Joel Ackley (1742 - 1801)

Born 17 Apr 1742 in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 18 Aug 1801 at age 59 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Ensign Joel Ackley performed Patriotic Service in Connecticut in the American Revolution.

Joel Ackley is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P101084
Rank: Ensign

Joel Ackley was born April 17, 1743 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; the son of Benjamin Ackley and his wife Experience Crippen.^[1]

Military

He was a Revolutionary War soldier, enlisting in the New York line 8th Company 3rd Regiment on December 17, 1776. New York Continental Line 1st and 3rd Regiment. (DAR: United States Congressional Serial Set Issue 6924 - Eithteenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution - Washington Government Printing Office - 1916) He received a 600-acre grant of bounty lands in return for his service.^[1]This land was in Ulysses township (Tomkins County) New York^[2]and he sold his right to it in July, 1783.^[1]He receive a Military Pension, Revolutionary War, August 4, 1790, New York.^[2]

The General Assembly of Connecticut made him an ensign of the 3rd Company in the 26th Regiment of state troops in May of 1781.^[1]

Wife and Family

In about 1760 Joel Ackley married Lois Brown.^[1]

Joel Ackley purchased land in East Hartland in about June, 1766.^[1] He and his wife joined the church there on August 2, 1770.^[1]On April 30, 1783 he purchased his brother Hezekiah's home or property adjoining it for 180,35 pounds. This property was in the western part of Simsbury, now Granby.^[1]In the 1790 census he is recorded as a resident in Hartland vicinity.^[1]It is recorded that he bought land there as late as February 1792 and sold land in 1791, 1794, and 1798.^[1]

• children of Joel Ackley and his wife Lois (Brown) Ackley:^[1]

1. Lucy was born about 1763, baptized October 11, 1767
2. Joel was baptized October 11, 1767; perhaps it was he who married in Suffield, October 18, 1812, Esther Parsons of Enfield
3. Abner Brown was baptized October 11, 1767; m by 1789 Huldah __?__
4. Simon (1st) was baptized September 24, 1769; d. January 29, 1770
5. Simon, (2nd) or Simeon was baptized July 21, 1771; probably m. Nov. 15, 1791 at East Hartland, Lydia Emmons
6. Harris was baptized February 6, 1773
7. Aaron(1st) was baptized October 31, 1773; d. Jan 16, 1776.
8. Lois was baptized May 26, 1776; probably it was she who d. Jan. 7, 1838, having married April 18, 1794, Levi Chapman (Levi, Levi, Joseph, John, Robert), moved to Ohio where she had, among others, children named "Joel" and "Nancy," presumably named for her father, brother, and sister).
9. Sarah was baptized June 28, 1778
10. Aaron(2nd) was baptized April 16, 1780
11. Jesse was baptized September 1, 1782
12. Nancy was baptized October 24, 1784.

A person by the name of Joel Ackling, who may have been a member of the family, died in Columbia County, New York in 1791 - this is where Hazekiah Ackley had probably moved.^[1]

Death and Burial

Buried at Danby Rural Cemetery, Danby, Tompkins County, New York.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} Ferris, Mary Dalton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. Gates and Allied Families. (Privately Printed) 1931. Volume II, p. 45
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find-A-Grave: Joel Ackley. Created by Graves. Record added June 9, 2012. Find A Grave: Memorial #91614316

• Ferris, Mary Dalton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. Volume II, p. 45. Gates and Allied Families. (Privately Printed) 1931.see at hathitrust

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed June 14, 2016), "Record of Joel Ackley", Ancestor # A201893.

• Joel Ackley (1742-1801) on Find A Grave: Memorial #50143895 retrieved 17 August 2020

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Michael Spencer for creating WikiTree profile Ackley-451 through the import of Rebecca_2013-11-02.ged on Nov 3, 2013.

• Fact Burial: Hunn Memorial Cemetery , Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, USA