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 1707 - 1799
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| Born |
5 Mar 1707 |
Newton, L.I. NY  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
D6E27FDA6A584D1497D2387456CE2C9A33D6 |
| Died |
1799 [2] |
| Person ID |
I4156 |
OuthouseLine2014 |
| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2012 |
| Father |
Joseph SACKETT, b. 1680, English Kills, New Town, NY , d. 27 Sep 1755, Newton, L.I. NY |
| Mother |
Hannah ALSOP, b. 11 Jan 1690, Newton, L.I. NY , d. 17 Jun 1773, Newton, L.I. NY |
| Married |
23 May 1706 |
Newton, L.I. NY |
| Family ID |
F1538 |
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| Notes |
- Lived in New Windsor and Orange, New York; and in New York City. Previous to or immediately after the date of his marriage he became engaged in mercantile business in New York City, to which for several years he gave considerable attention -- dividing his time between that and the practice of his profession. Meantime his father, Judge Joseph Sackett, and his father-in-law, Samuel Clowes, acquired title to several extensive tracts of fertile land in the vacated Capt. John Evans patent, on the west bank of the Hudson River and in the County of Orange, N. Y. This land they had surveyed and plotted into small farms and village lots, which they disposed of to incoming settlers. Evidently this lucrative land business on the Hudson possessed for the young lawyer and merchant a controlling attraction, for about the year 1741, he relinquished all interest in his promising mercantile venture to his younger brothers and removed with his family to Orange County. There, in addition to looking after his father's real estate interests, he soon became engaged in extensive transactions on his own appointed, by Governor George Clinton, High Sheriff of Orange County, which office he retained by consecutive reappointments through the administrations of Governors Danvers, Osborn, De Lancy, and Sir Charles Hardy, to the year 1757, when he resigned said office, removed his family to Long Island and took up anew the practice of his profession in New York City.
In 1749 a land company, composed of Joseph Sackett, Jr., his brother John Sackett, and eight other men of local prominence, was organized under the title of "The Proprietors of New Windsor." To this company the Sacketts transferred all of their New Windsor real estate except the wharf and storehouse property. The "Proprietors" laid out the entire unimproved portion of their purchase in village lots and township plots, and a considerable number of new dwellings were added to the settlement. [Tinley]
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