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Steven AckerSteven Acker, colonial American, son of a famous Colonial American and uncle of a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War. Steven Acker, a.k.a. Steven Ecker, Steven Echer (at this time Acker was primarily used in registrars and on headstones) The eldest of three sons of Wolfert Acker (1667-1753) and Maretje Sibouts), and brother to Syboat Acker and Abraham Acker, little is known of this member of the Sleepy Hollow's Acker family. Birth He was born sometime after his parents' marriage of December 1692. He may have been born after his father had built "Wolfert's Roost" as his youngest brother Abraham Acker was. Marriage It is unknown when he was married but it was to a Capelie. Out of respect for his father he named his son, Wolfert Acker, son of Steven. This Wolfert married to Ametie Drow, and assumably the Acker line continues from that point. This son Wolfert Acker, son of Steven may have had a son Jan Ecker who married Rachel Duythser on Sept 28, 1758 (p171 Church Records of Old Dutch Church), though this young man might have been an unknown third child of Abraham Acker and Margrietje Montrose. Context It is important to note that Wolfert, (son of Steven Acker, and grandson of Wolfert Acker and Maretje Sibouts) is not the Wolfert mentioned on the tombstone in Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Burying Ground of Susannah, Wife of Wolfert. This Susannah was Susannah Requa (b. 1721, d. 1767) the first wife of Wolfert Ecker, the American Revolutionary War patriot (1730-1799) (son of Abraham Acker and Margrietje Montrose). Tracking the Acker Family always remains confusing due to the repeated use of the name Wolfert, which ends during this generation only to reappear in the mid 19th Century. Abraham Acker (1703-1773) was the younger brother of Steven Acker. Burial Location It is very likely that he was burried just in the rear and to the left of the back of the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow (Tarrytown, New York) since that is where the grave of brother Syboat Acker is to be found, and in a 1960s photograph, there were small broken headstones scattered around Syboat's grave, however the area around the grave is simly grass now. Syboat Acker gravestone still survives possibly thanks to Rockefeller Restoration Funds, though it stands alone. In a photo taken in the 1960s, his stone was surrounded by various smaller ones, assumably the remnants of graves of the early Acker Family. Acker, Steven
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