Blanche, Thurmon, Tom, Wendy, Lauri, Nancy, Liesa, & anybody else who wants to join the special Sackett-Crego sub-committee of TSFA :-) I found an "official" abstract of Capt Richard's will at http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.nys/docviewer?did=nys097&s eq=&view=50&frames=0&pagenum=79 This is from the book "Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York" vol IV, 1744-1753, page 79, being one of the series of "Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1895." References on page 79 of this book are to "Liber 15" and "page 580". I take these to be the references of the original manuscript books of complete wills. I note that Roy Crego's reference is also to 15:580, his source being "NY County Will Book 15:580". Maybe the abstract in the NY County Will Book is slightly different. Certainly the Surrogate's Office version does not mention Catherine's surname "Margeson", nor does it have "my wellbeloved" referring to son Josiah Crego. The version used by Weygant seems to be the Surrogate's Office version except that Weygant left out the names of the witnesses. We still need, if possible, to get a look at the original will. The compiler of the abstracts in the Surrogate's Office book says he has omitted no proper names nor anything else of a genealogical nature. If this is so, then the "Margeson" reference must have come from somewhere else. Regards, Chris

For those who have not checked out this site yet. I went to the Index and found that there are several Sacket(t)'s in here. They are: Sacket, John, 326 Sackett, Catherine, 79 Sackett, John, 79 Sackett, Joseph, 486 Sackett, Margery, 79 Sackett, Richard, 79 Sackett, Richard Jr, 79 Sackett, Susannah, 474 Sackett, William, 478 I have not had a chance to look at the others. Liesa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Sackett" <chris@sackett.org.uk> To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: [SACKETT-L] 75 Capt Richard Sackett's Will Abstracts > Blanche, Thurmon, Tom, Wendy, Lauri, Nancy, Liesa, & anybody else who wants > to join the special Sackett-Crego sub-committee of TSFA :-) > > I found an "official" abstract of Capt Richard's will at > http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.nys/docviewer?did=nys097&s > eq=&view=50&frames=0&pagenum=79 > > This is from the book "Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, > City of New York" vol IV, 1744-1753, page 79, being one of the series of > "Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1895." > References on page 79 of this book are to "Liber 15" and "page 580". I take > these to be the references of the original manuscript books of complete > wills. I note that Roy Crego's reference is also to 15:580, his source being > "NY County Will Book 15:580". Maybe the abstract in the NY County Will Book > is slightly different. Certainly the Surrogate's Office version does not > mention Catherine's surname "Margeson", nor does it have "my wellbeloved" > referring to son Josiah Crego. The version used by Weygant seems to be the > Surrogate's Office version except that Weygant left out the names of the > witnesses. > > We still need, if possible, to get a look at the original will. The compiler > of the abstracts in the Surrogate's Office book says he has omitted no > proper names nor anything else of a genealogical nature. If this is so, then > the "Margeson" reference must have come from somewhere else. > > Regards, > Chris > > > ==== 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 > >