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ANDRUS, BENJAMIN, m. Anne Churchel, Oct. 30, 1760 : is- sue, Anne, b. Sept. 14, 1762; Lorana, b. Dec. 1764.
ANDRUS, JOSEPII, 2D, by Asenath, his wife, had issue : Ruth, b. Jan. 27, 1763 ; Pamela, b. Sept. 5, 1764; Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 1766 ; Polly, b. June 8, 1770 ; Roxillana, b. Dec. 14, 1771 ; Eli- sha, b. Oct. 11, 1773 ; William, b. Nov. 16, 1775 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 11, 1777 ; Asenath, b. May 22, 1779.
ANDRUS, ABEL, m. Eunice Stoddard, Dec. 2, 1764, had issue : Amos, b. March 17, 1765 ; Ruth, b. Oct. 9, 1766 ; Jared, b. April 10, 1769 ; Allen, b. July 25, 1771 : Hannah, b. Feb. 1, 1774 ; Lydia, b. -. (Belden's Record.)
ANDRUS, ELIAS, m. Tabitha Bissell, of East Windsor, Nov. 20, 1780, and had issue : Clarissa, b. Nov. 4, 1781. These are the Wethersfield Andrus family, taken from the record there. The name is uniformly spelt upon the Wethersfield Record, " Andrus."
The name of Andrews was early in Massachusetts. DANIEL, Deputy of Salem Village, in 1689; JOHN, of Ipswich, in 1642; JOHN, of Lynn, 1650 ; JOHN, of Boston, 1656 ; JOSEPH, of Hing- ham, 1635 ; RICHARD, of Ipswich, d. in 1644 ; ROBERT, of Ips- wich, freeman, 1635 ; THOMAS, of Hingham, 1635 ; WILLIAM, of Lynn, 1634. Three of the name of WILLIAM ANDREWS, ad- mitted freemen in 1634, 1635 and 1640, one of them of Cambridge, in 1635, (one of whom was probably the school-master of Hartford,) and others mentioned by Farmer in his valuable collections. Five by the name of ANDREW ; thirteen by the name of ANDREWS, and two by the name of ANDRUS, had graduated at Yale College, be- fore 1851. Five by the name of ANDREW, and eighteen by the name of ANDREWS, had graduated at Harvard College, previous to 1848. SAMUEL ANDREW, of Milford, sold land to Jonathan Law, in Milford, Jan. 6, 1685-6. The name of ANDREW, has five coats
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of arms, ANDREWES, eight, and ANDREWS, fourteen ; ANDROS one THOMAS ANDREWS, ABIGAIL and RUTH ANDREWS, were petitioners and certifyers of the good character of Mahitabel Warren, of Hingham, in 1708-9, who had been charged of the sin of witchcraft. ( Hist. Gen. Reg.) MR. WILLIAM ANDREWS, freeman in Massachusetts, 1634-5. ROBERT ANDREWES, freeman in Massachusetts, 1635. JOSEPH ANDREWES, free in Massachusetts, March, 1635-6. WILLIAM ANDREWS, wife Mary, d. at Cambridge, 1639. WILLIAM ANDROWS, freeman Massachusetts, 1640. RALPH ANDREWES m. Abigail Very, at Gloucester, Mass., Dec. 12, 1682. STEPHEN ANDREWS, and his wife Bethia, had children b. at Rochester, Mass., before 1700. THOMAS ANDREW, of Hingham, freeman, 1673-4. JOHN ANDRUS, of Boxford, made free, 1690. SIR EDMUND ANDROS-" Boston, May 3, 1714. 'By Letters from London, of the 24th of February, we are informed that Sir Edmond Andrews, sometime Governour of New York, New England, and Virginia, Dyed that Week, in a Good Old Age.' Boston News-Letter." (N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. No. 15, p. 260.) SAMUEL ANDREWS, aged 37, came in the Increase, Robert Lea, Master, to New Eng- land. Also Jane, his wife, aged 30. Jane, their daughter, aged 3, and Elizabeth, daughter, aged 2, and Ellyn Long, her servant, aged 20.
