Maria, the sister of James and daughter of Abraham Acker, 3d, married the late Benson Ferris, Sr., and was a woman much esteemed

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in this community. Her son, Benson Ferris, Esq., is President of the Westchester County Savings Bank of this place.

The oldest memorial stone of the Acker family recognizable in t lie old Dutch Churchyard, bears the following inscription. It is still well preserved, and it would seem might be good for at least another century :

Here Lyes the Bodv of SIBERT ACKER who was

Born March the 8th, 1698, who departed this life July ye 26th , 1771,

Aged' 72 years, 4 months and 19 days.

Sibert or Sybout Acker, was the ancestor of Jacob Acker, formerly of Beaver Hill, on the road east of East Irvington. His is the earliest recorded birth of any of the Ackers at this place, he being a son of Wolfert, and doubtless born at the early homestead, playfully denominated " Wolfert's Roost," by Mr. Irving. , And in this connection it is worthy of note that while Sybout Acker was probably the first born there, his kinsman, Benson Ferris, Esq., of Tarrytown, born there 127 years later, was the last person who has had birth on that historic and romantic spot.

Sibout Acker, son of Wolfert, baptized prior to 1699, had Wolfert, Magdalen, William, Abraham and Rachel, Tea, Maritie and Jan Acker.

Mr. Jacob Acker, a great-grandson of William Acker, son of Sybout and grandson of Wolfert, lived near the summit of the hill west of the Saw Mill River, and 011 the road leading to East Irvington, on what was formerly a part of the Win. Acker farm. He was born in 1806, the son of Abraham Acker and Mary Lawrence his wife.