Hannah (Ford) Ackley
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Hannah (Ford) Ackley (abt. 1634 - abt. 1687)

Hannah Ackley formerly Ford aka Mitchell
Born about in Beaminster, Dorset, Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of — married 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticutmap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 53 in East Haddam, Connecticut Colonymap
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Biography

Hannah Ford[1] was born sometime between 1629 and 1639 either in England of in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts.[2][3]

A previous version of this profile, citing an online tree, claimed that she was daughter of Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde Cooke of Bridport, Dorset, England.

She married 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut[4][5]

She died between 1678 and April 29, 1695 in East Haddam, Connecticut Colony, now Middlesex County.[6]

She was buried in Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut[7]

Children

(These need confirming)

  1. Thomas Ackley
  2. Samuel Ackley
  3. Elizabeth Ackley
  4. Hannah Ackley
  5. Sarah Ackley
  6. John Ackley
  7. Thomas Ackley
  8. Nicholas Ackley
  9. Nathaniel Ackley
  10. Lydia Ackley
  11. Mary Ackley
  12. Elizabeth Mary Ackley
  13. James Ackley
  14. Samuel Ackley

Nicholas ACKLEY and Hannah Ford MITCHEL were married about 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.3,5,6,7,8,10,14 LDS has Ca 1655 LDS states Hannah of Hartford, Hartford Co., CT Hannah Ford MITCHEL, daughter of Thomas FORD and Elizabeth CHARDE, was born about 1634 in England.5,6 another source has birth as 1639 in East Haddam, Middlesex, CT U.S./Internat'l Marriage Records, 1340-1980 has year as 1629 She died circa 1687 at the age of 53 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.8 one source has a child named Nicholas born in Hartford CT in 1665 and died in CT no date given.

Dr. Patterson says: "March 19, 1671-2, Nicholas Ackley and wife Hannah, of Haddam, deeded to William Spencer, of same town, all their right in land between Sammon River and Lyme bounds; both divided and undivided. The Hartford probate records show that he died at Haddam April 29, 1695, and that his 2nd wife, Miriam, survived him

TOWN OF HADDAM. BY RICHARD M. BAYLES. [transcribed by Janece Streig] (Another source lists among passengers an Ackley, ON THE TWENTIETH OF MARCH, 1630 a group of men and women, one hundred and forty in number, set sail from Plymouth, England aboard the good ship, the "Mary and John". It landed in Nantucket, Massachusetts on the Thirtieth of May, 1630. They soon settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts. Five years later, a group of this so-called "Dorchester Company" traveled 110 miles through the New England wilderness to settle in Windsor, Connecticut, where a trading post had been established as the first English settlement in the Connecticut River Valley 26 September, 1633. Surviving the rigors of the New England winters, Indian hostilities and other challenges, they raised their families in the staunch Puritan traditions. ***This source is not verifiable at this point and is only included as possible but not entirely credible.)

WILLIAM SPENCER, of East-Haddam, Conn., was married to Sarah Ackley, daughter of Nicholas Ackley, of Haddam, one of the first settlers of that town.

ACKLEY, NICHOLAS, was located on lot No. 42 Trumbull street, in Hartford, in 1665, and was chimney viewer in Hartford in 1662--he for a time lived at 30 Mile Island, at the lower end of the Cove, and had a 6 acre lot toward Saybrook.

the sons of Nicholas, settled east of the Connecticut river Nicholas Ackley was located on lot No. 42, Trumbull Street, Hartford, CT., in 1665. In 1662 he was chimney viewer in Hartford. In the "Earliest Volume of the Town Votes of Hartford" appears this record, "It is ordered that evry howse shall have a ladder or tre at Most who shall reach (within) Two ffoote of the Topp of his howse uppon (the) forfeteur of fave shillings A mounth for (each) mounth he shall want the same." This vote gives us a hint only of the duties of a chimney-viewer, but Hinman, in his "First Puritan Settlers," makes the matter plain, thus--"As the office of Chimney-viewer is attached to the names of some of the first settlers, I take the liberty of explaining the cause. Immediately after the organization of the town of Hartford as a town, or, rather, as a company of land-holders, a law was enacted that all chimneys should be cleansed by the owner, once in a month, by a penalty provided by law. Therefore, that the law should be strictly Page 217 obeyed and carried out by the inhabitants, for several years, a committee of respectable men (for no others held offices at that day) were appointed to see that all householders fully obeyed the law. It was also a law that each householder should provide a ladder for his house, where there was not a tree standing by his house, which reached within two feet of the top of the chimney. This law also came within the duties of the viewers of chimneys. At the time these laws were in force, men were selected to fill every office, high or low, with a single eye to the fact, that men who held the offices, should be of such a standing in society, as the men should honor their offices, and not the offices the holders of them. To effect this object, you find men who had filled a seat at the General Court, the next year filling the office of Hayward or Chimney-viewer. It was this practice of our worthy ancestors, which caused an officer--either civil or military, who held any place of power, to hold on to his titles with a tenacity--that living or dead--he never lost them."

