Notes Exhibited against the Estate of Henry Ackley, Deceased

February 27, 1815

Henry Ackley’s creditors provided the administrators Widow Ruth Ackley and Nathaniel Ackley with notes detailing money owed them.

I recognized family members immediately. James Ackley’s $3.24 claim against the estate might have come from Henry’s father or brother (both men named James Ackley). Nathaniel Ackley was owed $112.57 from his brother’s estate.

Deborah Atwood was born Deborah Purple, a sister to Henry’s widow, Ruth (Purple) Ackley. Anne Purple also was a sister to 4^th Great Grandmother Ruth. Deborah’s note was just $2.00 while Anne Purple’s claim amounted to $82.50. Another Purple sister, Statira, submitted a $62.50 note. I don’t know what kind of business arrangement Henry shared with his sister-in-laws but admit I’m intrigued. Deborah Purple’s husband, Captain Atwood, also brought a $30.00 claim against the estate.

I spotted Rodney Ackley and Samuel Ackley among those owed compensation but don’t recognize their relationship to Great Grandfather.

All of the creditor’s bills combined amounted to $2,907.04. The family incurred some expenses and court fees causing the $2,907.04 to become $3,361.21. Ruth and Nathaniel exhibited the account in Middletown, Connecticut Probate Court.

The administrators subsequently sought the Court’s permission to sell Henry Ackley’s moveable estate to satisfy the creditors. The Court agreed as stated in the following record:

At a Court of Probate held in Middletown, in and for the District of Middle-

            town, on the 27 day Feby A. D. 1815

The adm’rs on the Estate of Henry Ackley late

            of Chatham, deceased

exhibited in Court their Account of Administration on s’d Estate, a-

mounting to the sum of $3361.21

which was accepted and ordered to be kept on file, which Account surmounts

the moveable part of said Estate the sum of               and now

they move this Court for an order to sell moveable Estate

of s’d Dec’d

Whereupon, this Court authorizes and fully impowers the said adm’rs

to sell so much of the moveable Real estate of

the said deceased at private sale for not less than the Inventory Price

or at Public Vendue, after advertising the same in the a Middlesex Gazette

printed in Middletown Three Weeks before said sale--to be sold

at the late Dwelling House of s’d Dec’d at the

beat of Drum, as will procure the aforesaid sum

together with the incident charges of sale, and to pass Deed or Deeds

     accordingly, and then make Return to this Court

for acceptance

                        A true Copy of Record

                             Certified by                                       Clerk.

Source Citation

Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880; Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.