History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . s wife, Altie, sell to JohnIlannense one-sixteenth part of the OrangetownPatent, in what is now Rockland County. This, withhis other property, was left to his grandsons—John,Jacob, Peter and Harmse Montross (as mentionedabove); and John sold his share to his brother PeterJanuary 10, 1742-43. Captain Abraham Acker, who died in 1825, was aprominent man in the county and held many impor-tant positions. Commissions, granted to him by Gov- Tarrytown and its neig
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . s wife, Altie, sell to JohnIlannense one-sixteenth part of the OrangetownPatent, in what is now Rockland County. This, withhis other property, was left to his grandsons—John,Jacob, Peter and Harmse Montross (as mentionedabove); and John sold his share to his brother PeterJanuary 10, 1742-43. Captain Abraham Acker, who died in 1825, was aprominent man in the county and held many impor-tant positions. Commissions, granted to him by Gov- Tarrytown and its neighborhood, was strongly attach-ed to this locality along the Hudson, and as early asNovember, 1832, he wrote to his sister, Mrs. Paris:I am more and more in the notion of having thatlittle cottage below Oscars1 house, and wish you totell him to endeavor to get it for me. I am willing topay a little unreasonably for it, and should like tohave it in time to make any alteration that may beadvisable as early as possible in the spring. The first mention of the purchase, as having actual-ly been made, is in a letter to his brother, Peter. THE HOME OF WASHINGTON IHVINi; ernor De Witt Clinton and Daniel I). Tompkins, arenow in possession of Benson Ferris, his descendant. Abraham Acker (second) also had two daughters—Margaret (wife of Benjamin Brower) and Catharine(wife of John Woolsey). Tombstone inscriptions inthe Sleepy Hollow Cemetery state that AbrahamAcker (second) died July 1), 1811, aged seventy-oneyears, ten months and nine days. His wife, Cathar-ine, died April 11, 180(1, aged seventy-three years, onemonth and twenty-one days. Mr. Irving, having a great many associations with Irving, then at Havre, France, under date of NewYork, July 8, 1835, in which he says : You havebeen told, no doubt, of a purchase I have made often acres,2 lying at the foot of Oscars farm, on theriver-bank, [t is a beautiful spot, capable of being 1 Oscar Irvimr, third sou of hi* brother William, who
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