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It is now quite certain that my ancestor is Anthony Brackett an early 1630's Maine settler possibly born in 1613 in Norfolk, England or
Scotland. He died 1696 in Sandy Beach (Rye), NH . Reccords from my cousin Warren
in Jan 06 confirm this . I am still looking for the exact link in the 1770 to 1800 generation. my confirmed ancestor
Jacob Brackett was born 8 nov 1800 Berwick,York, Maine There are several possibilities as to
which Brackett was his father.
Any help would be helpfull.
See also this page
From archives of L.D.S. family research ctr
Microfische of Town of Berwick, York Co, Maine.AND www
Decendants of Anthony Brackett
Samuel Brackett b: 27 Apr 1672 in Billerica, Middlesex, MA d: 27 Apr 1752 .....
+Elizabeth Botts b: 1673 m: 25 Nov 1694 in Berwick, York, ME d: 21 Apr 1753 .... 4
Mary Brackett d: 28 Feb 1773 ....... +Thomas Tuttle .... 4
Elizabeth Brackett ....... +Samuel Abbott m: Abt 1730 .... 4 Dorothy
Brackett
pp275 Samuel Brackett, Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Brackett born
Sept 6 1695
.... 4 Samuel Brackett b: 6 Sep 1695 in Berwick, York, ME d: 31 Dec 1786 in Kittery, ME
+Sarah Emery b: 4 Feb 1699/00 in Kittery, ME m: 11 Aug 1720 d: 20 Dec 1742
5 John Brackett b: 29 Jun 1720 in Berwick, York, ME d: 18 Feb 1830
+Miriam Thompson b: 26 Jan 1722/23 m: 4 Jul 1745 d: 2 Dec 1810 ...... 5 Isaac
Brackett b: 7 Oct 1722 ...... 5 Samuel Brackett b: 5 Aug 1724
...... 5 James Brackett Sr b: 22 Apr 1726 d: 1825
listed in the DAR Patriot index as having served in the regular ARMY
...... 5 Joshua Brackett b: 9 Jul 1728 ...... 5 Mary Brackett
b: 2 Oct 1730 d: 16 May 1798 ...... 5 Elizabeth Brackett b: 20 Feb 1732/33 d: 1821
...... 5 Jacob Brackett b: 8 Nov 1737 d: 18 Nov 1739 ...... 5 Joseph Brackett
b: 7 Apr 1739 d: 7 Nov 1742 ...... 5 Sarah Brackett b: 15 Nov 1742 d: 4 Mar 1825
.... *2nd Wife of Samuel Brackett: ....... +Abigail Banfield m: 13 Sep 1743 d: Sep
1789
pp 5 (paid) to Elizabeth Brackett for sweeping the meeting house
5 months
00/06/8 year 1703
pp275 Samuel Brackett and Sarah Emery m 8/11/1723
pp 238 John Brackett bought 15 acres of land from William Lahane
of Kittery, Maine
SECCOND BOOK of reccords
pp 15 may 26 1750 Highway and land purchase, per John Marrell
Moses Butler, Samuel Brackett
pp 80 Land contract, John Brackett, Isaac Brackett, Joshua Brackett
pp84 Voted Joshua Brackett, Surveyor of lands
pp 90 3/15/1762 Voted James Brackett- Constable and ?? for year
pp 97 James brackett, juror
pp107 Voted Joshua Brackett, Lot Layer
pp118 Voted Joshua Brackett, Lot Layer
pp 124 Constable James Brackett, to notify all freeholders to town
meeting to raise money for schools
and etc...
pp 137, Joshua Brackett, signed land survey
pp 137 on 3/1768, Voted Joshua Brackett Lot layer
pp 146 Notified James Brackett, Constable, to call Town Meeting
concerning The Town of Boston,
"the very alarming circumstances to which
this provence
as well as America is reduced"
pp 147 "The town, takeing into consideration the melancholy
alarming and distressing circumstances
of this province very
senseably feels , allmost
every individual, in it.The distress
brought upon the provence by ye
new regulations takeing
place amoung us by ye late acts
of parliment imposeing duties
and The intimidation by his Excellantcy
the Govenor has
given the town of boston......"..... to
pp149
pp 182 Town meeting to be called Feb 10th 1772 to raise money for
schools, highways, etc
pp 194/5 "We the Subscribers freeholders and inhabitants of the town of
Berwick apprehending
that by some late acts of the Brittish
Parliment for raiseing
revenue in north America ....."
