When Hillegond Ackerman was born in May 1714, in Bergen, New Jersey, United States, her father, Johannes Ackerman, was 33 and her mother, Jannetje Lozier, was 22. She married Stephen Westervelt on 8 September 1733, in New Barbadoes Township, Bergen, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died about 1740, at the age of 27.
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Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘farmer, plowman’ (from akker ‘field’ + man ‘man’). Compare Akkerman , Aukerman , and Ockerman .
English: from Middle English acreman ‘cultivator of the soil, plowman’ (Old English æcerman, from æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an acreman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.
Americanized form of German Ackermann 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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