician in the county." In 1810 he was commissioned as Surgeon of Regiment of State Troops, commanded by Col. Harris, and in 1818, Hospital Surgeon of Eleventh Division of Infantry. COLONEL JESSE HOLLY was born Sept. 20, 1753, and died at Newtown, L. I., Sept. 17, 1823. He served during the war of the Revolution, and for over twenty-one years after peace was declared, as a commissioned officer of Westchester County Militia, filling with zeal and ability, during his thirty years of continuous service in war and peace, every grade from Lieutenant to Regimental Commander. Children of Dr. William H. and Rebecca Holly Sackett. 2237. William H. Sackett, Jr., b. Nov. 11, 1810, d. May 2, 1816. 2238. Sarah Isaacs Sackett, b. Feb. 9, 1812, d. Mar. 22, 1851. 2239. CATHERINE ANN SACKETT, b. Dec. 30, 1813, d. Aug. 23, 1885; m. H. Owen. 2240. MARIA H. SACKETT, b. Mar. 21, 1817, d. Apr. 15, 1890; m. J. McDonald Betes. 2241. AUGUSTA R. SACKETT, b. Apr. 12, 1820, d. Feb. 4, 1874; m. Albert McNulty. 840. NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1770-1817, of Catatonk, Tioga County, N. Y., son of (341) Col. Richard and Rachel Holmes Sackett, was married, Jan. 24, 1796, to SARAH WARREN, whose mother's maiden name was HULDAH LORD. Nathaniel Sackett was for several years connected with Lieut. Colonel Jacob Swartwood's Regiment of Brig. General Coe's Tioga and Broome Counties Brigade. His Page 190 commission as Quartermaster of said regiment has been carefully preserved by his descendants. It is dated Apr. 27, 1810, and signed by "DANIEL D. THOMPSON, GOV." He probably saw some service in the War of 1812. Children. 2241a. RICHARD H. SACKETT, b. Dec. 5, 1796, d. in Nov. 1876; m. Eunice Holister. 2241b. Polly Sackett, b. Jan. 8, 1799, d. Feb. 19, 1799. 2242. BETSEY BUSH SACKETT, b. Apr. 1, 1800, d. Oct. 7, 1885; m. William W. Hunt. 2243. WILLIAM H. SACKETT, b. Sept. 29, 1802, d. May 30, 1878; m. Pluma Woodford. 2244. NATHANIEL LORD SACKETT, b. Oct. 15, 1804, d. July 22, 1855; m. Lucy Smith. 2245. POLLY TERESA SACKETT, b. Aug. 24, 1807, d. Aug. 2, 1848; m. James Clark. 2246. JOHN JAMES SACKETT, b. Nov. 10, 1809, d. Dec. 9, 1879; m. Fanny B. Talcot. 2247. SARAH WARREN SACKETT, b. Apr. 14, 1812, d. Mar. 9, 1886; m. Ira Keeler. 2248. SUSAN M. SACKETT, b. Feb. 6, 1815, d. May 4, 1874; m. Elias Richardson. 2249. RACHEL H. SACKETT, b. Oct. 23, 1817, d. Oct. 17, 1882; m. Robert E. Josslin. 841. COLONEL CALEB SACKETT, 1770-18, son of (341) Colonel Richard and Rachel Holmes Sackett, was a prominent and highly respected farmer of Tioga County, N. Y. He was an enthusiastic militiaman. In 1810 he was commissioned Paymaster of Colonel Swartwood's Regiment, of which his twin brother Nathaniel was at same time commissioned Quartermaster. The recently published minutes of New York State Military Appointments, show that in 1817 he was commissioned Adjutant of 95th Regiment, in 1820 Major of 79th Regiment, and in 1821 Lieut. Col. Commandant of 199th Regiment, all of Tioga County. No record of his service in War of 1812 has been found. So far as known to the compiler of this volume he was unmarried. 920. JOSEPH SACKETT, son of (375) Nathaniel and Bethiah Reynolds Sackett, was married to AUGUSTUS DOWNING. He was for many Page 191 years engaged with his brother James in the wholesale carpet trade in New York City. Children. 2337. Georgiana Sacket. 2338. Emma Sackett. 2339. Sarah Sackett. 2340. Josephine Sackett. 921. WILLIAM HENRY SACKETT, 1803-1846, of Greenwich, Conn.; Syracuse, N. Y., and New York City, son of (375) Nathaniel Sackett and Bethiah Reynolds, was married to ALETHIA HIGGINS. He was for a considerable period engaged in the dry goods trade on Pearl Street, in New York City, and just previous to his death became an importer of wall paper in same city. The place of his burial is the old cemetery at Huntington, Suffolk County, N. Y. Children. 2341. WILLIAM E. SACKETT, b. Apr. 5, 1823, d. Oct. 7, 1896; m. Josephine Findlay. 2342. James Sackett, m. Adeline DeGroff. 2343. Eliza Jane Sackett. 2344. Maria Sackett, m. Harris Lyons. 922. JAMES HORTON SACKETT, of New York City, son of (375) Nathaniel and Bethiah Reynolds Sackett, was married to JERUSHA POST, daughter of WILLIAM POST and his wife CATHERINE VAN BUREN. He was for many years engaged with his brother Joseph in the wholesale carpet business. Children. 2346. Fanny Sackett. 2347. Sarah Sackett. 2348. James H. Sackett, b. Feb. 7, 1838; m. Emma Edwards. 2349. WILLIAM POST SACKETT, m. Margarette E. Garner. 2350. Frances Sackett, m. a Mr. Harding. 2351. E. Sackett. 930. WILLIAM SACKETT, 1784-1849, of Newtown, L. I., son of (388) Capt. John and Elisabeth Gibb Sackett, was married to GERTRUDE MESEROLE, daughter of JOHN MESEROLE. William Sackett was for several years a member of a company of Queens County Militia. Page 192 933. MARY SACKETT, 1783-18, daughter of (388) Capt. John and Elisabeth Gibb Sackett, was married, July 12, 1812, to (444) JOSEPH LAWRENCE, of Newtown, L. I., and Cayuga Lake, N. Y., son of JONATHAN LAWRENCE and his wife RUTH RIKER. Children. 2380. Andrew Lawrence. 2381. Elisabeth A. Lawrence, m. James Moore. 2382. Mary R. Lawrence, m. J. P. Striker, M. D. 2383. Joseph A. Lawrence. 950. HON. JOHN ALSOP KING, 1788-1867, son of Hon. Rufus and (400) Mary Alsop King, was born in New York City, educated in Harrow, England; and Paris, admitted to the bar, and practiced law in New York City; served in the War of 1812; Member of Assembly; Secretary of Legation and Charge d' Affairs at Court of Saint James; Member of Congress; President of Syracuse Convention in 1855 when the Republican Party was formed; Governor of the State of New York, 1857-1859; and member of the Peace Conference of 1861. 951. HON. CHARLES KING, 1789-1867, son of Hon. Rufus and (400) Mary Alsop King, was born in New York City and died in Frascati, Italy. He was married, Mar. 16, 1789, to ELIZA GRACIE, daughter of ARCHIBALD GRACIE and his wife ESTHER ROGERS, who died in 18--, and in 18-- he was married to MISS ---- Low, daughter of NICHOLAS LOW. Mr. King was educated at Harrow School in England, and in Paris, France. Leaving Paris he entered the banking house of Hope & Co., in Amsterdam, Holland. Returning to America in 1806 he became connected with the famous banking house of his uncle, Archibald Gracie, to whose daughter he was subsequently married. His attractive personality, family connections, accomplishments, and the intelligent interest he manifested in educational, literary, military, financial and political affairs, speedily gave him marked prominence. In all important public movement or prominent social gatherings of his time in New York City, the records of which have been preserved, his name appears. In 1813 he was a member of the State Legislature. For Page 193 many years he was a director of the Bank of New York. Before, during, and after the War of 1812, he labored to increase the efficiency of the militia organizations of New York County, serving on the staffs of brigade and division commanders, and holding commissions in every rank from Lieutenant to full Colonel. From 1827 to 1845 he was first associate and later principal, editor of a commercial paper called the New York American, and for several years after 1845, one of the editors of the Courier and Enquirer. From 1806 to 1824 he was a trustee of Columbia College, of which, in 1849, he became the President. During the following 14 years his time and energies were successfully employed in raising the effectiveness and standard of what is now New York City's great University. Just previous to 1863, President King's health showed signs of breaking, and Mrs. King having about that time come into possession of a legacy of one million dollars, from her deceased brother, Nicholas Low, Jr., Mr. King resigned the presidency of Columbia and spent the remaining years of his life in Europe. Children. 2395. Eliza King, m. Charles H. Halsey. 2396. Hetty King, m. James G. Martin. 2397. RUFUS KING, b. Jan. 26, 1814, d. Oct. 13, 1876; m. 1st, Ellen Elliot. 2398. William G. King, b. Oct. 14, 1816, d. June 8, 1882; m. Adeline McKee 952. HON. JAMES GORE KING, 1791-1853, son of Hon. Rufus and (400) Mary Alsop King, was born in New York City and died in Weehawken, N. J. He began his studies in a private school near London, England, studied the languages in Paris, France, and was graduated from Harvard, in America, in 1810. He then studied law for a year but did not seek admission to the bar. In 1813 he was married to SARAH RODGERS GRACIE, 1791-1--?, daughter of ARCHIBALD GRACIE and his wife ESTHER ROGERS, who was the daughter of MOSES ROGERS and his wife HANNAH FITCH. The latter was the daughter of THOMAS FITCH, a colonial governor of Connecticut. In the war of 1812, James Gore King was an Assistant Adjutant General of N. Y. State troops. In 1815 he established the banking house of James G. King & Co., in Now York City. In Page 194 1818 he removed to Liverpool, England, and entered into business there with his brother-in-law, William Gracie. In 1824 he declined the offer of John Jacob Astor, who desired to make him the head of the American Fur Company, and instead became a member of the firm of Prime, Ward, Sands & King, in New York City, which afterwards became the firm of James G. King & Sons. For several years he was President of the Erie Railroad Company, retiring therefrom in 1837. He then visited England and secured a loan of one million pounds in gold, by means of which his house was enabled to carry the merchants and banking institutions of New York through a great financial crisis. For many years he was an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he, in 1841, was First Vice-President, and a little later President, filling that position until 1848, when he was elected from the Weehawken district of New Jersey a Member of Congress, and served as such from 1849 to 1851. At the expiration of his term in Congress he retired to private life, spending his remaining years at his home in Weehawken. Children. 2402. Caroline King, m. Denning Duer. 2403. Harriet King, m. Dr. George Wilkes. 2404. James Gore King, Jr., m. Caroline King. 2405. ARCHIBALD GRACIE KING, m. Elisabeth Duer. 2406. Mary King, m. Edgar H. Richards. 2407. FREDERECA G. KING, m. J. C. Bancroft Davis. 2408. Edward King, m. Isabella Ramsey or Coohrane. 2409. Fanny King, m. James L. McLane. 953. HON. EDWARD KING, 1795-1853, son of Hon. Rufus and (400) Mary Alsop King, was born in New York City and died in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at Columbia College and at Litchfield, Conn., law school. On completing his course at Litchfield he emigrated to Ohio and began the practice of his profession at Chillicothe, which was then the capital of the State. This was in 1816. In 1831 he removed to Cincinnati. He was several times elected to both the Assembly and Senate of Ohio, and was twice chosen speaker of the lower house. As a lawyer he acquired unusual eminence, and was largely instrumental in the founding of the Cincinnati Law School in 1833. Page 195 954. FREDERICK GORE KING, M. D., 1801-1829, of New York City, son of Hon. Rufus and (400) Mary Alsop King, was born in England and died in New York City. He graduated at Harvard in 1821, studied medicine and received his degree of M. D. at Columbia College, and then spent a year in Europe pursuing the study of anatomy. In 1825 he returned to New York City and took up the practice of his profession under most favorable circumstances. He gave several courses of popular lectures on the structure of the vocal organs, and a special course on anatomy, before the Academy of Design. These lectures gave promise of a useful future and gained for him at once prominence in his profession. In 1829, while attending the family of his uncle on Long Island, he contracted a fever of which he died in April of that year. 973. MARGARET IRELAND, daughter of John and (438) Judith Lawrence Ireland, was married to THOMAS LAWRENCE, merchant, of New York City, who died in 1848. Children. 2435. Horatio Ireland Lawrence, m. Mary Romaine. 2436. LOUISA ANNA LAWRENCE, m. Bradish Johnson. 2437. Edward Lawrence, m. Judith Sohuyler. 2438. John Lawrence, m. Anna Stanton. 2439. Cornelia Lawrence, m. Geo. Wilmerding. 2440. William R. Lawrence, m. Mary E. Crandell. 2441. Frances Cooper Lawrence, m. Fanny Garner. 2442. Julia T. Lawrence, m. Horace Waldo. 990. SARAH SACKETT, daughter of (461) Ananias R. and Eunice Meeker Sackett, was married at Benton, N. Y., in 1817, to ROSELL TUBBS, a young man of considerable means, of unimpeachable character, and of family connections that were prominent in that community. They resided at Benton for three or four years after their marriage, during which a son and daughter were born to them, and then determined to remove to either Indiana or Ohio. With this object in view, Mr. Tubbs left home on a prospecting tour, during which he was taken ill and died at a hotel where he was stopping Page 196 over night. Several years afterward Mrs. Tubbs was married to a MR. WHITE, after which all trace of her and her children is lost. 992. ELISABETH SACKETT, 1797-1837, daughter of (461) Ananias and Eunice Meeker Sackett, was born at Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y. She did not marry and for the greater part of her adult life she was a successful school teacher. She died at Deerings Grove, Ohio, aged 40 years. 