Mercy Sackett

https://sackettfamily.info/g3/p3342.htm

Captain Joseph Sackett, son of Simon Sackett and Sarah Bloomfield, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 23 February 1655/56.1,2,3,4,5 He died aged 63 in Long Island, New York State, on 23 September 1719.

He married first before 1678, Elizabeth Betts, daughter of Capt Richard Betts and Joanna ___.

He married second between 1700 and 1710, Anna ___.

He married third at Newtown, Long Island, in 1711, Mercy (Whitehead [sic: Denton]) Betts, [step] daughter of Daniel Whitehead, daughter of Daniel Denton and Abigail Stephenson. Mercy was the widow of Capt Thomas Betts, a brother of Joseph's first wife Elizabeth.

Child of Captain Joseph Sackett and Mercy (Whitehead [sic: Denton]) Betts

1. Rev Samuel Sackett+ b. 2 Mar 1711/12, d. 5 Jun 1784

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Origins

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton

Around 1659, Denton married Abigail Stevenson, who bore three children, and from whom he was divorced in 1672. The two elder children, Daniel and Abigail, remained with their father, while the infant daughter, Mercy, accompanied her mother, who subsequently remarried."

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She was mentioned in the 1703 will of Daniel Whitehead of Jamaica, her mother’s 2nd husband:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924067113450&view=1up&...

pp.396-9, "Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's office, city of New York, Vol. 25", New York (State)

Mercy (Denton?, wife of Thomas Betts); probably Daniel Denton's younger sister

Web site info:

• - http://www.reocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6173/mybetts.html
• - http://ntgen.tripod.com/bw/betts_index.html
• - http://hub.webring.org/hub/hgsring

CAPT. RICHARD BETTS, ENGLAND TO LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Capt. Richard Betts b. 1613 m. Joanna Chamberlain

Thomas Betts s/o Richard m. Mercy Whitehead

Elizabeth Betts d/o Richard m. Capt. Joseph Sackett

Thomas Betts m. Mercy Whitehead, [step] daughter of Daniel Whitehead