Rev. Samuel Sackett

Biography

https://sackettfamily.info/g4/p4411.htm

Rev Samuel Sackett, Presbyterian minister, son of Captain Joseph Sackett and Mercy (Whitehead) Betts, was born in Newtown, Long Island, New York StateG, on 2 March 1711/12.1 He died aged 72 in Crompond, New York StateG, on 5 June 1784.1,2 He married at Newtown, Long IslandG, on 6 April 1732, Hannah Hazard, daughter of Nathaniel Hazard and Deborah Alsop.1,2,3,4

Samuel was named as a beneficiary in his father's will made in Newtown, Queens CountyG, on 20 September 1719. He was left his father's mansion with its garden, orchard, and neighbouring land, and other specified lands, the use of the property to remain with his mother until he reached 21. He was also to inherit, jointly with his siblings all his father's land and meadows at Hopewell and Maidenhead in New Jersey.

Details of Rev Samuel Sackett's ministry are given in Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies.5

Children of Rev Samuel Sackett and Hannah Hazard:

1. Deborah Sackett b. 15 Jan 1732/33, d. 17 Dec 1745
2. Joseph Sackett b. 18 Apr 1735, d. 1 Dec 1757
3. Nathaniel Sackett+ b. 10 Apr 1737, d. 28 Jul 1805
4. Mercy Sackett b. 3 Mar 1738/39, d. 15 Sep 1744
5. Samuel Sackett b. 18 Jun 1741, d. Aug 1741
6. Samuel Sackett b. 24 May 1743, d. 16 Sep 1745
7. William Sackett b. 8 Jul 1744, d. 15 Oct 1745
8. Deborah Sackett+ b. 25 Oct 1746, d. 14 Jul 1769
9. Captain Samuel Sackett b. 10 Jul 1749, d. 15 Apr 1780
10. Hannah Sackett b. 1751, d. 1836
11. Ebenezer Sackett b. 16 Oct 1753, d. 21 Oct 1761
12. James Sackett MD b. 3 Oct 1756, d. 28 Aug 1791

Notes & Citations

1. Charles Weygant, The Sacketts of America, "32. Samuel Sackett, b. Mar. 2, 1712, d. June 5, 1784; m. Hannah Hazard."
2. James Riker, The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New-York: containing Its History from its first Settlement (New York: D Fanshaw, 1852), "Samuel [Sackett] studied divinity, and was settled over the Presbyterian church at Bedford, Westchester co. in 1743, ministered there for ten years, and then removed to the congregation at Yorktown, in the same county, where he d. June 5, 1784. His grave is in the village of Crompond, the scene of his labors. He was a judicious, laborious, and successful minister of Christ. He m. Apr. 6, 1732, Hannah, dau. of Nath’l Hazard, and left sons Nathaniel and James, besides daughters."
3. "New York City, Marriages, 1600s–1800s" (Ancestry transcript), "1732, Elmhurst, Queens County, Samuel Sackett & Hannah Hazard."
4. "New York, Marriages, 1686–1980" (FamilySearch transcript), "6 Apr 1732, Presbyterian Church, Newtown, Queens, New York, Samuel Sackett & Hannah Hazard."
5. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1628–1776, American Antiquarian Society, digital image, (http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539283.pdf).
6. *http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sackettheadstones.... The Sacketts of America. Pg. 90-99