993. CHARLOTTE SACKETT, 1805-1899, daughter of Ananias R. and Eunice Meeker Sackett, was born at Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y. When about nine years of age she accompanied her parents on their memorable overland journey in a covered wagon, from Newburgh, N. Y., to Ohio. After the family was settled permanently at Forest Grove, Ohio, she attended for several years a private school, at Beach Grove, not many miles from her home. When about 20 years of age she became engaged to a wealthy young farmer named Tate, but for some presumably good reason her parents opposed the union, and shortly afterwards Mr. Tate sickened and died. In 1835--ten years later--she was married to David Hughes, a farmer of Deering, Ohio. On Dec. 18, 1841, Mr. Hughes was killed by a falling tree, and left his wife with but scant means and an infant daughter, their only child, to rear and educate. She proved equal to the task, and in the later years of her extreme age reaped her just reward in the comfortable home of that daughter, whose children seemed ever pleased with the privilege of ministering to her comfort and pleasure, which is unmistakably evinced by the tone of several letters received from her youngest grandchild by the compiler of this work, several years ago, in which she seeks for information of interest to "grandma" and recounts the old lady's recollections of the "long ago." Only Child. 2449. EMILY CAROLINE HUGHES, b. Nov. 26, 1838; m. George Steed. 994. SURGEON JOHN HALSTEAD SACKETT, U. S. A., 1789-1822, oldest son of (462) Samuel and Polly Halstead Sackett, was born at Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y., February 8, 1789. On September 1, Page 197 1796, his mother died, and on October 29, 1803, his father married again. His stepmother, who on the date of her marriage was thirty-one years of age, proved to be a woman of broad mind and sweet disposition. At the very outset of her wedded life she captured the affectionate regard of her husband's promising son and retained it in a remarkable degree to the day of his death. John Halstead Sackett was educated at Dutchess County Academy and at Union College. After completing his college course he took up the study of medicine, first at his father's home in New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., and later at New York City, and at Waterford, N. Y. In 1811, having completed his course, he was duly admitted to the practice of his profession. But war with England was impending, and in the early Spring of 1812 he applied for and promptly received from President James Madison, a commission as Surgeon's mate in the 11th Regiment of U. S. Infantry. He, however, remained in New York City awaiting orders until the month of October, when he was directed to report for active field duty to the commanding officer at New Orleans. The following letters written by him to his father give a most interesting description of his journey thither, his army experience, and his impressions of the Southern people of that period. They at the same time portray his own character and habits of mind, and are, withal, good reading: Baltimore, Friday, Oct. 9, 1812. My Dear Parents:--Duty and affection equally urge me to address you, now that I am indulged with a little leisure. This you will observe is dated at the capital of Maryland, lately the scene of confusion and death. I left New York on Tuesday and reached Philadelphia the next morning. We left Philadelphia at two Wednesday morning and arrived here at half past eight in the evening--a distance of 110 miles. The roads through New Jersey were a perfect plain and in good order. The towns of Newark, Elizabeth, Bridgetown, Brunswick, Princeton, and Trenton are all imposing; the country level, generally; entertainment good; charges rather high; bridges, especially at Trenton, admirably fine and ornamental. The tract of level country continues until we reach Philadelphia. I imagine that in general the soil is not so prolific as ours. I was most extremely disappointed in the latter place. No steeples, but little trade, and a dull monotony are its characteristics. Indeed, so far was it from equalling my expectations that I left it with disgust, and long before daybreak. The country in general from thence to Wilmington in Delaware is not unlike Orange County, though closer settled and apparently not of so good a soil. Wilmington scarcely deserves a name. It is an obscure and uninviting spot. From thence to Havre-de-Grace, in Page 198 Maryland, the soil is white clay, generally level and illy cultivated. From Havre to Baltimore a continual succession of extensive and productive plantations arrest the eye of the traveler. We saw six and eight plows and as many harrows in the same field. These fields they were planting with wheat, and many of them contain from fifty to one hundred acres. Corn is very abundant. At Havre we cross the Chesapeake Bay, of which we get occasional views until we arrive at Baltimore. I should judge Baltimore to be more than half as large as New York. The houses are built altogether of brick and are mostly new. Streets wide and well paved. Water good. Public edifices in the first style--and to sum up all, it is the most elegant place I ever saw. The house where I stop (Indian Queen) is pronounced the finest in America. We sit down continually with fully 60 at table. There are as many rooms and half as many servants. You would be astonished were you to see with what ease I have sustained my journey. Indeed, so far from fatigue I feel sensations of a wholly different nature. Fortunately I have, in the stage, fallen in with some gentlemen of respectability who reside in Charleston. One of them will probably leave here with me to-morrow for Washington. As yet I should think my money well expended were it only to see the country. We northern people know nothing of the style and state of things in this quarter. The people, so far as I have seen, are far more hospitable than ours. Without further explanation--in this place would I spend my days were my circumstances equal to it. I can give you no idea of its extensive trade and elegance. Washington City, Monday, Oct. 12th--I arrived here on Saturday--have visited all the public places. It is rather a collection of detached villages than a city. I received my pay for five months and eighteen days. No allowance is made for traveling expenses until I join the army. You will probably not hear from me again until I arrive at Charleston. Be assured that although absent you are ever dear. May the Almighty make us his particular care and restore us in due season to each other, is, my dear father, the warnest wish of your dutiful son, JNO. H. SACKETT. Forget not to communicate my good health. Best wishes to ma, Nathaniel, Samuel Bailey, and children. Charleston, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1812.--I arrived here at 9 o'clock this morning, after a journey of three weeks and a day, having traversed in my route a considerable portion of the Union. This journey might have been completed with ease in from twelve to fifteen days, had I not indulged myself in stopping and viewing the places of interest embraced in my tour. At Philadelphia I tarried one day, Baltimore two, Washington two, Alexandria two, Richmond one, Petersburgh two, Louisburg, N. C., one, and at the river Pedee one. I have crossed thirteen ferries, and bridges innumerable. The stages until Petersburgh were excellent. From that place there was but one line, and I was obliged to take the mail, which accommodated but six passengers, and that indifferently. The horses in general are excellent. The fare at the rate of eleven cents a mile. The public houses mostly far Page 199 better than ours at the northward, and the charges higher, averaging sixty cents a meal and thirty cents for lodging. In the mail stage, for 400 miles we rode night and day, except when I delayed. There was no lack of company, as usually there were more passengers than the carriage could contain. After leaving Virginia our course was mostly through a country very thinly settled, covered by pine forests, level, and in many places prolific in cotton, tobacco, wheat and corn. The roads are universally level, sandy, and generally very fine. But there are a few exceptions to this which language cannot portray. Owing to the evenness of the country the rains frequently deluge the roads for miles, causing in many places water passes and ponds extensive and dangerous. At night, particularly when storming, these wildernesses have a most terrific appearance. Never shall I forget the horrors of Monday night last, in traveling from the Little Pedee to Black River. In our course we were assailed by a mighty tempest and came near being upset in crossing the fords. You can form but a limited idea of the fury of the storms in these forests. In almost every instance the rivers, which are numerous, swell to a prodigious height, while the lightning and wind obstruct the roads and endanger the lives of travelers by leveling large trees, which sometimes fill the air with their fragments. Once the horses ran away with us, and once we were upset, but amidst all these calamities it is a little singular that not a passenger sustained any damage, with the exception of having been robbed, which occurred to two, one of whom had his baggage cut from behind the stage. On the other hand we had good company, good fare, good health, and the weather mostly fine. The lower part of this state and North Carolina contiguous to the rice fields--which is but another term for a marsh--has been as usual very unhealthy this season. But I do not find the yellow fever as prevalent in the city as it was reported to be in New York and along the route. You would be pleased with the frankness, politeness, and hospitality of the southern people. Their manners form a striking contrast to those of the Yankees. I was twice employed on my way out in the line of my profession, and had the uncommon fortune of disposing of my title to a seat in the stage to a gent, who was extremely anxious to reach here on a certain day, for $50.00. He considered it at the same time a particular instance of friendliness in me. The city and harbor have many resemblances to New York, only there are extensive marshes in its vicinity. The buildings are good and many of them elegant. It surpasses all other cities except New York for the splendor of its churches. It supports a vast trade. The streets are wide and cleanly and the walks well paved. The harbor commands a most extensive view abreast of the town. Fort Moultrie, Nov. 11, 1812.--This fort is on Sullivan's Island, six miles below the town, and directly open to the sea, commanding the extrance to the harbor. The island is a mere bank of sand about two and a half miles in length and three-fourths of a mile in breadth. It is the resort of citizens during the autumnal months, and contains about 200 houses. The air is fine, but the water is bad, as we have none except what we collect in cisterns Page 200 when it rains. Our garrison consists of about 400 men and a dozen officers. The first affords me constant employment, being the only surgeon on the island, and the latter excellent society. The officers are very correct in their manners. They are all natives of this state. Our quarters are excellent and pleasant. Each officer has one room and one servant. We are divided into three messes. My mess consists of Capt. Ion and Lieutenants Hamilton and Brown. We are all bachelors. This military district, composing the two Carolinas and Georgia, is under Major General Pinkney, who resides at Charleston. He is a venerable looking man and was conspicuous during the Revolution. On the 7th I was honored with an invitation to dine with him. He is not only accessible but familiar and extremely friendly. Colonel Drayton commands this harbor and the harbor of Georgetown in this state. He is also much of a gentleman. As to my immediate commanding officer, Capt. Ion, he appears to be all that I could wish. We frequently see British vessels off the bar, which is about five miles below this. The other day we had the mortification of seeing them picking up one of our coasters. Every vessel entering the harbor is brought to on approaching this fort. Owing to the great fatigue and exposure incident to a march through the low countries, which is literally the region of death, many of our troops who have lately arrived here have been attacked with fever. This low country, or region of rice and disease, has, in common with Charleston, been very sickly this summer. The above are selected from a package containing nearly one hundred well preserved and intensely interesting family letters, carefully arranged in chronological order by loving hands. Taken together they form an almost complete history of Dr. John Halstead Sackett's life from the days when he began his preparation for college at the Dutchess County, N. Y., Academy, under Rev. Philander Chase, afterward Bishop of Ohio, to the end of his short but not uneventful career. Every one of these letters is addressed to his honored father and bears the signature "Jno. H. Sackett," except the very last one in the collection, which is in a different hand and reads as follows: My Dear Sir: It is with deep regret that I am compelled to inform you of the sudden dissolution of your son, Dr. John H. Sackett, who departed this life on Saturday, the 14th instant. It was his particular request that I should take charge of his funeral obsequies, which have been faithfully attended to. He was interred yesterday in St. Paul's church yard, followed by numerous acquaintances and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, the gentleman and lady with whom he boarded, have performed the duties of parents toward your son. Any attention that humanity and kindness could give, he has received, and they certainly deserve your warmest thanks and gratitude. You are perfectly aware that your son has left a handsome property. The property Page 201 is secured, but still it should receive your immediate attention. I therefore intreat you to come down by the next boat, as I have many things to communicate which it would be improper to name at this