The information I received this past week for the family of 656-Salmon Sackett and Mercy Matilda Curtis contains some information which conflicts with the account given by Weygant. The first conflict I'll post concerns the family of 1513-Leander Sackett. Weygant, page 250: 1513. Leander Sacket, 1794-18__, son of (656) Salmon Sacket and Matilda Curtis, was married in Sept. 1822, to Rebecca Conant, daughter of Thatcher Conant and his wife Elisabeth, of Windham, Conn. The young couple immediately after their marriage set out from Connecticut on a journey, which they made in a wagon, for the western reserve, and settled at Indian Mission, near what is now the village of Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, and are said to have been the first missionaries to the Indians in that part of Ohio. Child. 3840a. Samuel M. Sackett, b. Oct. 21, 1825, d. Jan. 17, 1896. --------- According to Weygant's account Leander and Rebecca were married, Sept 1822, in CT. and then moved to Ohio. However, the information found in "The History of Tallmadge, Ohio" states that the couple were married 3 Jan 1821 in Windham, Portage Co., OH by Rev. Joseph Treat. Bronson, Charles C. (1805-1886); "The History of Tallmadge, Ohio; in 10 handwritten volumes. [The portion covering the Sacketts was written in 1877.] Vol. 2.; Page 103 Leander Sackett this man was the 5th child and 3rd son of Dea Salmon Sackett. He came to Ohio with his father's family in 1811, at this time he was 16 years old, with other members of the family he was under the necessity of laboring hard to obtain a subsistence, for in those days, pioneer life was not flowery beds of ease. He was one that could chop, roll logs, split rails, and lay up rail fence, and reap the grain with a sickle. When he was 21 his father gave him ___ acres off the east side of Lot No. 2 on Tract 15. He did not incline to work on the land his father had given him, but worked by the month, had jobs of chipping and clearing land. In 1812 he commenced a course of study with Elizur Wright, Esq., to prepare himself for usefulness in some missionary field. He went to Pittsburg in March 1821 and enlisted as boatman, when the Mission went forth known at the time, as the "Great Osage Mission". They embarked at Pittsburg in two boats, decended the Ohio River, then up the Mississippi River to the Missourie, up that river to the mouth of the Osage River, to where the Mission Station was established on the Osage River. Mr. Sackett was married on the 3rd of Jan 1821 to Miss Rebecca Conant of Windham, Portage Co., by Rev. Joseph Treat. In 1822 A mission was organized, under the patronage of the United Missionary Society, to establish a mission among the Indians on the Maumee, near where Maumee City now stands. This mission, Mr. and Mrs. Sackett, joined in some capacity. He united with the Cong'l Church in Tallmadge, May 19th 1816, was dis. Sept, 1822. He continued to reside in that region of Country, after the Mission was abandoned, he at last settled in Raisinville, Michigan; where he spent the remainder of his life. He died Sept 2nd, 1862, aged 74 years. Mr. Sackett, in his younger days, was inclined to be positive, and was outspoken, and some what impulsive, he was not always judicious in his remarks; and at times made himself trouble which with caution might have been avoided. After he left Tallmadge, in 1822 he would return and spend a day or two among his friends and old acquaintance, but for many of the last years of his life he did not visit Tallmadge. And of his life and family, I have no information of consequence. -------- Thurmon