ANGIER, EDMOND, from Cambridge, held land in Hartford, in 1650, by mortgage ; perhaps brother of Arthur, of Scarborough, 1671-2. Edmond was of Cambridge as early as 1636.
ANNABLE, ANTHONY, arrived at Plymouth in the ship For- tune, 1621, made free 1633 ; he removed to Barnstable about 1639, and died 1673. (See Farmer.)
ANNABLE, ANTHONY, Joseph and Cornelius were from the Cape, and brothers. Those of Connecticut were descendants of these brothers.
ANNABELL or ANNABLES has but one coat of arms in Eng- land; probably the same name as Annable, but changed since the above persons came to New England. This name came late to Con- necticut. All of the name, it is supposed, are of the Barnstable family.
ANTHONY was taxed at New Plymouth 18s. payable in corn, at 6s. per bushel, in 1632-3 ; John Barnes, 9s. ; John Adams, 9s. ; Wil- liam Bennet, John Bowman, 9s. ; Thomas Boreman, 9s. In 1633-4 Mr. William Bradford, £1, 7s .; Mr. William Brewster, £1, 7s .; John Alden, £1, 4s .; Jonathan Brewster, £1, 4s. ; John Browne,
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9s. ; Anthony Annable, 9s. ; William Bassett, £1, 7s. ; John Barnes, 18s. ; Widow Adams, 9s. ; and others.
ANNABLE, ANTHONY, was of Barnstable in 1644.
ANNABLE, SAMUEL, of Barnstable, m. Mehetable Allyn, June 1, 1667, and had children, Samuel, Hannah, John and Anna. Samuel Jr., m. Patience Dogged, 1695. John, son of Samuel, Sen., m. Experience Taylor, June 16, 1692, and had children.
ANNABLE, ANTHONY, and THOMAS ALLEN, of Barnsta- ble, were enrolled with others in 1643, as able to bear arms, being between sixteen and sixty years of age. JOLIN graduated at Har- vard College, 1744.
ANTIZEL, LARRANCE, of Windham, and Mary his wife, had Simon, b. June 10, 1740; Lear, a daughter, b. March 9, 1741.
ANTIZELL, LAWRENCE, of Willington, d. in 1759. Estate, £186. Widow Mary. Children, Zeruiah, Mary, Phebe, Simon, b. June 10, 1740, Peter or Perez, Phineas, Silas, Dorcas and Sarah. His son-in-law, David Fuller, executor.
ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN and BENJAMIN were at Nor- wich soon after its settlement.
ARMSTRONG, AVIS, of Windsor, d. December 24, 1660. In- ventory £26, 6s. 2d.
*ARMSTRONG, STEPHEN, and Hannah his wife, of Wind- ham, had children recorded at Windham, viz., Hannah, b. Dec. 1, 1710 ; Abigail, b. May 1, 1712 ; second Hannah, b. March 23, 1714 ; Jerusha, b. August 26, 1715; Sarah, b. June 21, 1717; Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1719-20 ; Stephen, perhaps removed from Staf- ford, as he purchased land in Windham, of Richard Cooms, near Stafford, in 1721.
ARMSTRONG, GREGORY, of Plymouth, Mass., d. in 1650, (Farmer.) Gregory was one able to bear arms at Plymouth, be- tween sixteen and sixty, in 1643. Only one of this name had grad- uated at Yale College in 1850, and but two at Harvard College, in 1848. The name of Armstrong has two coats of arms in England, and Armestrong, seven.
* The following persons in March, 1707, were of Windham, and were proprietors in the drawing of the twenty acre lots, viz., John Fitch, Jonathan Jennings, Capt. Brown Mr. Allyn, Joseph Huntington, Mr. Webb. Deacon Bingham, Mr. Whiting. Jolin Waldo, John Reed. Lieut. Crane, Deacon Cary, John Backus, Robert Hibard, Benjamin Milard, John Cates, then deceased ; Mr. Whiting, Jeremiah Ripley, heirs of John Abbe, Merchant Leffingwell. Joseph Dingly, Mr. Joshua Ripley, Mr. Samuel Treat, John Broughton. William More and Jonah Palmer had their twenty acre lots before these lots were laid out.