time. With feelings of warmest sympathy for yourself and family allow me to mingle my tears with yours. * * * and to subscribe myself, Your sincere and affectionate friend, N. N. HALL. To Mr. Samuel Sackett, Monticello, Sullivan County, New York. Note--On your arrival you will find me either at my house, 250 Broadway, or at my office, 47 Cedar Street. New York, 17 June, 1822. For a number of years after the termination of the war of 1812 Dr. Sackett was in charge of hospital service at one or the other of the Government Posts in or adjacent to New York Harbor. While there he became an active member of the Masonic Fraternity, and of Tammany Hall, which was as yet a patriotic and philanthropic organization. Politically he was bitterly opposed to what he termed the despicable Clintonian faction, and occasionally made a political speech not at all relished by the followers of the Clintons. On January 18, 1821, Governor DeWitt Clinton sent to the Legislature a special message, attacking in a bitter manner Surgeon John Halstead Sackett and other army officers and civil appointees of the General Government, accusing them of the heinous crime which in later years became known as "Pernicious Political Activity." The Legislature, at the request of the Governor, appointed a committee to enquire into the most lamentable state of affairs complained of. The principal specific charge brought against Dr. Sackett was that he had discharged a baker, in one of the Government Hospitals in his charge, for not voting as he had directed at recent Gubernatorial election. Dr. Sackett's complete refutation of the trumped-up political charges against him is made a part of the committee's report. But in the end, the powerful influence brought to bear on the authorities at Washington accomplished the object sought, and on June 1, 1821, an order was issued "disbanding" Surgeon Sackett--that is to say, mustering him out of the service as a supernumerary. He had in his contest with his political opponents, retained his honor and maintained his manhood. It is certain, however, that the contest referred to embittered his last years, and there is but little doubt that the results shortened his life. Page 202 In the U. S. Army Register the following record of his service appears: JOHN H. SACKETT, appointed from New York, Surgeon's Mate, 11th Infantry, 25 March, 1812. Hospital surgeon's mate, 22d March, 1813. Garrison surgeon's mate, 15th June, 1815. Post Surgeon, 24th April, 1816, to rank from 22d March, 1813.(*) Disbanded June 1, 1821. 995 NATHANIEL SACKETT, 1792-1825, son of (462) Samuel and Polly Halstead Sackett, was born at Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y. He seems to have been a studious and precocious youth. On the fly leaf of a well preserved copy of Hutchenson's Xenophon, which was printed in London in 1797, I find written: "This book is presented by the Trustees of Dutchess Academy to Nathaniel Sackett, as a present for his excelling in the Greek language at a public examination on 26th April, 1805. JOHN THOMAS, Senr. Trustee." Samuel Sackett evidently cherished the hope that his son Nathaniel would study divinity, but the young man planned otherwise. In 1810 he determined to go to sea, and from that time on he led a wandering and rather unprofitable life. He did not marry. The following record in his father's handwriting, appears in the family bible: In a letter from my brother Nathaniel, who lives in Ohio, to his sister Hannah Arkills, he informs her that my son Nathaniel was drowned from a steamboat, lying at the wharf at Cincinnati in the month of January last, 1825. 997 SAMUEL BAILEY SACKETT, 1805-1887, of Newburgh, N. Y., son of (462) Samuel and Mary Bailey Sackett, was married, Jan. 9, 1833, to ELISABETH TOWNSEND MCCOUN, 1810-1886, daughter of SAMUEL MCCOUN and his wife DEBORAH WOODWARD. He was born in the hamlet of Moodna, on the west bank of the Hudson, in the town of New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., and there his childhood days were spent up to his eighth year. Following this period came twelve years on his father's farm near Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y., and then an apprenticeship in the general store established and conducted by his father at Little Britain Square, in ((*)Performing duty as post surgeon from that date.) Page 203 the town of his birth, which brought him to his majority. In these changes of residence and avocation neither his moral training or education had been neglected, and he was generally recognized as a young man of correct and studious habits, who was well fitted for a business career by a thorough knowledge of bookkeeping and the ability to write a plain and attractive hand. Very naturally his father, being now sixty-four years of age, welcomed the young man's arrival to manhood estate by making him his partner in business, and then turning over to him the entire management of the country store. In 1833 the subject of our sketch married Elisabeth Townsend McCoun. In 1845, some four years after the death of his father, it became necessary to sell out the farm and store at Little Britain Square in order to close up the estate, there being several heirs. After this was done Samuel B. became interested in the milling business conducted on premises of Chas. Morton, near Vail's Gate, Orange County, N. Y. Some three years later he quit the milling business, for a time, and tried his hand at farming; first, for one year on the Ridge west of Highland Mills, in the town of Monroe, and then for two years at Middle Hope, in the town of Newburgh, both of which towns are in the before-mentioned County of Orange, N. Y. Three years of hard work and but slight returns induced him to take up permanently a calling for which he was better qualified, and he became bookkeeper and general manager for Mr. Jas. R. Dickson, who was conducting an extensive milling business at West Newburgh in same town. He remained with Mr. Dickson until 1854, when he accepted a similar but more lucrative position with John W. Embler, in his newly erected steam flouring mill on Front Street, Newburgh, N. Y. There Mr. Sackett remained for about five years, when be became general bookkeeper for Mr. Louis J. Bazzoni, carriage manufacturer, in the same town. The latter position he filled for fifteen years, or until 1874, when he retired permanently from active pursuits. His death occurred April 11, 1887. From the time of his coming to Newburgh to reside, Mr. Sackett was an active and honored member of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, serving as steward, class leader, local preacher, and for over a quarter of a century as a member and the Secretary of its Board of Trustees. He was a close student of history, an untiring reader and had a most remarkable memory. When in his Page 204 company one had but slight need to consult a commentary or an encyclopedia. Honest in all things he contracted no debt he was not certain could be met, and made no promise he did not fulfill. Positive in his convictions, but quiet and gentle in his deportment, he lived at peace with all mankind; and with a firm, unwavering faith in a resurrection to the better life he welcomed death with the same quiet, glad composure with which in the days of his strength he greeted his friends. Children. 2450. Sarah Cornelia Sackett, m. Allen L. Riley. 2451. Mary Louisa Sackett, m. George Roberts. 2452. HENRY MCCOUN SACKETT, d. in 1862, unmarried. 2453. Elisabeth McCoun Sackett, m. William H. Lawson. 2454. CHARLOTTE SACKETT, b. in 1849, d. Apr. 24, 1905; m. Charles H. Weygant. 1002 ALMIRA E. SACKETT, 1804-1882, daughter of (463) Nathaniel and Elisabeth Ter Boss Sackett, was married, about 1823, to GEORGE P. WILLIAMSON, of Monroe, Ohio. She was born in Dutchess County, N. Y. The following letter, written by her before she was sixteen years of age, will, it is believed, be of interest to her descendants. It is addressed to her cousin, Dr. John Halstead Sackett, the No. 994 of this record. Monroe, 26 March, 1820. Dear Cousin: After a long absence from you and the rest of our relatives and friends I am glad to inform you that we are all at present in the enjoyment of good health. Father has purchased a very handsome farm; it is as elevated a situation as any in the State. He has 100 acres of it cleared, and a comfortable house and barn on it, besides other out buildings. Father has laid out a town on a portion of his farm, which improves very fast and has several handsome buildings on it. He has named it Monroe, and I think you or some other eminent doctor would do well here, as at present we have no doctors, only quacks, who are not fit to draw a tooth. We raise between two and three thousand bushels of grain a year, and this season father has fatted between seven and eight thousand pounds of pork, besides several beeves. Father has a large stock of cattle, sheep, and hogs, a yoke of oxen, and four elegant horses, as handsome and fat as old sorrel, and he, you know, is a great favorite of mother's. Riding on horseback is very fashionable here. I have a beautiful milk-white horse, and a splendid saddle and bridle. The land here produces in great abundance. Corn yields from 60 to 70 bushels per acre, wheat from 25 to 30 bushels, oats 35 to 40 bushels, and rye 35 to 45 bushels, with everything else in proportion. Our market Page 205 prices are nearly as good as they are in New York. Cincinnati is situated on the bank of the Ohio River and is now growing very rapidly. It contains 3 market houses, 8 or 9 churches, 1 glass house, 2 brass and bell foundries, 2 oil mills, 2 ox saw mills, 1 steam saw mill, 4 nail factories, 1 casting furnace, 1 steam grist mill, which is nine stories high from the river side, 1 college, 5 banks, besides blacksmiths, silversmiths, clock and watch makers, cabinet makers, and all other kind of mechanics that you have in New York. There is one horse-boat that runs from Cincinnati to Newport in Kentucky, besides other ferry boats. There are now between 40 and 50 steamboats on the river, and some of them are as large as ships, besides several keel boats which trade from Cincinnati to New Orleans. One of the steamboats made a run this spring from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a distance of 1,500 miles, in 5 days. One steamboat, the Perseverance, oaught fire and burned this spring. It was a great loss to some of the merchants, as it was loaded with dry goods and groceries. There are between 3 and 4 thousand houses in Cincinnati now. We live in the center of 4 large towns, viz., Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, and Lebanon. Mr. Chase, your old school teacher, is bishop of this state. He lost his wife and is married again, and his son is at college. He lives at Columbus, where he has a very fine farm, with elegant buildings on it. We have had a great many weddings here since the new year began and I expect there will be a great many more before it ends. I suppose there have been a great many in your state too, but I haven't heard anything about yours, and I begin to think you are going to live a bachelor life. I suppose by this time you are looking for the end of my letter, but I can not conclude without reminding you of the debt you owe me, which is a new frock for the name of Almira, but I will forgive you the debt if you will send me a handsome pair of ear rings. I shall expect them in your answer to this or else by James and Matthew Dubois, who talk of moving here this summer. Should they fail to come you must not fail to send the ear rings as I have nothing now to keep you in remembrance. You must also send me a handsome red merino shawl, as they are very fashionable here, and you can afford it for you have no one to get for but yourself. As you have no wife or children I expect I will be your principal heir. Pa and Ma send love and say they expect you will soon come to this delightful country. We shall be most happy to have you spend the summer with us. From your affectionate cousin, ALMIRA SACKETT. Some three years after the above letter was written Almira Sackett was married to George P. Williamson, a promising young merchant of the little village which had grown up on her father's farm. Mr. Williamson was the first postmaster of Monroe, Ohio, and subsequently took a lively interest in politics and for a number of years filled a government position at the National Capitol. A long letter written by him to his wife's uncle, Samuel Sackett, of Page 206 Monticello, Sullivan County, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1827, shows him to have been a cultured and broad-minded christian gentleman. Some twenty years ago the writer had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Almira (Sackett) Williamson on several occasions. She was then a widow and over seventy years of age. But she had seen much of the world and seemed to remember distinctly almost every event of her life. Her conversational powers were remarkable. In appearance she was a delicate-featured and refined old lady, but notwithstanding her age was a most delightful companion. In conversation she was not only instructive and interesting, but at times reminded one most forcibly of the rolicking, free-hearted girl who had written the foregoing letter to her bachelor cousin, Dr. John H. Sackett, over half a century before. Children. 2470. ELISABETH H. WILLIAMSON, b. in 1824, d. in 1877; m. Michael Gunchel. 2471. MARGARET J. WILLIAMSON, b. in 1827; m. George A. Moore. 2472. Maria C. Williamson, b. in 1820, d. May 10, 1849, unmarried. 