{"id":990,"date":"2009-07-31T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=990"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:19:50","slug":"jeffery-sackett-mayor-of-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Jeffery Sackett, Mayor of Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/sackett-jeffery-stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By an extraordinary coincidence, the gravestones of Jeffery Sackett and his family at St Mary&#8217;s Church, Sandwich, were &#8220;discovered&#8221; twice in one afternoon by Sackett Family Association members attending the reunion in Thanet, Kent, last September.<br>Jean Carpenter and her brother Mike Trickey can claim the first sighting, and this was followed an hour or so later by Steve and Debbie Barbee, accompanied by Chris Sackett.<br>Jeffery Sackett, 1617-1695, was three times Mayor of Sandwich. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g0\/p35.htm#i1029\">biographical sketch<\/a> includes details of his father&#8217;s will\u2014he was effectively disinherited by his father\u2014and of a lengthy case in the Chancery Court which Marion Sackett had researched some years ago.<br>The court case, a sorry tale of greed and marital disharmony from which our man does not emerge well, is a sad reminder that human nature is not much changed down the ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By an extraordinary coincidence, the gravestones of Jeffery Sackett and his family at St Mary&#8217;s Church, Sandwich, were &#8220;discovered&#8221; twice&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":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-lives","category-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}