Martha (Ackers) Card (1668-1716) is #757 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #756 Job Card (1653-1739) in 1689 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island.
I am descended through:
* their son #378 Job Card (1690-1760), married 1716 Judith Greenman (1694-1786).
* their daughter #189 Phoebe Card (1730-1789), married #188 Elijah Champlin (1730-1779) in 1751.
* their son #94 Joseph Champlin (1758-1850), married #95 Nancy Kenyon (c1765-b1833) in 1785.
* their daughter #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865), married #46 Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) in 1813.
* their daughter #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864), married #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married in 1844.
* their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913), married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
* their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Martha Ackers[1]
* Alternate Name: Martha Acres[2–3]
* Alternate Name: Martha Cards[4]
* Alternate Name: Jully Samantha Ackers[5]
* Sex: Female
* Father: John Ackers (1635-1699)
* Mother: Margery --?-- (1639-????)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 26 February 1668, New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[3]
* Distribution: 10 January 1698/9 (age 29) father's will proved; New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[4]
* Death: before 28 May 1716 (before age 48), New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1,3]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Job Card (1653-1739)
* Marriage 1: November 1689 (about age 36), New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, United States[1-2,5-6]
* Child 1: Job Card 1690-1760
* Child 2: Rebecca Card 1694-1739
* Child 3: Martha Card 1699-1789
* Child 4: Margery Card 1701-1751
* Child 5: Jane Card 1703-1727
* Child 6: Sarah Card 1705-1740
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Martha Acres (also known as Ackers or Ackurs) was born 26 February 1668 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island (on Block Island), the daughter of John and Margery (--?--) Ackurs[3].
"Jully Samantha" Ackers married Job Card in New Shoreham in November 1689[1-2,5-6]. Job Card was the son of Richard and Rebecca (--?--) of Newport, Rhode Island Job and Martha (Ackers) Card had six children, all born and recorded in New Shoreham, Newport County, Rhode Island. They are:
* Job Card (1690-1760), married 1716 Judith Greenman (1694-1786).
* Rebecca Card (1694-1739), married 1709 Acres Tosh (1687-1739).
* Martha Card (1699-1789), married 1721 Joshua Rathbone (1696-1779)
* Margery Card (1702-1751), married 1724 John Foster (c1687-c1764).
* Jane Card (1703-1727), married c1720 Isaac Sheffield (1695-1773)
* Sarah Card (1705-1740), married 1727 Isaac Sheffield (1695-1773)
Martha's father, John "Ackurs of Block Island" died testate in New Shoreham, Rhode Island, before 10 January 1699, when his will was proved by the town council[4]. He wrote his will dated 12 November 1698, which was proved 10 January 1698/9. The will mentions wife Margery Ackurs; daughters Margery Tosh, wife of Daniel Tosh, and Martha Cards, wife of Job Cards.
Job and Martha (Acres) Card resided in Westerly, South Kingstown and Charlestown, Rhode Island[2].
Martha (Acres) Card died before 28 May 1716, probably in New Shoreham, when Job Card married his second wife, Martha's sister, Margery (Ackers) Tosh[3].
Martha left no probate or burial records.
5. SOURCES
1. Maxine Phelps Lines, "Descendants of Richard Card of Newport," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Volume 3, Number 3 (January 1981) to Volume 4, Number 4 (April 1982), Volume 3, Number 3, Page 194.
2. G. Andrews Moriarty, "Early Block Island Families - III. The Card Family," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 83, Number 1 (January 1929), pages 89-93), pages 91-93, #4 Job Card family sketch.
3. Fredric Zimmerman Saunders, website (http://fzsaunders.com/), 1999-2023, Acres (http://fzsaunders.com/acres.html), Generation 12, John Acres family sketch.
4. New Shoreham (Rhode Island) Town Clerk, "Town Records, 1675-1744," FamilySearch (https:///familysearch.org), 7 microfilm reels, Volume 1, Part 2 (on FHL Microfilm 1783431, Item 1), pages 307-308 (image 48 of 1004) , John Ackurs probate record, 1699.
5. James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths : a Family Register for the People (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912), Volume 4, "Newport County: Births, Marriages, Deaths," New Shoreham Marriages, page 8, Job Card and Jully Samantha Ackers marriage entry, August 1689.
6. John Osborne Austin, One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families of Rhode Island (Salem, Mass. : Rhode Island Historical Society, 1893).
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