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From: GHackett <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Rockingham County, NH Deeds
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 99 01:29:28 -0500

Grantor
Grantee Bk. Pg.
1778 HACKETT, Hezekiah Jeremiah
Clough 105 462
1774 James & Joanna et al Josiah
Gilman, father of Joanna 117 333
(James Hackett, Sr. m.1st Joanna Gilman 1774 at Exeter, NH. He was known
as Colonel).
1777 James
Samuel Folsom 126 417
1780 Jeremiah Joseph
[Lorigee] 115 148
1786 Ephriam Joseph
Hicks 118 276
1789 Jude & Sarah et al Ezekiel
Robinson 126 271
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" Judah & Sarah et al Biley
D. Loyford 128 62
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1789 HACKET Jude, Sr. et al John Carr
127 510
1791 James
Samuel Gilman 137 97
1791 HACKETT James Kinsley
Hall 129 300
" "
Nathaniel Herrick 129 339
(Nathaniel Herrick was a son-in-law of Col. James Hackett. Nath. m. 1784
Mary Hackett)
1791 James
John C. York 133 178
1792 James
Stedman Bigelow 189 337
1792 Bradbury
Bradbury Hackett 181 391
1794 Jeremiah
Bradbury Hackett 181 390
1794 Jeremiah
Daniel Foster 185 104
1795 Jeremiah
Enoch [Woritren] 139 244
1795 Jacob
?
1795 HACKETT James John C.
York 138 394
1796 Judah
Ezekiel Robinson 144 248
1797 Judah
Simeon Norris 148 241
1798 Bradbury
Jeremiah Hackett 160 193
1798 Jeremiah
Bradbury Hackett 182 124
1798 HACKET Sally
Bradbury Hackett 151 334
1798 HACKETT Allen Bradbury
Hackett 152 424
1799 Stephen & Elizabeth et al Thomas Page
200 147
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1799 Judah
John Hackett 199 484
1800 Jeremiah
David Foster 164 50
1801 Bradbury
Jonathan Knowles 181 396
1801 John & Miriam et al Stephen
& Richard Smith 159 344
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1802 James
Benj. & David Wiggin 161 246
1802 Judah,Jr.
John Hackett 199 485
1802 Judah, Jr.
Abner Jones 161 216
1802 Judah, Jr. & Sr. & Sarah Ezekiel
Robinson 166 89
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1782 HACKET James Robert
Light 144 194
1783 HACKETT James
Elizabeth Jenkins 123 297
1786 Judah,Jr.
Ezekiel Hook 123 51
1788 Judah, Jr.
" " 146 9
1788 Richard
Benj. & Mercy Connor 124 100
1789 Richard
James & Mary Sherboune 126 450
1791 Bradbury
John Moor, Jr. 133 158

1761 HACKETT Ebenezer Jonathan
Richards 92 524
1761 Ebenezer
Daniel Peirce 61 448
1765 Jeremiah
Hezekiah Hackett 181 387
1765 James
Nathanial Barlett 89 220
1767 Hezekiah
Daniel Sanborn 105 461
1768 William
William Parker 90 469
1768 Jeremiah
Abner Clough 89 592
1773 HACKET Judah
Jeremiah & Hannah Morris 107 195
1774 HACKETT Judah Sarah
Hanson, Admin. 106 101
1774 Judah
Samuel Hanson " " "
1777 James
Abigail Folsom " 109 28
1777 James Jonathan
or John Folsom, Est. of " "
1778 Jeremiah
George K [-----] 181 388
1780 Jeremiah
Simeon Robinson 127 476

These Indexes came to me in pieces and I can't seem to match up the rest
or I have the other pieces in another place for some reason, but the
HACKETT names under GRANTOR
are:

