Lieutenant John Sackett

(1653-1703)
FatherJohn Sackett of New Haven (early to mid-1620s-1684)
MotherAgnes Tinkham (c 1630-1707)
Lieutenant John Sackett, soldier and glazier, of New Haven, Connecticut, son of John Sackett of New Haven and Agnes Tinkham, was born in New HavenG on 30 April 1653.1,2,3,4,5 He died aged 50 in New HavenG on 6 November 17031,5,6 and was buried at the Grove Street Cemetery, New HavenG.7,8 He married in about 1686, presumably in New HavenG, Mary Woodin, daughter of William Woodin and Sarah Clark.1,9 Mary was born in about 1658.10,5 She was baptized at First Congregational Society, New HavenG, on 7 April 1689.5 She died aged 59 in New HavenG on 27 November 171711,12,5,13 and was buried at the Grove Street Cemetery, New HavenG.14
Like his father and many of his kinsmen [Lieut John Sackett] took a lively interest in military affairs. As soon as he had reached the required age he joined the New Haven military company and remained an active member of it to the day of his death. After serving several years as a private and non-commissioned officer, he was commissioned an Ensign and later a Lieutenant. The records of the General Court of Connecticut show that at a session held at Hartford May 14, 1696, a lease from certain Indians, for a considerable tract of land to John Sackett and others, was confirmed.

—Weygant, The Sacketts of America

     John's name appears a number of times in the New Haven Ancient Town Records.15 At Town Meetings held on 27 November and 25 December 1682, he was granted land to build a house and shop to set up business as a glazier.16 He was listed in a town meeting report of 22 December 1712 (the same list having previously been exhibited in the General Assembly on 20 October 1704) as having been a proprietor of the town in 1685.17,18This detail is also recorded in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.19 At a meeting on 28 April of that year John was chosen to be a "heyward [overseer of hedges] for the Governors quarter".20 At the same meeting he applied for a grant of land to compensate for the town's construction of a highway through his land at the plains.21 On 27 December 1686, the town discussed further the construction of this highway.22 By May 1688, John Sackett had become a Sergeant and was elected as a constable for the year.23 Land applications by John Sackett, now an Ensign, were made to town meetings in March and April 1698.24 In March 1703, he was appointed, with others, to be "a sizer to size the Land to be laid out."25 Atwater, in his History of the Colony of New Haven,26 lists John Sackett as having attained his highest rank, that of Lieutenant, in 1700.
     Lieut John Sackett died in 1703 but administration of his estate proved complicated and was not finally completed until after the death in 1717 of his widow Mary. An inventory of John's estate was taken on 25 December 1703. John's son-in-law Jonathan Alling was appointed administrator on 26 December 1717 by the Court of Probates of John's estate and of the estates of John's widow Mary and daughter Mary.

Children of Lieutenant John Sackett and Mary Woodin


17. Lieut. John Sackett, 1653–1703, of New Haven, Conn., son of (5) John and Agnes Tinkham Sackett, was married about the year 1686, to Mary Woodin, 16—?–1717, daughter of William Woodin and his wife Sarah Allard. Like his father and many of his kinsmen he took a lively interest in military affairs. As soon as he had reached the required age he joined the New Haven military company and remained an active member of it to the day of his death. After serving several years as a private and non-commissioned officer, he was commissioned an Ensign and later a Lieutenant. The records of the General Court of Connecticut show that at a session held at Hartford May 14, 1696, a lease from certain Indians, for a considerable tract of land to John Sackett and others, was confirmed.
William Woodin, 16—?–1684, colonist, is first mentioned in New Haven records under date of 1643. He was married there October 5, 1650, to Sarah Allard, who died in 1693.
Children of John and Mary Woodin Sackett.
     70. Mary Sackett, b. in year 1688.
     71. Sarah Sackett, b. in year 1694; m. Capt. Jonathan Alling.
     72. John Sackett, b. in year 1699.
     73. Samuel Sackett, b. Mar. 7, 1702, d. Feb. 1781; m. Elizabeth Todd.