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ARMSTRONG, MARTHA m. William Wentworth, at Norwich, June 16, 1731, and had issue : Phebe, Martha, Mary, William, Jr., Joseph, Benjamin, Hannah and Sarah.
ARMSTRONG, HENRY, "imbarked in the Transport, of Lon- don, Edward Walker, master, 'to be transported' to Virginia, July 4, 1635."
ARNOLD, JOHN, was located in Hartford, south of Little River, in 1640; lot bounded north on the road leading from George Steele's to south meadow, east and south by William Hide, and west by Richard Lyman's lot. He was in the land division in 1639, sixteen acres. His wife, Susannah. Will, dated August 22, 1664. In- ventory taken Dec. 26, 1664. Estate over £100. He had children, Josiah, Joseph, Daniel, a daughter m. Buck, and perhaps others, a grand-daughter Mary Buck. He gave his son Joseph a portion of his estate, if he returned to live in Hartford again within two years. Joseph was an original proprietor in Hartford as early as 1639, and his son Joseph was old enough to have been an original proprietor at Haddam, in 1668. Joseph Arnold owned as many as twelve par- cels of land at Thirty Miles Island.
ARNOLL, JOHN, freeman in Massachusetts, May, 1635. John signed to remove to Hadley, in 1659, but did not go.
ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was a defendant in court at Hartford, May, 1647. Josias Arnold was made free at Hartford, May, 1657-8.
ARNOLD, DANIEL, of Hartford, d. and his will proved in court at Hartford, in 1692, and John Mason, aged 48, appointed adminis- trator. Estate £52, 11s. Mason d. and in 1698, Nathaniel, son of Daniel, was appointed administrator.
ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was an original settler at Hartford. He d. Oct. 22, 1691. Estate, £151, 10s. His will was offered in court by his widow and sons, Joseph and Josiah, in 1692. The estute was divided by his children in 1693, at which time his widow had mar- ried her second husband. Children, viz., John, aged 29; Joseph, 26 ; Samuel, 23; Josias, 21; Jonathan, 12; and a daughter, Su- sannah, 16 ; and Elizabeth, 9. Samuel had his portion at E. Had- dam, by a deed from his father, at " Matchit Moodus." Joseph Ar. nold was an original proprietor of the town of Haddam, but whether he removed to Haddam in the first settlement is doubtful ; his son Joseph probably settled at Haddam, and Samuel.
ARNOLD, JONATHAN, of Haddam, son of Joseph, m. Hannah Robinson, Oct 5, 1709 ; had Jonathan, b. July 11, 1710; his wife
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d. Sept. 18, 1714, aged 35, and he m. Sarah Jones, in 1715, and had Anna, b. April 18, 1717. He d. May 19, 1719, aged 39.
ARNOLD, JOHN, son of Joseph, m. Hannah Meakins, Jan. 12, 1709-10, of Hartford, and had Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 1710; Mary, b. March 3, 1713; John, b. July 8, 1715; Sarah, b. Dec. 1, 1717; Samuel, b. March 16, 1720; Henry, b. July 27, 1722.
ARNOLD, JOHN, m. Elizabeth Cross, of Windham, April 8, 1702.
ARNOLD, REV. JONATHAN, graduated at Yale College, 1723, was the second minister in W. Haven, 1725; he declared for Epis- copacy after about ten years, (as Dr. Johnson had done before him ;) he finally settled on Staten Island, New York.
ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was the son of Joseph Arnold. Jonathan, the son of Joseph, was the father of Samuel, who was lost in the woods, at the age of three years, west of Turkey Hill ; son of Jona- than, Jr., a minister who settled in New Jersey ; also of a second Samuel. This second Samuel had sons, Jonathan, Samuel and James. Col. Arnold, of Durham, was the son of Ebenezer, Joseph, the father of Jonathan, the father of Samuel, the father of Samuel, who had sons, Jonathan, d., John, Joseph, Samuel, Elijah and Charles, fifth generation. Joseph, son of Samuel, had sons, Jonathan, Joseph, George, Samuel, William, Isaac and Charles, (the sixth generation from Joseph, Sen. Joseph Arnold probably came from Newtown, Mass., to Hartford, in Mr. Hooker's Company, in 1636. Whether he was a relative of Benedict Arnold, early at Cambridge, cannot be settled by the Connecticut records.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, resided at Cambridge, and was an in- terpreter there in the early settlement of the town, as appears by the record of deeds in East Cambridge. He was probably the same Benedict Arnold who was afterwards President of Rhode Island, in 1663.
