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Thomas Olney embarked in the ship "Planter," Apr. 2, 1635, and sailed from London for New England. He was called thirty-five years of age; his wife, Mary, thirty; his son Thomas, three; and his son Epinetus, one, at the time of embarkation.
He became extremely prominent in the early history of Rhode Island, and his personal and family history is fully outlined in Austin's Rhode Island Genealogical Dictionary.
Alice Ashton, born 1617-18, probably accompanied her sister Mary, in her migration to this country, and I have little or no doubt but that she became the wife of Thomas Angell, who sailed in the ship "Lyon, " from Bristol, England, in December, 1630, in company with Roger Williams, John Throckmorton, and others, who afterwards founded the Rhode Island settlement at Providence. Thomas Angell was a mere youth, probably not more than twelve years of age, at the time of his emigration. His marriage to Alice Ashton must have occurred some time prior to 1646, as his son, John, was baptized in that year.
The declaration of this son, John Angell, made Dec. 14, 1716, states that, in 1667, he was desired by his uncle, James Asten, to take care of his 60 acre lot. Austin.
The history of the Angell's has been traced by Austin fully, and no further allusion to it is necessary here.
The testimony, however, of John Angell, is to my mind absolutely confirmatory of the relation of James Ashton to Marie Olney, and inferentially to Alice Angell. They could have been none other than brother and sisters. Accepting this deduction, James Ashton, who first appears in Rhode Island, in company with Thomas Ashton, in 1639, when they were called Proprietors, must have been James, the son of James Ashton, baptized, at St. Alban's, England. Mch. 4, 1603.
Thomas Ashton, who appears as brother to James, in the list of baptisms, could not have been the early Proprietor of Rhode Island, because, in 1639. he was but nine years of age. If kinship existed between Thomas and James Ashton, the Rhode Island Proprietors, which I think is most likely, it was on a more remote plane.
Ashtons appeared in Maine, and in Pennsylvania, in periods nearly contemporary with the early settlement of Monmouth County, and it has been surmised that the first were descend- ants of Henry Ashton, who Savage states was a resident of Boston, in 1673, and who came from Lancaster, England, and who, according to the same authority, was of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1676, when he was one of the men entitled, for staying out of the war, to receive an Indian for a slave.
The Ashtons of Pennsylvania are thought to have descended from Thomas Ashton, of Rhode Island.
1703. Thomas and Reuben Ashton, received one hunded acres, in Upper Makefield Town- ship, Bucks Co.
1736, Nov. 30. Isaac Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., had a license to marry Dorothy Carr. Trenton, N. J. Records.
1741. Ralph Ashton bought 1005 acres in Bedminster. Bucks Co., Pa.
1748, Feb. 15. Robert Ashton had license to marry Hannah Fannworth.
1756, Jan. 26. Joseph Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., had license to marry Susanna Nutt.
1758. Peter Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., made his will. Doylestown, Pa. Records.
1758. John Ashton, of Bucks Co .. Pa., made his will. Doylestown, Pa. Records.
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1760. John Ashton, eldest son and heir of Isaac, of Bucks Co., Pa., made an accounting. Doylestown, Pa. Records.
1765. John Ashton, administrator of Daniel Green, of Bucks Co., Pa.
1765, Feb. 13. John Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., had license to marry Mary Trenton, of Burlington, N. J.
1776, Apr. 10. Joseph Ashton took the oath of allegiance. Made his mark. Doylestown, Pa. Records.
1770, June 19. Joseph Ashton, of Burlington, had license to marry Ann Helsen.
1771, June 19. Thomas .Ashton, of Gloucester Co., N. J., had license to marry Hannah Hugg.
1780, Aug. 17. Eden Ashton, of Hunterdon Co., N. J., had license to marry Margaret Louderbank.
JAMES ASHTON, the early settler of Providence, Rhode Island, whose kinship to Marie Olney and Alice Angell has been inferred, was the progenitor of the New Jersey family. His relations to Olney and Angell were so frequent and intimate that we can therein find evidence of his kinship:
Thomas Olney was named as one of the overseers of the will of Thomas Angell, in 1685.
