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Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] John the colonist
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:18:26 EDT

Richard:

I saw your earlier post and had assumed that perhaps someone else would
respond to it. One of the problems we have with the Sacketts who came over
on the Lyon has to do with a question of just who came over.

Traditions has it that there were brothers, Simon and John Sackett who
arrived on the Lyon. Simon and his wife Isabel settled in Newtown (now
Cambridge), MA. and John migrated to New Haven, CT. Simon and Isabel had a
son Simon Jr. whose birth has been placed at about 1628-1630. After arrival
in MA. Simon and Isabel had another son John Jr. b. at about 1630-1632 and
was supposed to have been the first white child born in Newtown.

One reason for the uncertainty on the date of birth for the two boys is a
question as to when Simon and Isabel came to America on the Lyon. Tradition
has the date as 1630 and if this date is accepted, then Simon Jr. would have
been born in 1628 and John Jr. in 1632.

Simon Sr. died in 1635. In 1636 Isabel moved to Hartford, CT. with Rev
Hooker and his congregation. She subsequently married a widower William
Bloomfield and they were supposed to have ended up in NY. Simon Jr. married
Sarah Bloomfield (daughter of William Bloomfield and his first wife) in 1652.
John and Simon Jr. were in Springfield, MA. where they both received land.
Simon Jr. died 9 Jul 1659 leaving Sarah with two small children. Sarah's
father came from Hartford to Springfield to help administer the estate of
Simon Jr.

John Sackett (son of Simon Sackett and Isabel Pearce) m. Abigail Hannum 23
Nov 1659 in Springfield, MA. and then moved to Northampton, MA. and then
moved to Westfield, MA. where he died 08 Oct 1719.

If you will go to: <http://www.nmmi.cc.nm.us/~nancy/sackett/intro.html>; and
then scroll down to Chris Sackett. Then at the bottom Chris' Sackett line
you will see a link "Introduction". In the material Chris includes is a
discussion of who John Sackett of New Haven, CT. was and where he possibly
came from. In this material Chris includes a letter to an author named
Anderson who claims that John Sackett of New Haven, CT. did not exist.

I have a couple of files that I will combine and send as an attachment in an
e-mail to you (we can't send attachments through the List).

Perhaps this will also spur some of those who are better informed on our
Sackett ancestors to respond with more information on this subject.

Thurmon King

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