William Sackett

645. William Sacket, 1753–1842, of Warren, Conn., Treaford, Vt., and Cayuga County, N. Y., son of (202) Jonathan and Hulda Phelps Sacket, was married in spring of 1774 to Eunice Bowman [Beeman] who died Mar. 10, 1784. On May 29, 1786, he was married to Parthenia Patterson. At the outbreak of the war of the Revolution he enlisted in the 5th Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Watterbury, and attached to Gen. Wooster's Brigade. He was by occupation a farmer, and settled first at Warren, Conn. In February, 1788, he sold his farm at Warren and removed to Tredford, Vt., where he had purchased a farm, and located some four miles west of the Connecticut River. This farm he in 1801 sold to Judge Buckingham and removed to another a few miles distant on the banks of the Connecticut. In 1805 he disposed of this farm also and migrated with his large family to Aurelius, Cayuga County, N. Y., where he subsequently purchased another farm and built upon it a house, in which he lived until 1832. His son Garry V., and other members of his family became meantime interested in the settlement and building up of a new village, now called Seneca Falls, ten miles to the westward of the Sacket homestead at Aurelius. In 1832 William Sacket removed to the new village, where he had purchased a comfortable cottage, in which he spent his remaining years.
"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM"
"I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, William Sacket, of the State of New York, who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary War, is entitled to receive Sixty three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of September, in every year.
"Given at the War Office of the United States this thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
"Lew Cass,
"Secretary of War.
(Seal)
"Examined and countersigned.
"J. L. Edwards,
"Commissioner of Pensions."