James and John Angell were probably named after their mother's, Alice Ashton's, father and brother, and John Angell, the son, named one of his children Daniel, a name borne by a brother of his grandmother, Alice (AAshton) Angell. Alice Angell, the daughter of Alice (Ashton) Angell, inherited, in her mother's will, a trunk and desk, which the testator had received from her mother. Sentiment would naturally direct these gifts to the daughter Alice, who doubtless bore the name of her grandmother.
Thomas Angell and James Ashton were both appointed Commissioners in 1652, and both made freemen in 1655. ·
Heretofore it has been thought that James Ashton, the first of his name in Rhode Island, married Deliverance, daughter of John Throckmorton, and that he removed to, and settled upon, the Monmouth tract, in New Jersey. Herein I am convinced that there is an error, and that two generations, each, bearing the name James, have been merged into one. Before pro- ceeding to demonstrate this, it may be well to draw attention to the statement made by the author of an article on the Angell-Ashton families, which appeared in the N. Y. Mail & Express, based upon the transcription of the St. Alban's Abbey Registers, 155S-1689, made by W. Brigz, 1897, Harpendon, Herts. England, in which the statement is made that James Ashton, born 1603, had a son James, who married Judith ., who recorded the baptisms of nine children, between Dec. 26, 1652. and the year 1671, and that James Ashton, born 1603, did not come to New England until after the marriage of his son, James, in 1650. If this be true, it would be impossible to reconcile the preceding deductions that I have made, but I feel morally certain that some error has been made, where, however, I cannot tell, as I have none but the newspaper clipping to draw from.
Certainly James Ashton was settled in Rhode Island, in 1639, and I think I can demon- strate beyond dubiety that his son, the Rev. James Ashton, married Deliverance Throck- morton, and not Judith ...... , and that their children were born in this country, and not in St. Alban's. Who the James Ashton who married Judith was, I cannot pretend to say. They may have been collateral branches of the Ashton family, contemporary at St. Alban's, from whom he may have descended.
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1652, Oct. 28. James Ashton was Commissioner, from Providence, to the General Assem- bly, held at Providence, R. I.
1653, 1654, 1658, 1659, and 1663. He filled the same position.
1655. He was made a freeman.
1662, Feb. 19. He had lot No. 38, in division of lands, in Providence, R. I.
1665, May 3. He was Deputy to the General Assembly, at Newport.
1666, May. . He swore allegiance to Charles II.
1679, July 1. He was taxed 3 s 112 d.
1687. He was taxed I s I d.
Whether the last two allusions are to James Ashton, the earlier settler of Providence, or to a James Ashton, who would be his son, I cannot yet determine. If we believe this James Ashton to be the man who was born in 1603. he was then eighty-four years of age.
Certainly it would not be reasonable to expect that one of these advanced years would wish to endure the hardships and exposures incidental to developing an absolute wilderness, such as the Monmouth Tract, in New Jersey, was, and which, in 1665, was thrown open to settlers. In this year, it is stated that James Ashton claimed two hundred and forty acres, from the Proprietors, in right of himself and wife, which was the amount of land given, under the Grants and Concessions, to actual settlers. As further proof that James Ashton could not have been the early settler of Rhode Island, as well as of the Monmouth Tract, there is evidence that he held minor positions, such as overseer in 1677; constable 1669 and 1679; that his wife, Deliverance Throckmorton, was among the children of John Throckmorton, who were born not far from 1640, which would have made her the junior of her husband by nearly thirty- five or forty years; and lastly, that this James Ashton made a gift of lands to his son, James, in 1698, which would have made him ninety-five years of age, and that the death of James Ashton occurred in 1705, when administration was granted to his wife, upon his estate, which would have made him one hundred and two years of age, if he were the Rhode Island settler of 1639. From such evidence it can be absolutely established that there were two James Ashtons in Rhode Island, doubtless father and son.
1667. James Ashton drew lot No. 23, in the original division of lands, in Middletown, N. J. 1668. He recorded his cattle-mark.
1669, May 25. He was chosen a Deputy to the General Assembly, at Portland Point, N. J.
1669, Nov. 26. Ile was constable to the Court, held at Portland Point, which suggests that his first place of residence may have been upon the shore, rather than inland, as it subse- quently was.
1669. He was foreman of the Grand Jury.
1670. He received a patent for three hundred and forty-seven acres of land. This was doubtless in the vicinity of Freehold, to which he withdrew.
