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. This Abraham Acker was the son of Jacob Acker who had married Ann Buckbout, aud he the son of William Ecker and Anatie his wife, William being the son of Sybout and Aeltie Ecker, christened at the old Dutch Church, Apr. 25, 1724, he the son of Wolfert and Maritie Ecker.

Jacob Acker remembered his great-grandfather William, and of course his grandfather Jacob very well, and his experiences during the Revolution. Pie (Jacob) was often obliged to leave his home though his wife and aged father and family remained in more or less disturbed possession. He remembered how his father was taken prisoner during one of the forays of the enemy to the northward. He had stoutly resisted but was finally overpowered by a blow from a saber which made an ugly and nearly fatal cut in his head. He was then taken to New

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York and confined in the Old .Sugar House Prison (as stated in If application fora pension), where he with other Patriots were obliged in live on the horse flesh that was doled out to them.