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From: "lhackett" <>
Subject: Re: [HACKETT-L] The Double Booth-Hackett Connection: A Revisit
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:48:54 -0400
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Hi Mac,

My husband and I would like it if you could e-mail us the full article
which you have. My husband is a ggg-grand son of Josiah HACKETT and Mary
(BOOTH) Hackett. Wwe also have a lot of information, mainly on the HACKETT
side.

Thank you,
Leland (Lee) Joseph HACKETT
Mary June (THOMPSON) Hackett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mac Young" <>
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Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:35 AM
Subject: [HACKETT-L] The Double Booth-Hackett Connection: A Revisit


> 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
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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].
> ---------------------------------END--------------------------
>
>
>

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