1677. He was overseer.
1679. He was constable.
1698. He executed a deed of gift to his son, James, of four hundred and eighty acres of land at Crosswicks.
He is frequently alluded to in old records, as the Rev. James Ashton, but no proof of his ordination is at hand. He was, however, the first to minister to the religious community in Monmouth County, of the Baptist persuasion. If ordained, it was probably in the year 1686. He was held in great esteem by his associates, and filled many honorable and responsible positions.
His death occurred about 1705, for administration was granted to his wife, upon his estate, May 19, of that year.
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He married Deliverance, daughter of John Throckmorton.
Their children, so far as known, were:
2 James Ashton
3 John Ashton
4 Mary Ashton
5 Alice Ashton
6 Rebecca Ashton
7 Deliverance Ashton
8 Joseph Ashton
2 JAMES ASHTON, son of James Ashton, I.
He was of age in or before 1693, and died, unmarried and intestate in 1731, as on Aug. 12. of that year, John Ashton was appointed administrator of the estate of James Ashton, late of Freehold and succeeded to his estate.
1693. He recorded his cattle-mark, in the Middletown Town Book, as James Ashton, Jr. 1698. He received from his father a deed of gift of four hundred and eighty acres of land in Crosswicks.
1712. He signed the Baptist Church agreement, in Middletown.
He was a grand juror.
1713. Ordered that "Justice Ashton & two of the Ouerfeers of ye Poor of Freehold" inake and execute an indenture, apprenticing Mary Stuart to Thomas Smith, until eighteen years of age. Court of Quarter Sessions, Ist. Tuesday, in June, 1713, Freehold, N. J.
1725, Dec. .. James Ashton was spoken of as Esquire and Justice, and again the same, in 1726.
It is said that like his father, he was a divine, but I am rather inclined to believe that he was not so qualified, and that he is confused with his father.
He resided, first, in Middletown, and later in Upper Freehold.
3 JOHN ASHTON, son of James Ashton, I, resided at Cream Ridge (Upper Freehold), Monmouth County, where he died in 1774.
He married three times: first, .....; second, Elizabeth Cole, widow of Thomas White, and third, by a license, dated Aug. 19, 1742, Catharine, the widow of Edward Taylor, the second, and daughter of Thomas Morford, of Middletown, N. J.
From 1700 to 1715, he was a justice in Monmouth County.
1724 and 1726. He was a juryman.
1731. He was assessed for seven hundred and sixty acres, in Upper Freehold, N. J., the most extensive holding in the township, and was called Esquire, in the record.
1731, Aug. 12. He was administrator of the estate of James Ashton, late deceased, doubt- less his brother.
1736, Aug. 19. His wife, Elizabeth Ashton, made her will, wherein she set forth that she was the wife of John Ashton, of Upper Freehold; was sick, etc., and mentioned:
"my former husband, Thomas White, deceased, [who] purchased of my two sisters, Exer- cise and Ellison [Ebison?], sixty acres which they received from my father, Jacob Cole, dec'd." "my son, Levi White and "his other brother."
"son-in-law, Isaac Hance."
Her husband, John Ashton, signed a consent to the provisions of the will. She made her mark.
Witnesses: Jeremiah Stillwell, Rebecca Stillwell and Robert Lawrence.
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1743, Jan. [4] 10. John Ashton, of Upper Freehold; siek, made his will, which was proved June 1, 1744, and mentioned:
Wife Catharine, to whom he bequeathed £20, and alludes to an antenuptial contract with her.
Daughter Elizabeth, to whom he bequeathed £450, "provided my son-in-law, Jeremiah Stillwell, will give so much to her for all the Westerly part of my plantation, excepting 150 acres on the Easterly side, whereon my dwelling house stands," etc. This daughter, Eliza- beth, was probably then married and had issue.
Daughter Rebecca, to whom he bequeathed one hundred and fifty acres on the easterly side of his plantation.
To my deceased daughter Rachel's children, i.e. Rachel and Elizabeth Stevens, each, £50, when of age.
Daughter Hannah, to whom he bequeathed lands that he had received from his deceased sister, Mary, and £250.
Jeremiah Stillwell, his son-in-law, to whom he bequeathed his Proprietary rights.
