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References
- ↑ David Oliver, Late Mediæval Thanet and the Cinque Ports (Broadstairs, Kent: The Author, 1997).
- 1 2 Charles H. Weygant, The Sacketts of America: Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1630–1907 (Newburgh, NY: The Author, 1907).
- ↑ Robert Anderson, The Great Migration Begins – Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of Family Names, 2016
- ↑ Henry Harrison, Surnames of the United Kingdom: a Concise Etymological Dictionary (London: Eaton Press, 1912).
- ↑ Alfred Barrett Sackett, MC, MA, (1895–1977), private papers.
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary.
- ↑ Surnames of England and Wales – the ONS list.
- ↑ US Census Bureau Archived 1997-06-17 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ British Surnames and Surname Profiles.
- ↑ John Lewis, The History and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Isle of Tenet in Kent (London: 1723).
- ↑ Letter, 28 June 1981, Louis L'Amour to Ruth Elzey Rawlings, "I got the name from a desert well somewhat west of Yuma, Arizona, although it is in California. The "well" (you have to dig several barrels of sand before reaching water) was discovered by a Lt. Delos B. Sackett who was with a government expedition and the water was desperately needed for their mules."