Mary Ballentine Akerley (1772 - 1855)

Born 23 Mar 1772 in New York

Ancestors

Wife of Mordecai Starkey UE — married 27 Apr 1797 in Gagetown Anglican, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada

Descendants

Died 5 Oct 1855 at age 83 in Codys, Queens, New Brunswick

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Biography

Mary was born on 23 Mar 1772 in New York.^{[citation needed]} She was the daughter of Obediah Akerley and Catherine (Van Tassel) Akerley.^{[citation needed]}

She died on 5 Oct 1855 in Codys, Queens, New York.^[1]

Documentation I

"Mordecai Starkey, a United Empire Loyalist, was born in New Jersey, July 4, 1857. During the Revolution he was several times taken prisoner, but always managed to gain his freedom. He came to St. John [New Brunswick][ in 1783, in which city he re mained some time as clark with a Mr. Anderson, who kept a store of dry goods, groceries and liquors, the latter an indispensable in those days. In 1790 he moved to the Washademoak and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by his son, John A. He owned the first cattle in this neighbourhood. He went through the forest to a point above Fredericton, then St . Ann's Point, where he purchased a yoke of oxen and a cow. These he drove through the wilderness, for there were no roads in those days, to his home of the Washademoak, in some places following the shores and swimming his cattle across the stream s. He was a very honourable, industrious and pleasant man. He was a member of the Free Baptist Church, and his house was a headquarters for ministers of all denominations, the lonely missionary of the wilderness finding a home at his hospitable fi reside. He lived to be "old and full of years", dying or rather stepping out of the world, at the advanced age of ninety-two. His wife's maiden name was Mary Akerley, and their descendants are the only members of the Starkey family in Queens.

Their children were: Obadiah, who married Ann Cole; Oliver, Elizabeth Belyea; Hezekiah, never married; James, Catherine Carlyle; John A., Amelia Parker; Mordecai, Mahala Briggs; Abigail, Willet Worden; Arthur D., Mary Ann Perry; Edith, Nehemiah Ke ith; Elizabeth, Daniel Jenkins.

Hezekiah, when at the age of forty, retired to his bed in the evening, apparently in perfect health. Not awakening in the morning, they attempted to arouse him, when he was found to be in a sound slumber from which it appeared impossible to awak e him. He continued in this condition for three days, at which time he expired.

Obadiah met with a serious accident in 1856, losing his right arm in a trashing machine."

Document Source:

http://www.jedh.com/src/genealogy/hpkr2/f2899.htm

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158421768/mary-ballentine-starkey

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMQ-7ZZ : 24 December 2020), Mary Ackerly in household of Daniel Mangham, Cortlandt, Westchester, New York, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).