Pie was evidently a man of property and character, and good business qualifications, for not only was he an Elder in the Old Dutch Church, but he was one of the first Assessors appointed for the Phillipsburgh Manor by the General Court as early as 1714. As will further appear, he was doubtless the ancestor of all of the name of Acker or Ecker who afterwards resided in this vicinage.

Wolfert was a Deacon of the old Dutch Church 1698, and an Elder 1706-7, and by the erection of his modest home, to which Irving gave the name of ' 'Wolfert' s Roost," indelibly, though unconscious!} attached his name to that locality for all coming time.

Abraham Acker, Sr., the third son of Wolfert, was christened March 28, 1703, and died 1773, leaving wife Maritje and sons Abraham 2d, Wolfert, and Isaac, besides daughters. He appears to have been married three times, his first wife and the mother of his children har - ing been Margaretie Montrose. Abraham Acker, son of Wolfert, made a will Dec. 4, 1771, which was admitted to probate March 1, 1773. which mentions his wife Maritje, sous Abraham, 2d, Isaac, and "dafter" Rebackiah Forsure, wife of Win. Forsure, (Forshay) Jr. To

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Isaac he gives " my Dutch Bible, to him and his heirs forever." He also mentions eldest son Wolfert, and " dafter" Ally Requaw, wife of fulm Requaw, and grandsons John Dutcherand Abraham l\eker. He also had daughters Rea and Maritie. This Wolfert Acker is probably the Wolfert who married Susanna Requa, the sister of John, Daniel, James and Glode Requa, and removed to Newburg, Orange Co., prior to 1772, at which date he was a borrower of a sum of money of Johannis Dutch er, his brother Isaac being security, as an old document still inexistence testifies.