David Akin

1689 - 1779  (89 years)

• Name	David Akin  [1, 2]
  Born	19 Sep 1689	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Apr 1779	Quaker Hill, Dutchess, New York   [5, 6]
  Buried	Old Quaker Burial Ground, Quaker Hill, Dutchess, New York
  Person ID	I6202	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Capt. John Akin,   b. 1663,   d. 13 Jun 1746, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Mary Briggs,   b. 9 Aug 1671, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Married	Bef 1689	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [7]
  Family ID	F3762	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Allen
  Married	1711	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [8]
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Akin,   b. 9 Sep 1721
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2014
  Family ID	F3761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Tennessee Williams was a descendant of this couple. From Descendants of David Akin of Newport, RI by Robert Larry Akin: "On January 15, 1742, David requested permission to move to the Oblong (Quaker Hill, Dutchess, NY) from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting of the Quakers (New Bedford, MA). He moved to a very beautiful spot on a hill in the Oblong that today is the site of the Quaker Hill Golf Course. He was about 52 at the time and he brought his grown sons with him. "The Birdsall Genealogy states that David built a sawmill on Quaker Hill and that this mill brought the Akin family 'great wealth'. [Daphne cited The Birdsall Family by G. B. Birdsall in her notes - John Akin notebook.] "David was fairly wealthy and he and several other men deeded the land on April 16, 1764 for the Oblong Meeting House. This is from Settlers of the Beekman Patent, p. 63. He died on April 7, 1779 on Quaker Hill." Robert Larry Akin also notes that his burial place is "north of the original site of Akin Hall." David Akin = Sarah Allen Josiah Akin (1719-1800) = Judith Huddlestone (1728-?) Deborah Akin (1755-?) = Preserved Fish Dakin (1749-1835) James Dakin (1790-1857) = Mary Ann "Polly" Sabin (1793-1877) Edwin Francis Dakin (1819-1892) = Harriet Jane Bellar (1825-1886) Walter Edwin Dakin (1857-1955) = Rosina Maria Francesca Otte (1863-1944) Edwina Dakin (1884-1980) = Cornelius Coffin Williams (1879-1957) Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams (1911-1983)

  
  

• Sources

  [S770] Charles W. Baird, "Marriage Records of the Society of Friends in the Town of Harrison, N.Y." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 3:45, January 1872. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S3348] Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929-30. [S4160] The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York by Josephine C. Frost. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1912., date only. [S1512] Pane-Joyce Genealogy by David Pane-Joyce. [S4160] The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York by Josephine C. Frost. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1912., year only. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S207] Descendants of David Akin of Newport, RI, by Robert Larry Akin.