Joseph Ashley

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Joseph Ashley/Elizabeth Percival of MASS Posted by: Jean Holcombe Date: July 31, 2000 at 08:56:51 of 904

Researching Joseph Ashley of Rochester Mass who (m)Elizabeth Percival & Mary Hall Whitredge. His oldest son, Thomas Ashley, apparently named for father, Thomas Ashley of Boston??

Son,Thomas, (b)Rochester 1738 died Poultney VT 1810. Grandson Thomas was one of the "Green Mountain Boys" and with Ethan Allen at the battle of Ft Ticonderoga.

Joseph had a brother, Abraham who (m)Susanna White with Mayflower descent & Elizabeth Rogers. I am trying to cross the ocean with little success. Glad to exchange info but email only wjholcombe@aol.com Was Williamshley/Elizabeth Batson an ancestor of this line???

following from WorldConnect:

4-22 updated Tree Entries: 19792 Updated: Sat Aug 25 20:55:11 2001 Contact: Lynnette James

Joseph ASHLEY 1 Sex: M Birth: ABT. 1675 2 3 1 Death: ABT. 1754 in Rochester, Massachusetts

The parentage and early life of Joseph and Abraham Ashley, the first of this line of Ashleys to settle in the Old Colony has never been proven. Some descendants believe that they came directly from England but no passenger list has been found to support this statement. Others believe they came to New England from the South. A widely accepted theory is that they were among the Ashleys of southern Maine who were driven out of that place during King Philip's War in 1675/6. Thomas Ashley was an early settler of the Kennebec at a place called Merrymeeting Bay about a dozen miles upstream from the Sagadahoc Settlement where, in 1607, 100 colonists landed at the mouth of the Kennebec and established a plantation at Popham Beach. They built a small ship, the pinnace Virginia and the next year sailed it back to England. The colony was abandoned after one winter. By 1625 treaties were being made with the Indians for lands on Merrymeeting Bay where four major rivers and several smaller streams all join in a "merrymeeting ". Some say it was originally Maremiten, i.e., Inland Sea, and that the name was corrupted to Merrymeeting. "Thomas Ashley sometime of Sagudohock or NewTon in ye county of Cornwall" (book of Eastern Claims) was an early settler and owned extensive property around the bay. He was well established by May 23, 1654 when the first court was held at his house. (Ply. Col. Recs.) He sold out on February 5, 1677 but perhaps left before that date as the deed says "my late dwelling house." King Philip's war would have driven him out a year or two earlier. A Thomas Ashley (perhaps the same) was admitted an inhabitant of Boston, May 31, 1658. A Thomas Ashley first appears on the Boston tax list in 1685. Thomas Ashley of NewTon in Cornwall and Merrymeeting Bay on the Kennebec, Maine had a son Thomas who, in turn, had a son Thomas who went to North Carolina. The third Thomas had sister s Mary Spikes of Boston and Anna Mansfield of Marblehead. (Book of Eastern Claims) There were many Ashley families in Boston in the late 1600s and Joseph and Abraham could have been from that place. Rebecca, sister to Joseph and Abraham, married second "John Whitefield formerly of the Royal Dragoons of Queen Anne of which Lord Rolfe, Earl of Strafford, was Colonel." (Plymouth Deeds) A John Ashley signed the petition along with Joseph and Abraham for the establishing of the Third Parish in Rochester in 1747. There was a John Ashley who had a tavern in Boston between 1733 and 1749. Joseph Ashley of Rochester married Elizabeth Percival and they are ancestors of every Ashley in this genealogy. Her mother's father was Edward Rainsford who came over with Winthrop in 1630. Abraham Ashley, brother of Joseph above, married Susanna White, a great-grandughter of Willaim White who came over on the Mayflower in 1620. There daughter Mercy married her cousin William, son of Joseph and Elizabeth above, and thus their son Deacon Abraham and all of his descendants are descendants of both of the first generation Ashleys.

