Abraham Ecker
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Abraham Ecker (also known as Abraham Acker II) is a Colonial American, brother of a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War, and grandson of a famous Dutch Colonial American.
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Birth
Named in honor of his father, Abraham Ecker was the eldest son of Abraham Acker (1703-1773) and Margrietje Montrose. His brother was the Whig American Revolutionary War Patriot Wolfert Ecker, and there is a slight possibility that he may have had a third brother name Jan Ecker (who married Rachel Duythser on Sept 28, 1758 (p171 Church Records of Old Dutch Church), though this young man might have been the offspring of Steven Acker's son Wolfert Acker (Wolfert Acker, son of Steven) and his wife Engelite Canckelia or Ametie Drow).
His name listed here as 'Ecker' reflects the new spelling that was transforming the Acker family (which had already been Anglicized from 'Echer').
He was the grandson of Peter Stuyvesant's Privy Councilor Wolfert Acker and Maretje Sibouts.
He was born after his parents' marriage of June 15, 1728 and before the birth of his brother Wolfert Ecker on September 19, 1730, so certainly around mid 1729.
Early Life
Abraham Ecker, (son of Abraham Acker and Margrietje Montrose) according to the Tarrytown Library's 3 Volume Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow Records marriage section (on p. 168), as a young man Abraham Ecker married the young woman, Amatie Lent, on March 23, 1753 (or at least that was the date the marriage was recorded...though the church records did not record for date consistency.)
She must have soon died for on page 170 Abraham Ecker married "Marretie, widow of Abraham Conklin, born in Courtland" on September 13, 1753.
Marretie was the widow of a Conklin, and the Conklins were one of the few original families in town of Sleepy Hollow, New York (and they were the "owners" of large tracts of town land, though the Conklins and all other inhabitants were actually tenants of Magistrate Frederick Phillipse and his successors up until the American Revolution, when the Tory Phillipses lost their land and moved to England).
Uncertain
It is known that he is somehow directly related to Catriena Ecker Van Tassel of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Fame, though the Ecker Family History (1899) appeared to suggest that he somehow was married to her. This is false since he was married to Amatie and Marretie, and Catriena was married to Petrus Van Tassel. However, since the house was lost through his line, it can be guessed that he perhaps only had a daughter, Catriena Ecker, and that she in turn married Petrus, thus letting the Van Tassels take "Wolfert's Roost" out of the Acker family.
Legacy
Through Abraham Ecker is the connection with Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the eventual loss of "Wolfert's Roost" and Wolfert Ecker is the American Revolutionary War patriot, who moves the family to Marlborough, New York after the death of his first wife, Susannah Requa.
