Person:Hezekiah Ackley (1)

Hezekiah Ackley was born about 1730/35, probably at East Haddam, and wasbaptized with hi s next younger sister and brother on October 28, 1739,at that place, and died after April 30 , 1783. He married at East Haddam,September 15, 1756 to Abigail Doan,Hezekiah was living between 1763 and 1783 in Grandby, Hartland, CT. Onesource puts death a fter 1790 in Canaan, NY. Hezekiah purchased land inEastHartland CT in 1762 and in turn sol d a portion of it to a JohnAndrews.He served in the militia under Capt Ichabod Phelps from Sep 4 to Dec.11, 1755 in the Fren ch and Indian War. The 7th Company, 3rd Regimen.In June 1761, he received land from his father and the deed calledthem both of East Hadda m. He bought one hundred acres of land there inApril, 1762, and signed a petition to the Gen eral Court as a resident ofthat place on May 9, 1763.Church on May 7 (or 17th) 1769, the day before their son Calvinreceived the same rite, an d the inference may be drawn that he was aninfant and quite ill, for not until June (most o f this is missing.)(Missing info) Map on p. 35, but on March 24, 1763, Hezekiah boughtfrom Thomas Gidding s a "mansion house" and land, east of the earlierlocation and just over the Hartland-Simsbur y church at Hartland. Thislocality is to this day, called "Ackley Place" or "Ackley Hill" a ndlived there until his death. (Unknown) feet elevation and in the center,the old white chu rch sends its steeple up seventy-five feet farther.More than fifty spires and portions of fi ve states, as well as Mount NewHampshire can be seen from its top on a clear day. In 1790, w hen theAckley, Beman and Gates families lived there, the town had1,462inhabitants but "it h as decreased in population with everysucceeding census, so that it is a mere hamlet at the p resent time.1767-8, and was still holding publlic office in 1780. He made manyland transfers in the H artland and Simsbury districts, both as grantorand asgrantee, but the latest is perhaps incl uding it, to his brotherJoel for 180 lbs silver. Diligent search has not disclosed his nam e inany later record nor the date and place of his death nor of that (missinginfo)(missing info)Washington Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut,consisted of one male a nd two females, besides the parents and twochildren of th efamily. This has seemed to sugges t the extra members,especially since the parents-in-law of Hezekiah were maintaining their own home at this time and all of their own children resided with them.Unsuccessful but especi ally in Connecticut and New York, to learn whereand when Hezekiah and his wife, Abigail (DOA NE) died. The strongestprobabilty seems to be that they died after census records one of hi sname then resident with two females. About 1783, the time of his sale ofproperty in East H artland to his brother Joel, his family began to breakup and before 1785; his son Elihu wa s in Canajoharie, NY, by 1800 andmay have moved west much earlier [and Canaan, where this un identifiedHezekiah resided in 1790 was directly on his way to NY, in 1790,equidistant fro m Canaan and Canajoharie; and Benjamin had moved west toWyalusing , now included in Pennsylv ania] by 1791.Canaan prove the identity or the end of this Hezekiah Ackley, but heprobably was ours. I f so, since he was comparatively a stranger in a newcountry with no relatives nearby, probab ly before 1795, when localchurch records begin which might show him if living. 1 2 3

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth.. (Woodstock, VT, 1960 361 pp)
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2.   Ricki Pitzner. Ricki Pitzner's Family Website. (rickilu@charter....).