1807 & 1813 Asa Hackett
1805 & 1807 Bradley Hacket - 1808 Bradley Hackett 2x's & 1809
1807 Mary Hackett
1808 William Hacket
1808 Benjamin Hackett
1810 William Hackett
1811 Judah Hackett
1812 William Hackett
1812 Phillips [W.] Hackett 4x's & 1813
1799, 1802, 1811, 1813 2x's John Hacket
1721 Judah Hacket
1749, 1756, 1757, 1760 Ephraim Hackett
1758, 1761 Ebenezer Hackett
1762 Hezekiah & Mary Hackett et al
1762 James Hackett
1763 Ephraim Hackett
1765 Hezakiah Hackett
1767 Ephraim & Dororthy Hackett
1769 Ephraim Hacket
1769 Ephraim Hackett
1770 Jeremiah Hacket
1772..2x's Ephraim Hacket
1773 Hezekiah Hackett

Then I came across other data I've had, which leads me to learn something
about my great(3) James Hackett, Jr., son of Colonel James(4) and Joanna
(Gilman) Hackett. The son James Hackett, Jr. being a early in life sailor
and later a shipwright as was his famous father, re, the Master Builder
of the "Ranger", "Raleigh", 74-gun "America", "Portsmouth I & II",
"Crescent" "Congress" "Governor Gillman" and others besides Privateers.
(He was m.1st to Joanna Gilman, dau. of Dr. Josiah and Abigail(Coffin)
Gillman all of Exeter, NH). Well, the James Hackett I found in the book,
"Port of Portsmouth Ships and the Cotton Trade" 1783-1829, by Ray
Brighton built the "Horace" in 1800 for William Gray of Salem, MA. James
Hackett, was noted as having been the person who built the first Durham,
NH commercial vessel. The article may have the two James' mixed up,
because they say the "Horace" was built by the famed naval contractor
James Hackett after the revolution. "Hackett was busy with naval vessels
through the 1790's, during which time he added to the training of Master
Shipwright William Badger (Which is correct as noted from another
author). His reputation as a builder brought William Gray to Great Bay
for a ship. Gray sent 'Horace' to Calcutta in 1802...under a Capt.
Parker. Hackett built one other commercial vessel. In 1811, at Dover he
launched a brig, the 'Cocheco' (Which is a river at Dover, NH Point) 196
tons." The Horace was 382 tons.

Now, Col. James Hackett, whom the authors here are trying to refer to are
mistaken, because the last ships Col. James Hackett along with his son
James built were the "Crescent" and "Congress", in 1799, and both were
living at Kittery, ME. His son James Hackett, Jr. although living at
Kittery and was m. there in 1799, he soon after removed to Brookfield, NH
farm that was left to him, his 1/2 brother William Hackett and Col. James
Hackett's 3rd. wife Elizabeth (Hill)(Hodge) Hackett and WIDOW, as the
Colonel died in 1802 at Kittery. Certainly he could have instructed or
whatever the vessel "Horace" in 1800, but he certainly didn't build the
"Cocheco" in 1811...himself being dead those nine years! So it's my
opinion it was the son, James Hackett, Jr. who most likely built the two
Durham, NH vessels, the "Horace" and the "Cocheco".

The thing is, I need to bring some of these things to the attention of
"The Portsmouth Marine Society" who were the publishers of the book "Port
of Portsmouth Ships and the Cotton Trade", because they are now in the
second phase of plans to build an exact replica of the "Ranger" prob.
designed by William(4) Hackett, (3-1), first cousin of Colonel James(4)
Hackett (John(3), William (2-1) the Master Builder of the "Ranger".
"Although Col. James Hackett was the actual builder of the 'Ranger' (here
comes the politics even back in 1777), Captain Tobias Lear, John
Langdon's first cousin and father of (George) Washington's private
secretary, superintended the construction." (1) "Ports of Piscataqua" by
William G. Saltonstall. {See also pages 26, 96, 99, 102, 106, 118, 121,
133, 136 & 224 and decide for yourself about Colonel James Hackett} James
and William Hackett were both born in 1739 in Amesbury and Salisbury, MA
respectively.

