Samuel Hackett

1787-1860 · England

Born 1787, England

Died 1860

Children include Caroline

Samuel Hackett was born in England on 12 December 1787. The date comes from his grave at Plymouth, Michigan. His English home was the country north of Bedford, around the villages of Melchbourne and Dean. Before he left England he was in business at Bedford with a partner. Neither his trade nor his parents are recorded.

On 30 September 1811 he married Elizabeth Arnold. One index of the parish registers places the wedding at Upper Dean, and another at Melchbourne, the next parish. The children's grandmother, Mary Arnold, had lived from childhood in a cottage at Melchbourne on three acres of land. Their first child, Emily, was born about 1812 to 1816.

About 1831 Samuel and Elizabeth sailed for America with two sons and three daughters. They left Emily behind as a companion to her grandmother. The family settled in central New York. By about 1833 Samuel Hackett had a house and yard at Homer, in Cortland County, next to the yard of Giles Capron. There his daughter Mary Ann, then sixteen, met William Breed Grow, a young apprentice. Their youngest child, Caroline Permelia, was born in New York on 4 April 1834.

By 1838 the family home was at Auburn, in Cayuga County. Mary Ann married William B. Grow there on 22 May 1838, in a quiet ceremony performed by Rev. S. S. Parr, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Elizabeth Hackett was already very ill. She gave three-year-old Caroline into the young couple's care and died within the year. Caroline grew up in the Grow household in Michigan and married Eli Emory Hendrick at Plymouth in 1853.

Samuel Hackett followed his daughter to Michigan. He lived with the Grows during William Grow's early years as a Baptist minister and looked after the church building for him. In 1860 he was in the Grow household in the town of Plymouth, Wayne County, with a Julia Hackett, also born in England, about 1805. She was probably a second wife. The family often talked of sending him back to England to see Emily, but he was thought too old for the voyage.

He died on 6 August 1860 and was buried in the Old Baptist Cemetery at Plymouth. His white stone is carved with a scroll above his name. His daughter Mary Ann Grow visited Emily in England in 1871, after forty years apart.

Children

Caroline Permelia Hackett 1834-1895

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 11116125, Old Baptist Cemetery, Plymouth, Wayne County, Michigan; photograph by contributor KChaffeeB.

William B. Grow, Eighty-Five Years of Life and Labor (Carbondale, Pa.: the author, 1902), p. 37; Internet Archive eightyfiveyearso00grow, leaf n60 (Rutgers University Libraries copy).

William B. Grow, Eighty-Five Years of Life and Labor (1902), p. 175; Internet Archive eightyfiveyearso00grow, leaf n200.

William B. Grow, Eighty-Five Years of Life and Labor (1902), p. 180; Internet Archive eightyfiveyearso00grow, leaf n205.

William B. Grow, Eighty-Five Years of Life and Labor (1902), p. 182; Internet Archive eightyfiveyearso00grow, leaf n207.

William B. Grow, Eighty-Five Years of Life and Labor (1902), pp. 18, 35-38, 40, 95, 175-184, 294, archive.org eightyfiveyearso00grow; England, Bedfordshire, Parish Registers, FamilySearch 1:1:QG1M-KRTM; England Marriages, 1:1:V5KB-NW5 and 1:1:NVSP-F81; 1850 census, 1:1:MF85-YYS; 1860 census, 1:1:MWDZ-KNR; Find a Grave 11116125; MIGenWeb family group sheet, Elisha Grow family (Oakland County).

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