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Facts and Events
Will Abstract
- ANNE ASHTON late at Virginia, deceased. Administration 31 August 1704 to her husband Charles Ashton. Admon Act Book 1704, folio 168.
- [Ann Ashton, whose maiden name is believed to have been Burdett, was the first wife of Charles Ashton, who was a member of the House of Burgesses for Westmoreland county, 1702-1705. He was grandson of Charles Ashton, the immigrant of this family, who was living in Northumberland county as early as 1660. Charles and Ann Ashton, have many descendents. Old tombs in Westmoreland bear the family arms, a mullet on a bend.]
- [Source: "Virginia Gleanings in England"].
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