Excerpt from The Modern Standard Drama, Vol. 4: A Collection of the Most Popular Acting Plays, With Critical Remarks, Also the Stage Business, Costumes, Etc
James Henry Hackett was born at 72 William street, in the city of New York, March 15th, 1800. His father, Thomas G. Hackett, though born in Holland, resided for several years in New York, and was a lineal descendant of one of the old Feudal Barons of Ireland who constituted the original Irish Peerage, most of which has become extinct; but according to a pedigree of the "Hackett Family," issued from the Herald Office of Ireland in 1834, and attested by the Marquis Wellesley, then Lord Lieutenant and Governor General of Ireland, the original founder was that "Haket" who came over to England from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and whose name, as one of his victorious generals, is recorded and is legible to this day upon the pillar of "Battle Abbey," near Hastings. One of the lineage of this "Haket" accompanied Strongbow to Ireland, and it was from this branch that the father of the subject of this memoir was derived. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Abraham Keteltas, of Jamaica, Long Island. This gentleman was the son of a Mr. Abraham Keteltas, who came to America from Holland about the year 1720. He is represented to have possessed unusual talents, which were improved by profound erudition. It is worthy of notice, that, after settling at Jamaica on Long Island, he frequently officiated in three different languages, having preached in the Butch and French languages in his native city of New York.
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