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	Gomez Mill House: Acker
		Wolfert was the grandson and namesake of the Wolfert Ackert immortalized by Washington Irving in his short story "Wolfert’s Roost".
		Wolfert Ackert was a regionally prominent Revolutionary patriot and the Mill House at Ackert’s farm was a local center for Whig activity during that time.
		Wolfert Acker bought Mill House In 1772 and added the elegant second storey, which was made from bricks baked in kilns on the property.
	www.gomez.org /acker.html (1494 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Steven Acker
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Steven_Acker (496 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Syboat Acker
		The second of three sons of Wolfert Acker (1667-1753) and Maretje Sibouts), and brother to Steven Acker and Abraham Acker, little is known of this member of the Sleepy Hollow's Acker family.
		This Wolfert (Wolfert Ecker, son of Sybout) was married (though there is no mention of the woman's name in the Ecker Family History of 1899) and unfortunately he died young leaving two daughters to be cared for by his widow.
		It is important to note that Wolfert, (son of Syboat, 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.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Syboat_Acker (537 words)

	Wolferts Roost Country Club - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As the story goes, Wolfert Acker was a troubled Dutchman who was driven abroad by family feuds and wrangling neighbors.
		Wolfert retired to a mansion with a cockloft look and the bitter determination to live out the remainder of his days in peace and quiet â” away from his nagging wife.
		Wolferts Roost as an incorporated social organization had its origin in 1886 as the Albany Press Club.
	www.wolfertsroost.com /Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=221983&ssid=67844&vnf=1 (298 words)

	Wolfert Acker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wolfert was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York and died at his home "Wolfert's Roost," (aka Wolfert's Rest) near present-day Irvington, New York just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in Westchester County, New York.
		From Abraham's line came Abraham II and Wolfert II (Wolfert Acker, the American Patriot and Whig coordinator who lived in Marlborough, New York (where his house, Hill House, still stands) and founder of the Acker Ferry between Newburgh, New York and present-day Beacon, New York).
		Wolfert served the Dutch colonial government as collector of Philipseburgh in New Netherlands until the ascension of Peter Stuyvesant, at which point he retired to Wolfert's Roost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolfert_Acker (628 words)

	Gomez Mill House: Recent Research
		The next occupant was no other than the grandson of the Wolfert of whom Washington Irving wrote in his story “Wolfert’s Roost.” The Roost lies on the opposite bank of the river, but Wolfert Acker made as interesting a home for himself among the Marlborough woods.
		There, seated at the table in the great sitting room, Wolfert Acker would read a chapter from his Old Dutch Bible; then the weekly newspaper would be read aloud and discussed, all verbal information would be collected and the plans for the ensuing week deliberated.
		Wolfert Acker became a lieutenant in the Newburgh regiment, but his chief work seems to have been done in the sitting room of the old mansion which stands today a monument to the honest hands that built it.
	www.gomez.org /research.html (2124 words)

	Van Tassel Family History Homepage - Old Families of Westchester - Acker
		Wolfert Echert is the ancestor of the Acker family of Westchester, the name having become Anglicized long before the Revolution.
		Abraham Acker, who died in 1825, was one of the last family owners of the land, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
		Lewis Ackers of Ossining is a descendant of another son, Willet, born in 1809 on the Camp Fire Road farm.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~vantasselfamilyhistoryhomepage/oldfamiliesofwestchester/acker.html (906 words)

	Eckhardt DNA Project Website - Family Project Website
		In particular we hope to attract participation from descendants of Dutch ancestor Wolfert Acker of Westchester County, as well as the Palatine families of the Schoharie and Mohawk valleys, and of course the Dutch Eckerson line.
		Descendants of the Beekman branch of Ackers can now be grateful to the late Roy Acker, whose DNA provides the icing on the cake, and closure to one of the longest-standing of the Dutchess Co. Acker mysteries.
		Wolfert was immortalized by Washington Irving in a fictional account called Wolfert's Roost (his name for the subject's Dutch cottage which itself is supposed to have formed the very foundation of Irving's own "Sunnyside").
	www.familytreedna.com /public/eckhardt (5785 words)

	Picturesque Hudson: Chapter 8
		Wolfert retired to this fastness in the wilderness, and inscribed over his door his favorite motto, “Lust in Rust” (pleasure in quiet).
		“Wolfert had brought with him a wife, and it soon passed into a proverb throughout the neighborhood that the cock of the Roost was the most henpecked bird in the country.
		The shade of Wolfert Acker walks unquiet rounds at night in the orchard; and a white figure has now and then been seen seated at a window and gazing at the moon, from a room in which a young lady is said to have died of love and green apples.”
	www.kellscraft.com /PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (4338 words)

