Abigail Akin

1721 -

• Name	Abigail Akin
  Birth	9 Sep 1721  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	9 Sep 1723	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I919	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2019

  
  

  Father	David Akin,   b. 19 Sep 1689, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 7 Apr 1779, Quaker Hill, Dutchess, New York (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Sarah Allen
  Marriage	1711	Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F3761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Murray Lester,   b. Abt 1720, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York d. Bef 1790 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	3 Aug 1743	Worcestershire, Dutchess, New York   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. John Lester,   b. 20 May 1749, Pawling, Dutchess, New York d. 12 Apr 1832, Sempronius, Cayuga, New York (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F5314	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Baird (citation details below) calls her "of Worcestershire, in the Oblong." Also called Quaker Hill, the Oblong was an area in the lower part of Dutchess County, now in Putnam County. From Descendants of David Akin of Newport, Rhode Island [The following from the Daphne Brownell Loose Papers - Quakers Folder. Image also scanned] Whereas Murray Lester of Crumelbow [Crum Elbow Monthly Meeting] in the County of Dutchess and province of New York son of Mordecai and Mary Lester of the same place, and Abigail Akin at Worstershire in the Oblong, daughter of David and Sarah Akin in the County aforesaid having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before several of the monthly meetings of the people called Quakers in the County of Westchester and Province aforesaid, according to the good order used amongt them whose proceedings thereinafter a deliberate consideration and having the consent of their parents and nothing appearing to obstruct were approved of by the said meeting. Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions on the third of the sixth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty three they the said Murray Lester and Abigail Akin presented themselves in a public meeting of the said People and others at Worstershire in the Oblong aforesd, And then the said Murray Lester taking the said Abigail Akin by the hand and did in a solemn open manner declare that he took her to be his wife promising through the Lord assistance to be unto her a true and loving husband untill the Lord. by death shall separate them or to that effect and then and there in the same assembly the said Abigail Akin did in like open manner declare likewise... Witnesses: Murray Lester Abigail Lester Phebe Ferris Sarah Ferris Hannah Thorn Avis Soule Mercy Fisk Benjamin Ferris Thomas Welles John Ferris Thomas Franklin Joseph Ferris Nathan Birdsell(Birdsall) John Parke Isaac Thorn Aaron Haight William Russell Geo, Soule William Field Saml Watters

  
  

• Sources

  [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S207] Descendants of David Akin of Newport, RI, by Robert Larry Akin. [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., "at Oblong".