Can anyone help him? Thanks, Jean Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Jason Gayton <jlgayton08@gmail.com> > Date: January 8, 2013 5:01:10 PM EST > To: "pjtc@verizon.net" <pjtc@verizon.net> > Subject: Sackett > > Ahoy, > I am trying to date the property and house my family is living in (and has been for 100 years) and came across the name Sackett numerous times. I traced back to the Van Duzers (my ancestors), who bought land from a Ketchum (whos descendants live down the street), who purchased it from a Sackett. I scoured the deed books for Orange County, New York and found references to John and Jospeh Sackett. The Olde English is extremely hard to decipher, plus the deeds are photocopies of quill pen written with only boundaries like "southwesterly stonepile" and "sixty degrees walking distance north of alder bushs". No road or town names, except where the business parties were from, which was Newtown, Long Island. I found your website and researched the names, lo and behold they were prominent in the early days of New Windsor, NY, which is several miles away from here. My exact address is 96 Long Hill Rd, Highland Mills NY 10930, and the house itself is speculated to have been built around 1750. There have been additions since then, and several renovations yielded various antiques and building materials like large carved wooden pegs and bundles of grain in the walls. A nearby mountain ridge is also called Sackett ridge, here's a link. > > Sackett Ridge > > I was wondering what kind of resources you might know of, or have, to pinpoint some more of this fascinating history. Would it be possible to find maps of these claims? No luck in the Orange County Deeds Office, but I am contacting the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands to try my luck. > Cheers, > Jason Gayton