Executors: Jeremiah Stillwell, his son-in-law, and his cousin, Joseph Throckmorton. He signed his name to the will.
Witnesses: John Manners, James Ashton and Robert Lawrence.
Issue
9 Rachel Ashton
IO Rebecca Ashton
II Elizabeth Ashton
12 Hannah Ashton; single, as per father's will, 1743.
1717. Elizabeth Ashton was a witness to a Quaker marriage, in Shrewsbury, N. J.
4 MARY ASHTON, daughter of James Ashton, I, died, unmarried, in the year 1739. Sept. 29, of this year, her estate was appraised by Joseph Applin, and Isaac Steele, and amounted to about £1IS. Jeremiah Stillwell, who married her niece, Elizabeth Ashton, was appointed her administrator.
Among the items of interest mentioned in her inventory were:
"I silver Tankerd & 5 silver spoons, a Thimble & some other Silver" £17-4-1I. "Gold Rings".
5 ALICE ASHTON, daughter of James Ashton, I, was born 1671, and died, Apr. 27, 1716, aged forty-five years. She married Obadiah Holmes, son of Jonathan Holmes, son of Obadiah Holmes, the first.
Issue
Joseph Holmes, who married Elizabeth Ashton, daughter of John Ashton, 3.
REBECCA ASHTON, daughter of James Ashton, I, married, in 1688, David Stout, 6 who was born 1669, and who was the son of Richard and Penelope Stout, of Middletown, N. J. Issue traced under Stout Family.
7 DELIVERANCE ASHTON, daughter of James Ashton, 1, became the first wife of Jonathan Holmes.
Issue traced under Holmes Family.
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8 JOSEPH ASHTON, son of James Ashton, 1, married Sarah
She was doubtless the Sarah Ashton who signed the Baptist church paper, in Middle- town, N. J., in 1712.
1701. Joseph Ashton was a defendant in land trials, brought by the Proprietors against holders under the Nicoll's Patent.
1708. He had land granted to him at Crosswicks, as appears on Rue's map.
1706, June IS. He recorded the earmark of his cattle, formerly his father's.
1708. Joseph Ashton, of Middletown, bought land in Middletown, from George Willocks, of Perth Amboy, N. J.
1715, Aug. 3. About this time he probably removed from Middletown to Upper Free- hold, as his cattle-mark was assigned to James Job.
1718. Joseph Ashton's cattle-mark was recorded to Johanes Luyster.
1723. James Bowne, John Throckmorton, Jon" Holmes, Joseph Ashton, Joseph Grover and others, [or their heirs]. owned lots of land on or near Crosswicks Creek (Rue's Map).
1723. Joseph Ashton was a juryman.
1741, Nov. 7. Joseph Ashton of Upper Freehold, yeoman, is, in the marriage license of his daughter Sarah to Daniel Stillwell spoken of as deceased.
Issue (supposed)
13 John Ashton
14 Elizabeth Ashton
15 James Ashton
16 Sarah Ashton
17 Joseph Ashton
IS Mary Ashton
9 RACHEL ASHTON, daughter of John Ashton, 3, was living, as appears by a deed. in 1740, but was deceased in 1743, as appears from her father's will. She married Richard Stevens, of Upper Freehold, who "being about to go to Old England," wrote his will, June 12, 1744, which was proved Oct. 3, 1745. In it he mentioned:
Daughter Elizabeth, who received a negro living with "my sister Elizabeth, and there to remain till my daughter Elizabeth is eighteen years of age."
Daughter Rachel. who received £50 at eighteen years of age.
Richard, eldest son of Benjamin Stevens, who received £50.
In the event of the death of his children, his property was to pass to his brothers and sister, viz: Benjamin, John, Thomas, and Elizabeth Stevens.
Executors: Brothers Benjamin and John Stevens, and John Henderson.
Witnesses: Jeremiah Stillwell, and others.
The testator made a fine signature to his will.
His inventory amounted to £1,830-8-8, and in it he was spoken of as Richard Stevens, Esq.
Issue Elizabeth Stevens Rachel Stevens
10 REBECCA ASHTON, daughter of John Ashton, 3, married Jeremiah Stillwell, Esq., son of Jeremiah Stillwell, Esq., son of Nicholas Stillwell, the first.