".....expressing
their sentiments upon this alarming occasion,
and instruct
their representitives as to his conduct in the
General Court...." (in
1772)
attest : James, Isaac
and Samuel Brackett and 17 others
pp 196/7 "A meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Berwick
jan 2 1773."..concerning
the taxing imposed by Parliment
pp216/7 Town Meeting Jan 3 1774 on Taxes by Parliment, The tax on tea,
the East India co.
pp 251/2 Town Meeting May 29,1775 Voted to send one deligate to the
Provincial Congress...AND
A petition to the Deligates of the
Previncial Congress.......AND
"that the officers of the Milita
Companies assemble
their companies together and collect
an account of
all the arms amd ammunition..."
pp 262/3 "June 1776 In Full Meeting made for the purpose and holding
an adgudgement
on the 15th instant to instruct the representatives
of the town of
Berwick should the Honorable Congress for
the safety
of the colonies declare themselves independant of Great
Britain......."
pp 263 August 5th 1776 "Voted; that each man who shall enlist and
go to Boston or Roxbury shall
recieve of the town 12
shillings lawfull money "
pp 411 James Brackett Jr m Anna Stillings Dec 23 1773
listed in the DAR Patriot index as as served in the regular ARMY
pp223 Daniel Brackett m Mary Andrews Oct 29 1774
pp223 Joshua Brackett voted
pp224 Miles Brackett m Lydia Keay Jan 25 1775
pp228 Samuel Brackett, freeholder
pp268 DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE transcribed in reccord
pp270 York,SS. To Mark Lord, one of the Constables of Berwick,
Greetings in the name of the colony and people. You are hereby required
to notify all the male inhabitants of Berwick from 21 years old and upwords
to assemble themselves together at the meeting house in the south parrish of
said town in monday the 14th of Oct at 2 oclock in the afternoon then and
there to take into consideration the request of the great and general court
and derermine wether they will give their concent that the house of
representation of this state of Massachusetts Bay together with the counis
shall consult, agree on and enact such a constitution and form of govt for
this state as the said representation and council on the fullest and most mature
delibewration shall judge most conduce to the safety peace and happiness
to this state and all affair encressions and generations and to pass any vote
or votes relative to the premises as said inhabitants may then think propper .
and you are to make return of this warrent at the time and place within mentioned. Given under our hands and seals at
Berwick Sept 26th 1776
James Warren jr
James Brackett selectmen
Dominicn Goodman
At a general meeting of the Burgesses, Freemen and Inhabitants of the town of Berwick in the county of York ,within the
state of Massachusetts Bay, on the 14th of Oct 1776 due warning being given of the same.
Agreeable to the resolve of the Honorable House of Representation for the
said state, of the 17 day of Sept last, to know the minds of the good people of each town within this state wherher the
present house of representatives
together with the councils of this state if they concent to join shall prepare a
constitution and form of government for this state. After due deliberations thereon, we the inhabitants aforesaid do
consent and agree (nemine contract-
icente ) that a form of constitution of government be so far prepared as that the same may be made public for the revisal
and approbation of this and all other towns within this state before the same be enacted and passed into
constitutional law.
We cannont nor are we able at this critical junction dictate or perscribe any plan of govt for a free and independant
state solely relying on you the grand council of this once happy colony now duly assembled as representation of
the good people, but would most respectfully desire that what ever form of
government may be framed may be the most easy and plain to be
understood by the people of all denominations whereby a line may be drawn
that the ruler and the ruled may know there duty and that tyrany on the one
hand and anarchy on the other hand may be avoided as much as possible.
