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85. Joseph Sackett, 1707–__, of Newtown, L. I., New York City and Orange County, all in the State of New York, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, March 23, 1731, to Millicent Clowes, daughter of Samuel Clowes and his wife Catherine Donne. He was by profession a lawyer. Previous to or immediately after the date of his marriage he became engaged in mercantile business in New York City, to which for several years he gave considerable attention—dividing his time between that and the practice of his profession. Meantime his father, Judge Joseph Sackett, and his father-in-law, Samuel Clowes, acquired title to several extensive tracts of fertile land in the vacated Capt. John Evans patent, on the west bank of the Hudson River and in the County of Orange, N. Y. This land they had surveyed and plotted into small farms and village lots, which they disposed of to incoming settlers. Evidently this lucrative land business on the Hudson possessed for the young lawyer and merchant a controlling attraction, for about the year 1741, he relinquished all interest in his promising mercantile venture to his younger brothers and removed with his family to Orange County. There, in addition to looking after his father's real estate interests, he soon became engaged in extensive transactions on his own account. In 1747 he was appointed, by Governor George Clinton, High Sheriff of Orange County, which office he retained by consecutive reappointments through the administrations of Governors Danvers, Osborn, De Lancy, and Sir Charles Hardy, to the year 1757, when he resigned said office, removed his family to Long Island and took up anew the practice of his profession in New York City.
     Samuel Clowes, Esq., 1674–1760, the father of Millicent Clowes Sackett, was born in Derbyshire, England. In receiving his education he was instructed in mathmatics [sic] by Flamestead, for whose use Greenwich Observatory was erected. He became a lawyer and on reaching New York in 1697 began the practice of his profession, and is credited with being the first lawyer to settle on Long Island. On July 18, 1698, he was married to Catherine Donne (sometimes written Denne). In 1702 he accompanied Lord Cornbury to Jamaica and was immediately thereafter commissioned Clerk of Queens County, which office he held until 1710, when the pressure of professional business and personal interests impelled him to resign. He was practical surveyor as well as an able lawyer. His name appears as attorney in some of the most important suits of that period, and figures more extensively than that of any man of his time in real estate transactions found recorded in early records of Long Island and the Hudson River counties.

Mine Found in Orange County
Johannes Closson, formerly a workman of Mr. Schuyler's, about eleven years ago, came to me, and told me that he had found a mine on my land above the Highlands, at a place called Blooming-Grove, lying between Goshen and the river, in Orange County, where my eldest son Joseph Sacket, Jun. now lives. I made him several offers. He said it would not do, but if I would give him a lease for a term of years, he would carry it on at his own cost, and deliver me one half at the pit's mouth, and come to work in 6 or 8 month's time, and told me the ore was as good as Mr. Schuyler's. But he died before the time he was to come. About 4 years ago, I heard his widow made enquiry after a Sacket on Long Island, I went over to her, she said her husband had been dead 7 years, but he told her that on one Sacket's land, above the Highlands, on the west side of the river, he had found a mine, and that he dug very shallow, and could heave it out by bushels, but he covered it up carefully, and that it was near by a spring, and not far from a brook. There was an elderly Dutchman present then, and he said he had often evenings and mornings conversed with him, and he said he had often told him the same thing, and heard him say, if he had his leave, and lived 7 years, he should be a gentleman. Now if any person can discover the vein of ore, if it is on my lands, he shall have out of the first clear profits, 300 l., or he shall have it for a term of years, as Closson was to have it, or he shall have the 8th part of it for ever, as witness my hand, July 27, 1752.
Joseph Sacket

—New York Gazette, Orange County, New York, 3 Aug 1752

88. Hannah Sackett, 1711–1762, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married at Newtown, L. I., Sept. 5, 1725, to Thomas Whitehead, physician and surgeon, son of Major Daniel Whitehead and his wife Abigail Stephenson. (For records of ancestors of Thomas Whitehead, see No. 7.)

