This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sackett, Rice Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ChEBAIB/113.2.3 Message Board Post: You mentioned that you were unable to locate Merrill Sackett in the 1860 & 1870 census. Here are the transcriptions for Merrill for those years and also a quote from a history of Allegany Co I ran across ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1860 US Census, Harrison Township, (Post office: Whites Corners), Potter County, Pennsylvania, page #57 (stamped 113), dwelling #420, family #419, genealogy.com image # 21 of 28, enumerated July 7, 1860. Merril(sic) Sackett, (head) age 42, occ: farmer, real estate $1500, personal estate $600, born in NY Sarah E., (wife) age 39, born in NY Morris N., (son), age 18, born in PA, Volney D., (son), age 16, born in NY, attended school Louisa O., (daughter), age 13, born in NY, attended school Phlendoria(?), (daughter), age 11, born in NY, attended school Jane L., (daughter), age 7, born in PA, attended school Alice M., (daughter), age 3, born in PA, Fanny, (daughter) age 6/12, born in PA, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they had moved back to NY by 1866 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1870 US Census, Wellsville, Allegany County, New York, page 51&52 (stamped 774), dwelling #248, family #252, genealogy.com image #31&32 of 96, enumerated July 27, 1870. Meril(sic) Sacket(sic), (head) age 52, occ: Carpenter, real estate $1200, personal estate $250, born in NY Sarah, (wife), age 50, occ: keeping house, born in NY Jane, (daughter), age 17, occ: teaching school, born in PA Alace(sic), (daughter), age 13, attending school, born in PA Fanie(sic) (daughter), age 10, attends school, born in PA Mary, (daughter), age 4, born in NY ------------------------------------------------------ >From "Allegany County and its people. A centennial memorial history of Allegany County, N. Y." page 610 , in the chapter on the early history of Independance Township: (this data was compiled from oral interviews with residents in the early 1900's) "Joseph Sackett came to Independance about 1814. He was a pensioner of the War of 1812. His son, Merrill C., born in Rochester about 1802, learned the carpenter's trade of his father, and married Sarah E., daughter of Alexander Rice, had 9 children and died in March 1886, his wife in October 1893. Their son, Volney D. Sackett, was born in Whitesville, June 5, 1844. He was a carpenter until September, 1861, when he enlisted in Co. G, 46th Penn. He was in the battle of Winchester, Aug 9, 1862, was wounded on the knee at Cedar Mountain, had his leg amputated, was prisoner in Libby Prison 64 days, paroled, and discharged Nov. 7, 1862." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------