A selection of notable Sacketts—the famous, infamous, and some just interesting

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  • William Saket (fl1317), the earliest recorded Sackett, who, in 1317, was in dispute with the Abbot of St Augustine
  • John Sackett the fisherman (1585 or 1586-1634), brother of Simon Sackett the colonist
  • John Sackett of Buddles (prob. 1594-after 1642), progenitor of the main English line, but about whom much remains unknown
  • Simon Sackett the colonist (1595-1635) who migrated in about 1631 from the Isle of Thanet, Kent, to Massachusetts
  • John Sackett of New Haven (1620s-1684), who migrated sometime before 1641 to New Haven, Connecticut, presumably from Thanet, Kent, and whose origin remains a tantalizing mystery
  • Augustus Sacket (1769-1827) who founded the village of Sackets Harbor
  • Thomas Baker Sackett (c1796-1837), who was convicted of highway robbery, sentenced to death by hanging, but granted an eleventh-hour reprieve from execution
  • Richard Henry Sackett (1813-1872), recently discovered bigamist who fled to Essex leaving his wife and children destitute in Kent
  • General Delos Bennet Sacket (1822-1885) who, after gallant Civil War service, became Inspector General of the United States Army
  • Frederic Moseley Sackett (1868-1941), US Ambassador to Germany during the collapse of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power