Issue traced under Stillwell Family.
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11 ELIZABETH ASHTON, daughter of John Ashton, 3, married Joseph Holmes. They are alluded to, in a deed dated May 5, 1746, as Joseph Holmes, and Elizabeth, his wife, of Upper Freehold, one of the daughters of John Ashton, deceased, who by his will, Jan. 10, 1743, did give to his said daughter, Elizabeth, £450, etc.
Issue traced under Holmes Family.
13 JOHN ASHTON, supposed son of Joseph Ashton, S.
It was doubtless he, who was licensed to marry, June 2, 1741, Catharine Taylor. They were both residents of Monmouth County, and she was the daughter of William Taylor, of Middletown, N. J., by his wife, Hannah Grover, and was born between 1720 and 1730.
1755. John Ashton, of Upper Freehold, appears on the Monmouth County Freeholder's Book.
1758. John Ashton, (or Joseph), taxed on two hundred acres of land, in Upper Free- hold, N. J.
1764. There was a John Ashton taxed in old Shrewsbury township.
1825. John Ashton, of Freehold, N. J., made his will June 20, of this year, which was proved Aug. 19, 1825, and mentioned wife Mary, and brother-in-law, Nathan Francis.
Issue, according to the late Asher Taylor:
17 Martha Ashton; married David Taylor.
18 Hannah Ashton; married Job Throckmorton.
Issue, according to Howard Deacon, Esq .:
19 Catharine Ashton, born 1748; married, 1768, William Brand.
20 Joseph Ashton; by tradition, removed to Redstone, Penn.
21 William Ashton; by tradition, removed to Maryland.
Issue, by inference of J. E. Stillwell, M.D .:
22 Susannah Ashton, who had license to marry, Nov. 17, 1767, Gabriel Van Horn; both being residents of Middletown, N.J. 23 John Ashton
Some support to the tradition, supplied by Mr. Howard Deacon, that the children of John Ashton, 13, moved to the South, is to be found in a memorandum made by Asher Taylor, wherein he notes the extinction of the Ashton family, in Monmouth County, and their re- moval to the South, I think Kentucky, where they were a fiery and impetuous people.
14 ELIZABETH ASHTON, supposed daughter of Joseph Ashton, 8.
There was an Elizabeth Ashton, said to have been a sister of John Ashton, who was born Oct. II, 1722, and married Joseph Taylor. Authority of Asher Taylor. This is confirmed by the marriage license at Trenton, dated May 12, 1743, of Joseph Taylor, of Monmouth County, to Elizabeth Ashton, of Monmouth County.
She died Aug. 23, 1807.
For further information, see Taylor Family.
15 JAMES ASHTON, supposed son of Joseph Ashton, S.
There was, in 1743, a James Ashton, witness to the will of John Ashton, of Upper Free- hold, N. J.
James Ashton, 2, had died in 1731, so that by exclusion I deduce that this James Ashton, under consideration, must have been a son of Joseph .ishton, S.
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16 SARAH ASHTON, daughter of Joseph Ashton, 8. She married by license dated, Nov. 7, 1741, Daniel Stillwell, of Upper Freehold. In the license she is described as spinster and daughter of Joseph Ashton, yeoman, of Upper Freehold, deceased.
17 JOSEPH ASHTON, supposed son of Joseph Ashton, S.
1731. Joseph Ashton was taxed for four hundred acres in Upper Freehold, N. J.
1740, Feb. 5. Joseph Ashton married by license of this date Mary Stillwell, spinster, daughter of John Stillwell of Upper Freehold, of which place Joseph Ashton was also a resident. 1758. Joseph Ashton (or John), was taxed on two hundred acres, in Upper Freehold, N. J. ,
18 MARY ASHTON, supposed daughter of Joseph Ashton, 8.
It was probably she who had a license to marry William Wilson, of Burlington County, Aug. 29, 1730. She is mentioned in the license as a resident of Monmouth County.
23 JOHN ASHTON, supposed son of John Ashton, 13, was probably he, who, the 20th of June, 1825, made his will, in which he called himself of Freehold, which was proved Aug. 19, 1825, and wherein he mentioned his wife, Mary, and brother-in-law, Nathan Francis.
