Fourth Generation

90. Pvt Joel ACKLEY was born on 17 Apr 1742 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.^{4,5,49,86,208} He was baptized on 17 Apr 1743 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.^5,9 He was living about 1770 in East Hartland, Hartford , Connecticut. [NEED TO DEFINE SENTENCE: Church]²⁰⁹ He was living in 1776 in New York City, New York.²¹⁰ He Enlisted in the militaryin the New York line 8th Company 3rd Regiment on 17 Dec 1776 in New York²¹¹ He appeared in the census in 1790 in Connecticut. He was living in 1790 in Litchfield, Litchfield , Connecticut.¹¹⁹ He received a military pension on 4 Aug 1790 in New York^173,174 Pension # NY 6748
assignee John N Blecker He died on 18 Aug 1801 in Canandaigua, Ontario , New York.^49,86,208 He was living in 1818 in Sussex , New Jersey.²⁰⁸ He was buried in Woolhouse/Hunn Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario , New York.^49,124 He served in the military in the Revolutionary War in the New York Continental Line 1st & 3rd Regiment.^{9,174,208,210} served from 1776 to the end of the Revolution

Placed on pension roll 15 May 1819
Commenced Pension 1 May 1818 at age 80
annual pension 96.00, received 239.74 as of 1885 He balloted to receive Revolutionary War bounty land beginning in mid 1790. Enfield, Tompkins , New York.²¹² A total of 310 Lots (containing 600 acres per lot) from the area known as the Military Tract of Central NY, fall within the current boundaries of Tompkins County. From this total, 16 lots were cited as reserved for Gospel, Church or Schools. In the Township of Dryden, an additional 5 lots were NOT initially balloted due to boundary conflicts and were cited as 'Interferes With Massachusetts'. The remaining 289 bounty land lots and corresponding names are found on this list. Lots were balloted as bounty land to eligible soldiers or their heirs and assignees beginning in mid 1790.

He was dicharged from the military at the end of the Revolutionary Wa Joel owned a home in E Hartland CT as well as his brothers Hezekiah and Benjamin.
Joel and his wife joined the church in E Hartland CT on 2 Aug 1770.
Joel Ackley was made an Ensign of the third company in the 26th Regiment of state troops. He served as a member of two different NY companies during the revolution and received 600 acre grant of land in Ulysses township in what is now Tompkins Co., NY. He sold his right to the land in Jul 1783.

Pvt Joel ACKLEY and Lois BROWN were married.^9,189,213 Lois BROWN was born about 1740.^9,49 She died on 29 Apr 1813 in Canandaigua, Ontario , New York.^9,49 She was buried in Woolhouse/Hunn Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario , New York.⁴⁹ Pvt Joel ACKLEY and Lois BROWN had the following children:

+344	i.	Lucy ACKLEY.
+345	ii.	Pvt Joel ACKLEY.
+346	iii.	Abner Brown ACKLEY.
347	iv.	Simon ACKLEY was christened on 24 Sep 1769 in East Haddam, Middlesex , Connecticut.5 He died on 29 Jan 1770.
+348	v.	Simon ACKLEY.
349	vi.	Harris ACKLEY was christened on 6 Feb 1773 in East Hartland, Hartford , Connecticut.5
350	vii.	Aaron ACKLEY was born on 13 Sep 1773 in Hartland, Hartford , Connecticut.5 He was baptized on 31 Oct 1773 in East Hartland, Hartford , Connecticut.5,214 baptised by Aaron Church He died on 16 Jan 1776.
+351	viii.	Lois ACKLEY.
352	ix.	Sarah ACKLEY was baptized on 28 Jun 1778.5
+353	x.	Capt Aaron ACKLEY.
+354	xi.	Maj Jesse ACKLEY.
+355	xii.	Nancy ACKLEY.

Pvt Joel ACKLEY and Anna BURNS were married on 28 Aug 1798 in Sussex , New Jersey.^215,216