Katherine, I have added this email address to the "Accepted List" so that if you happen to email from this one again, it will go straight through to the list without being "not a subscriber". If this should happen to be an address that you wish to use has your primary address, please let me know off-list. Thanks! Later...Nancy Nancy Cluff Siders TSFA President and List Admin for: CLUFF-L, COUNTRYMAN-L, LETSON-L, MCKAY-ELKENNY-L, SACKETT-L, SIDERS-L To forget one's ancestor is to be a brook without a source, A tree without a root. ~Chinese proverb -----Original Message----- From: katherine russell [mailto:kjrussell@onewest.net] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:12 AM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} reuben sackett 1778 A critical essay by David Redden "Loyal he remains" "....one so called "traitor" can be found lying not so comfortably in the old first church cemetary in Bennington Vermont. HIs name is David Redden a member of the Queens Loyal Rangers and a Loyalist spy during the Rev war...." "If one searches through the few records that do exist, they may find that on June 9, 1778, RUEBEN SACKETT was labeled as criminally guilty for assisting David Redden in his escape from jail while he was awaiting his 2nd trail. And SACKETT was sentenced himself to receive twenty lashes well laid on the naked back at sun set."....."the wagon transporting David Redden to the gallows....RUEBEN SACKETT who was punished two days earlier drove the wagon"..... Katherine Russell