John Ashe, II, of Westfield Plantation

John Ash

• BIRTH 1673
• DEATH 1720 - Colleton County, South Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Ash Family Cemetery, Sampit, Georgetown County, South Carolina, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 160514349 · View Source

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John ASH, [variant spelling: ASH, ASHE], was the son of John ASH and of his first wife, Martha JOY JESS. He was a Colleton planter owning an early rice plantation, Westfield, in Colleton County.

In the will of his father, John ASH [Sr.], proved on October 19, 1704, ASH [Sr.] provided for his second wife, Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel BATT, of Coulson, Wiltshire, [England], and for his two sons, John ASH, and William ASH, by his first wife, Martha JESS.

John ASH participated in colonial politics.

In 1703, he was named to a committee that was to purchase Indian slaves captured by Carolina's Yemassee allies during Governor James MOORE's expedition to St. Augustine.

Four years later, he was chosen on of the Commissioners of the Indian Trade.

Ash was elected by Colleton to the Eighth Assembly (1706-1707) of the Commons House and was re-elected to the Ninth (1707) and the Tenth (1707-1708) Assemblies.

He was granted a power of attorney to Landgrave Joseph MORTON in 1720, apparently prior to leaving the province.

His will was proved in England on August 16, 1721. John ASH bequeathed his plantation, Westfield, to his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas BOLTON. Under the terms of ASH's will, at her death or remarriage, his mulatto Slave, Jeremy, was to be freed.

Today, remnants of Westfield Plantation (also known as Waterfield Plantation), located on the Sampit River, was an early rice plantation--lands that together with the remnants of five other plantations later formed Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown County (roughly bounded by U.S. Hwy. 521-17A, the Sampit River, Whites Creek, and Creek Rd., Georgetown vicinity).

Will of John ASH of Colleton. John ASH of Westfield [Plantation] in Colleton County, South Carolina. 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. Extract-"The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine: Vol. IV, No. 4. Oct. 1903.