Rochester, Massachusetts The town of Rochester, MA received its name from the ancient city of Rochester in Kent, Engl and, whence many of the first settlers came. It is recorded in history that the oysters found on those shores were celebrated by the Romans for their excellence and the pioneers, finding an abundance of delicious shellfish here, in memory of their former home, very appropriately gave to this tract of land the name of Rochester. At the time the first Ashleys arrived in town, R ochester encompassed about three times the area that it does today and include d all of the present towns of Marion, Mattapoiset

Marriage 1 Elizabeth PERCIVAL b: 10 SEP 1675 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Married: 25 AUG 1704 in Falmouth, Massachusetts 5

Children Thomas ASHLEY b: 21 FEB 1703/04 in Rochester, Massachusetts Jethro ASHLEY b: 11 JAN 1705/06 in Rochester, Massachusetts William ASHLEY b: 12 DEC 1709 in Rochester, Massachusetts Elizabeth ASHLEY b: 4 JAN 1709/10 in Rochester, Massachusetts Abraham ASHLEY b: 1715 in Rochester, Massachusetts Mary ASHLEY b: 12 MAR 1717/18 in Rochester, Massachusetts Joseph ASHLEY b: ABT. 1723 in Rochester, Massachusetts

Marriage 2 Mary HALL Married: 1728 in Rochester, Massachusetts 5

Sources: Title: 221834a.FTW Repository: Call Number: Media: Other Note: pg 127 Title: Ashley's of the Old Colony, Descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth (Percival) Ashley of Rochester, Mass. Author: Ashley, Robert E. Publication: 21 MAY 1994 Note: TITL Ashley's of the Old Colony, Descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth (Percival) Ashley of Rochester, Mass. Vol. I Note: free-form text to be added in Proof window Repository: Note: Note: vol. 1 pg 1; Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Registerxerox copies Author: NEHGR Publication: 26 MAR 1995 Repository: Note: Note: vol 5 pg 85 Title: Ashley's of the Old Colony, Descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth (Percival) Ashley of Rochester, Mass. Author: Ashley, Robert E. Publication: 21 MAY 1994 Note: TITL Ashley's of the Old Colony, Descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth (Percival) Ashley of Rochester, Mass. Vol. I Note: free-form text to be added in Proof window Repository: Note: Note: vol. 1 pg 1 Title: 221834a.FTW Repository: Call Number: Media: Other

After his first wife Sarah Orton Dewey died he remarried, on 20 Jan 1709, Mrs. Mary (Whiting) Sheldon, the widow of Joseph Sheldon, Esq., of Suffield, Connecticut. He married a third time, Hannah Glover, dtr. of Peletiah and Hannah (Parsons) Glover. Sarah’s three children inherited from her father’s will.

Capt. John Ashley b.27 Jun 1669 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d.16 Apr 1759 Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Facts and Events Name Capt. John Ashley Gender Male Birth? 27 Jun 1669 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Marriage 8 Sep 1692 Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Dewey Marriage 20 Jan 1709 Prob Westfield, Hampden, Massachusettsto Mary Whiting Marriage 12 Nov 1735 Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United Statesto Hannah Glover Death? 16 Apr 1759 Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Family tree▼ Parents and Siblings (edit)

   F.  David Ashley1642 - 1718

   M.  Hannah Glover1646 - 1722

m. 24 Nov 1663

   Samuel Ashley1664 - 1722

   Deacon David Ashley1666 - 1744

   Capt. John Ashley1669 - 1759

   Joseph Ashley1671 - 1705

   Susan Ashley1673 - 1761

   Sarah Ashley1673 - 1704

   Mary Ashley1675 - 1676

   Hannah Ashley1675 -

   Lieut. Jonathan Ashley1678 - 1749

   Abigail Ashley1681 - 1723

   Mary Ashley1682/83 - 1736

   Mary Ashley1683 - 1769

   Rebecca Ashley1685 - 

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Capt. John Ashley1669 - 1759

   W.  Sarah Dewey1672 - 1708

m. 8 Sep 1692

   Sarah Ashley1693 -

   Hannah Ashley1695 - 1696

   John Ashley1697 - 1697

   Moses Ashley1700 - 1700

   Ebenezer Ashley1702 - 1702

   Major Noah Ashley1704 - 1755

   Roger Ashley1705 - 1738

   Lydia Ashley1708 - 1708

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Capt. John Ashley1669 - 1759

   W.  Mary Whiting1672 - 1717

m. 20 Jan 1709

   Col. John Ashley1709 - 1802

   Preserved Ashley1711 - 1711

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Capt. John Ashley1669 - 1759

   W.  Hannah Glover1693 - 

m. 12 Nov 1735

Source: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Ashley_%286%29