[email protected] wrote: > I'm not sure if these sites have been found or not as I have just started my > Sackett research but I thought some of you might be interested. Sally > > > _http://files.usgwarchives.org/nh/sullivan/history/charlestown/1746/dead.txt_ > (http://files.usgwarchives.org/nh/sullivan/history/charlestown/1746/dead.txt) > > > > _John Sackett of New Haven, CT. - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal > Ancestral File_ > (http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~teking/john-2/pafg04.htm) > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. AOL Music takes you there. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000002) > > SACKETT is a Discussion list for Sackett/Sacket Family Genealogy. Associated URL's for this surname: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett/ and http://www.sackettfamily.info/ > If you need any help, email the List Admin at: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > I have been reading these posts about Chief Sackett with some interest. I wish I had time to read them in more depth right now, but the number of irons in the fire sort of prevents it! Now, I do not wish to rain on everyone's picnic...but (gulp that word sticks in the craw) I would like to play devil's advocate for a moment. I am wondering how much of the data on Chief Sackett comes from "hard" sources (tax roles, census, other counts, wills, court cases, treaties, land purchases) and how much is anecdotal. I have not gone back through and noted where the bulk of the evidence lies. My first reaction, when I hear folks talk about indian blood they have, is to take a skeptical stance. I have my reasons for this...the main reason is that the information is often anecdotal, passed down from generation to generation. I have heard it from both sides of my family tree, dad and mom's side, but have yet to find proof of a single drop of indian blood in my tree! Indeed, I have not found anyone who claims to have indian blood that I have done personal research for, for whom records have surfaced that show this to be the case. I am reminded of an article I read on the subject...about a family who told their paid genealogist that they were descended from Pocahontas. Turned out that family histories got crossed and garbled someplace along the lines and the "Pocahontas" from which the family had come forth was not the indian of lore, but rather the county by that name in what is now West Virginia! So I am wondering...what do we know from hard record about Chief Sackett, what is from family or local lore, and what can we know about him and with what degree of certainty?