It is this John Ashton who made the accompanying affidavit, in 1792, which is singularly full of errors. He was not an old man at the time it was drawn, probably by some lawyer's clerk, and doubtless knew better, and signed it either in ignorance of its contents or in haste.
The John Ashton, whose lands were distributed to his three daughters, was his grand- father's brother.
Affidavit of John Ashton in which he saith that James Ashton, by deed, conveyed a cer- tain tract of land, situate in the Township of Upper Freehold, County of Monmouth, New Jersey, to James Ashton, son of John Ashton; that said James, by his last will, devised his estate to Elizabeth Holmes, wife of Joseph Holmes, Rebecca Stilwell, wife of Jeremiah Stil- well, and Rachel Stevens, wife of Richard Stevens; that after the death of said James Ashton, son of John Ashton, the above three mentioned, with their wives, made a division of said land; that Joseph Holmes and wife took as their share, 200 acres; that Jeremiah Stilwell and wife, took 200 acres thereof, being the same whereon Joseph Coward now lives, and that Richard Stevens and wife, took 200 acres residue; that at the time of making this division, the aforesaid deed from James Ashton to James Ashton, son of John Ashton, was produced and read and that there were certain other writings executed by the said Joseph Holmes and wife, Jeremiah Stilwell and wife, and Richard Stevens and wife, but what writings they were this depondent knows not, "as he was young at the time."
Signed JOHN AfHTON
Sworn to June 1, 1792, before James Kinsey [?] Original in possession of Mrs. Mary Holmes Rue, Cream Ridge, N. J.
NOTES
William Ashton, frequently mentioned in old Monmouth County records, should read Austin, or Astin; yet a William Ashton was sued by the Throckmortons, in a suit adjusting the affairs of Joseph Throckmorton, who died in 1689.
Lydia Ashton had a license to marry John Horner, of Monmouth County, Jan. 20. 1773.
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Jonathan Brewer, of Cream Ridge (Upper Freehold), N. J., brought up Lydia Ashton and Celine Downes. The former married John Rogers, of Prospertown.
Esther Ashton died, Jan. 6, 1825, aged 75, 4, 4, as appears upon her tombstone, in the Yellow Meeting House Burying ground, Cream Ridge, N. J.
In ISO6, Isaac Ashton, and wife Mary, lived in Dover township, now, in 1900, Ocean town- ship, N. J.
The names Astin and Aston have frequently been corrupted into Ashton, from the earliest settlement in Monmouth County to the present time. In 1899, I spent some time in tracing clues of this kind about New Egypt and its vicinity. One, Aunt Sally Ashton, born Horsh- field, died about twenty years before, aged, not one hundred and four years of age, as repre- sented, but about eighty. She was the wife of Enoch Ashton, who lived at Prospertown, and was buried at Trenton, N. J. They had children. Enoch Ashton had a brother, the eldest of the family, who also lived at Prospertown and had children.
Again, Thomas and Agnes Ashton or Austin, of New Egypt, N. J., had sons, Charles, who died five or six years since, leaving a wife, and son Burt, and three girls, and Edward, killed in New York City, and another son, now deceased, who lived in New York City, and whose family come yearly to New Egypt.
The Assons, of Hightstown, N. J., have also been called Ashton.
ANGELL-ASHTON.
The following baptisms, marriages and burials are copied from the parish registers of St. Albans Abbey, 1558-1689. Transcribed by W. Brigg, 1897, Harpendon, Herts.
BAPTISMS.
P. 39, March 4, 1603, James, sonne of James Ashton; p. 40, August 25, 1605, Marie, daughter of James Ashton; p. 42, June 7, 1607. John, sonne of James Ashton; p. 43, March 12, 1608-9, Martha, daughter of James Ashton; p. 45, February 10, 1610-11, Alice, daughter of James Ashton; p. 47, March 7, 1012-13, Elizabeth, daughter of James Ashton; p. 49, April 2, 1615, Daniel, sonne of James Ashton; p. 52, February I, 1617-18, Alice, daughter of James Ashton; p. 54, February 23, 1619-20, Sara, daughter of James Ashion, by Alice his wyfe; p. 64, April 18. 1630, Thomas, sonne of James Ashton, by Alice, his wyfe.
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