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| So far as is known, John Sackett (1632 - 1712) was the first white child bborn in Newton (now Cambridge) Mass. In 1653 he became a resident of Springfield, Mass. On November 23, 1659 he married Abigail Hannum, daughter of William Hannum. The latter moved to Northampton and in 1665 moved to Westfield, being the first settler in this town. The Indians burned his buildings October 27, 1675. John Sackett married as his second wife Sarah _____. His third marriage was to Sarah Stiles, daughter of John Stiles and the widow of John Stewart of Springfield. From another account of John Sackett comes this report. He married his first wife, Abigail Hannum in 1659, sold his land in Springfield and removed some fifteen miles up the Connecticut River to Northampton. There they lived until 1665, when he again sold out and moved to a farm he had purchased one on Chapin, near Westfield, on what are now called Sackett's Meadows. Mr. Sackett's removal to Westfield was at the date of the first permanent settlement of that town, as well as the commencement of King Philip's Indian wars. There Mr. Sackett built him a house and barn which were a few years later burned by the Indians. He also built a saw mill, on a creek that ran through his farm and emptied into the Waronoco (now Westfield) River. The building of a dam on this creek was the occasion of a vexatious law suit, brought against him by one Dewey, who claimed that by reason of Sackett's saw mill dam the water was backed up on his grist mill. The case was tried at Springfield by a jury who found for the plaintiff, but the court in giving judgement recited in the preamble that it was a hard case for the defendant, and "therefore ordered that the plaintiff should with his hired man and oxen work with said Sackett nine days in taking down and removing said dam." Mrs. Abigail Sackett died October 9, 1690, and not long afterward John Sackett married his second wife, Sarah ______. Judge Garry V. Sackett in his manuscript records says: "In the fall of 1830 I visited the old graveyard at Westfield and saw the stones erected to John Sackett and Sarah Sackett. They stand in the southeast corner of the yard. His is broken near the middle, and the top part lies on the ground. It recites his name and that he died in the year 1712, age 80. Hers is whole and recites that she died in 1690, age 69." Not long after the death of his second wife John Sackett married Sarah Stiles, who was the daughter of John Stiles and the widow of John Stewart, of Springfield. John and Abigail Sackett had, so far as is known, eight children. Taken from: Family Record: consisting of Genealogical Table and Biographical Notes Relating to Ancestors of Adam Tredwell Sackett, their children and Children's Children by charles H. Weygant, 1899.Acquired by Russell Sackett and provided by Debra King, Elkhart, Indiana. [237] | ||||||||||||||||
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