Thurmon, Chris and Tom: The idea that Daniel was the first born of William and Isabel makes sense except there was a gap between his birth (1638) and John and Samuels baptisms (1645 &1647). Going through my stacks of paper I came across a list of Passengers for New England in April 1634 on the Elizabeth of Ipswich. Willliam Bloomfield age 30, wife Sarah age 25 and daughter Sarah age 1. No Daniel listed on this ship as a child of William. I vaguely recall reading that William's first wife Sarah died on the "passage over or soon after" but I could have that all wrong. I suppose it is possible she died in childbirth with Daniel. Even if he were a half brother I imagine he would be referred to as a brother in many records. Isabel's will does make it look as though he were her natural son. I have found entries on Ancestry.com that list Daniel as being the child of Sarah and William but have been unable to put my hands on any good source material. If anyone has access to Long Island Source Records from NYGBR compiler Henry Hoff may want to check for references to Daniel. It would be nice to know if he was a half-brother to the Simon Sackett that married Sarah Bloomfield. Now that I think about it he would have been a half-brother to both Simon and Sarah! Would that make him a double Uncle to Joseph? I guess I will have to keep looking. Illyce >From: "Tom Smith" <tsmith26@comcast.net> >Reply-To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com >To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Will of Isabel (Pearce) (Sackett) Bloomfield 1682 >Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:04:20 -0400 > >Chris, In "The town Records of Newtown" 31 Mar 1669, Richard Hunt & John >Burroughs lay out land for Daniel and Samuel Blomfield. This would further >enforce at least a close relationship. The court documents putting Daniel's >age at 30 in 1668 certainly points to his being the 1st born of William and >Isabel. >While looking through this same compilation of Records of Newtown, I came >across a land grant record which mentions property north of "John Sackett's >"land. The date is 2 May 1674. I couldn't place this John Sackett unless >it >was land owned by a John of Westfield or John of New Haven. ( could be a >typo I suppose, and is actually Joseph and not John) >Tom >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Sackett" <chris@sackett.org.uk> >To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 5:02 AM >Subject: RE: [SACKETT-L] Will of Isabel (Pearce) (Sackett) Bloomfield 1682 > > > > Dear Illyce, Patty, Thurmon, > > > > Part of my researches at the FHL, SLC was a study of the Newtown (Long > > Island) Court & Town Records. I have a whole pile of photocopies which I > > need to sort out. However a quick look seems to answer the question >about > > Daniel Bloomfield. > > > > In a Court action at "Midlbourg" on 2 & 3 Feb 1668/69 there is reference >to > > "The Testimony of Dannel Bloofield aged 30 years". This would give a >birth > > date of 1638 making him the older brother of John (bap 1645) and Samuel >(bap > > 1647). This same Court case makes it clear that Daniel and Samuel were > > brothers. > > > > As far as I can recall we do not know when William Bloomfield's first >wife > > Sarah died, nor when he married Isabel Pearce Sackett. My guess from the > > wording of Isabel's will would be that Daniel was indeed her natural >son, > > indicating that her marriage to William Bloomfield would have been in >1636 > > or 1637 (Simon died in 1635). > > > > Also among the papers I copied is an Indenture of 1694/95 recording the > > transfer of land from Daniel Bloomfield to Joseph Sackett. I'll type >this >& > > post it to the List. There is a lot of other good material in these >papers, > > including the 1669 Court action brought by John Holden against "Samuell > > Blomfield for Calling him sonn of a whore ...". > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > > > ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > > Tried the RootsWeb Archives and Search Engine on the Web yet...? > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/ > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, >go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >If you haven't already, please send in your introduction to the list. >For examples, visit >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Send instant messages to anyone on your contact list with MSN Messenger 6.0. Try it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com