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June 25, 2007

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There once was a large tract of land that lay, in part, in the northeastern reaches of today's Pelham Bay Park known as the Sacket Farm because it belonged to Joseph Sacket. Following Joseph Sacket's death, a Notice of Administrators' Sale of Real Estate (including the Sacket Farm) appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle. That portion of the notice relating to the Sacket Farm in Pelham Manor is transcribed below, followed by a citation to its source.

"Administrators' Sale of Real Estate.

IN PURSUANCE of an Order made by Alexander H. Wells, Esquire, Surrogate of the County of Westchester, bearing date the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, whereby it was ordered, among other things, that Philer Betts and Selleck Scofield, the Administrators of Joseph Sacket, late of the town of Greenwich, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, deceased, sell the following described Real Estate of the said deceased, to enable the said Administrators to pay the debts of the said deceased, . . . .

The subscribers will also sell, by virtue of the before named order, on the premises, in the town of Pelham in the said county of Westchester, at one o'clock in the afternoon of Friday the eighth day of October next, the farm of land and premises belonging to the said Joseph Sacket, deceased, which is described and bounded as follows: Situate in the said town of Pelham, bounded southerly in part by a certain Creek which divides the land hereby to be described from the lands of John Hunter, northerly by lands of Elbert Roosevelt, easterly by lands of said Elbert Roosevelt, and westerly by land of said Elbert Roosevelt and Caleb Pell, John Hunter and Herman Le Roy, as the same is now fenced, containing one hundred and fifty-four acres one road and fifty-four perches, with all the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

Terms made known on the day of sale.

PHILER BETTS,
SELLECK SCOFIELD,
Adminis'rs of Jos. Sacket.

August 18th, 1841, 45w7"

Source: Administrators' Sale of Real Estate, Hudson River Chronicle, Sep. 28, 1841, Vol. 4, Issue 50, p. 4, col. 3.

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