An Inventory of the Estate of Lieut John Sackett deceased and taken by us whose names are underwritten on Decembr 25th 1703
Imp: Wearing Clothes 40s/ hat 20s/ hatt 3s/ coate wastcoat 26s/ — £4 09s 0d
- - - vest 30s/ 3 pr stockins 12s pr gloves 5s/ westcoate 3s/ — 2 10 0
pr drawers 4s/ hundkerchief neckcloth 4s/ holland shirt 26s — 1 14 0
It: 3 shirts 16s/ pr of white stockins 4s/6d/ blankett 43s blanket 4s/ — 3 07 6
It: napkins 10s/ Table cloth 25s/ boulster cases 18s/ pillow cases 10s — 3 11 0
It: 3 pillow cases 12s/ linen 4s/ 8 sheets £7/ 4 pillows 16s/ sheets 30s/ — 10 02 0
chaff bed boulster 22s/ 4 coverlids £6 bed boulster 25s — 08 07 0
It: a new sheet 15s/ saile 50s/ beans 9s/ 2 baggs 7s 2lbs Tow 2s — 04 03 6
It: flax 11s5d/ wooll 7s6d/ hops bagg 3s/ Yarne 4s6d/ — 01 06 0
It: a hide 19s4d/ pigeon nett 12s/ rope 9s6d/ grindstone irons 29s — 03 10 3
It: 3 hoes 10s/ broad ax 10s/ broad ax 7s/ mattock 7s/ 3 axes 12s/ — 02 06 0
It: 2 bells 14s/ 3 saws 13s/ 19lb iron 9s6d/ sith 12s/ 3 planes 2s — 02 10 6
It: wedges 7s/ 3 augers 5s/ 3 chizzels 5s/ 2 ham¯ers 3 gimbletts 4s/- — 01 01 0
It: Trowell 18d/ 2 hooks 3s/ chist 8s/ box 3s table 14s box 4s/ — 01 14 0
- five hors clogs 1s/ ½ bushell beans 2s/ ½ bushll salt 2s/ — 00 05 0
large Tray 3s/ Tubs & barks 8s/ sieve 1s trundlebed 10s — 01 02 0
Indian corn 32s/ bed boulst¯s £5-3s6/ pr sheets 20s/ — 07 15 6
- To 3 coverlids £4-10s/ one blankett 12s/ bedstead 12s/ — 05 14 0
curtains valans 20s/ pr sheets 16s/ 2 blanketts 24s/ — 03 00 0
2 coverlids 40s/ bed pillow 14s/ Trundlebed 4s — 02 18 0
Fowling piece 45s/ Stilliards 16s/ Frying pan 6s/ — 03 07 0
large brass kettle £5-17s/ warming pan 12s/ large Pott 16s/ — 07 00 0
kettle 6s/ pott 10s/ iron scillett 3s/ kettle 3s/ kettle 10s/ — 01 12 0
chist 6s/ chairs 6s/ trundle 3s/ bellows 2s/ ½ bushell 1s6d/ — 00 18 0
water paile 1s/ books 6s/ bottles 1s/ Tram¯ell Slice Tongs 14s/ — 01 02 0
Trenchers 18d/ 9 trays 10s/ tub 2s paile can 2s/ paile churne 3s/ — 00 18 0
3 barrils 3s/ meat in the tubb 40s/ severall tubs 8s/ pr scales 2s/ — 02 13 0
pewter 20s3d/ shearing knife 2s/ — 01 02 3
beetle rings 2s/ five oxen £28/ six Cows £18/ 3 heifers £8 — 54 00 0
4. 2:year olds £8 yearling 18s/ 10 load hay £8/ mare & colt £4 — 20 18 0
horse £3/ 8 smale swine 40s/ 3 others 24s/ 6 piggs 24s/ — 07 08 0
To 2 swine 50s/ sow 14s/ sith 3s/ chairs 30s/ — 04 17 0
hors gears 12s/ 3 yoaks 5s/ spade, fork 10s/ Cart furniture £4/ — 5 17 0
Nicholas Swamp 7 acres land 1½ of it Orchard — 17 05 0
An old saw 10s/ Farme 100 acres £140 & 12 acres of it meadow — 188 08 0
Tenent saw 10s/ 3 acres of meadow at the Cove £7-10 — 008 00 0
Meadow island 2 acres £24/ 5 Acres Indian side £15 — 039 00 0
fifteene acres land in Suburbs Quarter £30/ land in Indian field £15 — 045 00 0
House £90 Barne Lott £70/ large plough £1 harrow £1 — 162 00 0
30½ lb pewter £4-11-6/ severall of Tools £26-8s/ — 005 17 0
severall Tools & other cowbell 14s/ pr pistolls 25 — 001 19 0
nineteen lb. leather choping knife trenchers others — 002 18 0
Large Table 14s/ smale 3s/ 2 chairs 5s/ spitt 4s/ — 001 06 0
Table £1/ 3 covelids £4/10[s] bedstead 9s/ old ticken 4s/ wastcoat 6s/ — 006 09 0
A kersey coate 45s/ broadcloth coate 50s/ belt 6s/ linen 14s/ — 005 15 0
Severall blanketts 21s/ linen 20s/ more linen 18s/ napkins 54s/ — 005 13 0
Table cloth 6s/ 2 pillowbers 10s/ sheets £13-10/ Cubboard 40s/ — 016 06 0
14 yards of kersey £4-4s/ 4 yds linen 12s/ Glasiers tools £14/ — 018 16 0
Pork 30s/ barril 4s/ trays 6s/ yarn 7s6/ earthen 3s/ lumber 12s/ — 003 06 6
Curtains 20s/ 5 bushll mecelune 17s/ 3 busll wheat 15s/ nails 20s/ — 005 12 6
7 Tubbs 9s/ sword 8s/ coat 25s/ 2 baggs 8s/ saw 50s/ yarne 9s/ — 005 09 9
Meadow in Suburbs Quarter £4/ iron 7s/ sadle 12s/ Pillion cloth 8s/ — 005 07 0
an old plough 6s/ chaine 10s/ halter 1s/ indian corn £7-10s/ rye £7-4s/ — 015 17 0
cow £3 sith 4s/ driping pan 5s/ earthen others 4s/ Jugg 1s/ — 003 14 0
smale scow £5 ½ scow £4/ others 7s/ hops 6s/ — 009 13 0
sickle 2s/ 7 bush: rye 24s/6d / oats £8/ hey 30s/ —      009 17 0
½ Hatchett 8s/ books 2s/ square & cumpasses 3s/ — 000 13 0
Apprises John Morris, Wm Thomson, sworne
Administratrix     Mary Sackett     sworne

