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Dorothy (Akerly) Taylor (abt. 1802 - abt. 1870)

Dorothy Taylor formerly Akerly aka Dewaters
Born about in Suffolk, New York, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 22 Jan 1824 in Neelytown, Hamptonburgh, Orange, New York, United Statesmap
Wife of — married 1838 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 67 in Michigan, United Statesmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Dorothy was born in Suffolk, New York about 1802 to Nathaniel Ackerly and Deborah Satterly Ackerly. She was their third daughter.

Marriage to Robert Taylor

She married Robert Taylor on January 22, 1824 in Hamptonburgh, Orange, New York, USA. [1][2] They had three sons and probably one daughter.
In 1837 Dorothy Taylor transferred land in Orange County, New York to Joseph Arnot. In the record for this land deal Robert Henry Taylor is named and Dorothy is written over Robert's name in the same space.[3]

Marriage to Amos Drinkwater

In 1838, she married Amos Drinkwater of Onondaga, New York, United States. She and Amos Drinkwater a son who they named Amos.[4]
In 1840, she and Amos Drinkwater transferred land in Onondaga, New York, United States to C. Glass.[5] They moved to Fawn River, St. Joseph, Michigan, USA around this time. Here the elder Amos died on August 5, 1840.[6]

1850 Census

In 1850 Dorothy Dewaters still lived in Fawn River, Michigan. She was a 48-year-old woman . Her children living with her were:
  • Amos Dewaters
  • Daniel J Taylor
  • Robert H. Taylor
  • William Taylor
All were born in New York.[7]

Civil War

In the photograph of an older Dorothy, she is wearing the dress and bonnet in the style of Quaker women of the Civil War Era.

Death

Dorothy's sister Ruth Akerly died in Orange County ,New York in 1873. According to Ruth's probate papers, Dorothy had died in Michigan before this date. Dorothy's death date of 1870 is an estimate. [8]

Research Notes

Dorothy's second husband was Amos Drinkwater. In the 1850 census for Fawn River, Michigan she is Dorothy Dewaters, 48, born in New York. Her children are Amos Dewaters, David J Taylor, Robert H Taylor, William Taylor. She probably had another child with Robert Taylor- Susan Elvina Taylor. The family story is she changed her last name back to Taylor sometime after Amos had died as reflected in Ruth Akerly's Probate records.[8]
Colonial Families of Long Island New York and Connecticut by Herbert Seversmith on page 74 (Ackerly-Akerly) has a chart of Dorothy Akerly and family going back to Nathaniel Akerly (1704-1807) who married Dorothy Tooker (1712-1768), probably in 1734. Two daughters were born to his grandson, Nathaniel Ackerly and Deborah Satterly in the early 1800s. It looks like Deborah, born 26 Feb1800, and Dorothy, born 15 Sep 1801 are mixed up in this record. There are census records for Deborah (Akerly) Wallace for 1850, 1860 and 1870. In all three of these records Deborah lived with her daughter Mary Jane Brewster in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, USA.






Sources

  1. New York Marriages, 1686-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F642-231 : 21 January 2020), Dorotha Ackerly in entry for Robert H Taylor, 1824.
  2. Record of the Dutch Reformed Church of Warwick, Orange County, New York,(record not indexed yet. Here is a link.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BR-CSKV-9
  3. "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8VJF-99N2 : 3 March 2021), Dorothy Taylor, 1846.
  4. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. No image.
  5. "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZYXW-SM6Z : 28 October 2020), Dorothy Drinkwater, 1840.
  6. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107252808/amos-drinkwater : accessed 18 April 2022), memorial page for Amos Drinkwater (1772–5 Aug 1840), Find A Grave: Memorial #107252808, citing Fawn River Township Cemetery, Fawn River, St. Joseph County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by KJ (contributor 46875911)
  7. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8L-J8X : 22 December 2020), Dorothy Dewaters, Fawn River, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  8. 8.0 8.1 New York, U.S., Wills and Probate records, 1659-1999, Vol 041, 1874-1874, Ruth Akerly, Orange, New York, USA (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8800/images/004751406_00052?pId=13156896)




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Please merge Taylor-18775 and Ackerly-50. Amos Drinkwater should not have two different wives with the same names and children.

Thank you. Jill Foster (Lonski-12)

posted on Taylor-18775 (merged) by Jill (Lonski) Foster
edited by Jill (Lonski) Foster
Taylor-18775 and Ackerly-178 appear to represent the same person because: I have a marriage record for Dorothy Ackerly to Robert Taylor, her 1st husband and the years before Robert died were the years Robert, William and David were born. Dorothy did marry Amos Drinkwater after Robert Taylor died and had Amos jr. I have added this yet because of this mix up.
posted on Ackerly-178 (merged) by Jill (Lonski) Foster

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