90. John Sackett, 1716–1783, of Newtown, L. I., and Orange County, N. Y., son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married to Phebe Burling, of Flushing, N. Y. John Sackett, referred to in an old record as Counselor at Law and Speaker in Court Judiscature, was associated with his father, Judge Joseph, and his brother, Sheriff Joseph, in laying out the village of New Windsor, Orange County, N. Y., and in the ferry and the freighting business they established at that point. (See also No. 22.) His name appears in the list of signers of the Revolutionary Pledge, living in the town of New Cornwall in 1775.

91. Deborah Sackett, 1718-1759, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Oct. 28, 1737, to James Stringham, son of Capt. Samuel Stringham, and grandson of Peter Stringham.
     Peter Stringham was a resident of Jamaica, L. I., several years prior to 1683, on which date his name is recorded in list of resident taxpayers of that town.
     Capt. Samuel Stringham, son of above, was a resident of Flatbush, L. I., and in 1715 was a member of the military company of that town, commanded by Capt. Jonathan Wright. A few years later he was commissioned Captain of same company, which office he held as late as 1738.
     James Stringham, son of Capt. Samuel, was a resident of Flushing, L. I., in 1736. On July 17 of that year, he was granted a patent for 1,630 acres of land near the present City of Middletown, Orange County, N. Y. Some three months later he was married to Deborah Sackett, as above stated. James Stringham's name appears under date of 1738 as a member of a company of Orange County militia known as "The foot company of the precinct of the Highlands," which saw considerable service on the nearby Indian frontier.

92. Frances Sackett, 1720–1745, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married to Colonel Jacob Blackwell, son of Jacob Blackwell and his wife Mary Hollett, and grandson of Robert Blackwell and his wife Mary Manningham.
     Robert Blackwell was, prior to 1676, a merchant doing business in Elizabethtown, N. J. In that year he contracted marriage with Mary Manningham, of Mannings Island in the East River. After his marriage he established his residence on said island, which took and has since retained his name. Mr Blackwell also owned and conducted a plantation on the main land of Newtown, opposite said Island.
     Jacob Blackwell was the youngest son of above mentioned Robert. He resided near Astoria, L. I., and was a man of unusual size, being six feet and two inches in height and weighing over four hundred pounds. He was married, May 10, 1711, to Mary Hallett, daughter of Capt. William Hallett, and died Aug. 26, 1743, aged 56 years.
     Colonel Jacob Blackwell, son of above and husband of Frances Sackett, was a enterprising business man. Prior to the French and Indian war he held a Captaincy in the Newtown militia and later became Colonel of a Queens County regiment. On the breaking out of the War of the Revolution he stood prominent among the Whigs, but being forced to flee at the invasion of the British, his large estate was seized and despoiled by the enemy. Deeming his presence in the Provisional Convention, of which he was a member, to be of little importance, now that Queens County was overrun by foreign troops, he returned to Newtown, trusting to the assurances contained in the proclamation of Lord Howe: but the privations and pecuniary losses which he continued to suffer from the enemy, are believed to have hastened his death, which occurred Oct. 23, 1780, in his 63rd year. Colonel Blackwell and his first wife Frances Sackett had three

93. James Sackett, 1722–1784, of New York City, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Nov. 2, 1749, to Frances Dekay, granddaughter of Col. Francis Dekay and his wife Christiana Duncan, and great-granddaughter of Jacobus Tunis Dekay and his wife Hildegrand. James Sackett was a merchant of New York City, and from 1760 to 1765 a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce.