Nicholas Ackley was one of the twenty-eight young men who, in 1662, bought the land where the Haddams and some adjoining towns now stand. This purchase was long denominated "The lands at Thirty Mile Island," from an Island in Connecticut River which, it was calculated, was thirty miles from its mouth. The Indians, who reserved for themselves forty acres, together with Thirty Mile Island, and the right to hunt and fish where they pleased, roamed over the plantation for many years. Dr. Field says: "For forty or forty-five years from the time of settlement, the people were accustomed to carry arms with them to the place of public worship, that they might be able to defend themselves in case of a sudden attack." As the men could not have stayed in their homes with guns in their hands all the rest of the week, it is difficult to conjecture what comfort or security was left with the women and children. However, we have no account of any serious mischief to the first planters or their immediate descendants. All the inhabitants settled, at first, along the western border of the river, in what is now called Old Haddam. The larger number of their houses stood near together, on a hill overlooking at the present day, a landscape of great beauty. Most of the owners of these lands settled on them in the summer of 1662 or soon after; but some of the company were so slow in improving their rights that action was taken by the little colony to prompt them. Nicholas Ackley was one of these delinquents and he was reminded that he was wanted at Thirty Mile Island, in a way that resulted in the following promise from him to assure them that he would in fact become one of them, although it was perhaps, pleasanter to view chimneys in Hartford: "This writing made ye eight off November 1666 bindeth me niklis Akly of harford to come with my ffamely to settle att thirte mille Island by ye twenty ninth of October next inseuing date hearof ealso to have my part of fence up yt belongs to my home lot by ye Last of next insueing as of failing hearof to forfit ten pounds to ye inhabitant of thirte mile Island as witness my hand and Seall Nicholas Ackly witnes James Bate."

Nicholas Ackley appears to have kept this agreement, as he removed from Hartford, and his name is recorded among the "first settlers at Thirty Mile Island," where he had a "six acre lot towards Saybrook," and he owned the little island near the Cove. Every one of his sons, seven in number, moved to the east side of the Great River, but he died on the west side. Having settled there nearly thirty years before, he still kept his home on that side. Dr. Patterson says: "March 19, 1671-2, Nicholas Ackley and wife Hannah, of Haddam, deeded to William Spencer, of same town, all their right in land between Sammon River and Lyme bounds; both divided and undivided. The Hartford probate records show that he died at Haddam April 29, 1695, and that his 2nd wife, Miriam, survived him

Nicholas ACKLEY and Hannah Ford MITCHEL were married about 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.3,5,6,7,8,10,14 LDS has Ca 1655 LDS states Hannah of Hartford, Hartford Co., CT Hannah Ford MITCHEL, daughter of Thomas FORD and Elizabeth CHARDE, was born about 1634 in England.5,6 another source has birth as 1639 in East Haddam, Middlesex, CT U.S./Internat'l Marriage Records, 1340-1980 has year as 1629 She died circa 1687 at the age of 53 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.8 one source has a child named Nicholas born in Hartford CT in 1665 and died in CT no date given

Nicholas ACKLEY-1 and Hannah Ford MITCHEL-2 had the following children:

  1. Hannah ACKLEY-7.
  2. Elizabeth Mary ACKLEY-14
  3. Sarah ACKLEY-18.
  4. Sgt John ACKLEY-23.
  5. Thomas ACKLEY-1548.

