Chris, Thurmon, and other listers: When postings about the saga of Margery (nee Unknown) CREGO WISLAKE SLADE/SLEADE SACKETT began, my Internet connection at work had gone haywire. Both Ancestry.com and another site (http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Marriage/AZ/Pub.html) have entries regarding Margery's marriages transcribed from _New York Marriages Previous to 1784_ [Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued By the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784] and _Marriage Registers, Extracts from Manhattan (1869-1880) and Brooklyn (1895-1897)_ Then you all moved on to Josiah Crego Sackett. From the correspondence that passed between Fred Sacket and Frank Sacket (sons of Chauncey and grandsons of Skene D. Sackett) and Charles Weygant before the publication of THE SACKETTS OF AMERICA, it seems clear that Weygant was the one who advanced the idea of Skene being the son of Josiah Crego Sackett. (Someday I have got to get around to transcribing this correspondence to share with the list). There does appear to be a whole line descended from Nelly Sackett of Dover, New York, who married Simeon Kelsey 22 AUG 1754 in Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut (found in _Early Connecticut Marriages: Fifth Book Kent Milford_ posted on Ancestry.com). Since Nelly's purported sons Heth (b. 1756) and Elijah (b.1759) are older than Skene himself, it seems unlikely that she could be Skene's sister. Her connection to Dover, however, does suggest a likely link to Captain Richard's line. From messages I have exchanged with a descendent of Col. Phillip Skene (founder of Skenesborough/Whitehall, New York, and a colonial governor), there is no evidence of him having a sister who married and came to America, making the "Miss Douglass" connection to the Skene family rather unlikely. In the family lore, Fred Sacket recalled his grandfather Skene telling about the physical abuse he had suffered as the ward of his Uncle Bull. (I need to do more sleuthing to put a first name to this man; perhaps from New Milford, Connecticut.) The rest of the details about Skene's wartime service, his move to Oneida County in New York, and his subsequent move to Trumbull County and Ashtabula County in Ohio are accurate and can be confirmed with primary records (tax lists, census lists, and pension lists). Here is what I have compiled (mostly from documents that are available online at Ancestry.com, those with double asterisk are posted on Ashtabula Co. OHGENWEB page on RootsWeb): * Skeen Douglass paid from 23 JAN 1781 to 31 DEC 1781 for service as private in Col. Heman Swift's Second Regiment of the "Connecticut Line"; time expired in JAN 1784. * 1790 federal census for Waterbury Twp., New Haven Co., Connecticut (listed as Siam D. Sackett on page 110) * 1800 federal census for Paris Twp., Oneida Co., New York (listed as Skeen D. Sacket on p. 184) ** 1804 tax list for Mesopotamia Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio (appears as Kene D. Sacket) {According to _Historical Sketches of Ashtabula County, Ohio_ [written by Catherine Trapp Ellsworth, originally published in _The Star-Beacon_ between 1975-1976 and 1986-1988], p. 229: ³Sacket¹s blacksmith shop served as the site of Windsor¹s first school during the winter of 1804-1805. There, Miss Keziah Griswold taught nine pupils. A log school was built for the next year, one-half mile south of Windsor corners, taught by Harvey Cook.² p. 230: ³The third quarry was a grindstone quarry at Warner¹s Hollow, which is where the name Grindstone Creek was chosen. Not far away, a huge rock, known to be a stalagtite formation of limestone, was found. Here, Skene Sacket set up a lime kilm, and baked the lime rock to be used for plaster.²} ** 1806 tax list for Trumbull Co., Ohio (in 6th collection district as Sheen D. Sacket) ** 1807 tax list for Trumbull Co., Ohio (appears as Skean D. Sacket) * 1810 federal census for Troy Twp., Trumbull Co., Ohio (listed as Skene Sackett on p. 38) * Act of 1818 Connecticut Pensioners Residing in Ohio (listed as Skeen Douglas Sacket, Private) {NOTE: Skene's first wife, Hannah Saxton Sackett, died at age 62 on 17 FEB 1826 in Windsor, Ohio, and was buried in the "Judge Griswold" burial ground before being moved to a plot beside her husband in the Windsor Corners cemetery.} * 1830 federal census for Windsor Twp., Ashtabula Co., Ohio (appears on p. 178 as S. D. Sacket, along with sons G[ery or erry] Sacket and C[hauncey] Sacket) ** 1835 pension roll of Revolutionary War Veterans (age 69, living in Windsor Twp., Ashtabula Co., Ohio) ** 1840 census of pensioners (age 76, living in household of Jonathan Wilder in Windsor Twp., Ashtabula Co., Ohio) * 1840 federal census for Windsor Twp., Ashtabula Co., Ohio (listed as Skene D. Sackett; only two people in household) And the following are transcriptions of just three of the photocopied documents obtained from NARA in 1961 by my great-aunt May Belle Sacket Humphreys (daughter of Frederick Gleason Sacket): ++++++++++++++++++ The State of Ohio Ashtabula County, SS Court of Common Pleas April Term 1829 On this fifteenth day of April AD 1829, personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, Skene Douglass Sackett, aged sixty-four years resident in Windsor in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his said Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May AD 1820. That he the said Skene D. Sackett Enlisted by the name of Skene Douglass for the term of three years on or about the first day of