Violitty Sackett

(1771-1807)
FatherReuben Sackett (1732-1803)
MotherMercy Finney (1729/30-1805)
Violitty Sackett, daughter of Reuben Sackett and Mercy Finney, was born in Kent, Litchfield County, ConnecticutG, on 18 July 1771.1,2 She died aged 35 in ConnecticutG on 9 May 18073,4 and was buried at Good Hill Cemetery, KentG.5,6 She married in Cornwall, Litchfield CountyG, on 24 November 1791, John Bates, son of Isaac Bates and Jemima Carter.7,8 John was born in CornwallG in about 1771.9 He died aged 46 in Kent, Litchfield CountyG, on 20 January 181810 and was buried at Good Hill CemeteryG.6
     Violitty was named as a beneficiary in her father's will made in Warren, Connecticut, on 19 March 1800. She was left a sum of ten shillings.11
     Violitty, listed as Voilet Beats, was named as a beneficiary in her mother's will made in Warren, ConnecticutG, on 16 October 1804.
     Violitty died shortly after the birth of her daughter Violitta (or, perhaps, also Violitty). John Bates, with a number of young children to care for, soon remarried. Violitty's brother Alexander, writing from Warren, Connecticut, in August 1814 to his brother Dr Samuel, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, reported that Violitty's children were living with their father who, although "not a very healthy man is a man that is doing well and makes property" and that "his second wife does very well in the family."12
     John died aged 46 in 1818. His will stated that he had nine children. After the "widow's third" left to his widow Margaret, he left the rest of his estate to his children, to be shared such that his sons each received double that of his daughters.11
Violitty (Sackett) Bates (1771–1807), Good Hill Cemetery, Kent, Connecticut
(Src: Find a Grave, Terry Goodwin)

Children of Violitty Sackett and John Bates

  • Betsey Bates b. 5 Mar 1795
  • Bennett Bates b. c 1797, d. 26 Jun 1878
  • Lucinda Bates b. c 1798, d. after 1839
  • Leman Bates b. c 1799, d. 18 Nov 1799
  • Reuben Bates b. c 1802
  • Cynthia Bates b. 18 Sep 1804, d. 28 Aug 1847
  • Violitta Bates b. c 1807, d. before 1839

Violitty Sackett, Warren, Connecticut, to brother Samuel, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 27 Apr 1786
Violitty was aged 14
Also named brother Aaron

Kent April 27th 1786 Dear brother and sister it is with pleasure that I retire to write you to let you know that I am in health and my friends hoping these lines will find you injoying the same I wish to see you and converse with you but am denied the priviledg but I do hope if fortune will premit you will return again. I have no knews to write to you. give my warmest compliments to your family and to aron and an his wife. I will not continue lest I should tire your patience. So I must conclude by subscribin my self
your loving Sister
Violitty Sackett

—Sackett Letters & other papers, Museum at Yuma Territorial Prison State Park; Giss Parkway & Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona.

 Notes & Citations

  1. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, "[Sackett], Violite, d. [Reuben & Marcy], b. July 18, 1771. Kent Vital Records, 1:8."
  2. Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, "668. Violet Sacket, b. July 18, 1771."
  3. "Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629–1934" (Ancestry image), "Litchfield Weekly Monitor, 27 May 1807, "Bates, Mrs. Viallitty, Kent, died May 9, 1807, age 35."
  4. Hale Collection, Inscription, Good Hill Cemetery, Kent, Litchfield County, "Bates, Violitty, wife of John, died May 9, 1807, age 36."
  5. "Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index, 1650–1934" (Ancestry transcript), "Bates, Violitty, d. Connecticut, 9 May 1807, age 36, bur. Kent, CT."
  6. Find a Grave.
  7. Barbour Collection, "Sacket, Vestilly, Mrs., of Warren, m. John Bates, of Cornwall, Nov. 24, 1792, by Rev. Peter Starr. Cornwall Vital Records, 3:8."
  8. In a letter dated 5 Sep 1792 from Violitty's father Reuben to her brother Samuel, Reuben states that Violitty had married last November, i.e. Nov 1791. The original record of marriage, although dated 24 Nov 1792, was included in a list of marriages recorded by the Town Clerk on 1 May 1792, indicating that the marriage would have taken place in the preceding November.
  9. Date of birth based on age at death.
  10. Hale Collection, Inscription, Good Hill Cemetery, Kent, Litchfield County, "Bates, John, died Jan 20, 1818, age 46."
  11. "Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609–1999" (Ancestry image).
  12. Sackett Letters & other papers, Museum at Yuma Territorial Prison State Park, Giss Parkway & Prison Hill Road, Yuma, Arizona.
Sackett line5th great-granddaughter of Thomas Sackett the elder of St Peter in Thanet
ChartsLine 3a (American)
Generation.Tree6N.3
Last Edited29 Sep 2022
See also Thurmon King's New Sackett Family Database
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