Mary Briggs

Mary married Capt. John Akin before 1689 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts. John (son of Mary) was born in 1663; died on 13 Jun 1746 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [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)

David married Sarah Allen in 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 9 Sep 1723, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

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

Abigail married Murray Lester on 3 Aug 1743 in Worcestershire, Dutchess, New York. Murray (son of Mordecai Lester and Mary) was born about 1720 in Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York; died before 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Oblong, Dutchess, New York

Family/Spouse: Tabitha. Tabitha was born on 20 Jul 1745; died on 1 Jul 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]