Re: Who was Saxton Pickett?
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Who was Saxton Pickett?
Linda Wilbur 2/20/08
I only have one Saxton in my database. That Saxton was the son of Phineas (1757 -1841) and Anne [Squire] Pickett of Durham, Middlesex Co CT. I don't have dates for Saxton.
However, your Saxton appears to have been in VT. I do not know if this is the same Saxton.
I do have a note about a Saxton Pickett in VT in the early 1800's -
*****Do not know if this is same Saxton Pickett or even if the story is true ******
A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer 1810-1837
by Robert E. Shalhope, Hiram Harwood, Benjamin Harwood - 2003 - Social Science
"The "most shocking & melancholy instance of suicide," however, was that of Saxton Pickett, who "in a fit of despair, which grew out of a course of intemperance that he had been in a few years past ... cut his own throat with a a razor from ear to ear & died instantly."
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Re: Who was Saxton Pickett?
Ronald Bachman 4/15/08