Descendants of Thomas Sackett
Ninth Generation
(Continued)
822. Susan Smith Sackett-805 (William W. , William , Joseph , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 3 Mar 1809. She died in 1881.
Susan married Isaac Gould-805sp about 1830.
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 Pennsylvania timber land, located mainly in the counties of Carbon and Lycoming. 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 of more wood choppers' cabins, a blacksmith 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 to 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 out mother, as my father's extensive lumber business frequently required him to travel long distances through the unbroken wilderness, blazing the trees an 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. 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 he 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 engulfed 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 rose above the submerging waters. Had the torrent continued a few moments longer not one of us could have escaped.
Mother, groping in the darkness, bound 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 hear 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. 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 brothers 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 the 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 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 - on 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 sand bank 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.
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.
Isaac and Susan had the following children:
825. Charles Joseph Sackett-808 (William W. , William , Joseph , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 21 Apr 1816. He died on 28 Feb 1885.
of Narrowsburgh, N. Y.
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.
Charles married (1) Margaret Schoonover-808sp1.
Charles married (2) Eveline Bond-808sp2 about 1850.
They had the following children:
1804 M i Charles Joseph Sackett-2120 died in In infancy. 1805 M ii Walter J. Sackett-2121 was born on 3 Feb 1859.
836. Benjamin Nathan Fish (Nathan Fish , Sarah Sackett Moore , Elizabeth Sackett , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 17 Nov 1765 in Cumberland Co PA. He died on 25 May 1839 in Belmont Co OH. He was buried in Bowman Ridge Cemetary, M.E. Church, Marshall Co WV.
Or Trenton, Mercer Co NJ
Or Aft. 23 Oct 1843 in Juniata Co, PA
He had the following children:
+ 1806 M i William Fish 1807 F ii Mary Fish was born about 1796 in PA. She died after 8 Sep 1843 in Marshall Co WV. Mary married Unknown in 1817 in Bedford Co PA. + 1808 M iii Samuel Fish 1809 F iv Levina Fish was born about 1800 in Fish Creek, Marshall Co WV. Levina married Unknown on 29 Jan 1926 in Ohio Co WV. + 1810 M v John Fish + 1811 F vi Elizabeth Fish 1812 F vii Adella Bertha Fish was born on 31 Jul 1809 in Ohio Co WV. She died on 21 Aug 1820 in Bowman Ridge Cemetary, M.E. Church, Marshall Co WV. 1813 M viii J. Benjamin Fish was born on 8 Jan 1811 in Ohio Co WV. He died on 31 Jan 1811 in Ohio Co WV. He was buried in Bowman Ridge Cemetary, M.E. Church, Marshall Co WV. + 1814 M ix Isaac Nathan Fish 1815 M x Lola M. Fish was born about 1813 in Ohio Co WV. He died on 6 Mar 1838 in Marshall Co WV. He was buried in Bowman Ridge Cemetary, M.E. Church, Marshall Co WV.
842. Nancy Fish (Nathan Fish , Sarah Sackett Moore , Elizabeth Sackett , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 7 Jun 1783 in Ewing (Trenton), Hunterdon Co NY. She died on 26 Sep 1870 in Center Township, Butler Co PA. She was buried in Carlisle, Cumberland Co PA.
or Carlisle, Cumberland Co PA
She had the following children:
1816 M i John Fish McCandless was born on 27 Mar 1802 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. He died on 14 Mar 1869.
John F. McCandless, born March 27, 1802, died March 13, 1869,lived in his parental home until the age of thirty years. Hisfarm was given him by his father. It is located on theButler-Mercer Pike about one mile north of Unionville and knownas the Harrison McCandless Farm. On this farm John F. lived forthirty-seven years and reared his family. He was a trustee inthe Muddy Creek Presbyterian Church for years and one of thebuilding committee for the present brick church.John married (1) Unknown. John married (2) Unknown. 1817 M ii Nathan Fish McCandless was born on 28 Dec 1803 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. He died on 31 Jan 1891. Nathan married (1) Unknown on 7 Jul 1831 in PA. Nathan married (2) Unknown in 1858. 1818 F iii Jane Carothers McCandless was born on 15 Jan 1806 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. She died on 16 Dec 1898. Jane married Unknown on 28 Dec 1832 in PA. 1819 F iv Nancy Fish McCandless was born on 1 Feb 1808 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. She died on 26 Jul 1892 in Center Township, Butler Co PA. Nancy married Unknown about 1827. 1820 F v Mary Ann McCandless was born on 18 May 1810 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. She died on 23 Dec 1865 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. + 1821 M vi Robert W. McCandless 1822 M vii Josiah McCandless was born on 6 Mar 1816 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. He died on 5 Jan 1875 in Unionville, Center Township, Butler Co PA. Josiah married Unknown on 18 Jun 1854 in Unionville, Center Township, Butler Co PA. + 1823 M viii Anderson McCandless 1824 F ix Jemima McCandless was born on 16 Jan 1820 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. She died on 27 Feb 1893 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co PA. Jemima married (1) Unknown. Jemima married (2) Unknown after 1859. 1825 M x Porter McCandless was born on 22 Jan 1823 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. He died on 22 Jan 1823 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. 1826 M xi William Coulter McCandless was born on 7 Nov 1825 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. He died on 23 Dec 1901 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA. William married Unknown on 2 Feb 1865 in Hermitage, Center Township, Butler Co PA.
