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From: Mac Young <>
Subject: The Double Booth-Hackett Connection: A Revisit
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:35:00 -0400


Hi Hackett Rooters:

I'm posting the results of an investigation of the double Hackett-Booth
connection, covered in years past on this list. A Hackett "lister"
contacted me in April with questions on the Booth side (which I was fully
aware of) and introduced me to the Hackett side. That got me curious, and
here are the results. I'm posting only the first generation because of the
length and size of the full article (about 150KB), about half of which is
detailed endnotes. This by no means is the final word on either the Booth or
Hackett side of the connections, as you will see, but it's a start. Anyone
who wants the complete, register-style, footnoted article should post a
request on Booth-L (where I've also posted it) or on Hackett-L, and I will
forward the full article to them by email attachment (RTF format).

Hope this helps someone.

Mac

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Introduction:

During the Revolutionary War period, a son of Joseph Hackett of Freetown,
Mass. and a daughter of another son married a sister and brother, children
of the Anthony3 Booth (Benjamin2, John1) of Dartmouth, Mass., a neighboring
town of Freetown, Mass. My primary research over the past seven years has
focused on the descendents of John1 Booth of Marshfield by about 1644 and
Scituate, Mass., who for the first 150 years were concentrated in Plymouth
and Bristol Counties of Massachusetts. This double "Hackett-Booth
Connection" motivated my recent research effort on the Hackett family side.
Online postings (including but not limited to RootsWeb, Hackett-L and
Booth-L archives) yielded some conflicting ideas, most being undocumented or
lacking reliable source citations. My objective was to see what facts could
easily be found to support reasonable conclusions using mostly original,
primary sources. The study was done relatively quickly, using primarily
census (federal and state) and pension records that were readily available.
This ruled out use of most land and probate records, which could yield
valuable evidence not cited here, but are time consuming. Those sources need
to be examined, if they have not been. The results presented here are
tentative, and I invite your critique and additions of any kind but
especially if supported by evidence.

Note: Unless "direct" evidence of either a parental or a marital
relationship, and/or the location of those events, is found in a reliable
source, I have labeled it "prob." (probable) if I was able to find primary,
original, "indirect" evidence that supports it. If I found only one or two
pieces of indirect primary and/or secondary evidence that suggests it might
be true, and I have not been able to rule it out, I have labeled it "poss."
(possible). Also, please note that most arguments for my conclusions about
relationships and other events are argued in the endnotes, numbered in
brackets [ ], so be sure to check those first for answers to questions that
may arise.

I am particularly interested in learning the female children of Josiah and
Mary (Booth) Hackett, and I hope by this posting to get contributions from
someone. I plan to follow up later with a second article, covering just the
second Booth-Hackett branch, located in Locke, Cayuga Co., N. Y.

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Descendants of Joseph Hackett, Probably of Freetown, Massachusetts


Generation One


1. JOSEPH1 HACKETT was born circa 1723 at prob. Freetown, Bristol Co.,
Mass.;[1] he died prob. between 4 Aug 1800 and 6 Aug 1810 at Oxford,
Chenango Co., N. Y.[2] Joseph Hackett is head of household on the census of
2 Aug 1790 at Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y.[3], and on the census of 4 Aug
1800 at Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y.[4] It seems certain that Joseph arrived
in Oxford from Hillsdale with two adult, married sons, Abel and Josiah, and
their families, in 1798 or shortly before. This conclusion is based on
Josiah's sworn pension application stating he came to Oxford in that year
from Hillsdale, and on the fact that all three of them appeared on the
Oxford census rolls in 1800. Abel was also on the census rolls in Hillsdale,
with apparently one son under 16 years old plus four females, suggesting
that perhaps three of them could be his daughters. A "Henry Hackett" also
appears on the 1800 Oxford census, a young man and his apparent wife, both
of age 16 but less than 26 years, with no children. Subsequent events
suggest that this is a son of Abel, rather than Josiah. The latter is
perhaps old enough to be Henry's father, but from knowledge of Josiah's
marriage date, the ages of his known children, and Mary Booth's available
birth intervals, we can rule Josiah out. In addition to Henry, Abel arrived
with or acquired in Oxford by the 1800 census period, three sons and two
daughters under 16 years old. These three sons plus Henry appear to be the
major contributors to the growth of the Hackett name in Oxford over the next
50 years. In contrast, only one son of Josiah contributed, the other two
having migrated on to western N. Y. and beyond, and were gone from Oxford by
1830.

