Well; I did some searching in the Genealogy.com genealogy library and found some interesting information about Skene Douglas Sackett. One bit of information form the history of Geauga Co., OH conflicts with what we have for his birth place. It gives Milford, New Haven Co., CT while our other sources indicate that it was New Milford, Litchfield Co., CT. Ohio County and Family Histories, 1780-1970Geauga County, Thompson TownshipHistory of Geauga County, Ohio; p 795 First Settlement The first settler of this township ws Dr. Isaac Palmer, who was born in Plainfield, Windham county, Connecticut, in `770, and studied for, and commmmenced the practice of medicine, before he was twenty-five years old. His practice was confined to the region where he was born, as he did not practice much after he came to Ohio. He married Lois Maltby, of Goshen, Conn., -- some two years younger than himself -- the exact date of which event we are not possessed of, but a daughter they called Anna, was born to them, in 1796, who died at Concord, Ohio, in 1875, a widow with several children. In 1799 they were at Buffalo, New York, and lost a child, nine days old. In 1800 we find them in Thompson, on lot eleven, decoyed thither by the agency of all lands in his name. He chopped, and cleared some sixteen acres, but, being dissatisfied with his treatment at the hands of King, "pulled up stakes," and moved to Concord, Ohio, to what was known as "Perkin's Camp," near the south line of the township, where he remained a year or so, and then moved within two miles of Painesville, on the north line of Concord township, where he lived til 1840, when he died, possessed of some four hundred acres of land, and two, or more, thousand dollars worth of personal property, the accumulation of his forty years of toil. While in Thompson, in 1802, a son was born to them, which was, of course, the first child born in the township. He was named Isaac, and now (1876) is living in the northwest corner of Concord, with a family of two sons and four daughters living in the vicinity. The doctor sailed his own boat from Buffalo to Fairport, and up Grand river opposite Thompson, having for comapny, his wife, child, and a man named Sackett. In those days Grand river was at full banks, and, as they were going up the stream, having some fruit trees that he brought with him from the east, stopped and planted them on what is known as the General Paine farm, in Painesville, where they are still growing. In two years, say in 1802, Dr. Palmer returned to Connecticut, settled up Sackett's affairs, and brought on his family. Sackett afterwards went to Windsor, Ashtabula county. I was interested in the sketch of Palmer, the first settler of Thompson; his companion in his journey, Mr. Sackett. Mr. Sackett, I had some acquaintance with. Skene Douglass Sackett was born in Milford, New Haven county, Connecticut; was a soldier of the Revolution, in the Connecticut line. He married Hannah Saxton, a native of that portion of the ancient town of Waterbury, now called Middlebury, the same county. They removed from Connecticut to the Whitestown country, as it was then called, in 1798 or 1799, where he rented a farm, on the Page 196 reservation of the Brothtown Indians in Oneida county, New York. In 1803, as Mr. Leonard says, Mr. Sackett's family came to Painesville, where they lived for two or three years. They lived in Windsor for many years, but they have passed away with those who were comtemporary with them. The hardshops and privations endured by the pioneers of that day seem almost incredible, but still in the mouth of many witnesses the truth is fixed. Mrs. Sackett was one of twenty children, whose remains are resting in Connecticut, in New York, and Ohio. Mr. Sackett was pensioneer, and lived to an advanced age. Mr. and Mrs. Sackett had four children, viz: Polly, who married A. Crendall, her second husband, Luman Frisbie; Garry, Chauncey, and Horace. I have known but little of the family for the last forty years. I have been recently informed that Chauncey Sackett is dead. [End of the Sackett account]...--------Ohio County and Family Histories, 1780-1970Trumbull, Mahoning Counties, V! olume I, General History; page 84A general military election was held May 7, 1804, at which the following officers were chosen for the first and second regiments of the fourth dividion of Trumbull county, whaich at that time included the whole Western Reserve.First RegimentCommissioned OfficersCaptain Nathaniel King.Captain George W. Hawley.Captain Martin Smith.Captain Solomon Griswold.Captain James A. Harper.Captain Charles Parker.Captain Josiah Cleveland.Captain Lorenco Carter.Lieutenant Seth Harrington.Lieutenant Stephen Brown.Lieutenant David Randall.Lieutenant Thomas Martin.Lieutenant Ebenexer Hewens.Lieutenant Joel Paine.Lieutenant Jedediah Baird.Lieutenant Nathaniel Drane.Ensign Daniel Sawtell.Ensign John Henderson.Ensign Zopher CAse.Ensign Skene Sackett.Ensign George Caldwell.Ensign Ela S. Clapp.Ensign Lyman Trenton.Ensign Samuel Jones.----Roll of Pensioners in Ashtabula Co., OH; 1840WindsorSkene D. Sackett, age 76; in household of Jonathan Wilder.----Skene D. Sacket! t:Marriage Index: Selected Counties of Ohio, 1789-1850Married: June 27, 1832 in: Ashtabula Co., OH Spouse: Dorathy, LorillaGender: M More: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0890264.========= end ========= I also have an abstraction of his pension file which indicates that his widow, Lorilla filed for a Bounty Land Warrant in April, 1855 from Ashtabula Co., OH.-- ThurmonAccurate 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