From Records of the town of Norwich, Vol. I.
" John Waterman and Elizabeth Lathrop, both of Norwich, mar- ried November 5, 1701. Four children are recorded to them,- among the number, is Hannah, born Sept. 28, 1708.
Absalom King, of Long Island, and Hannah Waterman, of Nor- wich, married August 11, 1730.
Children,-
Hannah, born July 28, 1731, and died April 30, 1739,
Absalom King, died Sept. 23, 1732.
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Mr. Benedick Arnold, and Mrs. Hannah King, widow of Absalom King, deceased, were married November 8, 1733.
Children,-
Benedick, born August 15, 1738, and died April 30, 1739.
2d Benedick, (Gen.,) born January 3, 1740-41 .*
Hannah, born December 9, 1742.
Mary, born June 4, 1745.
Absalom King, born April 4, 1747.
Elizabeth, born November 19, 1749.
Absalom, born October 22, 1750.
Mary, born September 10, 1753.
Elizabeth, born September 29, 1755.
ARNOLD, JOHN, a merchant, in 1680, was accepted as an in- habitant at Norwich ; the town gave him several acres of land there. He removed from Norwich soon after 1688.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, at Providence, R. I., 1639, President of Rhode Island, 1663, continued eight years, d. 1678 ; Edward, Boston, d. August 8, 1657 ; John, at Cambridge, 1635, member of artillery company, 1644 ; Joseph, Braintree, 1658 ; Richard, R. I., one of the council of Sir Edmond Andross, in 1687 ; Samuel, first minister of Rochester, Mass., ordained in 1684, d. 1717 ; Thomas, of Watertown, Mass., freeman, 1640, had sons, Ichabod, b. 1640, Richard, b. 1642, and William, of Hingham, 1635. (Far.)
Eleven of this name have graduated at Yale College, and one at Harvard College.
ARNOLD, REV. JONATHAN, of West Haven, m. Mrs. Sarah Miles, July 29, 1728. It is also certified by Samuel Eells, that Rev. Jonathan Arnold, of W. Haven, m. Mrs. Abigail Beard, of Milford, daughter of John Beard and Abigail Beard, of said Milford, April 4, 1728.
The name of Arnold has eleven different coats of arms in Eng- land. Arnald or Arnauld one.
ARNOLL, JOHN, freeman in Mass., 1635. William Arnold and William Aspinwall, are in the list of first settlers of Rhode Isl- and. John and Mary Arnol, of Weymouth, had Margaret, b. 1683, and James, b. in 1694. John Arnold made free in Mass., in 1643, Arnall, Thomas, freeman in Mass. in 1640.
ARNOLD, THOMAS, was at Watertown, Mass., as early as
* Benedick Arnold, 2d, was the Traitor, Gen. Arnold.
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1640. He was probably the same Thomas Arnold who came to this country in the " Plaine Joan," in 1635, aged 30 years.
ARNOLD, JAMES, Jo. Aymies, (Ames,) Marie Averie, Areto Andrewe, Elizabeth Allcot and others, "imbarked from England, 1635, for Virginia, in the Assurance, de; Lo; Isaac Bromwell and George Pewise, master." After being examined by the minister of the town of Gravesend, of their " conformitie" in the religion of the English Church and taking the oath of allegiance and " supremecie."
ARNOLD, SAMUEL, George Allen, Ralph Allen, Francis Allen, and Mathew Allen, are found in the list of those men of " Sand- witch," able to bear arms, between the ages of sixteen and sixty years, in 1643.
ARNALL, WILLIAM, of Reading, Mass.
The first settlers of Millington Society were Daniel Smith, from Cape Cod ; Daniel Griffin, Lyme ; Thomas Fox, Colchester ; about 1703 or '4. The Arnolds, Barnes, Brainard, Chapman, Church, Cone, Emmons, Gates, Olmsted, Spencer, &c., from E. Haddam Parish, Graves, from Colchester, Stewart, Voluntown, Clark of Had- dam, Harvey and Hungerford, from Hadlyme, &c. (Field.)
