Person:Robert Ashby (1)

  1. Robert AshbyBet 1712 & 1715 - 1792
  • HRobert AshbyBet 1712 & 1715 - 1792
  • WDorothy _____Bet 1716 & 1718 - Bef 1783
  1. David AshbyEst 1733 - 1802
  2. Winifred Ashby1741 - 1824
  3. Enoch Ashby1744 - Bet 1790 & 1808
  4. Benjamin AshbyAbt 1750 - Aft 1828
Facts and Events
Name Robert Ashby
Gender Male
Birth? Bet 1712 and 1715 Stafford, Virginia, United States
Marriage to Dorothy _____
Death? 27 Feb 1792 Delaplane, Fauquier, Virginia, United States

Robert Ashby was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys:


  • Robert Ashby of Frederick County, 22 Jan. 1750/51 - 8 Aug. 1751; 400 acres at the dividing line of Augusta & Frederick between the said counties on the blew Ridge between the waters of Sugar Tree Crk. & Hedgeman River; adj. William Hand. CC - Benjamin Ashby & Henry Ashby. Deed to be made out & paid by John Baylis. Surv. William Baylis. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 19].


Will of Robert Ashby

Will of Robert Ashby of Fauquier, dated 2 June, 1790, probated 27 Feb., 1792.
To son Benjamin Ashby land on Shenandoah River, where the said Benjamin now resides.
Grandson William Ashby, son of Benjamin, when he arrives at the age of 21 years, a negro girl.
To son Enoch Ashby during his life the land wherein I now live, and after his death to my two grandsons Robert and Alexander, sons of Enoch; to be divided by a branch known by the name of Ann Churchill Spring branch, south side to grandson Robert, remainder to grandson Alexander.
Devises negroes to son Enoch, and afterwards to said Enoch's wife Sally, and then to their children. :To daughter Ann Farrow, 10 pounds. Grandson Bayles Ashby; granddaughter Molly Farganson; daughter Winifred Piper; two grandsons Martin and Thomas, sons of Nimrod Ashby.
Daughter Molly Athel; to son John Ashby negroes, and he to be executor, also to him one tract of land in Fauquier, adjoining George Ash and purchased of Martin Ashby, containing 100 acres.
Granddaughter Lucinda Ashby to whom he directs son John to give a negro; grandson Benjamin Farrow.
[Source: Virginia County records, Volume 1, pg. 121].
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