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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]
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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:
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