Display Patriot - P-105046 - Samuel ASHLEY Sr

Samuel ASHLEY Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-105046

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State of Service: NH      Qualifying Service: Colonel / Civil Service / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A003483

Birth: 20 Mar 1720 Westfield / Hampshire / MA
Death: 18 Feb 1792 Claremont / Cheshire / NH

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. MILITIA
  2. JUSTICE
  3. COMMITTEE OF JUSTICES
  4. MEMBER OF COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, PROVINCIAL CONGRESS

Additional References:

BOUTON, DOCS & RECS RELATING TO THE STATE OF NH, 1776-1783, STATE PAPERS, Volume 8, pg 11, 63, 185, 192, 193, 807, 808, 912, 913


Spouse: Eunice Doolittle
Children: Eunice; Content; Daniel; Luther; Samuel Jr; Susannah; Thankful;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1982-12-20 CA Unassigned Frederic Noble Barry (121318) Luther   
1984-04-26 CA Unassigned Robert Ashley Barry (123870) Luther   
1984-08-29 CA Unassigned Richard Frederic Barry (124562) Luther   
1986-10-24 CA 226284 Barry Douglas Marsh (128434) Luther   
2000-12-21 AZ 7805 Thomas Joseph Gannon (152593) Eunice   
2012-02-22 MA 46640 Ashley Byrd Cousins III (182628) Daniel   
2013-04-26 NH 52881 Richard Leslie Meister (187086) Eunice   
2025-03-28 DE 115687 Harold Edward Tiffany III (233028) Susannah   
2025-03-28 DE 115688 Jason Edward Tiffany (233029) Susannah   
2025-03-28 DE 115689 Sean Sinclair Tiffany (233030) Susannah   
2025-03-28 DE 115690 Trevor Willis Tiffany (233031) Susannah   
Burial:
Union (aka West Claremont Burying Ground, West Part Church Yard) Cemetery (C-0372887)
Location:
Claremont / Sullivan / NH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1982574
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
33084192
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Slate, Headstone, upright, aged, part. legible



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

This large cemetery is located west of Claremont on Old Church Road via Old Sullivan (Airport) Road



Author: Mark Andrew Davis

Samuel Ashley was born on 20 March 1720, at Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, a son of Daniel Ashley and Thankful Hawk.

At the start of the war, Ashley was living at Winchester but moved to Claremont in 1782. He was a member of the Committee of Safety in 1775. He became part of its executive council from 1776 to 1780 and was charged with mustering officers and organizing troops in the western part of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives chose Samuel Ashley, Esq., to be the first Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Cheshire County on 10 January 1776.

The state house voted on 2 July 1776 to provide Colonel Samuel Ashely 200 pounds of gun powder for his regiment. That same year, he was recorded as signing the Association Test.  He was a volunteer aid to the staff of General John Stark at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777.

In 1779, a vote in the New Hampshire House appointed two delegates to represent New Hampshire at the U.S. Congress. Nathaniel Folsom and Samuel Ashley Esq. were selected, but Ashley declined the honor.  In June 1779, Ashley resigned as Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of the State Militia.

Samuel Ashley married Eunice Doolittle in 1742 at Northfield, Massachusetts. She was born on 24 July 1724 and died in 1807. They were the parents of Oliver, Tirzah, Samuel Jr., Thankful, Eunice, Daniel, Luther, Susannah, and Content.

Samuel Ashley died of smallpox on 18 February 1792 at Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. He was buried at the Union Cemetery of Claremont.

 

Sources:

  1. Hammond, Isaac W., The State of New Hampshire, Rolls of the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 1 and 2, New Hampshire. Concord: Parson B. Cogswell State Printer, 1885, pages 140-141.
  2. Gilmore, George C., Rolls of New Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, New Hampshire. Manchester: J.B. Clarke Printers, 1891, page 9.
  3. Bouton, Nathaniel, Documents and Records Relating to the State of New Hampshire: During the Period of the American Revolution, from 1776 to 1783, New Hampshire. Concord: E. A. Jenks, State Printer, 1874, Vol. 8, Pg. 11, 63, 185, 192, 193, 807, 808, 912, 913.
  4. Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, Micropublication M881, Roll 532, Washington: National Archives.
  5. New Hampshire, Death, and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947.
  6. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988.
  7. Waite, Otis, Town of Claremont, New Hampshire for a Period of One Hundred and Thirty Years from 1764 to 1894, New Hampshire. Manchester: John B. Clarke Company, 1895, pages 234, 392.

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