Attest... Nahum Marchall , Town Clerk
6th day of dec 1776, the townsman were assembled to raise taxes to recruit a milita for 3 months to protect the people
( paraphrase 20 lines of text)
Dominiens Goodwin
James Brackett selectmen
John Keamilton jr
May 17 1784
Excerpt of letter to state representitive elect John Hill from town council....
............ To obivate as much as possible the dangers that may arise in
consequence of the designs formed in various places to legitimate the return of absentees or royalists (so called) into
this commonwealth and to restore to them their justly forfeted estates have made it necessary . The notions of a royalist
attached as he is to a monarchal govt are diametrically opposed to the ideas of a republican who places the govt in the hands
of the people. This being the case, it is fully manifest that there is an evident disagreement in prin-
ciple between these two, and where there is a disagreement between men in principle they cannot possibly associate. There
is no concord between a tory and a whig, nor considered in a political view, can they ever both live peaceably together
in the same society, being activated by opposite motives, and different interests and melinnations. the whole tennor of their
conduct must be unaviodably repugnent to each other. So that a royalist whose conduct is guided by his principles must necessarially
act in opposition to the constitution of this Commonwealth. ..........total is about 3 pages long !!!
1672 Samuel Brackett
b: 27 Apr 1672 in Billerica, Middlesex, MA d: 27 Apr 1752
1695 4 Samuel Brackett
b: 6 Sep 1695 Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Brackett born
in Berwick, York, ME d: 31 Dec 1786 in Kittery, ME
1723 pp275
Samuel Brackett and Sarah Emery m 8/11/1723
1750 pp 15 may 26
1750 Highway and land purchase, per John Marrell
Moses Butler, Samuel Brackett
1724 5 Samuel Brackett
b: 5 Aug 1724
1772) attest : James, Isaac and Samuel Brackett and 17 others
1840/50 census Somerset county (Detroit) Maine (formerly Kennebeck co. area)
No listing for Jacob Brackett
1860 Census Detroit Maine
Jacob
Brackett 59 b 8 nov 1800 Berwick,York, Maine
d 22 oct 1882 Detroit Maine (www)
Hannah
52
children: Charles
L 31
Irene M 29
Ancil W 27
MARTHA J 26 ( liveing with brother
Daniel in 1900 !!!)
Hartwell
J 24
1870 Census Detroit Maine
Jacob
Brackett 69
Hanna
Brackett 62
next listing
Daniel
Brackett 44
Irena
Brackett 40
children: Florence dau 1
1880 Census Detroit Maine
Jacob Brackett 80 yrs
Hannah Brackett 72 yrs
Martha J , daughter, 45
next listing
Daniel Brackett 55
Irena
Brackett 49
children:
Flosey, dau, 11
Lou F 9 !!! exact match !!!
1900 census reccords Detroit Maine
Daniel Brackett b 1825 now 75 yrs m Irena M b 1830 now 69
children, 3 -2 liveing
Lewis F. b 1871, now 29 yrs
Daniel's sister Martha 73 yrs liveing with them
1910 census Detroit, Maine
Lewis F. Brackett b 1871 m Martha Clark
(She
was Myrtle Hanscom's sister
Zella
Leon
Joel
Charley ( had 6 boys) )
children:
Elmer
Francis b dec 6 1906 now 3
Irene
M b 1908 now 2
Donald later !!!
Pauline later !!!
Virginia ?? m Carl Chase, Easton Mass
Linda, Marilyn, Susan
1930 census
Cant yet find Louis/ Lewis Brackett in 1930 census (7/05)
Martha Brackett b 1886, living in City of Barnstable Mass
Elmer F Brackett b 1907
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Irene Brackett b 1909
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Virginia A Brackett b 1915
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Pauline C Brackett b 1917
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Donald A Brackett b 1928
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Elmer Francis Brackett m Angie Crocker 1/24/47
children ; Lewis Harry Brackett b 1948
Picture is Grandfather Lewis, Grandmother Martha, Her sister Zella standing...
children: Zella's Daughter Ellen, then My Father Elmer, then Aunt Irene
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