John "The Agent" Ashe, I

John Ash - The Agent

• BIRTH 1650 - Wiltshire, England
• DEATH 1704 (aged 53–54) - Sampit, Georgetown County, South Carolina
• BURIAL Ash Family Cemetery, Sampit, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA
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John ASH, a Congregationalist, immigrated to South Carolina from New England and settled among his coreligionists in Dorchester. Later, he moved to Danho, his plantation in Colleton County.

Joseph BOONE and John ASHE [variant spelling: ASH, ASHE] were leaders of the Dissenters in 1702. John Ashe became the first agent for the colony before Parliament. He died in 1704 and was replaced by Joseph BOONE. Religion and Politics in Colonial S.C. J. W. BRINSFIELD.

Readers of McCrady, and of various other histories of South Carolina, will recall John Ash or "Mr Ash", a leader of the dissenters in the crisis of 1703-4. He appears abruptly, steps into great prominence, is sent by the dissenters to London and dies there in 1704. Extract from '"Mr Ash" - A Footnote in Constitutional History' by David McCord WRIGHT, the University of Georgia (published in The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 63, No. 4> Oct. 1962.

In Colleton County, he numbered among his associates Landgraves Thomas SMITH, Joseph MORTON, and Edmund BELLINGER (d. 1705),--all dissenters.

John ASH first married Martha Ivey JOY [JESS] in 1672 in Teffont, Wiltshire, England. Martha Ivey JOY [JESS] was born in 1651.

John ASH married second Mary BATT, daughter of Rev. Samuel BATT and Mary, circa 1692. (Mary BATT was born circa 1667 in Coulston, Wiltshire, England, died in 1712 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, and was buried in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

ASH's will was proved on October 19, 1704, and in it he provided for his second wife, Mary BATT, daughter of Reverend Samuel BATT, of Coulson, Wiltshire, England, and for his two sons, John ASH, and William ASH, by his first wife, Martha JESS.

WILL OF JOHN ASH, Probate Jude's Office, Charleston, S.C., Vol. I, P:34 VOL. 1 PAGE 34

I John ASH of Danho Plantation in the County of Colleton in South Carolina gent. do constitute this my last will thereby revoking and annulling all former wills and that all former wills are hereby annulled. That this is my last will is hereby declared. Imprimis

I make my beloved wife Mary the daughter of Samuell BATT late rector of Coulson in Wiltshire in England my whole and sole Executrix in trust that she dispose of all my Estate as well real as personal which I hereby give her (except what is herein after otherwise bequeathed) for the maintenance of her self and children now born who may before ye twentieth of February next be born of her, as also that when either of the male children shall arrive to the age of twenty-one years she shall to such child deliver than such part of the remains or improved product as dividing the same by the number of those children than living & her Self shall allow, and in like manner, to the female Children as they shall arrive at the age of fifteen.

To my son John by Martha Joy, I give the product of £100 Tally payable to me or order with the advantage of Survivorship out to the Exchequor as also two fifths of the dues on another tally for fourteen percent recompose for five hundred pounds during his life payable also out of the Exchequor to me or my order.

To my Son William I give the recompense due on ye Survivorship fund £100 Tally for his life these tallys are all in the hands of Sir William Simpson, I also give to my said son William the advowich of Colley vicarage bought of Mr. MAYNE lying in the County of Devon.

Lastly in case my Executrix herein mentioned die before she know of my death it is my will that Landy Joseph MORTON and the Lady Eliza. BLAKE be my Executors in trust she dispose of my Estate in like manor as has she lived she would have according to this my will have done.

signed sealed and delivered my will this ninth of April1 Seventeen hundred & three in Presence of Edmnd. BELLINGER, Ja BYRES, James KINLOCH.

John (SEAL) Ash

Before me the Rt. Honorable Sir Nathaniel Johnson Lt. Governor Capt genera1 and admiral of South and & North Carolina and ordinary of the Same. Came and appeared on this present Nineteenth day of October an.o dni 1704 Mr. James Byres and Dandy r Edmund Bellinger two of the within Subscribing Evidentes who on their oaths on the holy Evangelists taken say that they and either of them were personally present and did see the within testator Mr. John Ash Sign seal Publish and declare the within Instrument to be his last will and testament and at ye time of his so doing he was of Sound and Perfect mind and memory to ye best of their Judgments and knowledges and that they saw James Kinloch ye other of the within subscribeing witnesses sign ye Same in Wiittness thereto Capt. et Jurat Coram me die & anno Pr dict N. Johnson"

