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710. Mary Sackett, daughter of (267) Richard Sackett, was married to Israel Camfield. About 1768 they settled at Arlington, VT.

711. Richard Sackett, 1749–1789, of New Milford, Conn., and Arlington, VT., son of (267) Richard Sackett, was married previous to 1776 to Martha Benedict, 1756–1812. He appears to have been a well-to-do husbandman. On Jan. 4, 1770, nearly six month previous to reaching his majority, he purchased from his father, for the sum of "Four Hundred Pounds lawful money of the Colony" of Connecticut, fifty acres of land adjoining the homestead farm at New Milford. The deed given him is in the hand writing of his uncle, Dr. John Sackett, who is also one of the witnesses to the signing of it. This deed is now in the possession of Mr. James D. Sackett, of Cleveland, O., to whom it was recently presented by a kinsman whom he visited at Poultney, VT. This Richard Sackett is not shown by public records to have been especially active in public affairs. On the death of his father, in 1771, he came into possession of several pieces of real estate at New Milford, including the homestead farm. In 1775 he disposed of the last piece of real estate at New Milford, and became a permanent resident of Arlington, VT., where he was an active member of a military company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Wallace, in the ranks of which he participated in one or more campaigns during the war of the Revolution. He died at Arlington in the spring of 1789, survived by his wife Martha, three sons and a daughter. On June 24, following, Mrs. Sackett gave birth to a second daughter.
     Thomas Benedict (or Bennydick), the colonist ancestor of Martha Benedict Sackett, was a native of Nottinghamshire, England, and came to Massachusetts Bay in 1638, and there married Mary Bridgman. They lived for several years at Southold, and in 1662 resided at Jamaica, L.I. Still later they were at Norwalk, Conn., where Mr. Benedict was made a deacon if the church.
     John Benedict, one of the nine children of Thomas and Mary Bridgman Benedict, was born at Southold, L.I., and removed with his parents to Norwalk, Conn., where on Nov. 11, 1670, he was married to Phebe Gregory. He was there sworn a freeman in 1680, succeeded his father as deacon, and from 1689 to 1699 held the office of selectman.
     Joseph Benedict, one of the seven children of John and Phebe Gregory Benedict, was born at Norwalk, Conn., where he was married to his first wife Anne, previous to whose death, in 1716, they removed to Ridgefield, Conn. There on Mar. 21, 1720, he was married to his second wife, Mary.
     Jonathan Benedict, 1723–1800, son of Joseph Benedict and his wife Mary, was married to Lucy Castle, who was the mother of his ten oldest children, and who died at North Milford, VT. Mr. Benedict shortly after the death of his wife Lucy, moved to Manchester and was there married to widow Margary Seelye (Pinnock).
     Martha Benedict, 1756–1812, eldest daughter of Jonathan and Lucy Castle Benedict, some two years after the death of her husband, Richard Sackett, in 1789, was married to Jason Kellogg.

715. Ezekiel Sackett, of Dutchess County, N. Y., son of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married Nov. 13, 1759, to Mary Atherton, daughter of James Atherton, who came from Canterbury, Conn., to Dutchess County, N. Y., and removed from there in 1769 to Wilkesbarre, Penn., where he died in 1790. The New York records show that Ezekiel Sackett, of Dutchess County, was adjudged entitled to bounty lands by reason of service rendered in the war of the Revolution.

720. Elisabeth Sackett, 1742–1806, daughter of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married in 1761, to Caleb Hyde, son of Elijah Hyde and his wife Ruth Tracey, of Lebanon, Conn. Caleb Hyde was born at West Farms, Conn., and after his marriage settled at Lenox, Mass. At the commencement of the war of the Revolution he was a Captain of the Lenox Company of Militia, which was attached to Regiment commanded by Col. James Eaton. On May 10, 1775, he responded promptly to an alarm notice and marched with his company from Lenox to Ticonderoga, and from that date to the end of the war was an active patriot and frequently on duty in the field. On Aug. 30, 1775, he was commissioned Junior Major, and subsequently Senior Major, and still later Lieut. Colonel of Colonel Simons' regiment. In October, 1781, he commanded a battalion of militia sent from Massachusetts to reinforce the Continental Army at Saratoga and served with credit under General Stark. After the close of the war he was commissioned Brig. General of Mass., Militia, and was Sheriff of the county of Berkshire. Later he removed to Lysle, N. Y. He served several terms both as Assemblyman and State Senator in New York Legislature, and in 1804 was a member of the Council of Appointment.

719. John Sackett, 1747–__, of Albany (now Rensselaer) County, N. Y., son of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married Oct. 26, 1769, to Prudence Atherton, 1748– ?, daughter of James Atherton. John Sackett was a Revolutionary soldier and is credited with service in regiments commanded by Colonels John Field and Henry Luddington.

717. Richard Sackett, 1751–1778, son of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., Apr. 15, 1771, to Chloe Atherton, daughter of James Atherton. He died at Stephentown, N. Y., in September, 1778.

716. Capt. Benjamin Sackett, 1752–1826, of Stephentown, in what is now Rensselaer County, N. Y., son of (268) John Sackett, M. D., was married Nov. 11, 1773, to Phebe Davis. He was an active participant in the war of the Revolution and is credited with service under Colonels Whitney, Harper, and Van Rensselaer. He also served the State as Captain of Militia for several years after close of war.