The first census of the Hackett clan in Oxford showed that Joseph was
"empty-nested," as in fact he nearly was in the 1790 census in Hillsdale,
having apparently only two daughters then remaining in the household. Josiah
was somehow missed in the 1790 census in Hillsdale, having arrived there by
1780 according to his pension application. From subsequent records, we
calculate that Josiah arrived in Oxford at age 39 years with sons of ages
19, 6, and 2 years, as basically confirmed by his 1800 Oxford census counts
(see below). We find no record that he added any sons thereafter. By that
same date he also has three daughters all under the age of 16 years, and
appears to have added no more thereafter. By 1820 he is also "empty-nested"
at age about 62 years. All of these summarized results are addressed below
with source citations.

Joseph's purported son, Edward, who shows no evidence of ever residing in
Oxford, is briefly covered in a family summary below, but will be treated
more fully in another article covering the Hackett-Booth group that settled
in Locke, Cayuga Co., N. Y. at about the same time.

Probable or possible children of Joseph1 Hackett include:

2. i. (prob.) EDWARD2, b. 5 Jun 1748 at prob. Freetown, Bristol
Co., Mass.; m. Phebe Ashley.

3. ii. (prob.) ABEL, b. between 2 Jun 1750 and 1 Jun 1760 at
prob. Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass.

iii. (poss.) SAMUEL was born circa 1753 at prob. Freetown,
Bristol Co., Mass.;[5] he may have married Lucy (--?--) circa 1778 at prob.
Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass., who was head of household on the census of 4
Aug 1800 at Hillsdale, N. Y.[6]

Samuel Hackett is head of household on the census of 2 Aug 1790 at
Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y.[7]

4. iv. (prob.) JOSIAH, b. 15 Jun 1758 at Lyme, New London Co.,
Conn.; m. Mary Booth.
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Endnotes

1 Steve Newton, "Re: [Booth-L] Booth Orphans #1: John-1's Unconnected
Souls," e-mail message from Steve Newton () to Mac
Young, 22 March 2004, Newton first suggested to me (without citing a source)
that Joseph was the father of Josiah (of Oxford) and Edward (of Chenango
Co.), both formerly of Freetown, Mass., as apparently was Joseph the father;
his age is calculated for a 25 year old father on birth of oldest known
child (Edward). Hereinafter cited as "Booth-L List: Hackett, Booth".

2 Joseph Hackett, 4 Aug 1800 Oxford census sheet, http://www.Ancestry.com/,
Second Census of U.S. Schedule M32-28, N. Y., Joseph was enumerated as head
of household in 1800, clustered with Josiah and Henry on the same page, but
is not found there with those two, and other Hacketts, in 1810; it appears
he died between before June of 1810. All census sheet references hereafter
are from Ancestry.Com unless otherwise indicated.

3 Joseph Hackett, 2 Aug 1790 Hillsdale census sheet, First Census of U.S.
Schedule M637-6, New York, (230); Joseph has counts: [1,0,3,0,0],
suggesting a family with two daughters; he is listed on the same image
(adjacent pages) as Abel Hackett, a probable son, and three images (5 pages)
from a Samuel Hackett, a possible son.

4 Joseph Hackett, 4 Aug 1800 Oxford census sheet, (770); Joseph has counts
of: M [0,0,0,0,1], F [0,0,0,0,1], and O [0,0], a typical empty nest for this
elderly couple.

5 Samuel Hackett, 2 Aug 1790 Hillsdale census sheet, (235); Samuel has a
count of: [2,1,6,0,0], suggesting a mature couple, married, say 12 years if
all others in household are their children. He is listed three images (5
pages) from a Joseph Hackett, a possible father; we calculate his birth date
from a 25-year-old first time father now having seven children.

6 Lucy Hackett, 4 Aug 1800 Hillsdale census sheet (186), Godfrey Library
(online), Second Census of U.S. Schedule M32-22, N. Y., Lucy has counts of:
M [0,0,2,0,0], F [1,2,1,3,1] and O [0,0]; this apparent widow with eight
females (one over age 45) and no mature male (26 or older) is a good
candidate for a widowed wife of the Samuel Hackett, enumerated here in 1790.
If so, these census data suggest a couple married for about 12 years, and we
estimate her birth date for a 20-year-old bride.

7 [see note 5].
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