Please ye hond Court to allow ye p[ar]ticulars following
To 4 blanketts 43s/ another ditto 4s/ do 12s/ — 2 19 0
To 2 blanketts 24s/ meat in ye Tubb 40s/ 10 load hay £8/ — 11 04 0
To 30s in pork hay att Towne 30s/ — 03 00 0
To allow 8 bushels of wheat & 40 bushells of indian — 07 00 0
and 30 Bushels of Rie & 40 bushels of oates — 09 05 0
and 14 yards of flanell — 04 00 0
To more blanketts 21s/ severall of linens 38s/ linens 14s — 03 13 0
— £ 41 01 0
the above accompt allowed Excepting £8-2s 6d for
corne ye remainder to be deducted out of the Inventory — 8 02 6
Test John Neniston Cleek Remains 32 15 6
Children names
Sackitt
Mary 15
Sarah 11
Jon 05
Samull 02          
__________________________

At A Court of Probates Held at Newhaven Decer 26th 1717
Present Warham Mather Esqr Judge
Joser Whiting Clerk

Administration was Granted unto Jonathan Alling of Newhaven
viz: On the Unadministred Estate of Lieut John Sackett of Newhaven
Deceased //
And on the Estate of Widdow Mary Sackett of Newhaven Decd
And on the Estate of Mary Sackett Junr of Newhaven Decd
on his Bond and surety.
___________________________

[p 488]
Att a Court of Probates Held at Newhaven Munday
Janry 6th 1717/8
Present Warham Mather Esqr Judge
Joser Whiting Clerk

John Sackett A Minor Son of Lieut John Sackett Late of Newhaven
Deceased before this Court Made Choice of Lieut Joser Sackett to be his
Guardian who was allowed on sufficient Bonds