1003 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS SACKETT, 1808-1891, of Cincinnati, Ohio, son of (462) Nathaniel and Elisabeth Ter Boss Sackett, was married to MARY GREENLEE ROSS. He was born in Dutchess County, N. Y. His daughter, Miss A. Louise Sackett, has furnished the compiler of this record the following sketch of his life: "My father, William Augustus Sackett, was to have been named for Governor Clinton of New York, who was an intimate friend of the family, but his mother became offended at some act of the governor's and had her son baptised in the Episcopal Church and given the name of William Augustus, in honor of her brother. After their removal to Ohio, William A. was sent to Cincinnati to learn bookkeeping in one of the largest commercial houses of the town, and he became an expert accountant. During his manhood he resided in Monroe, Butler Co., in Lebanon, Warren County, and in Cincinnati, Hamilton County. At Cincinnati he was for many years a successful merchant, but owing to unavoidable disasters gave up business for himself and was at different times employed as salesman for the largest wholesale houses of that city. His last employment was as United Page 207 States Gauger, during President Grant's administration. After leaving that position he resided with his daughters at East Norwood, near Cincinnati, where he died March 6, 1891." Children. 2473. Mary Grey Stitt Sackett. 2474. Anna Elisabeth Sackett. 2475. AUGUSTUS N. SACKETT, m. Floris M. Armstrong. 2476. Virginia Indiana Sackett, died in infancy. 2477. William James Sackett, died in infancy. 2478. A. Louise Sackett. 2479. Elma R. Sackett, d. Aug. 4, 1860. 1009 ELISABETH ARKILLS, 1807-1890, daughter of Joshua and (464) Hannah Sackett Arkills, was married to ERASTUS D. CONANT, 1803-1880. Children. 2500. William E. Conant, b. in 1828. 2501. Charles F. Conant, b. in 1835. 2502. Mary E. Conant, b. in 1839, d. in 1839. 2503. George H. Conant, b. in 1840. 1020 SARAH MEAD, daughter of Platt and (466) Deborah Peck Mead, of Greenwich, Conn., was married to JOHN ROBBINS. Children. 2510. WILLIAM HENRY ROBBINS, m. Abby Kimball Lyman. 2511. Sackett Mead Robbins. 2512. Julia Robbins, m. William Ferris. 1027 JULIA BALDWIN, daughter of (467) Samuel S. and Julia Ann Yates Baldwin, was married to a MR. TITUS, of Geneva, N. Y. 1028 HENRY JAMES SEDGWICK, 1812-1868, of Ithaca and Syracuse, N. Y., son of Stephen and (469) Ann Baldwin Sedgwick, was married, 1st, to LUCINDA SNOW, daughter of EBENEZER SNOW and his wife Page 208 LUCINDA GOTT, and 2d, to MRS. LUCY WINSLOW (Hubbard), of Syracuse, N. Y. Children. 2512a. Charles Sedgwick, d. unmarried. 2513. JAMES H. SEDGWICK, m. Mary B. McCartney and Kitty Warwick. 2514. JOHN SEDGWICK, m. Frances Davis. 1030 CHARLES BALDWIN SEDGWICK, 1815-1883, of Syracuse, N. Y., son of Stephen and (469) Anna Baldwin Sedgwick, was married, in 1837, to ELLEN E. SMITH, daughter of REV. ETHAN SMITH and his wife BATHSHEBA SANFORD, of Hadley, Mass., who died in 18--?. On June 24, 1846, he was married to DEBORAH W. GANNETT, daughter of REV. THOMAS BATTLE GANNETT and his wife SARAH WHITE, of Cambridge and Natick, in Mass. Children. 2515. ELLEN S. SEDGWICK, b. Nov. 2, 1841; m. Osgood V. Tracey. 2516. CHARLES H. SEDGWICK, b. May 22, 184 ; m. Marcia Fenton and Miss Ferguson. 2517. ANNA B. SEDGWICK, b. May 17, 1848; m. Joseph Lyman Silsbee. 2518. SARAH W. SEDGWICK, b. Aug. 9, 1852, d. Dec. 19, 1882; m. John L. King. 2519. Frank L. Sedgwick, b. Mar. 31, 1850, d. Apr. 16, 1862. 2520. KATHERINE M. SEDGWICK, b. Nov. 5, 1856; m. Walter A. Burlingame. 2521. DORA G. SEDGWICK, b. Aug. 13, 1864; m. Frederick R. Hazard. 1032 ANNE B. GOTT, 1823-1847, daughter of Daniel and (469) Anne Baldwin (Sedgwick) Gott, was married, July 15, 1842, to GEORGE H. WOODRUFF, attorney and counselor at law of Joliet, Ill. Children. 2522. Miss Woodruff. 2523. Anne May Woodruff. 1033 AMELIA HANNAH GOTT, 1825--?, daughter of Hon. Daniel and (469) Anne Baldwin (Sedgwick) Gott, was married, Oct. 10, 1848, to FRANCIS H. HASTINGS, of Chicago, Ill., son of SETH HASTINGS, M. D., and his wife HULDAH CLARK, of Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y. Page 209 Children. 2524. ANNE CLARK HASTINGS, b. June 29, 1850; m. Frederick E. Gott. 2525. Frances Amelia Hastings, b. Mar. 31, 1853. 2526. DANIEL GOTT HASTINGS, M. D., b. Mar. 31, 1861. 1034 DANIEL FRANCIS GOTT, 1828-1899, of Syracuse, N. Y., son of Hon. Daniel and (469) Anna Baldwin (Sedgwick) Gott, was married, Dec. 28, 1855, to SARAH STARR CLAY, daughter of LYMAN CLAY, M. D., of Syracuse, and his wife FANNY WARE. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and by profession a lawyer. Children. 2527. FANNY CLAY GOTT, b. Oct. 12, 1856; m. Horatio S. White. 2528. FRANCIS DANIEL GOTT, b. Apr. 11, 1860; m. Mary Leavenworth. 2529. MARION GOTT, b. Oct. 13, 1861; m. William G. Tracey. 1047 ISAAC SACKET, 1806-1861, of Bridgeport and West Haven in Conn., and Sandusky, Ill., son of (482) Daniel Sacket, was married to SAPHRONIA RICHARDS, 18--?-1870, daughter of CHARLES RICHARDS. He was a soldier in the war with Mexico. Children. 2580. James Lewis Sacket, b. Dec. 20, 1831. 2581. Phebe Mariah Sacket, b. Feb. 2, 1833. 2582. Emily Eliza Sacket, b. Jan. 20, 1836. 2583. Samuel Smith Sacket, b. Jan. 23, 1838, d. unmarried after 1905. 2584. Charles Richards Sacket, b. Mar. 1, 1840. 2585. Harriet Amelia Sacket, b. Nov. 13, 1841. 2586. Charles Henry Sacket, b. July 26, 1843. 2587. Isaac Theadore Sacket, b. in 1845. 2588. Emily Pauline Sacket, b. Feb. 5, 1847. 2589. ISAAC WALLACE SACKET, b. Feb. 12, 1850; m. Anna Wallace. 1048 DANIEL SACKET, 18--?-1853, of Salim, Conn., and Marine, Ill., son of (482) Daniel Sacket, was married and the father of four Children. 2590. Sarah Sacket. 2591. Caroline Sacket. 2592. Emma Sacket. 2593. Charles Sacket. Page 210 1049 JAMES SACKET, 1804-1884, of Milford and New Haven in Conn., and Marine, Ill., son of (482) Daniel Sacket, was married to SALLY JENETTE PARKER, daughter of ANDREW PARKER and his wife, who was a MISS GATES. He was born at Milford, Conn., and christened "Gad," but after death of his parents was re-named James. When about 14 years of age he left home and went to Illinois. About 1824, two of his brothers, Isaac and Daniel, joined him in his western place of abode and did not return to their New England home. Like many of his ancestors and kinsmen, he took an interest in military affairs and for several years held a commission as Major in a regiment of Illinois Militia. His children were all born on his farm at Marine and there he and his wife were buried. One of his sons was still residing on the old homestead in 1905. Children. 2594. Francis M. Sacket, b. Dec. 31, 1834, of Marine, Ill. 2595. James Sacket, b. Mar. 11, 1837, of Lake Woods Co., Oklahoma. 2596. Clarissa B. Sacket, b. July 17, 1838, unmarried 1895. 2597. Andrew Sacket, b. Feb. 13, 1842. 2598. HENRY R. SACKET, b. Aug. 14, 1844; m. Mary Glass. 2599. Frances S. Sacket, b. Nov. 23, 1846, m. W. W. Dells. 1050 NOADIAH SACKET, 1784-1875, of Pittsfield, Mass., Genesee County, N. Y., and Clinton, Mo., son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married, about 1810, to SOPHIA ALLEN, 1787-1829. About the month of January, 1831, he was married to his second wife, MRS. HANNAH CHAPMAN. In 1820 and for several years thereafter he was a commissioned officer in the 164th Regiment of N. Y. S. M. Children. 2600. GEORGE S. SACKETT, b. Mar. 26, 1811, d. in 1891; m. Rachel Hetsler. 2601. ANN CORNELIA SACKETT, b. Feb. 9, 1813, d. Mar. 11, 1881; m. John Day. 2602. MARY ALLEN SACKETT, b. Mar. 20, 1817, d. Feb. 8, 1891; m. Frederick Day. 2603. JANE FRANCES SACKETT, b. Sept. 4, 1819, d. Nov. 22, 1901; m. H. Chapman. 2604. CAROLINE S. SACKETT, b. Dec. 8, 1831; m. George Clark. 2605. OLIVER N. SACKETT, b. June 15, 1836, d. Feb. 5, 1907; m. Margaret M. Barher. Page 211 1051 DANIEL SACKET, 1792-1879, of Pittsfield, Mass., and Marshall, Mich., son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married, Feb. 21, 1816, at Pittsfield, Mass., to NANCY FULTON, 18--?-1876. Children. 2606. DANIEL SACKETT, b. Apr. 25, 1817, d. in 1886; m. Susan Osgoodby. 2607. ROBERT SACKETT, b. Jan. 22, 1819, d. in 1873; m. Laura J. Smith. 2608. Ann Sackett, b. Feb. 2, 1821, d. unmarried, of Marshall, Mich. 2609. ROXANA SACKETT, b. Mar. 8, 1823; m. Albert Heath. 2610. WILLIAM F. SACKETT, b. Feb. 26, 1829, d. Dec. 11, 1905; m. Lois O. Huggett. 2611. LUCY SACKETT, b. Feb. 2, 1831, d. Jan. 30, 1906; m. Thomas W. Huggett. 1052 HARVEY SACKET, 1794-18--?, of Berkshire, Mass., son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married to MATILDA SPAULDING. 1053 RALPH SACKET, 1797-18--?, of Pittsfield, Mass., and Pittsford, N. Y., son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married at Pittsford, N. Y., about 1819, to POLLY STARK. Children. 2615. THOMAS SACKETT, b. in 1820, d. in 1875; m. ---- Mackentire. 2616. Benjamin Sackett, b. in 1822, d. in 1847, unmarried. 2617. ELISABETH SACKETT, b. in 1823, d. in 1890; m. William Campbell. 1054 ROXANA SACKET, 1800-1858, daughter of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married, in 1820, to HIRAM PEETS, of Rochester, N. Y. Children. 2618. SARAH FRANCES PEETS, b. Apr. 20, 1822, d. in 1891; m. Henry Fish. 2619. Lemuel Hiram Peets, b. June 24, 1825; m. Adelia Webster. 2620. Lavantia Augusta Peets, b. in 1831, d. in 1850. 2621. JAMES M. PEETS, b. in 1834; m. Olive J. Bates. 2622. MARY AGNES PEETS, b. in 1837; d. in 1899; m. Frederick B. Daggett. 2623. MARTHA E. PEETS, b. in 1840; m. C. S. Frazer. 2624. George B. Peets, b. Jan. 4, 1843. Page 212 1055 LEMUEL SACKET, 1803-1882, of Berkshire, Mass., and Mt. Clemens, Mich., son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married at Pittsford, Monroe County, N. Y., Mar. 9, 1827, to MARY MILLER. Children. 2625. MARY F. SACKETT, b. Dec. 7, 1828; m. Robert Campbell. 2626. LEMUEL M. SACKETT, b. May 1, 1831; m. Emeline L. Cole. 2627. JOHN J. SACKETT, b. Feb. 17, 1833, d. in 1862; m. Ethel Stephens. 2628. MARTHA C. SACKETT, b. Feb. 10, 1837; m. Thankful Traver. 2629. ROBERT FRANCIS SACKETT, b. Mar. 11, 1842, d. in 1864, unmarried. 1056 ROBERT SACKET, 1805-1843, son of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was, in 1842, unmarried, and residing in Detroit, Mich. Having determined to revisit his home in Pittsford, N. Y., he took passage on the ill-fated steamer "Erie," which was burned on the lake, and he and many others perished. 1057 MARY SACKET, 1810-1888, daughter of (483) Lemuel and Annie Frances Sacket, was married, Nov. 11, 1830, to WILLIAM WEST BONNEY, 1--?-1864, of Pittsford, Monroe County, N. Y., and Oxford, Ohio. Children. 2634. JULIA AGNES BONNEY, b. Oct. 30, 1831, d. in 1892; m. J. W. Brown. 2635. ELISABETH F. BONNEY, b. Sept. 3, 1835, d. in 1871; m. Albert L. Adams. 2636. GEORGE W. BONNEY, b. Oct. 12, 1838; m. Agnes A. Crist. 2637. BYRON W. BONNEY, b. Sept. 23, 1841; m. Emma E. Keefer. 2638. MARIE F. BONNEY, b. July 31, 1844, d. in 1885; m. Henry W. Babcock. 2639. MARY J. BONNEY, b. Sept. 30, 1846; m. Benjamin F. Miller. 1077 ENOCH SACKETT, about 1800-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (490) Aaron Sacket and his wife Lydia, was married to a MISS DOUANE. Children. 2700. Lucy Maria Sacket, m. Anson Paige. Page 213 2701. Thomas J. Sacket, m. Elisabeth Mosely. 2702. James N. Sacket, unmarried. 2703. Lydia Elvira Sacket, unmarried. 2704. Ella Celestia Sacket, unmarried. 2705. Fanny Josephine Sacket, m. Frank Hudson. 1090 HARRIET S. SACKET, 1801-1890, daughter of (494) Warham and Eunice Foot Sacket, was married, Mar. 7, 1821, at Westfield, Mass., to SETH DEWEY. Children. 2725. Franklyn S. Dewey, b. Apr. 16, 1823, m. Mona E. Goodwin. 2726. Henry W. Dewey, b. in 1825, d. in 1836. 2727. Dwight J. Dewey, b. in 1829; m. Hattie ----. 1093 CHARLES SACKETT, 1813-1904, son of (496) Charles and Sally Woods Sackett, was married, Oct. 19, 1837, to JOYCE GRESHAM, daughter of GEORGE GRESHAM and MARY PENNINGTON. He learned the carpenter trade and shortly after reaching his majority established himself in business as an architect, contractor and builder, carrying on business in Corydon, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., until 1844, when he removed to New Albany, Ind., and there conducted the same business with success until 1875. During this period of 25 years he built many of the very best business houses and residences in New Albany, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., as well as such noted buildings as the Floyd County Court House, the New Albany Opera House, and the New Albany Christian and Wesley M. E. Church. Meantime he interested himself in the manufacturing industries, railroads, and all public enterprises of New Albany, having for their object the betterment of that city. That his energy, public spirit and integrity were appreciated, is fully shown by the fact that he was County Commissioner for some ten years, County Auditor for eight years, and for a long period a member of the City Council. He was the heaviest stockholder and president of the New Albany Forge and Rolling Mill, and in the fullest sense of the term a model citizen. His wife was an aunt of Judge Walter O. Gresham, of the U. S. Courts of Indiana and Illinois and Wisconsin, and who served as both Postmaster General and Secretary of State under President Cleveland. Page 214 Children. 2728. SARAH ANN SACKETT, b. Aug. 2, 1838, d. Oct. 30, 1881; m. E. R. A. Schoonover. 2729. VICTORIA J. SACKETT, b. Feb. 17, 1840, d. Oct. 28, 1885; m. James C. Ely. 2730. OZEM SACKETT, b. June 18, 1841; m. Martha Frances Alexander. 2731. George E. Sackett, b. Mar. 10, 1843; m. 1st, Josephine Patty. 2732. MARY ISABEL SACKETT, b. Oct. 11, 1844; m. Edward J. Brooks. 2733. Emily Catherine Sackett, b. June 24, 1846; unmarried 1907. 2734. HARRIET BURT SACKETT, b. Dec. 14, 1848; m. Frederick D. Conner. 2735. Charles Sackett, b. June 23, 1850, d. June 19, 1852. 2736. Lucy Jane Sackett, b. Sept. 14, 1852; m. James E. Robinson. 2737. Alice Cornelia Sackett, b. Dec. 1, 1853; m. Cyrus Markle Knight. 