{"id":780,"date":"2020-04-05T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=780"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:57:21","slug":"was-elizabeth-sacket-kidnapped-by-the-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Was Elizabeth Sacket kidnapped by the Indians?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rather startling assertion is made in the book <em>Western Massachusetts history: the Westfield area<\/em>. The author, Stephen Pitoniak, writing in 1970, claimed that the death in 1682 of John Sacket\u2019s four-year-old daughter Elizabeth was what we would now call fake news.<br><br>According to Pitoniak\u2019s account, Elizabeth\u2019s death record was false. She was, instead, abducted by the Indians in a raid on the family farm in Westfield, taken to the north-west part of New York State, and brought up there by the Indians.<br><br><strong>And was Elizabeth the mother of the half-blooded Chief Sackett?<\/strong><br><br>The account further asserts that, upon reaching adulthood, Elizabeth married into the tribe and bore a son, who was later identified as Chief Sackett.\u00a0<br><br>Chief Sackett is recorded elsewhere in the history books as a half-blooded Indian who, in 1748 during King George\u2019s War, mounted a raid on a patrol of English soldiers. The raid did not go well for Chief Sackett and he eventually ordered a retreat, carrying off his dead and wounded.<br><br>The full story, with historical references, and some analysis, is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g0\/p113.htm#i3368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabeth Sacket (1677\u20131682)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather startling assertion is made in the book Western Massachusetts history: the Westfield area. The author, Stephen Pitoniak, writing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}