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    1. [SACKETT-L] Crego Mystery, etc.
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    3. Sorry I have been so long in getting back to writing on questioned subjects by Chris. Numerous things got in the way. Busy time of year. First of all, I have no new information on the Crego mystery or any sources at the moment to use to discover more. We did not come to any firm conclusion. On the questions concerning information from the Barbour collection, I have not been able to get downtown to the Library to recheck and look up more statistics. Hopefully, I can do that soon. I do not have anymore data on Richard (#267) and John (#268) Sackett. I would dearly love to know where Weygant obtained the birth dates on Richard and John's children. If, say, John was born ca 1703, I would think he was married at about age 25-30. With what Weygant has, he was about late 30's to 40's which was possible. We do not know of any other Sackett that would have married Elizabeth Masten, and the Ritsert (Richard) Sekket born 5 May 1734 in the Reformed Dutch records of Ulster County would certainly fit if John had married about 1730. Ezekiel, if he was the Ezechiel Sekket baptized 19 June 1737, married Mary Atherton in 1759, so it would have made him 22 years old at time of marriage. By some McKay records, Mary Sackett, daughter of John Sackett, was born 7 April 1743 in Dover, Dutchess County, NY. She would have been 17 years old at marriage to Alexander McKay 2 Sept. 1760. Elisabeth Masten's father, Art (or Aard) Masten, lived in Ulster County first. Elizabeth Masten was baptized 13 June 1707 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY. Art and family later settled in Dutchess County. The first church that we know of in Dutchess County was in Amenia and marriage records started in 1756 and births in 1759. So, I am thinking, maybe children were taken to Kingston to be baptized or a minister travelled from the Dutch Reformed church to administer baptisms. The Masten family was Dutch. On the Elisabeth Sekket baptized 26 May 1739 (parents Richard Sekket and Maria Breedeth, the sponsors Jan Sekket and Elizabeth Masten), that baptism was in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, which was somewhat nearer where the Sackett's lived. I don't know how to reconcile it with Richard and wife, Mary, having twin daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine, born in 1751 and dying in infancy, unless the first Elisabeth died before these two were born. This is all supposition and I do not have proof, so if anyone out there has more on these families and proof of some kind, please let us know. I will keep looking, also. By, the way, the same records that show Mary Sackett's birth in 1743, show that she died Sept.1824. They came from the family of the oldest daughter of Alexander and Mary Mckay, Mary (McKay) Wadsworth. Another problem would be with her sister's, Elizabeth's, birth on 22 Nov.1742. The timing is too close for both births. Another mystery, unless Elizabeth's was a late baptism. Blanche McKay

    01/11/2004 08:36:40