nglish cousins."Near the close of the year 1630 the ship Lyon, laden with provision and having on board 26 passengers, sailed out from the seaport of Bristol, England, bound for Massachusetts Bay Colony.Her passengers were cultured and well-to-do Puritan Colonists, who, in consequence of persecution and social ostracism because of their religion, had determined to leave comfortable homes in the land of their birth, and seek liberty of conscience with such fortune as might await them on the green shores or in the primeval forests of the fair land of New England.The member of this little company destined to meet with severest trials, and to be most favorably remembered in the land whither they journeyed, was the able and fearless young Cambridge student and minister, Roger Williams.Our interest, however, is centered more directly in a family group of his fellow passengers, consisting of Simon Sackett, his young wife Isabel, their infant son Simon, and John, a stalwart lad, the brother of Simon the elder.From these are descended all the older lines of the family in America.LINE I.PARENTS.Generation I.___?Sackett, of Isle of Ely.1.SIMON, ___?1635.2.John, ___?1684.I. II.1.SIMON SACKETT, of Newtown, Mass., married in England, Isabell ___?3.SIMON, 1630–1655.4.John, 1632–1719.II.III.3.SIMON SACKETT, of Springfield, Mass., married Sarah, dau.Wm.Bloomfield.5.JOSEPH, 1656