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1. Francis ACKLEY Sr1 was born about 1730 in Boston, Suffolk , Massachusetts.2,3
LDS has birth ca 1725 He died on 17 Jun 1775 in Boston, Suffolk , Massachusetts.2 Died at the battle of Bunker Hill
Francis Ackley is said to have taken part in the Boston Tea Party.
Ref: New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. Oct. 1956; Marblehead V.R.; Boston V.R.;
Chester C. Philbrick of Old Bridge, N.J.; A.D. Parker: History of
Pemaquid (210); James Otis: The Story of Pemaquid; Boston
Francis signed the following petetion
BOSTON FIRE SUFFERERS, 1760
Four hundred and thirty-nine inhabitants of Boston, New England, petitioned the
Mouse of Commons in England to compensate them for their losses during the great
fire of 1760. The petition was sent by the house to the Lords of the Treasury
in London (PRO: T1/412) where it was endorsed; "React February 1761. My
Lords think it not proper to consent."
The Bostonians say In their appeal that "on 21) March last a most terrible
fire, exceeding any that ever before happened in the American Colonies, broke
out in the heart of Boston at two in the morning which, increased by the wind
blowing from the North West and the flames of many wooden buildings raged with
irresistible violence carrying alt before it, and widening in its progress, proceeded
with such a rapid course to the water's edge that the houses and other buildings
of your petitioners were reduced to ashes, and sane of your petitioners from
affluent, and others from easy, circumstances, to great straits and indigence."
The claimants say they were received with the greatest humanity by their fellow
citizens but the financial burden on the town became unbearable since Boston
"for many years past has bore more than other colonists in consequence
of greater exertion to prevent French encroachments and to prosecute the war.
Francis ACKLEY Sr and Tabitha BULL were married on 8 Jun 1750 in Boston, Suffolk
, Massachusetts.2,3,4,5 Tabitha BULL (daughter of
Nathaniel BULL and Tabitha CRAFTS) was baptized on 26 Apr 1730 in 1st Congregational
Church, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts.4,6 Francis ACKLEY Sr and Tabitha BULL
had the following children:
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