Jonathan Alling admer of the Estate of Lieut John Sackett late
of Newhaven Deceased Exhibited an Inventory of the Said Estate which
was approved for Record
An Inventory of the Estate of Lieut John Sackett late of
Newhaven and Taken by us whose names are under written
          Janry 1st 1717 Apprized as Mony     (i.e. 1718 new style)
Imprs to 6 Cotton Napkins 20/ six Linen Napkins 16/ — 01-16- 0
It: 2 table Cloths 7/ 3 Neck cloths 10/ pr Gloves 2/ — 00-19- 0
It: 1 pr white Stockens 2/ Cotton pillow bers 3/ — 00-05- 0
It: a linen pillow ber 2/ two pillow bers 5/ fine napkins 2/9 — 00-09- 9
It: a Litle shift 1/ a small pr white stockens 6d sheets £1 — 01-01- 6
a pr small stockens 9d pr sheets 12/ bolster case 2/3 — 00-15- 0
a Large Sheet 9/ small blankett 18d 3 Remnants 18d — 00-12- 0
Coverlids 20/ two old coverlids 13/ two sheets 16/ — 02-09-0     
— £ 08-07- 3
[p 489]
Brought forward — £ 08-07-03
2 coverlids 20/ an old coverlid 2/ 1 do 8/ old blankett 1/ 2 pillowbers 9/- — 02-00-00
a bed £1-15/ a bolster 15/ a Large bed £3 — 05-10-00
a bedstead curtains vailants matt and cord — 01-11-06
Curtains & Vailants 18/ a pillow ber 3/ Chaff bed 12/ — 01-13-00
pr stalliards 12/ A saw mill saw 25/ hand saw 4/ — 02-01-00
a Small Cross cut Saw 4/ tenant saw 9/ A square 2/6 — 00-15-06
4 files 2/ 11 plains 10/ four augers 8/ 4 turning tools 3/6 — 01-03-06
4 small chissells 3/6 Large Gauge broad Chissell 3/6 — 00-07-00
a broad ax 4/ two trowells 3/ beetle Rings 1/6 — 00-08- 6
1 holdfast 1/6 Lathing hammer 8d Lathing fro 6d — 00-02- 8
1 Gimlet 6d two bells and Collers 5/ 3 axes 8/6 — 00-14- 0
a Sett 4d 3 hoes 6/ a timber chain 19/ old Glassiers vice 30/ — 02-15- 4
molds and soddering Irons 12/ Diamond £1 — 01-12- 0
frying pan 3/ a warming pan 6/ Great Ketle 6:10:0 — 06-19- 0
a smaller ketle £3:5/- Iron pott 17/ pott 8/ — 04-10-00
two pr pot hooks 2/3 two Candle sticks 2/ — 00-04-03
Iron Tramell and hook 7/6 tongs and paill 5/ — 00-12- 6
Grid Iron 2/6 and Irons 12/ Choping Knife 1/ — 00-15- 6
Grinding Stone and Irons 18/ Plow and Irons 12/ 4 tubs 2/6 — 01-12- 6
3 hogs heads 15/ 3 Meal tubs 5/ 3 barrells 6/ — 01-06- 0
a mashing tub 1/6 Great tub with iron hoopes 3/ — 00-04- 6
2 botles 2/6 an antler cask 1/6 4 trays and bowle 6/ — 00-10- 0
A Cooler Tub 6d Chirn 3/ Meat ax 1/6 — 00-05- 0
old pewter 11/3d two platters and plate 10/ platter & casson 6/ — 01-07- 3
2 porrengers and salt seller 3/ two spoons 16d — 00-04- 4
Small Earthen 2/ two Earthen Creampots 3/ — 00-05- 0
Stone mug and Earthen Cup 2/ Earthen pott 8d — 00-02- 8
3 botles 2/10 a pint Skillit 1/6 a quart skillit 2/ — 00-06- 4
two Indian Dishes and scimer 2/ Earthen platter 1/4d — 00-03- 4
10 trenchers 1/ two pails 1/6 a broaken ketle 3/6 — 00-06- 0
a cracked ketle 5/ small Table 2/6 Large table 8/0 — 00-15- 6
a box Iron 2/ a chest 6/ a box 4/ a cupbord £1:7/ — 01-19- 0
6 Chairs 9/ bedstead Cord and Matt 10/ two wheels 6/ — 01-05- 0
two sieves 3/ A Large tray 2/6 severall old tubs 5/ — 00-10- 6
3 old syths 6/ old back sword without a ScabBord 2/6 — 00-08- 6
A Rying sieve 1/ Raipour 16/ shouldier belt 4/ — 01-01- 0
a Gun £1:6/ 2 forks 4/ house and house lott £55 — 56-10- 0
Barne and Barne Lott — 46-00-00
Meadow on the Island 2 acres £16 3 acres of Meado at duk Cove £9 — 25-00-00
Fenns Meadow 8 acres £44 Nicholas swamp 5 acres £7:10/ — 51-10-00
5 acres meadow at black Rock £17:10/ — 17-10-00
Muddy River farme 12 acres of it meadow 128 acres of it Land — 159-00-00
Meadow in subburbs qr £6 two acres in Govers Quarter £6 — 012-00-00
9½ acres of sequestred Land in pine Rock field — 015-15-00
9½ acres of 2d part of sequestred Land in shruby plain — 009-10-00
9½ acres sequestred Land unlaid out — 004-15-00
Land In subburbs Qur £50 14 acres ¼: ½ divission £14:5/ — 064-05-00
5th Divission £10:10s/ pistoll £2 3 jarrs 2/6 — 010-14- 6
9 acres in Sackett's farme £16:10/ Driping pan 6/ — 016-16- 0
a small plow Chain 6/ old spitt 3/ a Gimlet 4d — 000-09- 4
— 544-09- 9
[p 490]
Brought Over — £544-09- 9
In Iron Lamp 1/6 old Iron 5/ a shod shovell 1/6 — 000-08- 0
— £544-17- 9
Jonathan Alling ader Apprized By us William Tomson, Theophilus Manson, under oath
Sworne In Court Test Joser Whiting Clerk

