• Born: 6 Oct 1796, Westfield MA
• Died: 15 Feb 1860, Providence RI

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: John Charles Jenckes and Mawney Jastram, in 1810, in Providence RI. ³

• Master: Americus Vespucci Potter, about 1821, in Providence RI.

• He worked in 1824-1846 as a silversmith in Providence RI
  Credited with inventing the machinery for manufacturing "Adelaine" chain. Listed in the 1824 city directory with shop on North Court Street, in the 1836 edition on Richmond Street, and in the 1844 edition at the corner of Friendship and Eddy. ³

• Partnership: Lloyd Shaw, circa 1830, in Providence RI. As SACKETT & SHAW.

• Partnership: Ozias D. Willard, in 1836, in Providence RI. As SACKETT & WILLARD. Listed 1836 city directory with a shop at 10 Richmond Street. ³

• Partnership: Ozias D. Willard and Jeremiah Noyes Sewall, in 1836, in Providence RI. As SACKETT, WILLARD & SEWALL. Listed in New York As It Is In 1837 as wholesale jewelry dealers at 58 Nassua Street.
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• Partnership: Jeremiah Noyes Sewall, in 1838-1840, in New York City NY. As SACKETT & SEWALL, with a shop at 59 Nassau Street. Sackett remained in Providence, while Sewall maintained the city store.

• Partnership: Thomas Davis, circa 1846-1850, in Providence RI. As SACKETT, DAVIS & Co., manufacturing jewelers.

• Partnership: Thomas Davis and Americus Vespucci Potter, circa 1850-1860, in Providence RI. As SACKET, DAVIS & POTTER, with a shop at 63 Eddy Street.

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Providence RI. Listed as a manufacturing jeweler.

• His obituary was published in The New York Times on 20 Feb 1860 in New York City NY.
  Mr. Adriah[sic] Sackett died at Providence, R. I., on the 15th inst. He was a native of Westfield, Mass., but removed to Providence when quite a lad, where he followed the trade of a jeweler. In 1848 and 1849 he was the Gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Party in Rhode Island. For ten consecutive years he was a member of the State Central Committee, of which he was Chairman for the last five years of his life, and for ten years he acted as one of the State Prison Inspectors.