Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution by Lorenzo Sabine In Two Volumes, Volume II, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864 Page 252 - Sackett, ------------. Of Vermont. Convicted of treason, for joining the armies of Great Britain, and estate confiscated. A suit arising out of the Act of Confiscation, was determined in the Supreme Court of the United States. Page 574 - Sackett, William. Of Queen's County, New York. Acknowledged allegiance in 1776 and was an Addresser of Lieutenant-Colonel Sterling in 1779.