If only I had this post yesterday! I was at the townhall in Clinton doing some work on vital records for the NGS Genealogy course and was pouring over those very records. I noted that the Kelseys have taken up several pages in the early records. They were early settlers in Killingworth, CT. Clinton seperated from Killingworth but the records are mixed. The Hull Genealogies you mention are held by the Clinton Historical Society, as are several of the early family genealogies. Clinton is located on long Island Sound, appx. 20 miles east of New Haven. Killingworth abuts on the north, while Kent , CT abuts the eastern NY border in what I believe is Dutchess County. Out of habit I did look under "S" for SACKETT but saw none. If they don't throw me from the clerks office, I'll go back today and have a look. Tom Smith > Chris, > > Per your message of 17 Nov., I went back and checked the websites on > Nelly Sackett. None of them seem to give a reliable source for the > dates for Nelly, and it looks like several of them have probably copied > what others had. I have written to a few to see if I can get any more > information. One lady I did hear from said she relied heavily on the > Hull family website, as her great-grandmother who was a Hull married a > Sackett. I have not looked at that site. > > On one I found last night, it does not give Nelly's birth year, but it > says she married Simeon Kelsey, who was baptized 26 Feb.1730 in > Killingworth, CT., on 22 Aug.1754 in Kent, CT. I could not find > Killingworth in my atlas, but Kent is very near the New York line on the > eastern side. So, if Simeon was born in 1730, the 1734/35 date for Nelly > would seem right. She would have been about 20 years old at their > marriage. This site gives the children of Nelly and Simeon as Heth > Kelsey born ca 1754 in Kent, CT., and Elijah Kelsey born ca 1759. No > further information on them. > > On the will of Richard Sackett, when we were in Poughkeepsie some years > ago, we checked at the courthouse thinking we could see Richard's will. > It was listed in the will book but could not be found by the clerk. > Perhaps it had been transferred to Albany or New York, but it should have > so stated in the records. > > To add to the confusion about Josiah Crego Sackett, one website had > Richard and Margery Sackett having a son, Josiah Crego Sackett born ca > 1709, and another Josiah Crego Sackett , born ca 1720. I'm writing to > the site to see how that came about. Hope they answer! > > All for now, > Blanche McKay > > > ==== 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 >