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The Ackley Family Tree

Mary Ackley & Archie Carpenter

Mary Ackley, daughter of Orin George Ackley and Wilhelmina Hencer, married Arch Carpenter.

Orin George Ackley & Wilhelmina Hencer

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Henry DeWitt Ackley & Sarah Ann Hotchkiss

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Henry Ackley & Lydia Tillotson

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Ephraim Ackley & Hannah Jewitt

Nathaniel Ackley & Mary W. Williams

James Ackley & Elizabeth Comedy

Adapted from the Book, "The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)," by John M. Taylor

Sarah Spencer, Colchester, 1724, Damages, 1 Shilling  

In 1724, Elizabeth Comedy Ackley accused Sarah Spencer of witchcraft by "riding and pinching."  Even a certificate of a minister as to her  virtue and being an upstanding Christian could not free Sarah from a reputation as a witch.  Elizabeth's husband James Ackley threatened Sarah.  In reponse, Sarah sued the Ackleys for 500 pounds, a fortune in those days, for defamation of character.  She received 5 pounds and costs.  The Ackleys appealed.  The jury awarded Sarah damages of only 1 shilling, and also declared that the Ackleys were not insane and were creditable witnesses.  The fact that the magistrates questioned the sanity of the Ackleys was a clear demonstration that the mental condition of witchcraft accusers was taken into account of in the later and saner times; i.e., after the Salem Witch Trials.


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Nicholas Ackley & Hannah Ford

John Ackley & Elizabeth Bailey