While engaged in his mission, he [John ASHE] died in London [1704], and his family, of which son, John Baptista ASHE was the head, "...emigrated to the Albemarle settlment in North Carolina..." about 1727 "...married a daughter of Samuel SWANN..." "...then removed to the Cape Fear region...". Sons General John ASHE (sons, Capt. Samuel ASHE, John 'Mad Jack ASHE, William, A'Court, and Cinncinnatus ASHE) and Samuel ASHE "...Governor of the State..." (son, Colonel John Baptista ASHE, Colonel Samuel ASHE). "Address delivered before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina" George DAVIS, 1855.

Children of John ASHE and Martha JOY [JESS] include:

son, John ASH, of Westfield Plantation in Colleton County, S.C., md. Anne BOLTON, daughter of Thomas BOLTON; Will 31 March 1711; proved 16 August 1721. Executrix and residuary legatee : my wife Ann, daughter of Thomas Bolton. To brother William Ash, £150, if living at my decease. To my sister Isabella Ash, £100. To Joseph Briant, Stephen Ford, Mr. Thomas Waring, and Mr. Ralph Izard, each a 40s. ring inscribed with my age, the two last with this inscription : "Your call is uncertain." To my Mallotto slave Jemmy his freedom at the death or marriage of my executrix. Witnesses : John Hayes, John Wilkinson, Mary Hayes. Administration to William Livingston, husband and administrator of Anne Livingston, also Ash, deceased, while she lived sole executrix, &c., of John Ash, late of Westfield in Colleton County.

son, William ASH, mentioned in the will of his father,John ASHE, dated 1703;

daughter, Martha ASHE, - ; md. Thomas SMITH, Jr., - ;

daughter, Isabella AHSE, - ; md. Benjamin PERRY, - ;

Children of John ASHE and Mary BATT include:

daughter, md. Theodora ASHE, -June 19, 1760; md. c. 1719, Joseph LAW, 1700-1733; md. second, September 27, 1733, William EDDINGS; Will of Theodora EDINGS (dated Jan 19, 1760; proved Jan 9, 1761), widow of Charles Town; bro's, Richard, John (dec'd), Samuel (dec'd), & Algernon (dec'd) ASH, and bro, William LIVINGSTON (dec'd); names no surviving issue or any EDINGS; mentions nieces (Theodora FRAMPTON, Mary RAVEN) and nephews of the ASH family (bk. 1757-60, p. 318);

son, John Baptista ASHE, 1695-1734, died Grovely, Cape Fear, North Carolina ; md. 1719, Bath, North Carolina, Elizabeth Lillington SWANN, - ; Children: Major General John ASHE; Mary ASHE; Governor Samuel Swann ASHE;

son, Captain Richard ASHE, 1696-1766; md. first Mary COCHRAN, daughter of James COCHRAN, d. 1724; md. second 1739, Martha LARDENT; Will of Richard Ash dated 20 Aug 1765. Proved 4 July 1766. Mrs. Martha ASH, Mother to the following Children was born the 11th Day of March 1717.
1. William ASH her Son was born the 5th Day of August, Anno Dom 1739
2. Martha ASH her Daughter was born the 10th Day of June 1741.
3. Portia ASH was born the 13th Day of August Anno Dom 1743.
4. Theodora ASH was born the 25th Day August Anno Dom 1745.
5. Anna Maria ASH was Born the ? Day of October Anno Dom 1747.
6. Eadith ASH was Born the 7th Day of March Anno Dom 1749/50.
7. Algernon ASH was Born the 25th Day of October Anno Dom 1753.
8. Priscilla ASH was Born the 20th Day of July Anno Dom, 1757. Martha was the second wife of Capt. Richard ASH of Colleton, who made his will 20 Aug., 1765, proved 4 July, 1766, mentions Sons Joseph, Richard Cochran ASH, and John ASH, daus. Portia, Theodora and Priscilla. "The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine; Vol. 26, No. 3" July 1925.

son, Algernon Sidney ASHE, - ; md. Elisabeth LAMBRIGHT, - ; Will of Algernon Ash dated 21 Nov 1745;

son, Samuel ASHE, 1703-1736; md. first February 24, 1726, Catherine CLEMENTS, -1730, buried Christ Church, Charleston County, South Carolina ; md. second July 15, 1731, Elizabeth BURT, -d. November 28, 173