Person:Denison Ashley (2)

Denison Ashley used to tell of carrying milk, when he was a boy, to the soldiers encamped near his home in Ft. Ann, during the War of 1812. He settled on a farm in his native town, and lived there the first six years after his marriage. Early in the summer of 1832, he removed to Freedom, Cattaraugus County, NY. The country was sparsely settle and there was only a log house on his farm. Here he resided the remainder of his life, chiefly occupied in the development of his farm, which before his death, he had brought to a high state of cultivation.

Mr. Ashley was a leading citizen of the town and a justice of the peace for many years. He was colonel of the militia regiment in his county, adn his appearance on the annual training day is described as follows: "My father was as straight and had as square shoulders as if he had been in a military school. Dressed in his blue coat with gilt buttons and gold fringed epaulets, his red sash, and his sword at his side, he made a fine looking soldier." He and his wife were among the most earnest supporters of the Baptist church in the neighboring village of Sandusky, and he was one of its most efficient deacons.

1.   Lisa Gibaud. Gibaud Web Site
   Denison Ashley, 13 MAR 2009.

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2.   Francis Bacon Trowbridge. The Ashley Genealogy - A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts. (Author)
   130-131 & 181, 15 MAR 2009.

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