Sources

  1. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s : Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA: 2010; Place: Massachusetts; Year: 1630; Page Number: 154
  2. Source: #S455
  3. Ann Fox Gulbransen, Five Families, The Ancestors of Bertrand Fox, Mary Ziegler, Patricia Noyes, LaMar Gulbransen and Mary Ann Green http://www.gulbangi.com/5families-o/p16.htm#i376; citing "The Florence Fox Harrop Papers," Florence Fox Collection of A. Gulbransen; Don Dickenson's Home Page, online www.familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/i/c/Donald-R-Dickenson
  4. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA: 2012
  5. Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004 Source number: 24039.007; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 8. BETTER SOURCE SOUGHT
  6. Gulbransen, op cit. Text: Hannah (Ford) Mitchell died before 29 April 1695 in East Haddam, Connecticut Colony, now Middlesex County.
  7. Find A Grave Index, 1636-2013 MEMORIAL # NEEDED
  • Genealogical Notes Contributions to the family history of some of the fist settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts Bibliographic Information: Goodwin, Nathaniel, Genealogical Notes, F.A. Brown, Hartford, CT 1856. Royal R. Hinman (Press of Case, Tiffany and Company. Hartford. 1852.) Mrs. S. F. Hall Coe, The history and genealogy of the family of Sophia Fidelia Hall. Bibliographic Information: Coe, Mrs. S. F. Hall. Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Sophia Fidelia Hall. Meriden, Conn.: Printed by the Curtiss-Way Co. 1902.
  • Birth records: United States/Europe 900-1880.
  • LDS IGI Records.
  • U.S./Internat'l Marriage Records, 1340-1980.
  • Ethel Louise Haines MacDonald.
  • Salmon Creek Publishing & Genealogy.
  • Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Bibliography: Savage, James, Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of England, volume 1, Boston: Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, 1860-62.).
  • Compendium of American Genealogy, 1600s-1800s.
  • Land Records of the Town of Hartford, Connecticut, 1639-1839
  • Colonial America 1607-1789 CT Census Index.
  • The district of Hartford, located in central Connecticut, was home to thousands of colonists in the seventeenth century. This database is a collection of probate records from the district between 1635 and 1650. Each probate record contains the filing individual's name, date of probate, and location of filing. Entries often reveal the person's close family relations such as spouse, heirs, and siblings, along with the names of witnesses. Additionally, marriage, burial, and death dates are provided when relevant to the document. Page numbers refer to the original probate book kept by the district. With nearly 1000 entries and about 5000 names, this collection can be a valuable source of detailed information for those seeking ancestors from colonial Connecticut.
  • Extended Description: Bibliography: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 1635-1700, Vol. I. n.p., 1906., Page 213. Supplement II.
  • Lineages of National society of sons, daughters of Pilgrims Vol II recorded in 1932 (recorded in 1932 & 1946).
  • Families of Early Hartford, CT, Page 1.
  • James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Volume 1 of a four-part work that provides the name of every settler who arrived in New England before 1692. This volume covers surnames A-C., Pg 7.
  • Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes Author: Ferris, Mary Walton, 1872-1943.
  • City of Publication: Milwaukee Publisher: Wisconsin Cuneo Press Date: 1931.
  • The History of Middlesex County 1635-1885
  • J. H. Beers & Co., 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1884 Pages 368 - 417 TOWN OF HADDAM. BY RICHARD M. BAYLES.
  • Western Massachusetts : a history : 1636-1925.
  • Lorraine Cook White, vital records of Durham CT 1708 - 1852, Eastford CT 1847 - 1851, East Haddam CT 1743 - 1857 (Genealogical Publishing Co., INC Baltimore MD Copyright 1997).
  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1997, 1857 Vol 11 Pg 277.
  • The district of Hartford, located in central Connecticut, was home to thousands of colonists in the seventeenth century. This database is a collection of probate records from the district between 1700 and 1729. Each probate record contains the filing individual's name, date of probate, and location of filing. Entries often reveal the person's close family relations such as spouse, heirs, and siblings, along with the names of witnesses. Additionally, marriage, burial, and death dates are provided when relevant to the document. Page numbers refer to the original probate book kept by the district. With over 1,000 entries and nearly 5,500 names, this collection can be a valuable source of detailed information for those seeking ancestors from colonial Connecticut. (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 1700-1729, Vol. II. n.p., 1906.).
  • Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, pg 495.
  • Henry Porter Andrews, The descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-9

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  • Ford-4406 was created by Marybeth O'gorman through the import of O_Gorman-Flynn-Kimble-Mosher2.ged on Aug 11, 2014.




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Merges have been set for alleged parents on Ford-6920 with a previous set of alleged parents. Disconnect parents as part of merge.
posted by Anne B
Ford-4406 and Ford-1526 appear to represent the same person because: Ignore the discrepancy of her birth place, the notes on -1526 indicate uncertainty of location - England or MA. Married same man it seems...
posted by Beryl Meehan
Mitchel-225 and Ford-1526 appear to represent the same person because: Both profiles appear to represent the same person, nee Ford
posted by Tom Quick
A very reliable source (Anderson's Great Migration Begins p. 689) Shows this Hannah Ford, daughter of Elizabeth (Charde) Ford as having died on 28 March 1629). The information on this profile contradicts this information. The question is how to correct it. I think the mother must have been Joan Way.
Hannah's LNAB was "Ford". Hannah married: 1) Mr. Mitchell (date unknown) and 2) Nicholas Ackley, 1656, at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.

Mitchel-225 needs to be merged into Ford-1526.

Minor differences need to be resolved prior to the merge.

posted by Tom Quick

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