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4. Samuel
Jacob ACKLEY was born on 29 Aug 1794 in Delaware , New York.1,2,3,4,16,19,20,24,25,26,27,28 LDS has
birth as 29 Aug 1798, Penn Yan, Yates Co., NY
Jackie Du Bois Bergstrom has name as Amuel J He was living in 1820 in Tompkins
, New York.11 He signed
a will between 1840 and 1842 in Milo, Yates , New York.29 pg 314 Between 1850 and 1860 he was Carpenter at Milo,
Yates , New York.19,20 He was living between 1850 and 1870 in Milo, Yates
, New York.19,20,28,30,31 also listed
as living with son Charles in 1870 He signed a will on 22 Dec 1873.25 He died on 31 Jan 1874 in Penn Yan, Yates , New York.1,2,3,4,25,26,32 He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery,
Penn Yan, Yates , New York.3,25,33
He appeared in the census 1820,1850,1855,1860,1865 & 1870 in New York.
He served in the military War of 1812 in Ely's & Fleming's Co. New York Militia.1,2,4,25,32,34,35,36
Pilot of Enterprise, the first steamer on Lake Cayuga, NY, served in the war
of 1812, recieived Citation for Bravery in the relief of Fort Erie
Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812
page 5
No.: 4,003
NAME OF APPLICANT.: Ackley, Saml. I.,
RESIDENCE OF APPLICANT.: Milo, Yates County, New York,
AMOUNTALLOWED.: 55 00
His Obituary appeared in the Samuel J Ackley
Samuel J Ackley died at his home in Penn Yan Jan 31, 1874, aged 80. Mr Ackley
was born Aug 29, 1794 in the County of Delaware in this state, and was a son
of Jacob Ackley, a soldier of the Revolution. While he was quite young his parents
moved to the town of Ovid, Seneca County, where he grew up to manhood, and became
a cooper by trade. Sept 12, 1816 he married Elizabeth King of Genoa, Cayuga County.
She was born in Monmouth County, NJ. March 9, 1800, and survives her husband.
After their marriage they lived about 15 years at Goodwin's' Point near Trumansburg
on Cayuga Lake, and eight years following in the village of Trumansburg. In
the spring of 1839 they moved to Penn Yan where they have since lived.
Mr. Ackley was a quiet unobtrusive man who enjoyed the universal good will of
his fellow man. He enlisted twice in the War of 1812, serving on the Canadian
frontier, and served in several engagements At the Battle of Queenstown he was
one of those who dared to cross over the river and stand a color bearer with
the American soldiers. For the past two or three years he received a pension
for his services in that war. It was always his pride that he was a pilot on
the first steamboat launched on Cayuga Lake, that being the first steamer west
of the Hudson. He served as pilot on that craft, called the Enterprise, several
years. Its first trip dated back to 1819. The aged pair were the parents of
eleven children, nine of whom aretstill living. One, John M., died in 1829, aged
three.
William K., the oldest, married Emma Barrett and is a resident of this village.
Phebe Jane married JOHN Bennett and resides in Allegany County.
Sylvanus H. married and resides in Iowa
James Lawrence married Caroline Gould and lives in Wisconsin. He served in the
war as lieutenant of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, a regiment that participated
in the capture of Jeff Davis. Three of his sons and one son-in-law were also
soldiers of the war.
Julia Ann is the wife of Alfred J. Kerney of this village.
Harriet M. married James Van Buren, son of Hon. Evert VanBuren, and died in 1864
at Chicago, leaving one son.
Catherine M. is the wife of William Stewart, now resident at Willard, Seneca
County. Samuel Harvey married Adeline Lightner and resides in Penn Yan. He was
a soldier serving a full enlistment of three years in Company C, 44th NYV.
Charles M married Sarah Jane Smith and is a resident of Penn Yan. Sophronia E.
is the wife of George D. A. Bridgman, editor of the Ontario County
Journal. YCC Jan 8, 1874
Taken from the May 4, 1911 New Hampton Gazette SAMUEL J. ACKLEY
Samuel J Ackley will celebrate his fiftieth wedding day at his residence in
the building once used as a Steamboat Hotel on Lake Street, about midway to the
Lake on WEDNESDAY Sept 13, 1866. Mr. Ackley and Miss Elizabeth King were married
in Lansing, Tompkins County, (then Genoa, Cayuga County) Sept 12, 1816.
Mr. Ackley is 72 years old. He has been a resident of Penn Yan for over thirty
years, has raised a large and respectable family of children, is a man of strictly
temperate habits, persevering industry and quiet habits, against whom but one
thing can be said -he always voted the democratic ticket.
He was pilot of the first steamboat that was ever built west of Albany, the
"Enterprise" of Cayuga Lake, built in 1819. He was a soldier in the
War of 1812.
YCC Sept 5, 1866 (3) -2 Samuel Jacob ACKLEY and Elizabeth KING were married
on 12 Sep 1816 in Genoa, Cayuga , New York.1,3,4,17,19,20,25,26,28,32 Genoa, Cayuga Co., is now Lansing,
Tompkins Co
Ethel Louise Haines MacDonald and Eugene James Weatherby has place as Scipior,
Cayuga, New York Elizabeth KING (daughter of William
KING and Jane HARVEY) was born on 9 Mar 1800 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth , New Jersey.1,2,3,4,16,19,20,25,26,28
She died on 21 May 1887 in Penn Yan, Yates , New York.1,2,3,4,25,26,32 She was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Penn Yan, Yates
, New York.25 She appeared
in the census 1850,1855,1860,1865 & 1870 in New York. Samuel Jacob
ACKLEY and Elizabeth KING had the following children:
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