	Newburgh, NY -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 9W
		It was sold to Wolfert Acker before the Revolutionary War, then to William Henry Armstrong, who occupied it for five decades.
		In 1772, the home was sold to Wolfert Acker, who supported the Patriot’s cause.
		Acker, a Christian of Dutch ancestry, would read inspirational passages from “his family Bible box” to his guests.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute9w/newburgh/default.htm (627 words)

	Wolferts Roost Country Club - HOME
		As a social organization, Wolferts Roost had its origin in 1886 when the Albany Press Club was incorporated.
		Called âWolferts Roostâ by the Governor, after the peaceful hideaway of a hapless character named Wolfert Acker, from the Washington Irving Tales, the estate enjoyed a majestic view of the Hudson and its beautiful valley below.
		The formal opening of Wolferts Roost Country Club, with its nine hole golf course, was held on September 11, 1915.
	www.wolfertsroost.com (207 words)

	Wolfert's Roost
		Wolfert Acker died and was buried, but found no quiet even in the grave: for if popular gossip be true, his ghost has occasionally been seen walking by moonlight among the old gray moss-grown trees of his apple orchard.
		Wolfert's Roost was one of the rallying places of this confederacy, and Jacob Van Tassel one of its members.
		The shade of Wolfert Acker still walks his unquiet rounds at night in the orchard; and a white figure has now and then been seen seated at a window and gazing at the moon, from a room in which a young lady is said to have died of love and green apples.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~vantasselfamilyhistoryhomepage/wolfertsroost.html (4795 words)

	Acker \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Acker in 13 languages, encyclopedia term for Acker.
		Ein Acker, auch Feld genannt, ist ein landwirtschaftlich genutzter Boden, der regelmäßig bearbeitet oder bestellt wird.
		Acker to English Acker to French Acker to Italian Acker to Spanish Acker to Dutch Acker to Portuguese Acker to German Acker to Russian Acker to Japanese Acker to Chinese (S) Acker to Turkish Acker to Hungarian Acker to Serbian Acker to Bulgarian Acker to Farsi
	www.babylon.com /definition/Acker/All (235 words)

	- Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies - Washington Irving, Book, etext
		It was indeed as quiet and sheltered a nook as the heart of man could require, in which to take refuge from the cares and troubles of the world; and as such, it had been chosen in old times, by Wolfert Acker, one of the privy councillors of the renowned Peter Stuyvesant.
		This worthy but ill-starred man had led a weary and worried life, throughout the stormy reign of the chivalric Peter, being one of those unlucky wights with whom the world is ever at variance, and who are kept in a continual fume and fret, by the wickedness of mankind.
		Certain it is, that Wolfert Acker nailed a horse-shoe to the front door, during one of her nocturnal excursions, to prevent her return; but as she re-entered the house without any difficulty, it is probable she was not so much of a witch as she was represented.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/I/IrvingWashington/prose/wolfertsroost/wolfertsroost.html (5581 words)

	The Gomez House: The Earliest Surviving Jewish Residence in North America
		Before the Revolutionary War, Mill House was purchased Wolfert Acker, a Dutch-American who added a second storey and attic to Mill House with bricks made from clay found nearby.
		Acker served as a lieutenant in the New Marlborough Company of Minute Men and chairman of the Committee of Safety while General Washington’s army was camped close by in Newburgh.
		After the war, Acker established a landing on the Hudson with a ferry to cross the river and a packet line to carry freight.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/gomez.html (479 words)

	Hudson River Valley - National Heritage Area
		The fieldstone first story was built in 1714 by Luis Moses Gomez, a Sephardic Jew, for his trading operations along the nearby Hudson River.
		Wolfert Acker, a prominent local Patriot during the American Revolution, bought the house in 1772 and added the brick second floor.
		Its furnishings include everything from a richly carved 17th-century kas (that may have belonged to Luis Gomez) to Wolfert Acker's Bible box and chandeliers by Gustav Stickley, a friend of Dard Hunter's.
	www.hudsonrivervalley.com /index.cfm?section_id=6&page_id=47 (242 words)

	eG Forums -> Sake in the City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Acker, Merrill on 72nd right off of Broadway also now has very good sake.
		Tastings at Landmark and Acker Merrill are very good for the money, as in free.
		I can't find my notes, but last Saturday Acker Merrill was pouring 6 sakes, including a $97 retail bottle.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=66875 (1296 words)

	HHF Factpaper: Gomez House- The Oldest Jewish Residence in the USA
		Daniel Gomez sold the house and 600 acres of land in 1772 to Wolfert Acker who found the facility well suited for a grist mill and saw mill.
		Acker, an immigrant from Holland, became a leader of the militia during the revolution.
		General Washington's headquarters was in Newburgh from 1782-83, and Wolfert went back and forth from the house to Washington, carrying orders for the militia.
	www.hebrewhistory.info /factpapers/fp030_gomez.htm (4489 words)

