Capt. John Ashby

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA . DAR Ancestor # A003417

Captain of 2nd Virginia Rangers and served under Colonel George Washington during the Indian campaign and at Braddock's defeat. For his services in the French and Indian wars he was granted large tracts of land in Kentucky, 2,000 acres of this were in Woodford County, where his descendants settled several years later.

It was during this period, the French and Indian Wars, that the infamous Dec 1755 letter from George WASHINGTON was sent to Capt. John ASHBY (2nd Company of Rangers), dressing him down for the "great irregularities" in his camp, including both the "... misbehavior of your Wife, who I am told sows sedition among the men, and is chief of every mutiny..." and the selling of rum by John's brother-in-law, Joseph Combs (George Washington Papers, 1755 John Ashby Letter).

By 1770, Capt. John ASHBY had removed to Fauquier Co, VA (Rent Roll) and in May of 1773, John ASHBY was cited for illegal liquor sales. According to Ashby Researcher Andrea Kent this was the same John ASHBY who m Jane Combs. Andrea adds, from unsourced notes: "A British officer captured at Yorktown wrote of his 1781 visit to the Ashby inn and spoke to a woman who matches Jane's description. In their conversation, she said that she would treat him kindly, as her mother was born in England."

Source:

http://lists.combs-families.org/combs/families/c-ashby.htm

Born in Over Wharton Parish, Stafford Co., Virginia (VA), USA in 1707 Died in Fauquier County, Virginia (VA), USA in 1789 (Age 83)

1st Marriage to: Jane Combs (Ashby) (Before 1728-Before 1783) on Monday, May 11, 1741 (Age 34) - in Overwharton Parish, Stafford Co., Virginia (VA), USA
2nd Marriage to: Catherine Huffman (Ashby) (1765 -?) on Monday, October 27, 1783 (Age 77) - in Frederick County, Virginia (VA), USA on Monday, October 27, 1783 (Age 77)

    - Catherine (1710 - ?) the marriage date is known but not location of date of Catherine's death 	

Comments: Note: According to Norman Rickard's Family Tree Maker site #448 - John's father was Tracy Tomblin Propst's Roots Web site along with much more information on Thomas)
Residence History: Fauquier County, Virginia (VA), USA
Other Website Links: Ancestors of Robert Stom & Christine (Hilton) Stom My Southern Family

	 Source: Holly Hofmann's Rootsweb Site and Descendents of William DeEsseby and Norman Rickard's Family Tree Maker site #448 	

Family Lines: John is listed in the following family line report: Ashby.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-01-02-0001-0002

Saturday March 12th. This Morning Mr. James Genn the surveyor came to us. We travel’d over the Blue Ridge to Capt. Ashbys on Shannondoa River. Nothing remarkable happen’d.

John Ashby (1707–1789) was a member of a prominent frontier family. His father, Thomas Ashby, had settled in Stafford County in 1710 and moved to what is now Fauquier County before 1748. In 1741 John Ashby married Jean Combs of Maryland and moved with his father to the banks of the Shenandoah, where the Ashby Tract lay along the river just below the mouth of Howell’s Run. He was widely known as an Indian fighter, serving as captain in the 2d Virginia Rangers which from 1752 to 1754 maintained headquarters at Fort Ashby at the juncture of the Potomac River and Patterson’s Creek. In 1752 he was elected to the Frederick Parish vestry. After Braddock’s Defeat in July 1755 Ashby carried news of the disaster to Williamsburg. He participated in the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774 and shortly after went to Kentucky, where he spent several years locating and improving a grant of 2,000 acres he had received from Virginia for his services in the Indian wars.

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GEDCOM Source

kenberge11.FTW Date of Import: Jul 6, 2003

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