Jacob Abramse Robertson (1795 - 1866)

Born 28 Sep 1795 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Helen Ackerman — married 5 Dec 1831 in New Hackensack, Wappinger, Dutchess, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Jul 1866 at age 70 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States

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Biography

Lived mainly in New York City, where he was a merchant.

Jacob A., eldest son of Archibald Robertson and Eliza his wife, born September 28, 1795, married, December 5, 1831, Helen Ackerman, daughter of James Ackerman, of La Grange, Dutchess County, N. Y. Helen Ackerman was born October 24, 1808, and died December 15, 1851. He was senior partner of the wholesale dry-goods house of Robertson, Eaton & Co., Pearl Street, New York. His city residence was on North Washington Square, New York, and his country home was on the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie. He died at this place, July 13, 1866, and his remains were interred in the New Hackensack Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, New York, July 1893, Vol XXIV, No 3; Paulding, Irving, Halleck, Cooper, Bryant, and Other New York Authors, Pg 107; Antoine L'Espenard, the French Huguenot, of New Rochelle, and Some of his Descendants; Also https://archive.org/details/antoinelespenard00darl

• Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten Family in America: A Genealogy and Brief History, Second Edition, by William Henry Van Benschoten (West Park on Hudson, New York, 1907) p. 46.

• "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F64L-LMX : accessed 9 December 2014), Jacob A. Robertson and Hellen Ackerman, 05 Dec 1831; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,206,459.

• Darling, Charles William. Memorial To My Honored Kindred (Fierstine & Gifford, Utica, N.Y., 1888) Page 112