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Dr Samuel Sackett

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Dr Samuel Sackett Veteran

Birth
Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
13 Feb 1833 (aged 78)
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Sacket began the practice of his profession as a physician and surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. In 1781 he was at Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn., and seven years later settled permanently at Morgantown, in same county. He was a farmer as well as a physician, and the farm he then lived on was at a recent date, 1907, in the possession of one of his descendants.

Fayette County's medical history practically begins with Dr. Samuel Sackett, who was a surgeon in the Revolution, and came to Beesontown, the later Uniontown, in the month of September, 1781, as the war was closing. He was in Uniontown from 1781 to 1788, and them removed to his farm at George's Creek, but he continued to practice mecicine for about forty years, and until his death in 1833.
Dr. Sacket began the practice of his profession as a physician and surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. In 1781 he was at Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn., and seven years later settled permanently at Morgantown, in same county. He was a farmer as well as a physician, and the farm he then lived on was at a recent date, 1907, in the possession of one of his descendants.

Fayette County's medical history practically begins with Dr. Samuel Sackett, who was a surgeon in the Revolution, and came to Beesontown, the later Uniontown, in the month of September, 1781, as the war was closing. He was in Uniontown from 1781 to 1788, and them removed to his farm at George's Creek, but he continued to practice mecicine for about forty years, and until his death in 1833.


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