2738. FRANCES MADORA SACKETT, b. Nov. 15, 1854; m. Harry W. Vance. 2739. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. Apr. 7, 1856; m. Huldah Lang. 2740. Ida May Sackett, b. May 1, 1858; unmarried in 1907. 1101 MARIA SACKET, 1804-1863, daughter of (500) Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sacket, was married at Plymouth, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1825, by Rev. Mr. Reynolds, to WINSLOW NEWTON, 1802-1874. Children. 2750. MARIA S. NEWTON, b. Apr. 25, 1828, d. Mar. 5, 1892; m. J. Clark Crandell. 2751. ANNA L. NEWTON, b. Sept. 14, 1832, d. Feb. 18, 1867; m. Robert W. Brown. 2752. Julia De Etta Newton, b. Nov. 9, 1837, d. May 7, 1882, unmarried. 1102 DEXTER B. SACKETT, 1806-1897, of Cortland, Ill., son of (500) Lieut. Martin Sackett and Eunice Cadwell, was married, Oct. 10, 1832, to ELECTA BEMENT, daughter of JUDAH BEMENT. He married as his second wife, MRS. ELIZA INGHAM. Children. 2753. J. Bement Sackett, b. Feb. 1835, d. Apr. 1899; m. Corilla B. Whitrage 2754. Orville D. Sackett, b. in 1837, d. in 1884; m. Angeline Stewart. 2754a. ADDISON L. SACKETT, b. Jan. 5, 1839; m. Julia A. Roberts. 2754b. CLARISA E. SACKETT, b. in 1841; m. Peter V. Bennett. 2754c. Mary E. Sackett, b. in 1843; m. E. O. Newman. 2754d. Franklin M. Sackett, b. in 1845, d. in 1868; m. Carrie Ingham. 2754e. LESTER D. SACKETT, b. in 1847; m. Mary C. Woleben. 2754f. Helen Sackett, b. in 1850, d. in 1871; m. James V. Aldrich. Page 215 1103 WILLIAM DWIGHT SACKETT, 1808-1883, son of (500) Lieut. Martin Sackett and Miriam Bancroft, was married, Feb. 21, 1834, to JULIA ANN HARRINGTON, 1809-1890, daughter of WILLIAM HARRINGTON and BETSEY HEMENWAY. Mr. Sackett was born near South Plymouth, N. Y., and died at Canastota, N. Y. He was by occupation a farmer, and by religious faith a Methodist. Children. 2755. William W. Sackett, b. Jan. 3, 1835, d. Dec. 1, 1897; m. Mary J. Boyd 2755a. Julia Adaline Sackett, b. Apr. 4, 1840, d. Sept. 1, 1842. 2755b. ORSON L. SACKETT, b. Feb. 14, 1844; m. Carrie E. and Laura M. Stroud. 2755c. Loren Harvey Sackett, b. Dec. 31, 1845, d. Dec. 26, 1868. 2755e. Adelaide Mary Sackett, b. Sept. 26, 1847, d. Feb. 14, 1869. 1104 MARTHA DIANA SACKETT, 1810-1879, daughter of (500) Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett, was married, Sept. 7, 1831, to WILLIAM TOWER, son of ---- TOWER and his wife ABIGAIL BATES. They resided at Hebron, Ill. Child. 2756. Mary Amelia Tower, d. June 3, 1893; m. (2751) Robert W. Brown. 1105 HENRIETTA SACKETT, 1811-1898, daughter of (500) Lieut. Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett, was married, Feb. 24, 1884, to JOHN BENNETT, of Plymouth, N. Y. It is not often that a woman remains single until after she is 70 years of age and then marries. We are not informed as to the circumstances leading to this unusual event, or of the age of the bridegroom. 1106 EDWIN C. SACKETT, 1815-1891, son of (500) Lieut. Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett, was married, Feb. 13, 1838, to ROBA PLACE. Child. 2756a. Martin L. Sackett, of Alden, Ill. Page 216 1107 HARVEY B. SACKETT, 1816-1894, of Plymouth, N. Y., son of (500) Lieut. Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett, was married, Dec. 28, 1847, to LUCY BROOKS, daughter of CLYTUS BROOKS and PAMELA PRESTON. Children. 2756v. Pamela M. Sackett, b. June 25, 1849, d. Nov. 19, 1888; m. Alvin Stanton. 2756w. Francelia G. Sackett, b. July 14, 1853, d. Nov. 6, 1876. 2756x. Charles H. Sackett, b. Sept. 26, 1856; m. Arabella Crandall. 2756y. Lulu M. Sackett, b. Dec. 11, 1860. 1108 RUSSELL R. SACKETT, 1819-1884, of South Plymouth, N. Y., and Norwich, son of (500) Lieut. Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett. was married, in 1842, to DEBORAH BROWN, daughter of PARDON BROWN and MARY SHELDON. Children. 2757. Adaline J. Sackett, d. June 9, 1903. 2758. Celestia A. Sackett, m. William P. Keith. 2759. MARTIN RUSSELL SACKETT, m. Marion Cowles. 2760. FRED B. SACKETT, b. May 31, 1859; m. Hattie E. Sohenck. 2760a. Frank S. Sackett, b. May 31, 1859, d. May 26, 1886. 1109 REV. LESTER M. SACKETT, 1822-1860, of Chenango, N. Y., son of (500) Lieut. Martin and Miriam Bancroft Sackett, was married, in January, 1854, to CALPHURENA GARRETT. They had no children. Mr. Sackett was a Methodist minister and at the time of his death a member of the Oneida Conference. 1117 ANN SACKET, 1812-1853, daughter of (502) John and Rachel Morse Sackett, was married, May 18, 1843, to her brother-in-law, NATHAN NOBLE, of Westfield, Mass., son of Henry Noble. Children. 2775. Leonard Elbert Noble, b. June 2, 1844. 2776. Antonette R. Noble, b. Aug. 29, 1846; m. W. H. Richardson. Page 217 1119 ROXANA SACKET, 1819, sister of above mentioned Ann Sacket, was married, Nov. 16, to above mentioned Nathan Noble. 1121 CLARISSA SACKET, 1826-1--?, daughter of (502), John and Rachel Morse Sacket, was married, Apr. 16, 1850, to AARON WELLER DEWEY, 1825-1891, of Kellogg Plantation, near Westfield, Mass. Children. 2790. Irving Dewey, b. Feb. 9, 1851, d. July 31, 1851. 2791. ---- Dewey. 2792. ELBRIDGE F. DEWEY, b. July 6, 1853; m. Kittie West. 1123 GEORGE SACKET, 1818-1879, of Westfield, Mass., son of (503) Heman and Experience Searle Sacket, was married. Children. 2794. SEYMOUR A. SACKETT, m. Nettie L. Macoumber. 2795. ---- Sackett, m. H. M. Shattock. 2796. George Arthur Sackett, b. in 1853, d. in 1853. 1124 AUSTIN SACKET, 1812-1--?, of Westfield, Mass., son of (503) Heman and Experience Searle Sacket, was married. Children. 2797. Austin Sackett. 2798. Dewitt Sackett. 2799. ---- Sackett, m. E. E. Washborne. 1126 HEMAN SACKET, 1810-1867, of Westfield, Mass., son of (503) Heman and Experience Searle Sacket, was married at Westfield, Mass., Dec. 23, 1840, to his cousin (1120) CORDELIA A. SACKET. daughter of JOHN SACKET and his wife RACHEL MORSE. Children. 2802. JENNIE A. SACKETT, m. Edward G. Bacon. 2803. John H. Sackett, b. Nov. 3, 1837, d. Aug. 3, 1849. Page 218 1142. CALEB SACKET, 1815-1852, of Westfield, Mass., son of (510) Russell and Mary Brass Sacket, was married, in 1841, to JERUSHA BLOOD, daughter of ELEAZER BLOOD and his wife HANNAH PADDOCK. Children. 2840. Mary Ella Sackett, m. Oliver Ames. 2841. Martha Louise Sackett, m. V. Cooley. 2842. Lucy Ella Sackett, m. Zebulon Cadwell. 2843. Frank E. Sackett. 1144. HENRY SACKET, 1819-, of Westfield, Mass., son of (510) Russell and Mary Brass Sacket, was married to SOPHIA HUNTER. Child. 2845. Fred H. Sackett. 1148. ROWLAND SACKET, 1827-1868, of Westfield, Mass., son of (510) Russell and Mary Brass Sacket, was married at Springfield, Mass., Oct. 20, 1860, to CHLOE BOLES STEBBINS. Children. 2852. Clara B. Sackett, b. Sept. 16, 1863. 2853. Jasper S. Sackett, b. July 27, 1865. 1150. SETH SACKET, 1831-1891, of Westfield, Mass., son of (510) Russell and Mary Brass Sacket, was married, in 1855, to ELLA R. SMITH. Children. 2856. James H. Sackett. 2857. Herbert L. Sackett. 2858. Henry R. Sackett, b. in 1867, d. in 1885, unmarried. 1151. JUSTIN SACKET, 1815-1897, of Springfield, Mass., son of (511) Elijah Sacket, was a noted landscape gardener. He laid out Forest Park, in Springfield, which is one of the most attractive city parks in New England. The following is related as an illustration of his "inventiveness" as well as his wit: Page 219 One day he was driving with a friend, who asked him, out of curiosity, how he would plan a road to the top of a certain hill they were passing. "Well," said Mr. Sackett, with a twinkle in his eye, "I should turn in some cows awhile and watch how they got up." Children. 2860. EDWARD I. SACKETT. 2861. James C. Sackett. 2862. ---- Sackett, m. Charles Rust. 1153. FREDERICK SACKET, 1819-1882, of Russell, Mass., Fishkill, N. Y., and of Sterling and Chicago, Ill., son of (512) Gad and Lucy Williams Sacket, was married to JANE N. GAMWELL. He was born in Russell, Mass.; studied law and began the practice of his profession in the town of his birth. In 1853 he removed with his family to Sterling, Ill., and soon thereafter became one the leaders of the Whiteside County bar. He was the author of "Sacket's Written Instruction to Jurors," and died in Chicago, Ill. Child. 2863. WALTER C. G. SACKETT, b. June 16, 1851; m. Emma L. Hagey. 1158. HIRAM SACKET, 1794-1846, of Westfield, Mass., son of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married to SOPHEMIA CLAPP. Child. 2875. Dorothy Orphene Sackett, m. Milo Drake and Frederick Morand. 1160. LOREN SACKET, 1801-1893, of Hartford, Conn., Westfield, Mass., and Amboy, Ill., son of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married, first to FRANCES ANN SMITH, 18--?-1848, daughter of LORY SMITH, 1788-1823, and his wife FANNY TAINTOR (widow of James Levaughn), 1785-1851. His second wife was MRS. HARRIET ROBERTS, of Weathersfield; his third wife was SARAH DOWNEY, of Holyoke, Mass., and his fourth wife was ALMIRA BARNES, of Amboy, Ill. CHARLES TAINTOR, of South Wales, came to America in 1638, and settled at Fairfield, Conn., where he engaged in business, in connection Page 220 with which he made frequent trips to European ports. In October, 1654, the vessel in which he was crossing the ocean, foundered and he was drowned. JOSEPH TAINTOR, 1613-1690, son of above, was born in Wales. He preceded his father to America by several months, coming over on the ship Confidence, which sailed from Southampton, Eng., April 24, 1638. About 1640, he was married to MARY GRAY, 1619-1705, daughter of NICHOLAS GRAY and his wife JANE, all of whom had crossed with him on the ship Confidence, from England to America in 1638. JONATHAN TAINTOR, 1654-1712, son of above Joseph and Mary Gray Taintor, was married, in 1681, to ELISABETH WARREN, 16--?-1692, daughter of DANIEL WARREN, of Watertown. In 1702 he was married to his second wife, MARY RANDALL, of Watertown, who survived him. He participated in King Philip's War, and is credited with being in the Great Swamp fight in 1675. DEACON JOSEPH TAINTOR, 1688-1764, third child of above Jonathan and Elisabeth Warren Taintor, was born at Watertown, Mass., and was married, Apr. 20, 1815, to THANKFUL BARRETT, of Marlborough. They had ten children. JOHN TAINTOR, 1716-1805, of Marlborough and Shrewsbury, in Mass., Woodstock, Conn., Boston, Mass., and Halifax, N. H., son of Deacon Joseph Taintor, was married at Sudberry, Mass., by Rev. Israel Loring, Jan. 1, 1739, to HANNAH GOODELL, who lived but a few months thereafter. On May 20, 1741, he was married to his second wife, SARAH WARD, daughter of OBEDIAH WARD. JOSEPH TAINTOR, 1745-179--?, of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., son of above mentioned John and Sarah Ward Taintor, was married to DORCAS POST, of Norwich. He was an active participant in the war of the Revolution, serving in company commanded by Capt. Phineas Stern. FANNY TAINTOR, 1783-1848, daughter of Joseph and Dorcas Post Taintor, was married first to JAMES LEVAUGHN, and lived in Genesee, N. Y., and had sons James and William. Her second husband was LORY SMITH, of Hartford, Conn., and their daughter, Frances Ann Smith, was the first wife of Loren Sacket. Children of Loren and Frances Ann Smith Sacket. 2878. FRANCES ADELAIDE SACKETT, of Hartford, Conn. 2879. Sarah Jane Sackett, m. Charles Daniels. Page 221 2880. JOSEPH TAINTOR SACKETT, b. Nov. 30, 1839; m. Elisabeth L. Crocker. 2881. Charles Loren Sackett, died in childhood. 2882. WILLIAM H. SACKETT, b. in 1841, d. in 1864; m. Annie Williams Summers. Child of Loren and Sarah Downey Sacket. 2883. WILLIAM LOREN SACKETT, m. Ida I. Brown. 1162. ABNER SACKET, 18--?-18--?, of Shelburne Falls, Mass., son of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married, Nov. 22, 1840, to ELECTA DEWEY, daughter of ALONZO DEWEY. Children. 2886. Noble Daniel Sackett, b. Mar. 19, 1841. 2887. Henry Augustine Sackett, b. Sept. 30, 1842. 2888. Mary Lydia Sackett, b. Dec. 7, 1844; m. Ezra T. Smith. 2889. George Ingalls Sackett, b. Feb. 16, 1847. 2890. Angeline Sackett, m. Justin Miller. 2891. James Madison Sackett, b. June 14, 1853. 1164. EDWARD SACKET, 18--?-18--?, of Westfield, Mass., and Amboy, Ill, son of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married to CYNTHIA FIELD, 1813-18--?, of Long Meadow, Conn. Children. 2892. Theodore Noble Sackett. 2893. Edward Moses Sackett, d. in childhood. 2894. Cynthia M. Sackett, m. ---- Hubbell. 2895. Hanna Lorinda Sackett, d. in childhood. 2896. Edward Franklyn Sackett, d. in childhood. 2897. Martha Sackett, m. ---- Reed. 2898. Ellen Sackett. 2899. Charles Sackett. 1165. NOBLE SACKET, 1814-18--?, son of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married to ELLA RATHBURN, from whom he secured a divorce, after which he was married to ROXBURY JACOBS, of Barnstead, N. H. The names of their children have not been ascertained. Page 222 1166. MARIETTA SACKET, 1816-1894, daughter of (514) Noble and Olive Watkins Sacket, was married to JOSEPH WASHBURN, of Holyoke, Mass. Children. 2910. Olive Movilla Washburn, m. ---- Boyington. 2911. Emma Alethia Washburn, m. ---- Morand. 2912. Ostinella Washburn. 2913. Angeline Washburn, d. young. 2914. Charles Oscar Washburn. 2915. Martha Angeline Washburn, m. ---- Prince. 2916. Kate Electa Washburn, m. William Jolley. 1187. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SACKETT, 1810----?, of Jonesboro, Tenn., son of (521) Edward and Sally Eldridge Sacket, was married to ELISABETH AIKEN, daughter of COLONEL JOHN ANDERSON AIKEN. Children. 3050. JENNIE C. SACKETT, m. George T. Peets. 3051. Edward Aiken Sackett. 3052. CHARLES H. SACKETT, b. in 1845. 