848. Nathan Fish (Benjamin Fish , Sarah Sackett Moore , Elizabeth Sackett , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 10 Dec 1779 in Long Island, NY. He died on 7 Jul 1865.
He had the following children:
1827 F i Mary Fish.
Mary was a mute.+ 1828 F ii Eliza Fish 1829 F iii Elizabeth Fish.
849. Benjamin Fish (Benjamin Fish , Sarah Sackett Moore , Elizabeth Sackett , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born on 15 Nov 1785 in Long Island, NY. He died on 22 Jun 1880.
He had the following children:
1830 M i William Sacket Fish. + 1831 M ii Jonathan Sackett Fish 1832 F iii Rebecca Ann Fish. 1833 F iv Clementine Elizabeth Fish. + 1834 M v Asa Israel Fish 1835 M vi Benjamin Moore Fish. + 1836 F vii Emma Maria Fish 1837 M viii Augustine Hallett Fish was born on 18 Nov 1828. He died on 3 Aug 1872 in Cooperstown, Otsego Co NY. Augustine married Unknown. 1838 M ix Robert L. Stephens Fish.
851. Enos Fish (John Fish , Sarah Sackett Moore , Elizabeth Sackett , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ).
He had the following children:
1839 F i Esther Fish. 1840 F ii Elizabeth Fish was born on 11 Jul 1795. 1841 M iii John Fish was born on 5 Apr 1797. 1842 M iv Joseph Fish was born on 29 May 1799. + 1843 F v Sarah Fish 1844 F vi Catharine Fish was born on 8 Jun 1803. 1845 F vii Amanda Fish was born on 9 Nov 1805. She died on 10 Jul 1806. 1846 F viii Hannah Fish was born on 7 Nov 1807. 1847 F ix Tryphena Fish was born on 4 May 1810. 1848 F x Amanda Fish was born on 4 Dec 1812.
856. Justus R. Sackett-830 (Justus , Nathaniel , Richard , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born in 1778 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT. He died on 7 May 1854.
Stamford Probate Records, Volume II, 1803-1819, page 73.
... Hardy, Titus, deceased, Jabez, Ira, and his wife, Nancy, daughters
not named. Executor his son Shadrach. Witnesses Justus Sackett, Jr.,
Henry KNAPP, and Hannah BANKS, page 153. Sept. 25, 1812, order to
advertise for claims, page ...
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/probate/...
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Jackson Co. Record of Land Deeds (Vol 2-5; could not locate vol. 1)
Liber XXII pg. 1513
On 7 November 1849 for the consideration of $464.00, Calvin Bingham, Henry W. Belcher, Justin R. Sackett, Amos M. Sackett, James Henry, Elisabeth Henry, his wife, Peter C. Lawrence and Henry H. Bingham, all Mortgagors, by O. W. Bennett, Master in Chancery, of Jackson Co. to Kingsley S. Bingham and Mortgagees: John H. Browning and Benjamin F. Browning (residences not recorded), land in Leoni Twp., Section 23. Witnesses: Samuel Higby and Samuel W. Whitwell.22-472&73On 17 November 1849 for the consideration of $1.00, G. W. Bennett, Master in Chancery, of Jackson Co., Henry H. Bingham, Petere C. Lawrence, James Henry, Elisabeth Henry, Amos M. Sackett, Justin R. Sackett, Henry W. Belcher and Calvin Bingham, all Mortgagors, and Mortgagees, Benjamin F. Browning and John H. Browning, to William H. Clark, land in Leoni Twp., Section 15. Witneses: Samuel Higby and S. W. Whitwell. 22-480
Liber XXII pg. 1514
On 15 November 1849 for the consideration of $388.95, O. W. Bennett, Master in Chancery for Michigan, Mortgagors, Justus R. Sackett, Henry H. Bingham, Peter C. Lawrence, James Henry, Elizabeth Henry, his wife, Amos M. Sackett, John R. Sackett, Henry W. Belcher, Calvin Bingham and Rockwell R. Chappell (residences not recorded), Mortgagees, John H. Browning, Benjamin F. Browning, John P. Hull, to Amasa B. Gibson of Jackson Co., land in Grace Lake Twp., Section 30. Witnesses: Samuel Higby and George A. Knickerbocker. 22-486On 15 November 1849 for the consideration of $70.00, O. W. Bennett, Master in Chancery for Michigan, Mortgagors, Peter C. Lawrence, James Henry and Elizabeth Henry, his wife, Amos M. Sackett, Justus R. Sackett, Henry W. Belcher and Rockwell R. Chappel. Mortgagees, John H. Browning, Benjamin F. Browning and John P. Hull, to Amasa B. Gibson of Jackson Co., lots in village of Leoni. Witnesses: Samuel Higby and George A. Knickerbocker. 22-487
Justus married (1) Clarissa Belcher-830sp1 daughter of Dr. Elisha Belcher and Lydia Reynolds on 25 Dec 1800. Clarissa was born in 1783. She died in 1844.