94. Samuel Sackett, 1724–1780, of Newtown, L. I., New York City, and Jamaica, N. Y., son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, June 27, 1764, to Mary Betts. He was born at Newtown and on reaching his majority engaged in mercantile business in New York City, being associated with his brother James. When about 40 years of age he retired from business and settled at Jamaica, where he was married, as above stated. He however, maintained an establishment in New York City, in which he resided for several months of each year as long as he lived. During the early part of the War of the Revolution, when lead was the most difficult of all warlike materials to procure, it is recorded that the lead window weights were removed from the dwellings of the principal citizens and made into bullets for the use of the Continental Army. The house of Samuel Sackett is mentioned as one of the number from which a goodly supply of lead was thus secured.
     The will of Mr. Sackett is recorded in New York City records. It begins in this wise: "I, Samuel Sackett, of Jamaica, in Queens County, on Nassau Island, in the Province of New York, Gentleman." It was executed a short time before his death. By it he bequeathed to his wife Mary the use of all of his furniture, plate, horse, chair and negroes. In case she prefers to reside in New York city instead of Jamaica, it is provided that she have the use of the designated part of his dwelling house on Queen Street. To his oldest son, Samuel, he gave £700, and to his son Augustus £500, in money. He then empowers his executors to dispose of his estate after his youngest child shall have arrived at the age of 21, "and after the termination of the present unhappy war," and provides that one equal fourth part of the proceeds be given to each of his four children, viz.: his sons Samuel, Richard and Augustus, and his daughter Sophia. The concluding clause reads: "Lastly I appoint my relation, Capt. Thomas Lawrence, of New York, and Christopher Smith and Gary Ludlow, of Jamaica, my executors."
     Mrs. Sackett survived her husband but a little over three and a half years, her death occurring at Jamaica, Apr. 20, 1784.

95. Thomas Sackett, M. D., 1726–1769, of Newtown, L. I., graduate of Kings (now Columbia) College, New York, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Sept. 21, 1762, to Phebe Albertus, daughter of Samuel Albertus and his wife Elisabeth Vandervoort. Dr. Sackett was born and practiced his profession with success for seventeen years at Newtown, L. I., when he removed to and became a resident of Quebec, Canada. On July 24, 1769, letters of administration were granted to his wife, Phebe Sackett.
     Peter Caesar Albertus, a native of Venice, in Italy, came to New Amsterdam with the early settlers and married there, in 1642, Judith Jans Meynie, from Amsterdam in Holland. They lived for many years on the Heeren Gracht, now Broad Street. Mr Albertus also owned a tobacco plantation at the Wallabout, for which he received a patent June 17, 1743.
     John Albertus, oldest son of above, married Elisabeth Scudder, daughter of John Scudder, who was born in England in 1619, came to New England in 1635, and settled at Mespot Kills prior to 1660. He accumulated a large estate and died at English Kills in April, 1691.
     Samuel Albertus, son of John and Elisabeth Scudder Albertus, inherited a large share of his father's estate and died Oct. 14, 1752, at an advanced age.
     Samuel Albertus, son of Samuel, the grandson of John, was married, June 1, 1724, to Elisabeth Vandervoort, daughter of Paul Vandervoort. Their daughter Phebe, as stated above, was married to Thomas Sackett.

96. Elisabeth Sackett, 1729–1778, daughter of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married, Oct. 5, 1750, to Jonathan Fish, 1727–1779, son of Capt. Samuel Fish and his wife Agnes Berrien. Jonathan Fish was a merchant of New York City. (For Fish line, see No. 97.)

97. William Sackett, 1731–1776, son of (23) Judge Joseph and Hannah Alsop Sackett, was married Aug. 31, 1757, to Sarah Fish, daughter of Capt. Samuel Fish and his wife Agnes Berrien. Mr. Sackett was a lifelong resident of Newtown, and for many years a vestryman in the Episcopal church there.
     Jonathan Fish, colonist and founder of the Long Island Fish family, came from England to America previous to 1637, in which year he, with two of his brothers, settled at Sandwich on Cape Cod. Previous to 1659 he became a resident of Newtown, Long Island. ther he served for several years as a magistrate, and there he died about the year 1673.
     Nathan Fish, son of above named Jonathan, was one of the citizens of Newtown to whom the Conformatory charter was granted by Governor Dongan. He was a husbandman and died at an advanced age in 1734.
     Capt. Samuel Fish, son of above named Nathan, was thrice married and the father of fifteen children. His first wife, Agnes Berrien, to whom he was married June 21, 1727, was the mother of his daughter Sarah, who married William Sackett. They had two