Chris: How about a little bit more confusion? I found a marriage record: Of Dover, Dutchess Co., NY: Kent CT Marriages as found in Early Connecticut Marriages by Frederick Bailey 1741 to 1757 Simeon Kelsey & Nelly Sackett of Dover, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1754 I have this marriage as that of 275-Nelly, daughter of Josiah Crego Sackett. Nelly would have need to have been born near that ca 1734/35 date to have been old enough to marry in 1754. Weygant says that Skene Douglas Sackett was an oversized under aged boy who ran away and joined to fight in the Rev. War as Skene Douglas to escape detection by his uncle. The 1850 census indicates that he was born in 1765. So it is beginning to look as though Skene Douglas Sackett may be assigned to the wrong parents. Isn't this fun ??? Thurmon "Chris Sackett" <chris@sackett.org.uk> wrote: >Blanche, Thurmon, > >Another very odd remark in Weygant's entry for Josiah Crego Sackett on page >113. Weygant says, "Mr. Sackett and his wife died several years previous to >the commencement of the war of the Revolution, and their orphan children >were distributed among their mother's people." > >According to the birth dates for Eleanor, Prime, and Prince, these children >would have been in their late thirties by the outbreak of war in 1775. They >would hardly need to have been farmed out among their mother's kin! >Admittedly, Skene Douglas would have been only 10 in 1775, but were their >other "orphan" children of about this age? > >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 > > -- Thurmon Accurate Information Is Our Goal. __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

Thurmon, I think I wouldn't go looking for other parents for Skene Douglas, at least not yet! What this is beginning to look like is that Josiah Crego Sackett married twice & had two families. The first family, wife's name not known, would have had children Nelly, Prime, & Prince, born in the 1730s/1740s. The second family, wife ___ Douglas, would have been Aaron and Skene, born in the 1760s. This works as well for the marriage date of "about 1750". It would have been the second family that was farmed out to the Douglases. But I'd keep Skene Douglas as a son of Josiah Crego Sackett on the grounds that the unusual name fits not only with his mother's maiden name of Douglas but also with his maternal grandmother's maiden name of Skeene. I've put Aaron in with the second family above on the basis of his marriage to Phebe Hart in 1786 indicating a birth date of say early 1760s (surely somebody in this family had to do something at the right time!). Pleased you're having fun! Ditto! Guess we're just waiting on Liesa to come up with the will? Best.. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Thurmon King [mailto:thurmonking@netscape.net] > > Chris: > > How about a little bit more confusion? > > I found a marriage record: > Of Dover, Dutchess Co., NY: > Kent CT Marriages as found in Early Connecticut Marriages by > Frederick Bailey > 1741 to 1757 > Simeon Kelsey & Nelly Sackett of Dover, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1754 > > I have this marriage as that of 275-Nelly, daughter of Josiah > Crego Sackett. Nelly would have need to have been born near that > ca 1734/35 date to have been old enough to marry in 1754. > > Weygant says that Skene Douglas Sackett was an oversized under > aged boy who ran away and joined to fight in the Rev. War as > Skene Douglas to escape detection by his uncle. The 1850 census > indicates that he was born in 1765. So it is beginning to look > as though Skene Douglas Sackett may be assigned to the wrong parents. > > Isn't this fun ??? > > Thurmon