The following extract is not dated but is immediately followed by entries for Munday march 3d 1717/8.
[p 495]
Jonathan Alling ader of the Estate of Lieut Jno Sackitt of Newhaven Decd
Exhibited to be added to the Inventory for A Crow barr 9/ and A set of harrowteeth £1 which make the whole inventory £546:6.9 to which must be added the new apprizement of sundry articles formerly apprized not now to be found, now Vallued to be £90:13:8 and for a Credit to the Estate £1-2-1 and also for profits on the Estate while In the widdows hands 13 year @ £2-10/- per annum makes £32-10-0
The said adr Exhibited an accot of Loss in the Stock payment of debts Charge of admon etc as on file amounting to £58-19-10 being all During the widdows admon which sum being abated from the three Last articles of addition there Remains £65-5-11 which is not now In being but anounted A wast by the widdow and therefore Chargeable on her Estate
So that the whole Inventory as above being 546:6:9 to which add the debt from the widdow — 065:5:11 makes 611:12:8 from which must be abated for the present admers Charge to the Court and his admon past and to come being allowed to be 3:10:6 after which Remains for distribution £608:2:2 which sum by this Court is ordered to be Divided 1/3d to the widdows admer In the Lands and Chattells as the Law Directs and yt ye Remainder be Divided into 5 Equal parts two whereof to the Eldest son and A single there to Each other Legatee or their adr which Rule yeilds ye widdow £202:14:0 Eldest son £162:3:2 other Legatees £81:1:7 a piece freehold Appointed to Divide the same are Mr Willm Tomson Isaac Dickerman and Thos Munsom all of Newhaven being first sworne according to Law and Return of their Doings to be made to this Court
//

Jona Alling admer of the Estate of Lieut John Sackett of Newhaven Deceased Exhibited the Divission of the said Estate by freehold ery wch way accepted by the Court and allowed for Record and the said admer moving for A Quietus Eitt on said Estate It was accordingly Granted and his bond Discharged
//
A Distribution < > free holdrs whose names are under written and being first sworne
to the wido in the house and house Lott £18 In the barn £15 — 33-00-00
1/3d of the farme at Muddy River — 53-00-00
Land In the subburbs Quarter £16 1/3d of fens Meadow 14-3-4 — 30-13- 4
fifth Division £10-10s Land at farm 10-4-9 — 20-14- 9
Debt Due from the widdow — 65-05-11
— £202-14-00