1188. HANNAH D. SACKETT, daughter of (521) Edward and Sally Eldridge Sacket, was married to EDWARD HUME. A short time after their marriage, Edward and Hannah D. Sacket Hume entered the foreign mission field, going to India. There they labored faithfully and not without results for a number of years, when Mr. Hume became broken in health and they reluctantly took passage for a return voyage to their native land. Mr. Hume died on the voyage and was buried at sea, leaving Mrs. Hume to continue her homeward journey with their five young children, two of whom, on reaching maturity, returned to India and took up the work their parents had laid down. Children. 3053. Sarah Hume. 3054. Bella Hume. 3055. Katherine Hume, m. Prof. Miller. 3056. Robert Hume. 3057. Edward Hume. Page 223 1200. JOHN SACKETT, M. D., 1785-1827, of Western New York, and near Boston, son of (541) Major Buel and Sally E. Beach Sackett, was married, in 18--?, to LORAINE ----?, who, after the death of her husband, removed to Vermont. Children. 3074. Abigail Sackett, m. Walter Ketcham. 3075. JOHN BUEL SACKETT, b. in 1812, d. in 1870; m. Amanda Bardun. 1201. PHILO SACKETT, 1788-1863, of Hector, Schuyler County, N. Y., son of (541) Major Buel Sackett, was married, Jan. 6, 1814, to GRACE PERKINS, a lineal descendant of Joseph Jenks, colonist, who came from England to New England about the year 1652. Her line of descent from this worthy is as follows: JOSEPH JENKS, worker in brass and iron, credited with having cut the die for the first coin issued in New England, was the father of HON. JOSEPH JENKS, JR., who for over a quarter of a century was one of the most prominent citizens of Rhode Island, serving from 1715 to 1721, as Lieutenant-Governor, and from 1727 to 1732, as Governor of the colony. Elizabeth Jenks, daughter of Governor Jenks, was married to SAMUEL TEFFT, and their daughter, SUSANNA TEFFT, was married to PETER CRANDELL, and their daughter ELIZABETH CRANDELL married NATHANIEL PERKINS, and their son, SANDS PERKINS, born in 1757, married MARY PLUMB, and they were the parents of Grace Perkins, wife of Philo Sackett. Children. 3076. Sarah M. Sackett, b. Feb. 18, 1816, d. Mar. 24, 1828. 3077. SOLON PHILO SACKETT, b. Oct. 7, 1818, d. Dec. 18, 1893, m. Lovedy L. Woodward. 3078. SAMUEL W. SACKETT, b. Sept. 11, 1820, d. Mar. 13, 1880; m. Cizubah Vaughn. 3079. JOHN C. SACKETT, b. Dec. 6, 1821, d. Mar. 7, 1896; m. Rebecca A. Bloomer. 3080. Mary E. Sackett, b. June 27, 1825, d. in 1897; m. Andrew Miller. 3081. ROXANA M. SACKETT, b. Aug. 13, 1827; m. Leroy Becker. 3082. BUEL SANDS SACKETT, b. July 15, 1829; m. Marion Becker. 1202. CAPT. NORMAN SACKETT, 1791-1868, of New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y., son of (541) Major Buel and Sally E. Beach Page 224 Sackett, was married, in Sept., 1817, to ESTHER WATERMAN, 1799-1851, daughter of ELIHU WATERMAN and his wife HANNAH MORGAN. In 1819 and for several years thereafter, he was a commissioned officer in 73d Regiment, Columbia County Militia. Children. 3083. Edwin W. S. Sackett, b. Oct. 7, 1818, d. Jan. 16, 1886; m. Charlotte Wheeler. 3084. SARAH E. SACKETT, b. Apr. 11, 1820, d. Feb. 12, 1891; m. Abram W. Haight. 3085. MARVIN SACKETT, b. Apr. 24, 1822, d. Jan. 28, 1904; m. Julia B. Gould 3086. DELIA M. SACKETT, b. Sept. 21, 1824; m. Allen B. Davis. 3087. MARY SACKETT, b. Feb. 18, 1827, d. Feb. 3, 1890; m. H. W. Drowne, M. D. 3088. Esther Sackett, b. May 16, 1829; not married. 3089. NORMAN B. SACKETT, b. Oct. 2, 1831; m. Olive V. Ambler. 3090. Saphronia Sackett, b. Mar. 6, 1835, d. July 30, 1903, unmarried. 1218. ERMINIA SACKETT, 1796-1876, daughter of (545) Lieut. Elijah Sackett and Dorothy Hitchcock, was married Jan. 31, 1819, to JAMES PARKER, son of JOSHUA PARKER and MARY ADAMS (2d wife). Children. 3110. AUGUSTUS S. PARKER, b. Oct. 11, 1819, d. July 13, 1865; m. Amelia Bird. 3111. CORNELIUS A. PARKER, b. May 11, 1821; m. Jane Ann Williams. 3112. OREGIN D. PARKER, b. Feb. 15, 1823, d. July 20, 1865. 3113. Rosamond Parker, b. Feb. 9, 1825, d. Aug. 13, 1890. 3114. Theodore E. Parker, b. Feb. 6, 1828, d. June 30, 1900; m. Julia A. Goodell. 3115. Myrtle Sabine Parker, m. Mar. 6, 1830. 3116. ACHSAP PARKER, b. Apr. 4, 1832; m. Walter P. Brown. 3117. Emily Parker, b. May 12, 1834, d. Aug. 10, 1899; m. Russell S. Elmer 3118. Lovenia Parker, b. Apr. 6, 1836, d. Feb. 15, 1889. 3119. JAMES B. PARKER, b. May 8, 1840, d. July 10, 1904; m. Helen E. Rutherford. 1219. ELECTA SACKETT, 1800-18--?, daughter of Lieut. Elijah Sackett and Dorothy Hitchcock, was married to HOMAN VAN BUREN. Child. 3119a. Barent E. Van Buren. Page 225 1220. EBENEZER BUEL SACKETT, 1803-1867, of Champion, Jefferson County, N. Y., and Columbus, Ohio, son of (545) Lieut. Elijah Sackett and Dorothy Hitchcock, was married, July 29, 1828, to EMILY TAYLOR. He resided and kept a hatshop at Champion after his marriage until 1840, when he removed to and spent the remaining years of his life at Columbus, O. Children. 3120. ERWIN GILBERT SACKETT, b. Nov. 28, 1829; m. Mary E. Clary. 3121. Ermina Prudence Sackett, m. ---- Roberts. 1221. ERWIN SACKETT, 1897-18--?, son of (545) Lieut. Elijah Sackett and Dorothy Hitchcock, was married to LUCINDA BACON. Child. 3122. Edson P. Sackett, of Davenport, Iowa. 1229. JOSHUA S. SACKETT, 1808-1894, son of (548) Isaac and Polly Hammond Sackett, was married, May 12, 1830, to ELVIRA E. BROWNELL, 18--?-1870. Children. 3126. George C. Sackett, b. Mar. 12, 1833, d. Oct. 3, 1833. 3127. Louise Sackett, b. Dec. 24, 1834, d. Feb. 1, 1835. 3128. Mary M. Sackett, b. Sept. 13, 1837, d. Feb. 26, 1891. 3129. Sarah B. Sackett, b. Mar. 16, 1840; m. M. C. Covell. 3130. Albert C. Sackett, b. Sept. 12, 1843, d. June 15, 1844. 3131. Albert S. Sackett, b. Sept. 10, 1845, d. Sept. 6, 1847. 3132. Addie E. Sackett, b. Apr. 22, 1850, d. May 22, 1850. 1240. CAPT. GIDEON SHEPARD SACKET, 1792-1860, of Westfield, Mass., and Cape Vincent, N. Y., son of (559) Menardus and Fanny Nimocks Sacket, was married to FRANCES ELECTA BUSH. He was for several years a commissioned officer in the 46th Regiment of New York Infantry. Children. 3150. Delos B. Sacket, b. Apr. 14, 1822, d. Mar. 8, 1885; m. Amanda Field. 3151. Julia E. Sacket, b. June 17, 1832; m. James B. Ainsworth. 3152. Theophles E. Sacket, b. May 3, 1835; m. Ann Elisabeth Budd. Page 226 1241. GEORGE SACKET, of Downsville, N. Y., son of (559) Menardus and Fanny Nimocks Sacket, was married, about 1825, to ELIZA A. PEAKE. Children. 3153. Electa M. Sackett, b. in 1827. 3153a. Maria A. Sackett, b. in 1829. 3153b. Ponter M. Sackett, b. in 1831, d. in 1900. 3154. GEO. AUGUSTUS SACKETT, 1833-1885, m. Huldah A. Raymond. 3155. Charles E. Sackett, b. in 1837, d. in 1902. 3156. Frances Sackett, b. in 1841. 3157. Harriet M. Sackett, b. in 1843. 3158. Eliza A. Sackett, b. 184?. 3159. Gideon S. Sackett, b. in 1848, d. in 1903. 1245. FRANCES SACKET, 1798-1858, daughter of (559) Menardus and Fanny Nimocks Sacket, was married, Jan. 7, 1819, to WALTER NOBLE, of Westfield, Mass. A short time after date of their marriage they removed to Cape Vincent. Children. 3167. Louiza Noble, b. Oct. 17, 1819; m. Horace A. Fancher. 3168. Walter Noble, b. Oct. 29, 1823; m. Mrs. M. E. Root. 3169. Laura A. Noble, b. Oct. 29, 1825; m. Gilbert Cross. 3170. William R. Noble, b. Aug. 20, 1834; m. Anna M. Van Gueslin. 1271. HON. LEVERETT SACKETT, 1805-1887, son of (569) David and Anne Park Sacket, was married to MARY CULVER, 1805-1854. He resided at different periods in the towns of Blandford, Chester and Suffield, in Mass. While a resident of Blandford, he represented that town in the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1887 he removed with his family to California, but died before the end of the year. Children. 3208. Laura Emily Sackett, b. in 1834, d. in 1842. 3209. Nancy Taylor Sackett, b. in 1836, d. in 1855. 3210. HORACE DAVID SACKETT, b. in 1843; m. Ella M. Lyman. 1280. ELIZA SACKETT, 1794-1864, daughter of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sackett, was married at Westfield, Mass., Dec. 15, 1816, to Page 227 HOMER PRESTON, 1793-1836, son of CAPT. JOHN PRESTON, of Granby, Mass., and his wife EUNICE MOODY, of South Hadley, Mass. Homer Preston had, beside his father, two other patriotic ancestors named John. One, LIEUT. JOHN PRESTON, 1746-1815, of Granby, was an active participant in the war of the revolution, serving in several different militia regiments and also in the Continental Army. His military record is given in detail in recently published "Massachusetts Records of Soldiers of the War of the Revolution." The other was JOHN PRESTON, of Hadley, Mass., who served through King Philip's War and took a prominent part in the "Swamp Fight," and who is mentioned eight times in the pages of Bodges' History of King Philip's War, published in 1896. John, son of this last mentioned John Preston, was buried in ancient graveyard at South Hadley, and his headstone bears this inscription: "Ye first here buried." In tracing the ancestors of Homer Preston, his descendants find, in addition to those already mentioned, the names of Ruling Elder William Goodwin and William Westwood, of the Thomas Hooker Company, who participated in the early development of Cambridge and the founding of Hartford and Hadley, Lieut. Samuel Smith, who is numbered among the founders of both Wethersfield and Hadley, and Ruling Elder John Strong, who was prominent among the first settlers of both Dorchester and Northampton, all now places of prominence in New England. Homer Preston, after securing such an education as the district schools afforded, and serving his time as a carpenter's apprentice in Granby, became a successful architect, contractor and builder. At one time he was interested with his brother, Asaph Preston, in a hotel at Greenfield, Mass.; at another in the "City Coffee House," at Albany. This coffee house was subsequently enlarged into what became the celebrated Delavan House. The brothers Preston, or "Preston Brothers," as they were called, were jointly interested also, for a considerable period, in a mail and passenger stage line, which ran between the cities of Albany and Boston. This last mentioned venture did not prove a financial success. Homer Preston planned and superintended the construction of several churches, two of which were erected in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. He also superintended the construction of the Rapelyea Mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y., and of Stanwix Hall, Albany, N. Y. Page 228 Children. 3225. EDWARD PRESTON, b. Oct. 24, 1817, d. Mar. 14, 1887; m. Mary H. Moore (Stewart). 3226. CAROLINE E. PRESTON, b. Aug. 27, 1823, d. June 15, 1888; m. Chauncey C. Parker. 3227. JANETTE PRESTON, b. June 15, 1826, d. Mar. 10, 1872; m. Pardon W. Kenyon. 3228. ELVIRA PRESTON, b. May 17, 1828, d. Oct. 20, 1866; m. Charles Kelsey. 3229. HENRY C. PRESTON, b. Apr. 15, 1832, d. May 28, 1878; m. Donna M. Weed. 3220. Martha E. Preston, b. Sept. 20, 1835, d. May 25, 1836. 1281. ADNAH SACKETT, 1796-1860, of Providence, R. I., son of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sackett, was married, Mar. 5, 1818, to ANN SHORT, who died June 1, 1823; on May 2, 1824, to his second wife, ELIZA HUBBARD ADAMS, who died Aug. 14, 1847; on June 5, 1848, to his third wife, MIRANDA KEACH, who died Oct. 10, 1855; and on May 20, 1856, to his fourth wife, NANCY BLAKE PARKS, 1811-1899. Adnah Sackett was born in Southwick, Mass., and after receiving a common school education, went to Providence to learn the jewelry business. Soon after reaching his majority he began manufacturing jewelry on his own account, introducing machinery to a greater extent than it was being used by any other manufacturer of jewelry in the country. Politically he was a Democrat, and was the nominee of his party for Mayor of Providence and Governor of Rhode Island. He was universally recognized and respected as a successful business man and public spirited citizen, filling with credit many responsible positions, both public and private, of influence and trust. Children. 3231. Ann Eliza Sackett, b. Dec. 11, 1818, d. Mar. 27, 1839. 3232. John Henry Sackett, b. Oct. 11, 1821, d. Sept. 11, 1841. 3233. Imogene Sackett, b. Feb. 5, 1823, d. Nov. 6, 1823. 3234. LUCY ADELINE SACKETT, b. Feb. 28, 1825, d. Feb. 23, 1900; John B. Hall. 3235. Lorima Cheever Sackett, . Sept. 9, 1826, d. Sept. 28, 1842. 3236. HELEN PRESTON SACKETT, b. Sept. 19, 1829; m. Henry P. Brastow. 3237. Edwin Mosley Sackett, b. Feb. 12, 1832, d. Aug. 7, 1833. 3238. Julia T. Sackett, b. May 21, 1835, d. July 28, 1837. Page 229 3239. Maria L. Sackett, b. Oct. 27, 1837, d. July 3, 1870; m. C. F. Page. 3240. FREDERICK MOSLEY SACKETT, b. Feb. 26, 1840; m. Emma L. Paine. 3241. CHARLES A. SACKETT, b. Feb. 5, 1843; m. Mary A. Townsend. 1282. ISAAC SACKETT, 1798-1881, of Westfield, Mass., Buffalo, N. Y., Providence, R. I., and Durand, Ill., son of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sackett, was married at Newport, R. I., Dec. 29, 1822, to MARY JOHNSON, 1808-1869, daughter of JOHN JOHNSON and his wife MARY LYON. In 1872 he was married, at Beloit, Wis., to MRS. ELLA GAGE TAYLOR, daughter of JOHN GAGE and his wife BETHANIA RANDALL. He was born at Westfield, Mass., and when a young man engaged for a considerable period in traveling from farm house to farm house, and from village to village, through New England and the western portion of New York State, purchasing from farmers and others, sheepskins, to be used in the manufacture of drum heads. Tiring of this business, he settled for a time at Buffalo, N. Y., and there learned the cabinet making trade, becoming an expert workman in that line. From Buffalo he went to Providence and there became foreman of a furniture factory, conducted by Rhodes G. Allen. A few years later he became associated with Judge Branch in the manufacture of furniture, in same city, under the firm name of Sackett & Branch, holding meantime the office of Justice of the Peace, and giving some attention to surveying. After a time the firm moved their business to Brooklyn, N. Y., locating on Fulton Street, where they opened salesrooms and became dealers as well as manufacturers. Meeting with gratifying success, they soon determined to remove to New York City, where they established warerooms at 322 Broadway and gave their principal attention to buying and selling, rather than to manufacturing. Here their business rapidly increased and their future prospects were most encouraging, when they were overtaken and carried under by the great tidal wave of disaster, known as the financial panic of 1837. Mr. Sackett then removed from New York City to Winnebago County, Ill. There fortune again attended him and he speedily became and remained to the day of his death, a prominent, wealthy and greatly esteemed citizen. It is a most unusual fact that had his oldest son Isaac lived, he would have been 53 years of age when the youngest son, Pomeroy, was born. Page 230 Children. 