Blanche: I had been going through the shock of discovering that Capt. Richard Sackett did not have a son named Josiah Crego Sackett; then I discover that The New England Genealogical Register does not appear to have a record of Richard's birth. The descendants of John Sackett (m. Agnes Tinkham) as presented in the "Families of Ancient New Haven" indicates that they found no documentation in the New Haven Vital Records to support the existence of more than two children for #18-Jonathan Sackett. Ruth and Sarah. How many more surprises are we going to find ??? -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:41:45 -0400 Harry McKay <bhmckay5743@juno.com> writes: Thurmon, You have certainly presented us with a dilemma on Jonathan and Richard Sackett. I have looked over what I have but none of it answers your question. I guess we have taken Weygant's book too much for granted. But, he had to have had the information from somewhere about a Jonathan being the father of Richard. The only theory I have is that a generation was skipped in the New Haven records. It is not uncommon for a 62 year old man (Jonathan) to marry a 29 year old woman (Ruth), but it does make me wonder, as you wrote, if he was married before to a Hannah and had the first children or his son, Jonathan, married Ruth. As far as I know, there is no record of a marriage to Hannah or a record of their children's births. I did find on the Internet the marriage of a Sarah Sackett to Elisha Booth, but there was no date or other info given. On another website, I found the marriage of Ruth Sackett to Matthew Gilbert on 27 Apr.1738 in New Haven, CT. These are the two you listed as daughters of Jonathan Sackett and Ruth Hotchkiss. There are no children listed for Ruth and Matthew. We'll just have to keep searching and hope we can come up with some valid answers. Blanche McKay