Elizabeth Ashley

Massachusetts To Connecticut MigrationMassachusetts To Connecticut Migration

Elizabeth Kingsbury (Joseph', Henry'), married at Lebanon, Aug. 19, 1717, Samuel Ashley, of Windham, afterwards Hampton; he was a man of substance, and evidently one of the leading men in the section of the town in which he lived. She died Aug. 21, 1751 (1750, Ashley Genealogy); he died Feb. 12, 1771, aged 82.

CHILDREN.

• 1 Elizabeth, born, perhaps, in Canterbury, before the parents settled in Windham; m. James Bemis.
• 2 Samuel, born in Windham, Nov. 27, 1720; m. Nov. 23, 1746, Ruth Cresey ; lived and died in Hampton; no ch.
• 3 Abner, born in Windham, May 10, 1722; m. March 5, 1745/6, Mary Cresey, of Hampton ; died Feb. 14, 1801 ; 9 ch.
• 4 Susannah, born in Windham, June 5, 1724; m. John Hovey.
• 5 Joseph, born in Windham, June 1, 1728; lived in Hampton until late in life when he removed to Pomfret. He married (1) Sarah Cresey, Nov. 5, 1751 ; she died Sept. 11, 1762; he m. (2) Zerviah Lyon, of Ashford, April 25, 1764 ; she died May 5, 1781; m. (3) Rachel Allen, of Pomfret, April IO, 1783, who survived him ; he died in Pomfret, 1787, leaving 8 ch.
• 6 Love, born in Windham, July 19, 1731; probably died young.
• 7 Jonathan, born in Windham, Aug. 4, 1737 ; died June 23, 1740.

Sources

1. The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass (Google eBook) Frederick John Kingsbury Hartford Press, 1905 - 732 pages. Page 208
2. Francis Bacon Trowbridge. The Ashley genealogy : a history of the descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts online. (page 26 of 39)