	THE HUDSON BY BENSON J LOSSING
		The old Dutch house--one of the oldest in all that region--out of which grew that quaint cottage, was a part of the veritable Wolfert's Roost--the very dwelling wherein occurred Katrina Van Tassel's memorable quilting frolic, that terminated so disastrously to Ichabod Crane, in his midnight race with the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
		Had he served on a modern jury, he would have been sure to have eleven unreasonable men opposed to him." He retired in disgust to this then wilderness, built the gabled house, and "inscribed over the door (his teeth clenched at the time) his favourite Dutch motto, 'Lust in Rust' (pleasure in quiet).
		The mansion was thence called Wolfert's Rust (Wolfert's Rest), but by the uneducated, who did not understand Dutch, Wolfert's Roost." It passed into the hands of Jacob Van Tassel, a valiant Dutchman, who espoused the cause of the Republicans.
	www.threerivershms.com /hudsonch18pt2.htm (2502 words)

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		It is true, the fate of the unlucky Wolfert passed across my mind; but I consoled myself with the reflection that I was a bachelor, and that I had no termagant wife to dispute the sovereignty of the Roost with me. I have become possessor of the Roost!
		She was a native of England, and had lived a year in Weathersfield, Connecticut, where she had been tried for witchcraft, found guilty by the jury, acquitted by the bench, and released out of prison, upon condition she would remove.
		As we sat on one of the tomb-stones, he recounted to me the exploits of many of these worthies; and my heart smote me, when I heard of their great doings in days of yore, to think how heedlessly I had once sported over their graves.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~juola/problems/problemC/Ctrain03-2.txt (11428 words)

	Washington Irving Encyclopedia Article @ Troubling.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The original house and the surrounding property were once owned by 18th-century colonialist
		Wolfert Acker, about whom Irving wrote his sketch “Wolfert’s Roost” (the name of the house).
		Irvington, New Jersey, were named after the author, and also, it is believed, the city of
	www.troubling.net /encyclopedia/Washington_Irving (1144 words)

	Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Later, after being rebuffed by the Dutch, English settlers living in Connecticut laid a “plague of witchcraft” on the vicinity.
		Wolfert Acker, the first European to own and build on the land, subsequently had to “fight off witches and warlocks” that “would whirl about upon the weathercocks and scream down the chimneys.” Unlucky even in death, “according to local gossip,” Acker’s ghost still haunted the apple orchard at the time of Irving’s residence.
		Most importantly, the tract of land in question was also the site of the Van Tassel farm, the very farm that Ichabod gleefully visits on the fatal night of his flight from the headless horseman.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/188_sleepy3.shtml (1162 words)

	Acker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acker is a surname that is derived from German or old English, meaning "field".
		Acker is sometimes used as a personal name:
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acker (111 words)

	Washington Irving - Birthday, occupation and personality
		He lived in his famous home of Sunnyside, which is still standing just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York.
		The original house and the surrounding property were once owned by 18th century colonist Wolfert Acker, about whom Irving wrote his sketch "Wolfert's Roost" (the name of the house).
		It is believed that the city of Irving, Texas was named after him, as are Washington Street and Irving Street in Birmingham, Alabama.
	www.mysticgames.com /EditCelebs.cfm?ID=32240 (398 words)

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		In Wolferts Roost onr anthor narrates an ancient legend of the Tappan Sea, so pleasant in itselg and so marked with the qniet humor with which he tells snch a story, that we are tempted to repeat it.
		Irvings grave story, (bnnd the invaluable state papers rescued by the honghtful and patriotic Wolfert from tbQ archives of the conqnered city of New Amsterdam, upon which his marvelous History of the Dutch Dy- nasty was built; and here he pursued his era- dite researches in the very room which is now our authors sanctum.
		Among his latest published works is his by iag life of his favorite author, Goldsmith, to whose genius his own has been so often and so appositely compared, and his history of Ma- homet and his Successors, another wave from the flood of his Moslem researches.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/harp/harp0014.sgm (16745 words)

	Washington Irving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He lived in his famous home of Sunnyside, which is still standing just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown, New York.
		The original house and the surrounding property were once owned by 18th-century colonialist Wolfert Acker, about whom Irving wrote his sketch “Wolfert’s Roost” (the name of the house).
		The village of Irvington, New York, and the town of Irvington, New Jersey, were named after the author, and also, it is believed, the city of Irving, Texas.
	72.232.68.234 /cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/010110A/687474703a2f2f656e2e77696b6970656469612e6f72672f77696b692f57617368696e67746f6e5f497276696e67 (1261 words)

	Factoid Central - Origin of the Phrase - Almighty Dollar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The sketch, which appeared the following year as part of Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, was based on the author's memories of a steamboat voyage in Louisiana.
		Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 — November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century.
		It should be noted that Ben Jonson had used the term "almighty gold" in his "Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland," which he wrote in 1616.
	www.factoidcentral.com /phrases/A_files/A_17.html (323 words)

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