Jesper Arnold, aged 40, and Ann Arnold, aged 39 years, em- barked in the Abigall, for New England, per certificate from the minister of Shoreditch parish and Stepney parish.
ARNOLD, an old name at Watertown, Mass.
ASH, GEORGE, resided in East Hartford, in 1682 : the name is yet in Connecticut. Ash now a Member of Congress, originated from this family. The name of Ash, has two coats of arms, and the name of Ashe, nine.
ASH, THOMAS, received a grant of land in Dover, New Hamp- shire, in 1669-70. (Gen. Reg. p. 449.)
GEORGE ASH was passenger on board the ship Arabella, Rich- ard Sprague, Master, for New England, May 22, 1671.
ASH, JOHN, and John Barber, were in the tax list of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1659.
* ASHLEY, ROBERT, came from England, and located first at
* When the bill was brought into Parliament against importing Irish cattle, (soon after the restoration,; Lord Clarendon said, that the Lord Ashley, (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury,) next to the Duke of Buckingham, appeared the most violent supporter of the bill.
On declaring war against Holland, March 17, 1671-2, Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arling- ton and Lauderdale, had the chief management of affairs-they were called the Cabal.
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Roxbury, Mass., where he remained until about the time Mr. Will iam Pyncheon and his company removed to Springfield. His wife was Mary -. Her family name is not known. There are nine- teen coats of arms for the name of Ashley, (as published by Burke. ) Robert was the first Ashley who came to New England : he brought with him his family coat of arms, by which his descendants in New England can now find their relatives in England. He took the oath of allegiance in Massachusetts, with two of his sons, Jonathan and Joseph, in 1672. His children were born at Springfield, viz : son David, b. 3d day of the 4th month, 1642; Mary, b. 6th day of the 2d month, 1644 ; Jonathan, b. 25th day of the 2d month, 1645; Sa- rah, b. 23d day of the 6th month, 1648; Joseph, b. July 6, 1652. Of these children, all are noticed in their father's will, except Sa- rah, who probably died young. Mary, m. John Root, of Westfield. Robert, the first, died at Springfield, Nov. 29, 1682 ; his wife, Mary, d. Sept. 19, 1683.
ASHLEY, DAVID, son of Robert, m. Hannah Glover, of New Haven, Conn., in 1663, (supposed a daughter of Henry Glover.) Their children were,
Samuel, b. Oct. 26, 1664.
David, b. March 10, 1667.
John, b. June 27, 1669.
Joseph, b. July 31, 1671.
Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1673, m. Thomas Ingersoll, 1691.
Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1675, d. young.
twins,
Hannah, S b. Dec, 14, 1675, m. Nathaniel Eggleston. Jonathan, b. June 21, 1678.
Abigail, b. April 27, 1681, m. Nathaniel Lewis, of Farmington.
Mary, b. March 3, 1683, m. Benjamin Stebbins, of Northampton. Rebecca, b. May 30, 1685, m. Samuel Dewey.
David removed to Westfield, and d. there in 1718. His five el- dest children are recorded in Springfield, and the six youngest are recorded in Westfield. The first Mary d. young. The other five
Ashley of Lancaster, married Jane, the second daughter of Sir James Stanley, at Crosthall, in the County of Lancaster, and was Marshal of Ireland. (Collins' Peerage of England.) There are nineteen different coats of arms of the Ashley, and Ashly families in England. Robert Ash- ley, the first of the name in New England, brought with him the coat of arms of his family. Ashley, (Lowesby, Co. Leicester,) Ar. a lion ramp. sa. crowned or. And the first coat of arms yet remains in the family, of which several copies have been taken by the descendants of Rob- ert, of Springfield.
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sons and five daughters were married, and are mentioned in their fa- ther's will.
ASHLEY, JONATHAN, 2d son of Robert, m. Sarah Wads- worth, the daughter of William Wadsworth, an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn., a gentleman of wealth and exalted reputation in 1669. Jonathan removed to Hartford, and d. there, Feb., 1705, and left three sons and two daughters, and a large estate. His children b. at Hartford, were Jonathan, Jr., Joseph, Samuel, Sarah and Re- becca. Joseph, his son, Executor of his will. He gave his son Samuel, four score acres of land, in Plainfield, Conn.