They had the following children:
1849 M i Elisha B. Sackett-2210 was born on 24 Feb 1802. He died in 1884. Elisha married Abigail E. Moore-2210sp1. 1850 M ii Justus R. Sackett-2211 was born on 29 Mar 1804. He died on 29 Aug 1820. 1851 F iii Mary Sackett-2212 was born on 6 Feb 1806. She died on 5 Mar 1826 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/cemetery/cm_grnwch/grcongcemetery.htm
Very worn and hard to read:
dedicated to __
(unreadable)
the memory of Mary Sackett,
daughter of Justus and Clarissa Sackett
who died March 5, 1826
[Weygant has death as March 5, 1829. p. 188]+ 1852 M iv William Henry Sackett-2213 1853 F v Clarissa Sackett-2214 was born on 10 Aug 1810. She died on 31 Dec 1838. Clarissa married William E. Smith-2216sp. + 1854 M vi Amos Meade Sackett-2215 1855 F vii Alice B. Sackett-2216 was born on 2 Feb 1814. She died on 19 Sep 1846. Alice married William E. Smith-2216sp. 1856 F viii Martha W. Sackett-2217 was born on 6 Aug 1816. Martha married Rev. William Albert Hyde-2217sp on 18 Aug 1834. William was born in 1805.
Rev. William Albert Hyde, 1805-18__, a graduate of Amherst College and
Andover Theological Seminary.1857 M ix Lyman Sackett-2218 was born on 21 May 1818. Lyman married Lydia Ostander-2218sp. + 1858 M x Justus Ralph Sackett-2219 1859 F xi Sarah P. Sackett-2220 was born on 5 Aug 1822. She died on 3 Mar 1897. Sarah married William K. Mead-2220sp. 1860 F xii Martha B. Sackett-2221 was born on 29 Jan 1825.
Weygant gives the spouse of Martha Sackett as Gertrude Van Rayner. This raises the question as to whether Gertrude was used as a name for a male at this time, or whether the name was transcribed incorrectly. - T. KingMartha married Gertrude Van Rayner-2221sp.
This name is the way Weygant has it listed.1861 F xiii Lydia A. Sackett-2222 was born on 29 May 1827. She died on 24 Mar 1828.
Justus married (2) Eunice Peck-830sp2 daughter of Gideon Peck and Eunice Close about 1847. Eunice was born on 20 Jun 1793 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT. She died in 1857 in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT.
Weygant has death year as 1854, p. 188
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Genealogical Account of the Descendants in the Male Line of William Peck..., p. 80 has death year as 1857
857. John Sackett-831 (Justus , Nathaniel , Richard , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born about 1788. He died in 1864.
of Greenwich, Conn.
John married Mary Mead-831sp daughter of Whitman Mead and Rachel Mead on 12 Jan 1809.
They had the following children:
1862 F i Henry L. Sackett-2224 was born on 24 Nov 1809. She died on 15 Sep 1895 in Unmarried. + 1863 F ii Rachel E. Sackett-2225 1864 M iii Whitman M. Sackett-2226 was born on 2 Nov 1813. He died on 30 Sep 1835. 1865 F iv Abigail Sackett-2227 was born on 4 Dec 1816. She died on 14 Jun 1882. 1866 F v Mary Ann Sackett-2228 was born on 8 May 1820. She died on 5 Mar 1900. 1867 M vi William H. Sackett-2229 was born on 18 Apr 1822. He died on 13 Feb 1903. 1868 M vii Thomas Sackett-2230 was born on 5 Aug 1824.
858. Mary Sackett-832 (Justus , Nathaniel , Richard , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ).
Mary married Josiah Brown-832sp on 27 Jan 1788.
They had the following children:
1869 F i Rachel Brown-2231. Rachel married Mr. Halsey.
859. Sally Sackett-833 (Justus , Nathaniel , Richard , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ).
They had the following children:
1870 F i Sackett Secor 1871 F ii Ann Secor Ann married George Webb.
860. Betsey Sackett-834 (Justus , Nathaniel , Richard , Joseph , Simon , Jr. , Simon , Thomas , Thomas ) was born in 1783. She died on 21 May 1837.
Betsey married Thomas Merritt Wilson-834sp on 1 Jul 1810.
They had the following children:
1872 F i Mary Lyon Wilson-2234 was born on 9 Nov 1811. She died on 11 Feb 1884 in Unmarried. 1873 F ii Elisabeth Ann Wilson-2235 was born on 27 Apr 1816. She died on 13 Jul 1889 in Unmarried. + 1874 F iii Sarah S. Wilson-2236