3242. Isaac E. Sackett, b. Nov. 4, 1823, d. Feb. 17, 1825. 3243. MARY J. SACKETT, b. Apr. 23, 1825, d. Jan. 1, 1869; m. Samuel S. Chapman. 3244. GEORGE H. SACKETT, b. Aug. 24, 1826; m. Sarah S. Sheldon. 3245. Abby B. Sackett, b. Jan. 21, 1829, d. Sept. 11, 1830. 3246. CAROLINE E. SACKETT, b. Feb. 25, 1831, d. Sept. 28, 1891; m. D. H. Smith. 3247. Andrew J. Sackett, b. Nov. 11, 1832, d. July 3, 1836. 3248. Isabelle J. Sackett, b. Sept. 30, 1834, d. Sept. 8, 1837. 3249. Abby L. Sackett, b. Dec. 1, 1836, d. Sept. 18, 1837. 3250. RICHARD J. SACKETT, b. Oct. 10, 1838, d. Feb. 2, 1879; m. Matilda Tombs. 3251. Adnah Sackett, b. Oct. 23, 1873. 3252. Pomeroy Sackett, b. Dec. 25, 1876. 1285. ABIGAIL H. SACKET, 1806-1850, daughter of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sacket, was married at Springfield, Mass., in 1830, to CHARLES J. CLEVELAND, of Beloit, Wis. Children. 3256. Charles DeWitt Cleveland, b. Feb. 2, 1832. 3257. Marietta Cleveland, b. Feb. 22 1834, d. in 1868. 3258. Lucinda Cleveland, b. Dec. 5, 1836, d. in 1862. 3259. MARGARET JANE CLEVELAND, b. Apr. 8, 1839; m. Sylvester Gurnee. 3260. Abbie Frances Cleveland, b. Apr. 9, 1841. 3261. Anna Eliza Cleveland, b. May 15, 1843. 3262. Henry Clay Cleveland, b. July 4, 1845, d. in 1846. 1286. ISRAEL SACKET, 1809-1880, of Cleveland, O., son of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sacket, was married at Schenectady, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1832, to MARGARET JANE ALLEN, 1812-1886, daughter of DAVID ALLEN, and his wife SUSAN LITTLE. Mr. Sackett was engaged throughout his adult life in the printing business. In 1832-1833, he published the Schenectady and Saratoga Standard. Children. 3263. ELISHA W. SACKET, b. Feb. 24, 1834, d. Aug. 28, 1899; m. Harriet Mott Willis. 3264. John Adnah Sacket, b. Nov. 29, 1835; m. Julia Dezendorf. 3265. Sarah E. Sacket, b. Jan. 9, 1837; m. Alfred Cobb. 3266. William E. Sacket, b. Apr. 27, 1839, d. about 1843. Page 231 3267. GEORGE W. SACKET, b. Mar. 3, 1841, d. Feb. 26, 1902; m. Josephine Dorsch. 3268. Charles E. Sacket, b. Dec. 8, 1843, d. Feb. 11, 1907. 3269. ROBERT LITTLE SACKET, b. Feb. 8, 1846; m. Clara Wall. 3270. Emanuel K. Sacket, b. Dec. 24, 1848, d. July 26, 1891, unmarried. 3271. Ella M. Sacket, b. May 1, 1850; m. Thomas Randall. 1287. LUCINDA SACKET, 1811-1893, daughter of (571) John and Lucinda Mosely Sacket, was married at Springfield, Mass., Feb. 28, 1833, to THOMAS HALE PARKER, 1808-1851, son of AMOS PARKER and his wife ANNE STEBBINS HALE. Children. 3272. Elisabeth Parker, b. Apr. 24, 1834, d. Feb. 14, 1835. 3273. MARY E. PARKER, b. Feb. 14, 1837, d. Oct. 16, 1881; m. Radolphus E. Howard. 3274. ANN ELIZA PARKER, b. Feb. 14, 1837, d. Nov. 16, 1878; m. Arthur J. Bemus. 3275. Julia Frances Parker, b. in 18--, d. in infancy, at Tarrytown, N. Y. 3276. THOMAS H. PARKER, b. Aug. 20, 1851, d. Jan. 21, 1904; m. Lizzie B. Barker. 1300. EDWARD B. R. SACKET, 1816-1--?, of Meadville, Pa., son of (579) Jabes B. and Ann Dewey Sacket, was married, Apr. 25, 1839, to SABRINA S. WRIGHT. Children. 3300. Frances Almena Sacket, b. Feb. 8, 1840, d. Sept. 3, 1847. 3301. Flavia S. Sacket, b. Apr. 3, 1842. 3302. Edward Payson Sacket, b. Jan. 20, 1848, d. June 23, 1862. 1301. CHARLES D. SACKETT, 1820-1862, of Norwich, Mass., and Jamestown, N. Y., son of (579) Jabes B. and Ann Dewey Sackett, was married, Nov. 4, 1856, to MARY A. DICKSON, 1832-1902, daughter of WILLIAM DICKSON and his wife ELIZA DICKSON, daughter of SAMUEL DICKSON. Mr. Sackett entered Allegany College when about 18 years of age and "engaged in classic studies" with such energy that before the end of his junior year his health gave way so completely that his life was despaired of. He eventually recovered his health, but was not able to resume his studies. In 1652 he was one of the Page 232 editors and proprietors of the Jamestown Journal, which paper, in 1860, was issued under the firm name of Sackett & Bishop. In 1862, in company with Hon. Reuben E. Fenton, he visited Washington and the seat of war. This visit resulted in his returning to his home in an advanced stage of typhoid, from which he did not recover. A close friend, in writing of him a short time after his death, says: "His like it were hard to find; firm to the truth as steel, honest as refined gold, unwavering as the orb of a planet in the defence of justice and the right, a friend whom you could trust as your right hand, a writer, condensed, sharp and terse, crowding an ocean of thought into a nutshell of a sentence. . . The Journal, under his hand, was a model of pure and elevated thought and sentiment, independent and fearless, considerate and courteous, with a definite purpose to which personal and pecuniary aims were subordinate, viz.: the lifting up of the community to a higher plane of intelligence and morality." Children. 3303. CLARA E. SACKETT, b. May 13, 1859. 3304. CHARLES E. SACKETT, b. Dec. 24, 1861. 1302. JAMES W. SACKETT, M. D., 1822-1--?, of Kalamazoo, Mich., son of (579) Jabez B. and Ann Dewey Sacket, was married, Jan. 20, 1853, to LIZZIE JOHNSON. Child. 3306. Josephine Sackett, b. Feb. 17, 1854. 1303. JABEZ B. SACKETT, 1827----?, son of (579) Jabez B. and Ann Dewey Sacket, was married, June 27, 1849, to ESTHER M. WHITE. Children. 3307. Clarence E. Sackett, b. Nov. 3, 1852, d. Aug. 28, 1856. 3308. Clara E. Sackett, b. Dec. 15, 1856. 3309. Roselba Sackett, b. May 2, 1858. 3310. Mary E. Sackett, b. Feb. 9, 1862. 3311. Perry B. Sackett, b. June 28, 1864, d. Dec. 12, 1874. 3312. Helen F. Sackett, b. June 11, 1867. 3313. Jesse S. Sackett, b. Nov. 8, 1869. Page 233 1304. DEWEY SACKETT, 1828-1--?, of Meadville, Penn., son of (579) Jabez B. and Ann Dewey Sacket, was married, Apr. 13, 1859, to SARAH E. PALMER, who died about 1871. On Feb. 21, 1873, he was married to his second wife, HARRIET PALMER. Children. 3314. Mary E. Sackett, b. May 8, 1860. 3315. Willis O. Sackett, b. Sept. 8, 1861. 3316. Howard Sackett, b. Dec. 23, 1863. 3317. Schuyler Sackett, b. Nov. 26, 1868. 3318. Herman Sackett, b. Oct. 11, 1869. 3319. Grace Sackett, b. July 30, 1871. 1315. REBECCA SACKET, 1807-1873, daughter of (587) Shubael Sacket, was married, Oct. 11, 1827, to ELIJAH DEWEY, 1808-1849, of Westfield, Mass., and Chicago, Ill. Children. 3350. Mary E. Dewey, b. May 3, 1829. 3351. James R. Dewey, b. Aug. 16, 1830. 3352. Wells Dewey, b. Oct. 28, 1836. 3353. Ida Dewey, b. Sept. 22, 1838, d. Oct. 8, 1872; m. George J. Brene. 1331. JUSTUS SACKETT, 1804-1893, of Westfield and Northampton, in Mass., son of (599) Eliakim Sacket and Annie Edwards, was married to ELECTA CLARK, of Northampton. Child. 3370. JOHN SACKETT, m. Julia Maria Clark. 1332. RUFUS SACKETT, 1808-1875, of Northampton, Mass., son of (599) Eliakim Sacket and Annie Edwards, was married, in 1827, to FRANCES PARSONS, daughter of MOSES PARSONS. Children. 3379. Henry Wales Sackett, b. in 1829, d. Jan. 30, 1857. 3380. RUFUS W. SACKETT, b. Dec. 25, 1830, d. Dec. 5, 1889; m. Sarah M. Jones. Page 234 3380a. Annie Sackett, d. in infancy. 3381. Jerusha E. Sackett, b. in 1837; m. William B. Allen. 3382. Louisa F. Sackett, b. in 1839; m. Lewis Day. 3383. George L. Sackett, b. in 1841; m. Mary A. ---- 3384. Sarah A. Sackett, b. in 1842, d. in 1896; m. Charles Marsh. 3385. Josephine Sackett, b. in 1844; m. 1st, Chester Loomis. 3386. Fred A. Sackett, b. in 1845, d. Oct. 7, 1906; m. Laura Bassett. 3386a. Albert Sackett, d. in infancy, twin of Alfred. 3386b. Alfred Sackett, d. in infancy, twin of Albert. 3387. Ella M. Sackett, m. Edgar F. Durant. 3388. Alice J. Sackett, m. Chauncey Chase. 1334. TRYPHENIA SACKETT, daughter of (601) Daniel and Tryphenia Loomis Sacket, was married, Sept. 7, 1835, to JOSHUA EAGER LOOMIS, son of JOSHUA LOOMIS. Children. 3395. Edwin A. Loomis, d. Nov. 25, 1873. 3396. Melissa Loomis. 3397. Addie Loomis. 3398. Esther Loomis. 3399. Juliet Loomis, died in childhood. 1335. DANIEL SACKETT, 1821, of Westfield, and Holyoke, in Mass., son of (601) Daniel and Tryphenia Loomis Sackett, was married, Nov. 28, 1844, to CELESTINE LOOMIS, 1824-, daughter of ROLAND LOOMIS and his wife CLARISSA HOLCOMB. Children. 3400. Francelia C. Sackett, b. Oct. 17, 1845; m. (4031) John N. Sackett. 3401. EVA C. SACKETT, b. Sept. 14, 1854, d. Mar. 12, 1874; m. Albert Beach. 1336. MARIA SACKETT, daughter of (601) Daniel and Tryphenia Loomis Sacket, was married to DAVID HALL, JR., son of DAVID HALL. They had but two children, and both died in infancy. 1337. JULIA SACKETT, daughter of (601) Daniel and Tryphenia Loomis Sacket, was married to LEONARD ATWATER. Children. 3402. Albert Atwater. 3403. Marrian Atwater. Page 235 1339. LOOMIS J. SACKETT, son of (601) Daniel and Tryphenia Loomis Sacket, was married to CORDELIA STEPHENS. Children. 3405. Flora Sacket. 3406. Emma Sacket. 1356. URSULA SACKETT, 1825-1--?, daughter of (603) Charles and Abigail Otis Sacket, was married to LYMAN PEEBLES. Children. 3450. ANTONETTE MARIE PEEBLES, m. ---- Smith. 3451. ELLEN FRANCES PEEBLES, m. Frank Grant. 1357. CHARLES SACKETT, 1818-1859, of Westfield, Mass., son of (603) Charles and Abigail Otis Sacket, was married to HANNAH M. GRIGGS, 1830-. Child. 3452. FITZ MORTIMER SACKETT, b. Jan. 20, 1849; m. (3460) Adele E. Sacket 1358. KING SACKETT, 1806-1895, son of (603) Charles Sackett and Abigail Otis, was born and grew to manhood in the town of Westfield, Mass. He was married, Oct. 11, 1827, to MARY CAMPBELL HOLCOMB, 1806-1886. About the year 1832, he went to Ohio, then quite generally known as New Connecticut, and took up a wilderness farm in what became Portage County. His wife and two older children followed him one year later, during which he had constructed a pioneer house, and here on this tract, which he gradually converted from a wilderness into a productive farm, he reared his family of eight children and lived in peace and plenty for over 50 years, when he removed to Cleveland and there spent his remaining years with his oldest son, William Sackett. It is said of him, that nothwithstanding the fact that a considerable portion of his life was spent in a wild country, which abounded in dense woods, he was never known to use a firearm of any description. His children, as they approached maturity, were given the best of educational advantages and became men and women of exceptional culture and refinement. Page 236 Children. 3453. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. Feb. 23, 1828; m. Lois E. Adams. 3454. Edgar D. Sackett, b. Dec. 26, 1830. 3455. Mary P. Sackett, b. May 29, 1833; m. ---- Barnum. 3456. HOMER EDGAR SACKETT, b. Jan. 8, 1835; m. Mary E. Johnson. 3457. LOUISE A. SACKETT, b. Nov. 12, 1840; m. George W. Moulton. 3458. Janet V. Sackett, b. Feb. 23, 1843; m. ---- Chase. 3459. HELEN S. SACKETT, b. Mar. 20, 1847; m. Daniel Wilder. 3460. Adele E. Sackett, b. Feb. 14, 1853; m. (3452) F. M. Sackett. 1375. OLIVE SACKETT, 1805-1868, of Norwich, Conn., daughter of (610) Ezra Sacket, was married, Sept. 4, 1830, to CHARLES C. DEWEY, JR., 1810-1887, of Milwaukee, and Wantosa in Wis. Children. 3490. Charles J. Dewey, b. Mar. 23, 1831. 3491. Andrew J. Dewey, b. June 19, 1833, d. Jan. 5, 1851. 3492. Mary O. Dewey, b. May 13, 1835, d. Dec. 2, 1840. 3493. Orlando Dewey, b. Nov. 13, 1836, d. Dec. 2, 1840. 3494. Helen M. Dewey, b. Jan. 30, 1840, d. Sept. 16, 1862. 3495. John J. Dewey, b. July 10, 1845, d. May 17, 1864. 1378. LUCRETIA M. SACKETT, 1814-18--?, daughter of (612) Royal and Eunice Hastings Sacket, was married to a MR. ROOT. They had a daughter who married Emmerson Wood. 1386. EDWIN SACKETT, 1823-1896, of Boston, Erie County, N. Y., and Brooklyn, Poweshick Co., Iowa, son of (613) Pliny and Nancv Bartell Sackett, was married, in 1850, to ELIZABETH HALL. The following biographical notice is copied from the Brooklyn (Iowa) Chronicle, of Sept., 1896: "Died, at his home, south of Brooklyn, Thursday morning, Sept. 3, 1896, of apoplexy, Edwin Sackett, aged 73 years, 4 months and 28 days. Deceased was born near Buffalo, N. Y., April 6, 1823, and left the state of his nativity ten years later, locating in Berien County, Mich, where in the year 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hall. By this union twelve children were born, ten of whom, with the faithful wife, survive to mourn the loss of a loving father and Page 237 husband. In 1855 he moved to Poweshick County, Iowa, where he resided until his death. He was one of the pioneer settlers of this county and was known far and wide for his cordial hospitality. He was a man whose honesty and integrity were never questioned; a good neighbor a firm friend, and perfectly upright in his dealings with his fellowmen. For his many excellent traits of character he was esteemed by a large circle of friends. He was industrious from youth and provided a good home for his family, to whom he was greatly attached. His last illness was of short duration. He arose in the morning and was engaged in the performance of his ordinary duties when taken sick. He continued to grow rapidly worse. All that human hands could do was of no avail, and within two hours he passed into the valley of the shadow of death. The funeral services were held at his late home Saturday, at 10 o'clock, conducted by Rev. W. S. Knight, after which the remains were laid at rest in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery. The funeral was largely attended by friends and neighbors, 123 teams being at the house. There were thirty-three grand children, twenty-nine of whom were present at the funeral. The family have the sympathy of all in this great hour of sorrow." Children. 