To the Eldest Son Yet Remaining Due at the Barne — £31-00- 0
Land at the plains £6-5-3 2/3ds of fens Meadow 29-6-8 — 35-11-11
Yet in the suburbs quarter — 28-14- 9
Meadow on the Island £16 5 acres att Black Rock 17-10-0 — 33-10- 0
2 acres In the Govers quarter £6 9 acres and ½ at pine Rock 15:15:0 — 21-15- 0
In the house and house lott — 11-11- 6
— £162-03- 2

Samuell Sackett att Muddy River farme — £ 81-01- 7

To Mary at Muddy River farme — 24-18- 5
3 acres at Duck Cove — 09-00- 0
half Division £4 In the House 12-14-3 — 16-14- 3
In Land in the Suburbs Quarter — 05-05- 3
In moveables — 25-03- 8
— £ 81-01- 7

To Sarah     Nicholss Swamp — 07-10- 0
Meadow in Suburbs qr £6 9½ acres in ye shrubs plain 9-10-0 — 15-10- 0
Sequestred Land unlaid out — 04-15- 0
half Division at Milbrook — 10-05- 0
In the house — 12-14- 3     
In moveable Estate — 30-07- 7
— £ 81-01-10

The foregoing Division by five holders of the Estate of Lieut. John Sackett
William Tomson, Theophilus Munson, Isaac Dickerman, under oath
Is truly entered ie Lands in perticular
and moveables In Sum
Test Jos Whiting Clerk

[Inventories transcribed by Chris Sackett & Carolyn Fonken]