*ASHLEY, JOSEPH, 3d son of Robert, lived in West Spring- field, and was the ancestor of the West Springfield Ashleys. He m. Mary Parsons, 1685, and had children : Joseph, Ebenezer, Mary, Abigail and Benjamin. He d. May 19, 1698. This includes the children and grandchildren of Robert Ashley, (except the Roots, see ROOT.)
ASHLEY, SAMUEL, son of David, m. Sarah Kellogg, of Had- ley, April 27, 1686, and had children : Mary, b. March 6, 1687; Samuel, Jr., b. Nov. 3, 1688 ; Daniel, b. Sept., 1691 ; Sarah, 1693; Rachel, 1695 ; Jacob, 1697; Johannah, 1699; Aaron, 1702; Eze- kiel, ---; Abigail, 1708, and Joseph, 1709. This last son gradu- ated at Yale College, 1730, and was a minister at Sunderland, Mass., and d. in 1780.
ASHLEY, SARAH, daughter of Samuel, of Westfield, m. Da- vid Bull, July 4 ; she d. Dec. 17, 1747, aged 54, had issue : Abi- gail, m. Nathaniel Lewis, 1699, d. 1723.
ASHLEY, DEA. DAVID, son of David, m. Mary Dewey, 1688. Their children were : Thomas, b. 1690 ; David, 1692, Mary, 1694; Elizabeth, 1697 ; Abigail, 1700 ; Moses, 1703; Hannah, 1706 ; Is- rael, 1710. Israel graduated at Yale College, in 1730, was a phy- sician, and d. in 1758. Dea. David d. in 1744. (See Yale Cala- logue.
ASHLEY, JOSEPH, son of David, m. Abigail Dewey, 1699, and d. before his father, and left but one son, James. He had three oth- er children, who died young.
* Mr. Jolin Ashley, a descendant of Joseph, who was the 3d son of John, of West Spring- field. gave the land for the burial yard, for the north district, in West Springfield, in 1787. He also gave a Library to the Society, in 1789. He gave them £1000 for a permanent fund, to support the ministry there, in 1799. In 1819. he gave $22 to purchase at Bible for the pulpit, in said society. (Ch. Rec. W. S) Ile gave £1300 to the south parish of West Springfield, on condition a meeting-house should be erected on the ground pointed out by himn.
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ASHLEY, JONATHAN, son of David, m. Abigail Stebbins, of Springfield, 1699, and had children : Abigail, b. 1701 ; Azariah, b. 1704; Mercy, 1707 ; Lydia, 1710 ; Jonathan, 1712 ; Benjamin, 1714; Ebenezer, 1717; Phineas, 1729. Jonathan, son of David, d. 1749. The above Jonathan, the son of Jonathan, b. 1712, graduated at Y. Col- lege, in 1730, in the same class with three other cousins, viz : Israel, John and Joseph Ashley. This Rev. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, was ordained at Deerfield, Mass., in 1732 or '33. He m. Dorothy Will- iams, daughter of Rev. William Williams, of Hatfield. She was born in 1713. He was the second ordained minister at Deerfield, and became a celebrated preacher and divine. Their children were William, b. July, 1737, d. in 1737; Jonathan, b. Jan. 6, 1738; William, b. 1740, d. same year ; Dorothy, b. April 3, 1743, m. Dea. William Williams, of Dalton, Mass. ; Elizabeth, b. June 9, 1745, m. Maj. David Dickinson, of Deerfield, 1783 ; Solomon born May 25, 1754, drowned Jan. 14, 1823 ; Elihu, (Doctor,) b. Oct. 12, 1750 ; Clarissa, b. Dec. 1, 1757. Jonathan, son of Rev. Jonathan, graduated at Yale College, in 1758, and became a lawyer, and prac- tised at Deerfield. He m. Tirzah Field, daughter of Col. Field, of Deerfield, and had three daughters, viz: Tirzah, who m. Rufus Saxton, Esq., of Deerfield ; Harriet, m. Col. E. Gilbert, of Green- field ; Dorothy, m. Dr. Roswell Leavitt, of Cornish, N. H., and all had families ; Clarissa, youngest daughter of Rev. Jonathan, m. Dr. Moses C. Welch, of Mansfield, Conn., who was a distinguished divine. They had children : Jonathan Ashley Welch, Esq., Attor- ney at law at Brooklyn, Conn. He m. Mary Devotion Baker in 1819 ; his children are, Ebenezer B., Mary C., Louisa D., Charles . A., Joseph, James E., and Elizabeth Jane. Archibald Welch, M. D., of Hartford, is also a son of Rev. Moses C., b. 1794, late President of the Connecticut Medical Society ; he m. Cynthia Hyde, of Leba- non, in 1819, and has three sons and one daughter. Rev. Jonathan Ashley d. in 1780, aged 68; his wife d. at Deerfield, in 1808, aged 95 years. Dr. Elihu Ashley, son of Rev. Jonathan, m. his cousin, Mary Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Williams, of Deerfield, a brother of Col. Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College. The children of Dr. Elihu were, Col. Thomas W., b. 1775; Rob- ert W., a physician ; Mary, b. 1790. Col. Thomas W., married a daughter of Rev. Mr. Crosby, of Enfield, Mass., in 1814, and has children : Jonathan, Josiah, Thomas W. and Abbot, and had others who died. Dr. Robert W., brother of Col. Thomas W. Ashley, now
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS.
resides at Lyons, N. Y., and has children. Mary, sister of Dr. Robert, m. a Mr. Tippets, and d. at Geneva, N. Y.
ASHLEY, JOHN, the 3d son of David, b. in 1669 ; had three wives, first, Sarah Dewey, m. 1692, she d. in 1708 ; he m. for his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon in 1708, she d. in 1735 ; for a third wife, he m. Hannah Glover, in 1735. The second wife, wid- ow Mary Sheldon, was the relict of Joseph Sheldon, Esq., of Suf- field, (who went from Northampton ; ) she was the daughter of Jo- seph Whiting, of Hartford, who was the Treasurer of Connecticut, for some years. This Joseph Whiting resided a few years in West- field, and m. Mary Pyncheon, the only daughter of Col. John Pyn- cheon, of Springfield, Oct. 5, 1669 ; she was born Oct. 28, 1650. Mr. Whiting had by Mary Pyncheon in Westfield, Mary, b. Aug. 19, 1672, and Joseph b. 1674, who d. young. Mr. Whi- ting returned to Hartford, and his wife soon after died, and he m. a daughter of Hon. John Allyn, for his second wife. This Mary Whiting, b. 1672, the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon, m. Joseph Sheldon, about 1694 ; she had a son Joseph b. in North- ampton, 1695 ; the other children most or all of them were born in Suffield, Conn., viz : Amy, Mary, Joseph b. in 1700, (the first Jo- seph died,) Rachel, b. 1703 ; Benjamin, 1705. Joseph Sheldon d. July 2, 1708, at Boston, where he was attending the General Court as Representative of Suffield. His widow, (the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon,) m. John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield. The children of John Ashley, of Westfield, by his wife, Sarah Dewey, were: Sa- rah, b. 1693 ; Hannah, 1695 ; John, 1697, (died young ;) Moses, 1700; Ebenezer, 1702; Noah, 1704; Roger, 1705; Lydia, 1708. By his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, he had John b. 1709, and Preserved, 1711, the latter died young. John Ashley, of Sheffield, was the only child of John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield, by his 2d wife, (Mary Sheldon,) who lived. John Ashley, Esq., who had been much employed in public business, and held many responsible places of public trust in Westfield, d. April 17, 1759, aged 89 years. Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, d. in 1703, but his es- tate, for some reason, was not fully settled until 1737. In that year there was about £8000 of his estate remaining not distributed, which consisted chiefly of land, and two-thirds of this, or £5312 was given by the Probate Court to the heirs of his son John, and one-third, or £2656 to the heirs of his grand-daughter, Mary Ashley, " alias Shel- don, alias Whiting," (so the record reads ;) of this £2656, Joseph
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