Fourth Generation

88. Maj Benjamin ACKLEY Jr^2,198 was born on 28 Oct 1739 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.^4,5,103,122 He was baptized on 28 Oct 1739 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.⁵ He was living between 1756 and 1765 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut. He was living between 1765 and 1771 in East Hartland, Hartford , Connecticut.¹⁹⁹ [NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Church]²⁰⁰ He appeared in the census in 1768 in Connecticut. He was living between 1771 and 1778 in Chatham, Middlesex , Connecticut. He was living between 1778 and 1783 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut.² He was living between 1783 and 1796 in Castleton, Rutland , Vermont.²⁰¹ He appeared in the following News Article from the The Weekly Monitor and Litchfield Town and County Recorder on 23 Jan 1787 in Litchfield , Connecticut PUBLIC AUCTION
On the 15th day of February next, on the premises, will be sold, about one hundred and eighty acres of valuable land, with a house and barn standing thereon, lying in the town of Warren, and county of Litchfield, lately the property of Benjamin Ackley, now belonging to the state of Connecticut: Said lands will be sold at three months credit, on indisputable security being given; and any liquidation securities of this state will be received in payment.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, jun
January 22d 1787 He died on 28 Mar 1796 in Castleton, Rutland , Vermont.¹⁰³ He was buried in Old Church Yard, Castleton, Rutland , Vermont.¹⁰³ He served in the military Revolutionary War in Connecticut.^122,201 Benjamin owned a home in E Hartland CT as did his brothers Joel and Hezekiah.
Benjamin became a member of the E Haddam church 1 Nov 1765.
In jul 1763 he purchased land in E Hartland, CT. and moved there after 1 Sept 1765, but before 1 May 1768.
Benjamin Ackley was a deputy to the legislature in 1781 and 1782

From a biography of John M. Ackley (son of John A.):

Mr. Ackley's grandfather, Benjamin Ackley, was a native of Connecticut and served in the commissary department of the American department in the Revolutionary war. He spent the rest of his life at Castleton, Vermont. His wife was Elizabeth Buell

Maj Benjamin ACKLEY Jr and Hannah HIGGINS were married on 15 Jan 1756 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.^{5,20,90,122,192} East Haddam
From Fair Haven Church Records
Hannah HIGGINS (daughter of Living and Living) appeared in the census in 1768 in Connecticut. She died before 1783.²⁰¹ She was born in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.²⁰ Hannah was a descendent of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower.
Hannah joined the Middle Haddam Church 14 Nov 1756 and transferred membership 18 Jun 1758 to the E Haddam Church. Maj Benjamin ACKLEY Jr and Hannah HIGGINS had the following children:

+320	i.	Hannah ACKLEY.
+321	ii.	Ruth ACKLEY.
322	iii.	Ichabod ACKLEY was born on 7 Feb 1761 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5,20,202,203 He was baptized on 1 Mar 1761 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5 He died on 25 Aug 1764 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.20,202,203 He was buried in Cove Cemetery, East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.202,203,204 Moodus Road, Rt 149, East Haddam CT For many years after the settlement of the town, the people carried their dead across the Connectciut River to Haddam for burial. Around the year 1700, a burial procession was not able to cross the river because of bad weather. So they buried their dead in the forest, a little ways back from the cove.
323	iv.	Chloe ACKLEY was born on 9 Feb 1763 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5,20,49,57,203 She died on 9 Dec 1764 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.20,49,57,203 She was buried in Cove Cemetery, East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.203,205
324	v.	Chloe ACKLEY was born on 28 Jul 1765 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5,20 She was baptized on 1 Sep 1765 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5
+325	vi.	Roxanna ACKLEY.
326	vii.	Zilpah ACKLEY was born about 1769 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.4,5,26 Birth records: United States/Europe 900-1880 has birth ca 1767 Gene Pool Individual Records - Births has date and place as ca 1767 and East Hartland, Hartford, Connecticut Zilpah is a possible child and with Rosanna witnessed a deed to Benjamin dated 27 Feb 1783.

Maj Benjamin ACKLEY Jr and Elizabeth BUELL were married about 1783 in Warren, Litchfield , Connecticut.^{5,122,201,206} Elizabeth BUELL²⁰¹ was born on 6 Nov 1744 in Warren, Litchfield , Connecticut.²⁰⁶ She died on 16 Aug 1832 in Darien, Erie , New York.²⁰⁶ died at the home of her son by first marriage Orange Carter She was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, North Darien, Erie , New York.²⁰⁶ About 1783--the close of the Revolutionary War--Mrs. Carter married, secondly, Major Benjamin Ackley, who took her and her children, together with some of his own, by a former marriage, to Castleton, VT., where her brother, Major Ephraim Buell, had recently settled.
At least three more children were born to her, all of whom lived to be very aged. They were John A., Eleazer, and Orange Ackley. The former was once well known in Cleveland, as was his son, John M. Ackley, late of Brewton, Ala., to whose courtesy the writer is greatly indebted for valuable data concerning the family. Maj Benjamin ACKLEY Jr and Elizabeth BUELL had the following children:

+327	i.	John Anson ACKLEY.
328	ii.	Living.
329	iii.	Living.