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Subject: [SACKETT-L] Dr. Samuel Sackett's move to PA.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:57:30 EDT

Hi:

I've been working at getting some of my material organized and in the process
I ran across something interesting. In a paragraph I posted earlier this
year from: John W. Jordan, "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette
County Pennsylvania", 1912, page 342;

(VI) Dr. Samuel Sackett, son of Reuben Sackett, was born April 5, 1754, died
February 13, 1833. In his diary, still preserved, he says he was born at
East Greenwich, Kent, Litchfield county, Connecticut. On August 2, 1774, he
was living in Spencertown, Connecticut. He studied medicine, and during the
revolutionary war served in the Continental army as surgeon. On February 10
1777, he was married and in 1780, in company with his brother Aaron, he came
to Western Pennsylvania. In a letter still preserved, dated Shistee
Settlement, Youghiogheny county, October 27, 1780, he writes to friends in
Connecticut: "I do not think I can cross the mountains back home until
spring. There are no doctors here between Pittsburg and Wheeling, and all
the way is thickly settled. It is a healthy looking country. I do not think
I will get much to do until I get acquainted with the people. Tell Jonathan
Hamilton I think this is the best place for land jobbing in the thirteen
states, and in case of invasion by Indians it is supposed that fifteen
hundred men would rid them out." In the family record, under date of
September 15, 1781, he writes: "We set out from New England to come to
Redstone township, and arrived at Beesontown, or Uniontown, on October 16,
1781. . .

Of interest to me is the statement: "in 1780, in company with his brother
Aaron, he came to Western Pennsylvania. In a letter still preserved, dated
Shistee Settlement, Youghiogheny county, October 27, 1780, he writes to
friends in Connecticut: I do not think I can cross the mountains back home
until spring . . ."

This would indicate that he still considered CT to be his home and that it
would probably be spring before he would return home.

We then have the statement: "In the family record, under date of September
15, 1781, he (Samuel) writes: 'We set out from New England to come to
Redstone township, and arrived at Beesontown, or Uniontown, on October 16,
1781'." This indicates that Samuel had returned to New England in the spring
of 1781 and then set out with his family from there on 15 Sep 1781 for
Redstone Twp and arrived there 16 Oct 1781.

If I am reading the statements correctly; Samuel WENT to PA in 1780. But he
MOVED to PA in 1781.

What cha think?

Thurmon

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