 Notes & Citations

  1. Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, "17. John Sackett, b. Apr. 30, 1653; d. in year 1703; m. Mary Woodin."
  2. Vital Records, New Haven, Connecticut, p9, "John Sacket the sonn of John Sacket was borne the 30th of Aprill 1653."
  3. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, "Sacket, John, s. John, b. Apr. 30, 1653. New Haven Vital Records, 1:13."
  4. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1860-62), “SACKET, JOHN, New Haven, m. 20 May 1652, Agnes Tinkham, had John, b. 30 Apr. 1653; Jonathan, 6 June 1655; Mary, 24 Sept. 1657; Joseph, 3 May 1660; Martha, 19 Sept. 1662; and d. 3 Sept. 1684. His wid. d. 1707."
  5. Donald Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, Baltimore (1981) (American Ancestors image), 1583–8, "John [s. John Sackett & Agnes Tinkham], b 30 Apr 1653 NHV, d 6 Nov 1703 æ. 50 NHT1; Lt.; m Mary da. William & Sarah (Clark) Wooding, b c. 1659, bp 7 Apr 1689 NHC1, d 27 Nov 1717 NHV, 26 Nov æ. 59 NHT1."
  6. Genealogies of Connecticut Families from the NEHG Register (Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, 1983), "6 Nov 1703 æ 50 - NHT1."
  7. Website Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Transcriptions (http://www.grovestreetcemetery.org/), "Sackit, Lieu.—John–died Nov. 6, 1703, age 50 yrs."
  8. "Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629–1934" (Ancestry image), 32:410, Inscription, Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, "Sackit, Lieu. John, died Nov 6, 1703, age 50 yrs."
  9. "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700" (American Ancestors transcript), "John [Sackett] (1653–1703) & Mary [Woodin/Wooding] (1657, or 1658–1719); by 1686?, by 1690; New Haven {New Haven Gen. Mag. 1583, 2014; Sackett 28; Babcock Anc. 91–2}."
  10. Date of birth based on age at death.
  11. Vital Records, New Haven, Connecticut, 146, "Mrs Mary Sackett Ye wife of Liut john Sackit Decd 27th day of November 1717."
  12. Barbour Collection, "Sacket, Mary, w. Lieut. John, d. Nov. 27, 1717. New Haven Vital Records, 1:266."
  13. Website Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Transcriptions (http://www.grovestreetcemetery.org/), "Sackett, Mary – died Nov. 26, 1717, age 59 yrs."
  14. Hale Collection, 32:410, Inscription, Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, "Sackett, Mary, died Nov 26, 1717, age 59 yrs."
  15. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records (New Haven, Connecticut: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1917).
  16. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 2 p423: "At a Towne Meeting in Newhaven the 27th of Novemr 1682. ... The Townsmen propounded on the behalfe of Jno Sackett Jur that the Towne would graunt him som Land by the Creeke side below Jonathan Atwaters to build upon, he intending to Sett up the trade of glasing and he desyers to be near the water side as best for his trade." Vol 2 p425-6:"A Towne Meeting in Newhaven the 25th of December 1682. ... Allsoe the Townsmen made theyer returne that according to former order they had veiwed ye place by ye creeke wch John Sackett Junor mooved the towne to graunt unto him of 70 foot broad by the street to build a house & a shop for his trade of a glasier. And they saw noe inconvenience to graunt it: And the Towne by Vote graunted unto John Sackett Junior a peec of land by the Creeke side, between Mr Trowbridges warehouse & Jonathan Atwaters his house, of seventy foote wide by the streete, and to run down to the Creeke, the street to be kept its widenes, and this is provided that hee the said Sackett build upon it according as he propounded within the Space of two years next ensuing: and the Townsmen were appointed to Lay out and state it according to the graunt & make return for record."
  17. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol3, p319-322: [Town meeting report of 22 December 1712 gives a list of proprietors in 1685:] "The names of the propriators of N-Haven in the year 1685. ... John Sackets heirs, John Sacket, Junior ..."
  18. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston: NEHGS), vol 1 (1847): 157, "The Names of the Proprietors of New Haven, Ct., in the Year 1685."
    [There follows a list of 252 names, including:] "John Sacket's heirs, John Sacket, Junr."
    [The provenance of the list is described thus:]
    "This List of names Compared with the List of 1685, and is a true Coppy, attested by uss. Nathan Andrews, William Thomson, Jonathan Atwater, Select men of New Haven. This List of the Proprietors of the Lands in the Township of Newhaven, was Exhibited in the Generall Assembly on the Twentieth day of October, in the third year of her Majesties reigne, Annoq. Dom: 1704, at the Same time when a release of all the Lands in said Township to the said proprietors was read and approved and ordered to be signed in the name of the Gouernor and Company of her Majesties Colony of Connecticutt. Test. Eleazer Kimberley, Secry.
    The aboue written, with what is Contained in the two next aforegoing pages, relating thereunto, is a true Coppie of the Origenall, being therewith Examin'd and Compared, and here recorded, May 17th, 1707. Pr me Eleazer Kimberley, Secry. (The foregoing is recorded in the Connecticut "Colony Records of Deeds," Vol. III. fol.397–399.) State of Connecticut, ss., Office of Secretary of State.
    I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of record in this Office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this sixth day of March, A.D. 1847, and in the 71st year of the Independence of the United States of America. Charles Wm. Bradley, Secretary of State."
  19. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol 4, p2: "John, New Haven, eldest s. of John of the same, was a propr. 1685."
  20. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol.3 p17: [Town meeting 28 April 1685] "Jno. Sackett and Thomas Leeke were Chosen heywards for the Governors quarter."
  21. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 3, p18: [Town meeting 28 April 1685] "Jno. Sackett mooved to have som land allowed in leiu of a highway that the Towne hath through theyer land at the plaines."
  22. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 3, p43: [Town meeting of 27 Dec. 1686] "Allsoe the highway out of the plaines through Sackets or Dormans feild that leadeth to the commons behind Dormans to be continnued as it hath been for the common use of the Towne: alsoe another high way through this feild to be settled for common use to pass into the wood behind Sacketts."
  23. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 3, p60: [Town meeting 21 May 1688] "Sergt. John Sacket, and Nath’ll Mix were Chosen Constables for Newhaven for the yeare ensueing and sworne."
  24. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 3, p142 & 145 [Town meetings on 28 March 1698 and 26 April 1698 refer to Ensign John Sackett's land applications].
  25. Franklin Dexter, New Haven Ancient Town Records, vol 3, p200: [Town meeting 22 March 1703] John Sacket (amongst others) was appointed "a sizer to size the Land to be laid out som of them to atend the survayor at all times."
  26. Edward Atwater, History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut (Meriden, Connecticut: The Journal Publishing Company, 1902), p725.
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