3504. Alice Sackett, b. in 1852; m. ---- Carter. 3505. Kirtland Sackett, b. in 1854. 3505a. George Sackett, b. in 1858. 3505b. Mary Sackett, b. in 1860; m. ---- Good. 3505c. Anna Sackett, b. in 1862; m. ---- Evans. 3505d. Emma Sackett, b. in 1865; m. ---- Baird. 3506. Frank Sackett, b. in 1867. 3507. Rachel Sackett, b. in 1869; m. ---- Baker. 3508. Dona Sackett, b. in 1871; m. ---- Potter. 3508a. Cora Sackett, b. in 1873. 1388. KIRTLAND SACKETT, 1831, of Napa, Cal., son of (613) Pliny and Nancy Bartell Sackett, was married, Nov. 5, 1861, to NANCY HENERY, daughter of SAMUEL HENERY. He was born at Boston Center, Erie Co., N. Y., and accompanied his parents to Berien County, Mich., in 1838. When well advanced in his "teens" he went to Page 238 Niles, Mich., and there served an apprenticeship as a wheelwright. He subsequently worked at his trade in Chicago, Ottawa, and Peru in Ill., and at St. Louis and Weston in Missouri. In 1851 he engaged in the wagon making business on his own account at St. Joseph, Mo., making a specialty of fitting out trains for emigrant parties, who were taking the overland route to the Pacific slope. In 1852, with his own teams and wagons, he joined one of these companies, consisting of 33 men, one woman and one child, and journeyed with them through the Indian country, over the Salt Lake route. down the Humboldt, up Carson, and over the mountains to Lake Tahoe, reaching Sacramento in the month of August. There, after trying his hand at mining, he again engaged in wagon making, but soon removed to Napa, Cal., where, after making a return trip to New York State and a prospecting tour through Northern California, he settled down to the life of a farmer, at which occupation he, in 1906, was still engaged. Children. 3509. Hattie Sackett, b. Aug. 13, 1862; m. John G. Koster. 3509a. George K. Sackett, b. May 27, 1866; m. Lena Bass. 3509b. Ella Sackett, b. June 21, 1868; m. Wm. S. Skinner. 3510. SAMUEL H. SACKETT, b. Mar. 31, 1870; m. Ethel Chattenley. 3511. Charles P. Sackett, b. Feb. 25, 1872; m. Mamie Briody. 3512. Margaret Sackett, b. July 11, 1875; m. William Imrie. 1400. ASAPH DEWEY, 1787-1845, son of Aseph and (632) Penelope Sackett Dewey, was married at Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 28, 1808, to MISS SIDNEY HOWLAND, daughter of JOSEPH HOWLAND, 1788-1873, and his wife LOIS HAMLIN, 1788-1873. Children. 3515. Mary M. Dewey, b. Sept. 17, 1809, d. Oct. 5, 1888; m. Chauncey Dewey. 3516. Penelope S. Dewey, b. Oct. 29, 1811. 3517. Lois Emily Dewey, b. Sept. 23, 1813, d. Dec. 30, 1837. 3518. George H. Dewey, b. Oct. 18, 1816. 3519. Charles A. Dewey, b. Oct. 14, 1818. 3520. ELIZABETH H. DEWEY, b. Aug. 5, 1820; m. Philetus Cook. 3521. John W. Dewey, b. Feb. 13, 1823, d. Nov. 15, 1825. 3522. Harriet S. Dewey, b. Oct. 4, 1826, d. Feb. 4, 1855. 3523. Sarah A. Dewey, b. Aug. 16, 1828, d. Dec. 21, 1844. 3524. Franklyn H. Dewey, b. July 27, 1833, d. Oct. 14, 1855. Page 239 3525. Frances H. Dewey, b. July 27, 1833, d. May 1, 1865; m. Samuel T. Bradley. 1443. RUSSELL SACKET, 1787-1824, of Aurelius, N. Y., son of (645) William and Parthenia Patterson Sacket, was married, July 4, 1814, to JANE ANN STEPHENSON, daughter of SAMUEL STEPHENSON and his wife MARGARET JAMESON, of Hannibal, N. Y. Children. 3600. JANE AGNES SACKETT, b. May 18, 1817, d. May 12, 1900; m. John M. Smith. 3601. JAMES H. SACKETT, b. Dec. 4, 1818; m. Aurelia Chapin. 3602. Nancy T. Sackett, b. Aug. 7, 1820, d. Jan. 28, 1905; m. Jas. Pinckney. 3603. Ann E. Sackett, b. Sept. 16, 1822, d. May 10, 1860; m. Jas. Pinckney. 3604. Margaret S. Sackett, b. Sept. 11, 1824; m. Julius Chamberlain. 1445. JUDGE GARRY V. SACKETT, 1780-1865, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., son of (645) William and Parthenia Patterson Sacket, was married first to NANCY T. VANCE, who died in 1820. On Feb. 26, 1826, he was married to HARRIET HAIGH, who was born in Calcutta, Hindestan, and was the daughter of CAPT. JOHN HAIGH, who had a record of 40 years service in the British Army and was one of the officers serving under General Burgoyne when he surrendered his army to General Gates at Saratoga. Mrs. Harriet Haigh Sackett died at Seneca Falls, N. Y., Mar. 18, 1851, but we are not informed as to the date of her birth or the circumstances attending her coming to America. Judge Sackett studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession in Central New York. He was a far-sighted and successful business man. It is stated in French's Gazetteer of New York, that he was among the founders of Seneca Falls, that about 1829-30, he erected a cotton factory there, and at same time was associated with Chauncey Marshall and O. Bascum in the erection of a paper mill. He also dealt largely in farm lands, buying in large tracts, which he divided into farms and sold to new comers. In a letter, written in 1833, to a relative, he refers to the sale of several farms which he had put under partial cultivation, and adds: "I have retained 200 acres and have been employed the last season building a dwelling house, in which I hope to spend the remainder of my days. It is situated about half way between my old home Page 240 and the village. It is built entirely of cut stone, is 40 by 45 feet on the ground floor and two stories high, with walls grouted with water lime. It has cost me, with the out buildings, a little more than six thousand dollars." Judge Sackett took a lively interest in the history of his family, and in the Fall of 1830 traveled for a month in New England examining the ancient church, town, and county records for data relating to his ancestors--tracing them from Warren, Litchfield County, Conn., back from generation to generation, and from town to town to the arrival of Simon and John Sackett, at Boston, in 1631. The writer has before him the original manuscript of one of Judge Sackett's early records of this journey and his conclusions as to his ancestral line, based on the information he then secured. Along with this original manuscript family record is the copy of another written by him a quarter of a century later. The following references to the members of his immediate family are from the manuscript record first mentioned, which was written at Seneca Falls in 1833: My father and mother are both living in this village, and are as healthy and smart as when you last saw them. He is 80 and she is 66 years of age. The four children which father had by his first wife are all dead. Russell, my eldest brother, died in 1824, leaving a widow and six children. They are in easy circumstances and reside on a small farm at Aurelius, which he left them. Eunice, my sister, who married, in 1809, a Mr. Higgins, is now a widow and the mother of nine children. She is 45 years old and is residing in this village with her oldest son, who is a hardware merchant and is doing well. I come next in point of age, am 43 years old and have had two wives. My first wife. Nancy T Vance, died in 1820, leaving me one daughter and two sons. The daughter is married to a Mr. Van Rensselaer, of this place. My oldest son died in 1831, the other is living with me and is now at school. My second wife is an English woman, by whom I have one son five years of age. Jonathan, my brother, is a small merchant in this place, but well off in his circumstances. He is only 41, and consequently too young to have a wife. Matilda, my second sister, lives with her parents, has a small but pretty property of her own, is a candidate for matrimony but is yet too young; aged 37 years. Ann married a Mr. Gilmore and lives in Aurelius, has an excellent husband in good circumstances, and is the mother of four children. They are all in good health and every way a happy family. She is 35 years old. Caroline married a Mr. Halsey, a mechanic, of this village, who is in tolerable circumstances and good looking. She has 4 children and is 33 years of age. Page 241 Amanda lives with her parents and is 30 years of age. Fanny lives with her parents, is 27 years old, is mother's beauty, and it is believed by all her friends that when she arrives at an age suitable to see company there will be no more peace among the aspiring beaux of the neighborhood. William, my youngest brother, is studying law and promises fair to be a a man of business. He takes his admission next July. He is 22 years of age. A Seneca Falls Historical Society publication, issued in 1905, contains a paper by Miss Janet Cowing, showing the important part taken by Judge Sackett in the founding of Seneca Falls, and containing many additional and interesting facts relative to his social. business and political career. Children. 3606. MARY E. SACKETT, 1813-1869, m. H. J. Van Rensselaer. 3607. William V. Sackett, b. Oct. 30, 1814, d. Oct. 5, 1831. 3608. David V. Sackett, b. Sept. 2, 1816, d. Nov. 29, 1862. 3609. Mynderse Sackett, b. Oct. 2, 1818, d. Apr. 26, 1820. 3610. Ann Haigh Sackett, b. Feb. 28, 1827, d. Sept. 8, 1827. 3611. JOHN H. SACKETT, 1828-1898, m. Mary Gilmore. 3612. William Arthur Sackett, b. Oct. 16, 1830, d. Feb. 11, 1837. 3613. Garry Van Sackett, Jr., b. Jan. 27, 1838, d. Feb. 19, 1838. 1452 HON. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS SACKETT, 1811-1895, of Aurelius, Seneca Falls and Saratoga Springs, all in the State of New York, son of (645) William Sackett and his wife Parthenia Patterson, was married, first, about 1834, to ZADE THORN, who died several years previous to 1847, in which year he was married to his second wife, CHARLOTTE BUTTRICK, daughter of HORATIO G. BUTTRICK and his wife MARY BARNARD. On May 30, 1876, he was married at Auburn, N. Y., to his third wife, MRS. MARY LOUISE MARVIN MARION, daughter of JUDGE THOMAS MARVIN, of Saratoga Springs. He read law with Judge Luther F. Stephens, of Seneca Falls, and with Sanford & Kellogg, of Skaneateles, N. Y. In 1831 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession at Seneca Falls, where he remained until 1848, when he was elected to Congress to represent the Seneca and Wayne district. During his congressional career, which was of four years' duration, he advocated the admission of California as a state, persistently opposed the extension of African slavery into the territories, and took an active part in deliberations of the then important committee on Revolutionary Page 242 pensions, of which he was a member. In 1857 he removed from Seneca Falls to Saratoga Springs, which became henceforth his permanent place of residence. Among the more important law contests in which he was retained was that between the Berden Company of Troy, and Corning & Co., of Albany, known as the "spike" case. The amount involved was upwards of a million dollars, which the former sought to recover from the latter for alleged infringements of certain patents. It was in the courts for several years and resulted in the recovery of but a nominal amount for the plaintiff, which was regarded as a decided victory for the defendants, won by Mr. Sackett. For a number of years he served as U. S. Registrar in Bankruptcy, a judicial office, which by courtesy carried with it the title of Judge. From 1876 to 1878 he traveled in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land, and wrote a series of letters descriptive of his travels, many of which were published and widely read. Mr. Sackett was, when a young man, an old line Whig, but later in life became a pronounced Republican. By religious faith he was an Episcopalian, and during his residence at Saratoga was a member, and for a considerable portion of the time a vestryman, of the Bethesda Episcopal Church there. He died quite suddenly of apoplexy. Children. 3630. ZAYDE E. SACKETT, b. July 30, 1836; m. John A. Lighthall. 3631. WILLIAM SACKETT, b. in Apr. 1838, d. in 1864; m. Anna Sisselberger. 3632. ZILLA SACKETT, b. Apr. 13, 1848; m. Charles L. Stone. 3633. Frederick A. Sackett, b. May 19, 1850, d. unmarried. 3637. EDWARD S. SACKETT, b. Nov. 11, 1852. 3638. HARRIET M. SACKETT, b. Sept. 12, 1854; m. Charles H. Duell. 1460 JULIUS CAESAR ABEL, 1793-18--?, son of Daniel and (650) Chloe Sacket Abel, was married, Jan. 16, 1816, to RACHEL BRISTOE. Child. 3656. CAROLINE A. ABEL, b. Feb. 24, 1819, d. Oct. 15, 1852; m. Grosvenor Ried. 1463 LETUS SACKET, 1793, 1854, of Monkton, Vt., and Palmervilla, Ind., son of (652) Filer and Deborah Waterman Sacket, was married on Aug. 10 1814, to HANNAH DINSMAN, on Oct. 13, 1821, to Page 243 LEAH ORR, on Aug. 2, 1827, to HANNAH WOOLLEY, on Sept. 17, 1836, to DEBORAH JACK, and on Jan. 14, 1844, to MRS. RUTH M. PARISH-HARMAN-NEAL. Children. 3660. ARCHIBALD W. SACKET, b. Sept. 21, 1822, d. Feb. 6, 1889; m. Mahaly T. Bercham. 3661. Deborah L. Sacket, b. Jan. 4, 1824; m. Joseph Dodson. 3662. Filertus Sacket, b. Apr. 19, 1828, d. Nov. 11, 1895; m. Sarah A. Davis. 3663. Seth W. Sacket, b. Apr. 23, 1830, d. July 13, 1859; m. Margaret Jones. 3664. MARY SACHET, b. Feb. 8, 1832; m. Samuel M. Stickler. 3665. Hannah L. Sacket, b. Dec. 14, 1833; m. Francis M. Wimberley. 3666. Elisabeth Sacket, b. in 1846; m. Isaiah Ray. 3667. Ruth Ann Sacket, b. Apr. 24, 1848; m. George Peck. 3668. Clara A. Sacket, b. Feb. 17, 1851; m. M. Shafer. 3669. Amerilas Sacket, b. in 1853. 1465 HARRIET SACKETT, 1803-1879, daughter of (652) Filer Sackett, and D