The fifth child of Joseph 49 and Sarah Payne, Achsah 132 was born January 8, 1799 in Marcellus Township, Onandaga County, in the Military Tracts of New York. He had served "for the duration" and as a veteran, was looking for the bounty land he was promised by Congress. They relocated from Manilus to Marcellus to be closer to the family of Joseph 24, her father's first cousin, once removed.

Her parents immigrated to King Township in Upper Canada, settling on Yonge Street with her uncle, James 51 and his wife Lydia. They were soon joined by her uncle, Philip 55, and his family. They located a little south of Gamble's on Chewette's 1819 map.

During the winter of 1800, while Achsah was just a baby, her parents were visited by Timothy Rogers, a Vermont Quaker seeking good land for settlement. He too, had heard the colonial Govenor's call for United Empire Loyalists and was scouting possible locations. Joseph 49 and Sarah made him welcome, thinking Quakers might make good neighbors and Timothy returned the following year with 40 Quaker families.

The Quaker settlers established themselves, erected a Meetinghouse and the town of Newmarket grew up around it. One of the pioneer familes were Nathaniel and Mary Gager, who had emigrated from Dutchess County, NY to Pelham, near Niagra in Upper Canada and then to Timothy Rogers' pioneer settlement on Yonge Street, later called New Market

Two of Achsah's brothers, Stephen 130 and Aaron 131, married Yonge Street Quakers, then on March 14, 1822, our 23 year-old Achsah 132 married the 25 year-old Herbert Gager. However, the Yonge Street Meeting disowned "Hibbert" on the 16th of the First Month of 1823 for marrying outside the faith and threatening violence. He apologized and they took the newlyweds under their care. Whatever Herbert's apology, Newmarket was becoming crowded and with Jay 132/1, it seemed a good time to move on.

Herbert and Achsah went to Pickering Township about 40 miles SE of Newmarket. There was a large Quaker community, the salmon fishery, a meetinghouse and Timothy Rogers' grist mill. Jay's brother William 132/2 was born there in 1825. God was good and Achsah and Herbert added Mary 132/3, Griffin 132/4, Nelson 132/5 and Aaron 132/6 to their brood by 1832.

Times were changing, old Timothy Rogers died in 1834, and they moved about 20 miles north to Victoria County, where 3 of her brother Stephen 130's children, Edith 130/1 who married Wing Rogers, Joseph 130/2 who married Esther Rogers, and Achsah 130/7 who married Samuel Rogers, all lived in Mariposa Township. There she birthed the twins, Elford 132/7 and Bradford 132/8 in 1835. Sarah 132/9, John 132/A and Susan 132/B followed, making 11 by 1843.

In "The Cody Family Massachusetts 1698", Achsah's summary bio on page 29 says that the widower, Herbert, moved the family to Winnesheik County, Iowa in 1853. Naturalization papers and the 1860 Federal Census of Iowa confirm that tradition. Herbert and his grown children; William 132/2, Mary 132/3, Griffin 132/4, Nelson 132/5, Elford 132/7 and Susan 132/B all immigrated.

Herbert left his son Nelson 132/5 in Iowa and moved on to Quaker settlements in Jaspar County, MO and Columbus, Cherokee County KS where he died in 1883, at the home of his son William 132/2.