Seventh Generation

1756. Angalett ACKLEY was born on 5 Mar 1825 in Chatham, Middlesex , Connecticut.^241,790 She died on 19 Apr 1901.⁷⁹⁰

Angalett ACKLEY and Rev Benjamin Lawton SAYER were married on 30 Dec 1846 in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut.^{5,195,241,337,790} by Rev. Levi H. Wakeman.
Rev Benjamin Lawton SAYER (son of Benjamin K SAYER and Ruth LAWTON) was born on 5 May 1824 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts.⁷⁹⁰ He died on 21 Mar 1876 in East Falmouth, Barnstable , Massachusetts.⁷⁹⁰ [NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: autobiography]⁷⁹⁰ Benjamin Lawton Sayer; son of Ben­jamin K. and Ruth,, was born at New Bedford May 5, 1824. He married Angalette Ackley, daughter of John and Anna (Dudley) Ackley, at East Haddam, Conn., on Dec. 30, 1846. She was born March 5, 1825, at Chatham Centre, Conn., and died April 19, 1901. Their chil­dren were: William L., born Feb. 26, 1848; Herbert A., born June 17, 1850 (died July 4, 1871); Edward A., born Nov. 20, 1852 (died Sept. 6, 1879); Charles S., born April 2, 1856 (died Oct. 1, 1877); and Ruth Annie, born Sept. 28, 1858. Benjamin L. Sayer joined the Providence (now New England Southern) Methodist Episcopal Conference when he was about twenty-one years old, and continued in the active work of the ministry nearly to the time of his death, which occurred in East Falmouth March 21, 1876. He filled a large number of appointments, mostly in Cape Cod. Angalett ACKLEY and Rev Benjamin Lawton SAYER had the following children:

+3204	i.	William Layton SAYER was born on 26 Feb 1848.790 Biography of790 William Lawton Sayer, son of Ben­jamin Lawton and Angalette (Ackley) Sayer, was born Feb. 26, 1848, at Falmouth, Mass. Until sixteen years old be attended the public schools, then worked four years in the factory of the Morse Twist Drill Company at New Bedford. He subsequently became a reporter for the New Bedford Morning Mercury (1871); in 1876 he bought an interest in the Mercury, and. was its editor 'until 1894;, when be was made editor of the New Bedford Evening Standard, retaining his interest in the Mercury, and. being chosen president of the Mer- cury Publishing Company. Both of these places he still holds. Mr. Sayer is a director of the New Bedford Cooperative Bank, of the Acushnet Cooperative Bank, and a trustee of the Swain Free School of New Bedford. He is what may be termed a Liberal Republican. Hhs religious connection is with the Trinitarian Congregational Curch. He has served as a member of the school Committee of New Bed­ford, and for some years was a trustee of the Free Public Library, and. secretary of the board. Mr. Sayer married, Oct. 9, 1873, Sarah Catherine Bosworth, daughter of Amos and Sarah A. (Paun) Bosworth, and they have one child, Gertrude Bosworth, born July 6, 1874.
3205	ii.	Herbert A SAYER was born on 17 Jun 1850.790 He died on 4 Jul 1871.790
3206	iii.	Edward A SAYER was born on 20 Nov 1852.790 He died on 6 Sep 1879.790
+3207	iv.	Ruth Annie SAYER was born on 28 Sep 1858 in North Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts.790