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Subject: [SACKETT-L] Re: Eliza Sackett-late 1700s-NY
Date: 21 Nov 2001 02:54:25 -0700
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Surnames: HILL SACKETT SHOEMAKER COOK McKINNEY
Classification: Query
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I need to know why you think Eliza married a William Hill. I ran across someone who thinks she married a Uri HILL. You can go see that from the front page by a search for uri hill NY. Today I discovered there must be a gazillion Uriah or Uri HILL around, or one very mobile one moving up down and around the NY border with VT, CT, and I guess MA. But I might be onto something. You see, Captain Benjamin SACKETT had a daughter named Betsey who married Uriah HILL, you can see that in the pages of the Weygant book on SACKETT family in which a lot of errors and omissions have been found. http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~teking/index.html#2 Go to #716 Capt. Benjamin Sackett, 1752-1826, of Stephentown, in what is now Rensselaer County, NY., son of (268) Dr. John Sackett, was married Nov. 11, 1773, to Phebe DAVIS . ..
Just think. Betsey. Elizabeth. Eliza. All the same name. To make a long story longer ...
My family's found in Chemung Co early 1800s. OK. I've prowled the tri-counties site's virtual cemeteries. I should save this for last, but my surname at birth was Chapman, but forget that for now. ;)
This Uriah HILL married a number of times. The first seems to be Mary SWARTOUT. Count the years she has childen, it ends 1790. He remarries 1803 to Catharine DAVIS and has a child in 1804, more up to 1810. #4, Mabel BARLOW, he marries in 1814, and has a couple more little girls. I think that's 11 so far ...
Unless Betsey is the #2 wife between 1790 and 1803. And she could be the mum of your Lavinia, like Captain Benjamin's youngest daughter, -and- my Sackett HILL b. 1799. Oh, I think Danby in Tompkins is just real close to Van Etten in Chemung County. Let's see, Uriah's sister married a SWARTOUT, too.
All Uriah's wives were Dutch Reformed like his family, unless Pilgrim stock SACKETT was not. They have church-registered christenings documented. Maybe Betsey doesn't count if she's not Dutch Reformed. But the LDS site sure does show her married to Uriah when you put her name in, because otherwise when you put Uriah in at http://www.familysearch.com, you will only see the other three wives. A civil marriage? Where? The LDS site suggests the year possible 1898.
One of Uriah's sons of his first wife, Andrew U (Uriah?) died at Danby. I forget right now just where but a couple of 'em married into the BEACH family, too. Not to mention the pair of DAVIS in this tale. All those surnames are in Van Etten cemeteries - HILL, SWARTOUT, BEACH, HILL.
So how do we search out Betsey or Elizabeth or Eliza and their babies if they're not in the christening records, eh. That reminds me, I noticed that Captain Bejamin SACKETT or maybe it was his father Dr. John, was one of those LDS baptisms and sealings in the 1960s. Yah, 19**. Did you know how, where and when the "mormonite", as it was called back then, movement got started in the first place?
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