William(4) Hackett's last ship was the "Caroline", which he built when he
was 60 years old in 1799 (He designed other ships like the "Essex",
"Alliance" and many of the ships mentioned that Col. James hackett built,
and William also was a shipbuilder). He fell from the Mast of the
"Caroline" and from that day forward he had some mental problems, which
the Author, Howard I. Chapelle confused as being Colonel James Hackett.
However, we know that Colonel James was sane from two sources. First he
made his EXTENSIVE will in 1802 the year he died, and he was witnessed to
be perfectly sane by the witnesses to his will. Then, when the ship
"Constitution" "Old Ironsides" was about to be built, the Hacketts, John
and James (brothers) were called to Boston to give advice upon the
construction of the "vessel now being built at Boston", "It is understood
there are three Hacketts (John, James and William), one of whom, named
William and who is subject to temporary insanity, you will of course not
engage." signed Henry Jackson, Esq. Naval Agent at Boston- (National
Archives Papers, re, Correspondences on Naval affairs when the Navy was
under the War Department 1790-1798, re: James Hackett. #45 Naval Records
Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library.

I also have a personal letter from Mr. Chapelle explaining he certainly
could have made that mistake in his book, because when he was in
Portsmouth, NH doing the book he was in a big hurry, thus he mistook what
he had uncovered. He also uses James K. Hackett, which is another mistake
he made...James never had a middle inital nor a middle name. I have his
birth certificate, death certificate, will, and Naval papers, you name
it, and none ever show a middle name or a K as part of his name! See
Chapelle's "The History of the American Sailing Navy" page 68 for the
"mental breakdown" part. Chapelle claims Col. James Hackett had financial
reverses leading to the breakdown. However, I have his will and he was a
very well-to-do man. He owned a Mansion and lot's of land in Exeter, NH.
He owned land and a home in Kittery, ME. he owned a working farm managed
by one of his brother-in-laws consisting of a home, 350 acres of land,
and a Tavern in Brookfield, NH, besides all sorts of furnishings and
other valuables, besides having money, which he left to his five
daughters and three sons and wife.

James Hackett, Jr. also left an EXTENSIVE will, which I haven't seen yet,
but have been promised by the Brookfield, NH Historical Society that I
will be getting a copy of same soon.

The other book that I know Chapelle wrote was "The History of American
Sailing Ships". I also recommend you read "History of the Town of Exeter,
NH" by Charles H. Bell and "Ports of Piscataqua" by William G.
Saltonstall. Another good book on these Hacketts, John, James and William
is "Merchant Sail" by William Fairburn, V.5, pages 3057-3059. In 1876 the
Exeter, NH news-letter press Prepared For The Ladies' Centennial Levee,
Sketches of an old New Hampshire town as it was a hundred years ago, re,
EXETER IN 1776. This also gives a description of Col. James Hackett. "He
was a noted ship-builder, and a man of great enterprise and energy." "He
was a man of enterprise and determination. He was no laggard in evincing
his willingness to enlist in his country's cause, for he was one of the
first to march to the scene of hostilities on the morning after the
Concord fight". {Well in fact he marched to Cambridge, MA with his
company of artilery and he was made Captain}.

On Thurs. July 4th 1776 it was voted that Major James Hackett be
Lieutenant Colonel, NH State Papers, Vol. III, 1776-1783. However, he
only served as a Lt. in the Continental Army for one mission, but served
out his time as a Colonel and Muster Major in the NH Milita, because his
skills as a shipbuilder were so much needed at home, re, NH, that he
turned down being a Colonel in the Continental Army.

Colonel James Hackett stood watch over the ship he built, the 74-gun
"America" with Captain John Paul Jones, and they and some of the
carpenters fought off a boat load of Brittish Naval men who were trying
to sneak into the harbor at Portsmouth, NH to burn the ship. Col. James
Hackett took Gen. George Washington out fishing on the occassion of
Washington's visit to Portsmouth (Reported to me by Justice David Hackett
Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. I'm doing his Hackett genealogy and not
making too much headway). Col. Hackett also gave General Washington a
grand salute by three companies of artilery as Gen. George Wasington
crossed the "Portsmouth Plains.

These are my direct ancestors the two James Hacketts and my only
questions are, what in hell ever happen to me? Why can't I even saw a
board in half straight? I thought genes were suppose to get passed on
down the line! Well, it just goes to show...however great your ancestors
were don't make you noth'in! Goodnight,

Gary I.(10) Hackett

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