Hello Sackett Searchers Last year I posted a study concerning the ancestry of Harvey Chafy Sackett and his brother Merrill Cleveland Sackett in which I disagreed with the conclusions of R. E. Sackett in "THE SACKETTS OF WISCONSIN. A BRIEF GENERAL HISTORY OF THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDENTS OF HARVEY CHAFY SACKETT" Using census information I came to the conclusion that their father, Joseph Sackett descended from Weygant's 634-Joseph Sacket of Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA rather than 278-Joseph Sackett of New Haven, CT. Last month I had a note from John Sackett, who descends from Harvey C. Sackett, with information which indicated that Harvey's mother was probably Phylinda Cleveland, daughter of Jedediah Cleveland and Lydia Merrill of Berkshire Co., MA. Some searching on the internet indicated that Jedediah Cleveland moved to Onondaga Co., NY before 1810 where he is listed in the 1810 census. From the USGenWeb site for Onondaga Co., NY I found the following information for Jedediah Cleveland: Jedediah Cleveland found in: U.S. Selected Counties, 1810 Census Index State: NY County: Onondaga Co. Page #: 019 Census/Enumeration year: 1810 Age ranges in household: 12001-10101 =============================== The inhabitants in the vicinity of Oran [in Onadaga Co.. NY] were favored at a very early day with religious services by missionaries from Connecticut, the first of whom was a Rev. Mr. Perry, who preached in James Scoville's barn, and in other barns in that neighborhood. On January 27, 1806, Rev. Hugh Wallace organized a society there, which was reorganized later in the same year under the title, the Second Congregational church of the town of Pompey. Punderson Avery, Jedediah Cleveland, and Joseph Bartholomew were elected the first trustees. There the first frame house of worship in the town and the third one of any kind in the county, was built in 1807-8. In later years the Universalists, who had become quite numerous in that section, occasionally occupied the church and formed a large part of the congregation. [Source: Dwight H. Bruce (ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. I, pp. 600; 626-627.] ============================== FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Delphi, Onondaga Co., NY "List of members on page 5 dated June 1, 1805. Lemuel Hall Samuel Jones Asa Barnes Jedediah Cleveland ..." and 94 more names ============================== POMPEY Rev. Hugh WALLACE organized the society in Oran, 27th January, 1806. The society was reorganized under the title Of the "Second Congregational Society of the town of Pompey”, 6th October, 1806, when Punderson AVERY, Jedediah CLEVELAND and Joseph BARTHOLOMEW, were elected Trustees, Lemuel HALL and Jedediah CLEVELAND, presiding at the meeting. [Source: Onondaga; or Reminiscences of Earlier and Later Times, Vol. II, by Joshua V. H. Clark, A.M., Stoddard and Babcock, Syracuse, NY, 1849, pp. 241-282] ============================== UNION CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY Towns of Manlius and Pompey Submitted by Kathy Crowell Miscellaneous Records, Onondaga County Courthouse (A,44): [3 jul 1803] This may Certafy home it may concern that at a Meeting of the freeholders and Inhabatance of the North part of the town of Pompey and South part of the town of Manlius on the fifth day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred & three, at the house of Ebenezer Butler jr. Esquire In said town of Manlius agreeable to previous notice given according to Law for the porpus of forming a society and chuseing Trustees and Voteing the name & title of said Society - their being no proper Officer to inspect said Meeting Voted that David Olmsted & Jedediah Cleveland be the parsons to attend said Meeting and be the returning Officers agreeable to Law - Voted that the name & stile of the Society be Union Congregational Society - Voted that Ebenezer Butler junr., Ralph R. Phelps, Daniel Campbell, Joseph Strong, Elijah Rust, Jeremiah Gould, Aaron Woods, Nathaniel Weston and Jacobus DePuy be the Trustees of said Society agreeable to Law. Given under our hands and seals the day & year above written Jedediah Cleveland, David Olmsted. Signed, Sealed & Delivered In presence of N.B. the name & stile of the Society wrote on a tasuer(?) and intelined before signed Ebenr. Butler Jr., Wm. Olmsted. Be it remembered that on the fifty day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & three parsonaly appeared before me Ebenezer Butler Jr. one of the Judges of the Courts of Common pleas in and for the County of Onondaga David Olmsted & Jedediah Cleveland the within Signer parsons to me known to be the parsons described in and who have executed the within Surtificet(?) who acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered the same as their Valantary Act and Deed for the uses and popuses therein mentioned. I haveing acsamined the same and finding no meteral alteration or interlination more then those noted do alow the same to be recorded. Ebenr. Butler Jun. Recorded the seventh day of December Eighteen hundred & three. Jasper Hopper Clk. Then this past Sunday I received a phone call from Douglas Hickling, researcher in California whose wife descends from Merrill Cleveland Sackett. Today he sent me information which closes some more gaps for us: "In 1993, Eugene W. Babcock of Lexington, Kentucky, was granted membership in the Mayflower Society based upon his descent from William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Colony and passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, through his descent from Joseph Sackett. As I had provided him information showing the connection between Bradford and the Sacketts, he was very grateful to me and sent me a copy of his application packet." "The line of descent from William Bradford goes: 1. William Bradford, 2. William Bradford who married Alice Richards, 3. Alice Bradford who married James Fitch, 4. Lucy Fitch who married Henry Cleveland, 5. William Cleveland who married Rachel Warren, 6. Jedediah Cleveland who married Lydia Merrill, 7. Philinda Cleveland who married Joseph Sackett, 8. Merrill Cleveland Sackett who married Sarah Emily Rice, 9. Clara Philinda Sackett who married Wilbert Simmons, 10. Rose Jane Simmons who married Frank Edward Babcock, 11. Wilbert Edward Babcock who married Julia Florence Twitchell, and 12. Eugene Wayne Babcock." "Mr. Babcock attached an entry from INDEX TO WAR OF 1812 PENSION FILES vol. 3:N-Z transcribed by Vigil D. White, which on page 1536 lists Joseph Sackett "SC-2691, srv Capt Kellogg's Co. NY Mil." Also attached was a complete copy of the contents of file SC-2691. The princial document is the sworn application, dated 17 March 1871, in which Joseph Sackett swears that he is 78 years old, and a resident of Wellsville, Allegany County. He states further that his wife was "Philinda Cleaveland to whom he was married at Pompey N Y on the [blank] day of January AD 1814," he was in the service for sixty days and was in the battle of Queenston. In case you are not aware of it, the British (Canadians) repulsed the American forces at Queenston in 1812 under the leadership of a General Brock" Insofar as it appears that 634-Joseph Sackett was also in the 1810 census for Onondaga Co., NY, it looks as though he might have migrated from Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA at about the same time as Jedediah Cleveland. After Joseph, Jr. had served in the War of 1812 he returned to Onondaga Co. where he married Phylinda Cleveland in January 1814. By 1820; 634-Joseph Sackett and his son, Joseph Jr. were located in Ontario Co., NY. Regards, Thurmon