January AD 1781 in the state of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Wright in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Swift in second Regiment of the Connecticut line on the Continental EstablishmentThat he continued to serve in said corps until on or about the 29th October AD 1783 when he was discharged from the said service at West Point in the State of New YorkThat he has no other evidence of his service than his discharge, which was forwarded to the Office of the Secretary of War of the United States in 1818 And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May AD 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress Entitled ³An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War² passed on the 18th day of March AD 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed Seventy-five Acres of Land 2 Horses 50 bls pork 2 Cows 50 Rye flour 5 Sheep 3 Hogs And the said Skene D. Sacket on his said Oath further saith that he is a labourerThat by reason of age and bodily infirmities he is able to labour but little and that he has no family And the said Skene D. on his said Oath further saith that he is indebted To Traverse, Miller $20.00 To the Estate Levi Dickenson 21.00 To G. W. St. John & Company 6.50 To Jonas Stafford 4.00 To Solomon Griswold 48.00 To James Norris 8.00 To West Winslow 15.00 To Hapgood & Crowell 14.00 To John Glading[*] 8.00 Sworn to and Declared in Open Court the 15th day Skene D. Sacket of April AD 1829 Attest Saml. Hendry, Clerk I Saml. Hendry, Clerk of the Court of Common Please for the County of Ashtabula do hereby certify that the foregone Oath and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the total Amount in value of the said property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred and ninety-seven Dollars, deducting debts due from him In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our said Court at Jefferson the fifteenth day of April AD 1829 Saml. Hendry, Clerk [* NOTE: should read ³John Gladding,² who likely was the father-in-law of Skene¹s son Chauncey Sackett] +++++++++++++++ State of Ohio Ashtabula County, SS On this 4th day of May AD 1853, personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for Ashtabula County and State of Ohio, Lorilla Sackett a resident of the township of Windsor, county and state aforesaid, aged sixty-six years, who being first duly sworn in said court according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed on the third day of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of revolutionary soldiers. That she is the widow of Skeen Duglas [sic] Sackett, a Revolutionary pensioner who died in said Windsor on the ninth day of June 1852. That she was married to said Sackett in the township of Windsor, county and state aforesaid, she thinks in the year 1832 in the month of June. That her name before marriage was Lorilla Dorathy [sic]. That in further proof in support of her claim she refers to her husband¹s papers on file in the pension office and papers hereunto annexed. her Lorrilla X Sackett mark Sworn to and subscribed in said court the day and year above written before me. J. A. Giddings Probate Judge ++++++++ The State of Ohio Ashtabula County, SS. On this 7 day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me Owen Stoughton a justice of the Piece [sic] duly authorized by law to administer oaths within the county and State aforesaid Lorilla Sackett aged 68 years, a resident of Windsor in the State of Ohio who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he [sic] is the widow of Skean D. Sackett the deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the service of the United States at on or about the day of [blank] in the year [blank] for the term of [blank] and was honorably discharged at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year [blank] as will appear. She further states that she was married to the said Skean D. Sackett June the 19 AD 1832 by one Timothy Alderman, a Justice of the Piece [sic] and that her name before her said marriage was L. Daughety [sic], that her said husband died at Windsor June the 9 AD 1852 and that she is still a widow. She further states that she receives a yearly pension which is payable on the forth [sic] of March and the forth [sic] of September for eighty dollars per annum. That she was pensioned under the Act of February 3d 1853. Certificate dated December 9th 1853. Recorded on pension rolls, under Act of February 3d 1853, in vol. A, page 168. For Eighty Dollars per annum. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act of Congress passed March 3d, 1855, granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have performed Military Service in the Wars of the United States, and she states that she has never made application for or obtained Bounty Land. her Lorilla X Sacket mark Sworn to and subscribed before me, the undersigned, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, on the day and year above written. And I do hereby certify that I believe the said Lorilla Sackett to be the widow entitled to the Bound Land as claimed, and to be of the age above stated, and that I have no interest whatever in the result of said Bounty Land Claim, nor am I concerned in the prosecution thereof. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, official, and affixed my seal of office at Windsor in the county aforesaid, the day and year first above written. Owen Stoughton, Justice of the Peace [NOTE: This was a preprinted form with blanks to be filled in.]