Person:Henry Ash (5)

In the "DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition", Part 1, p. 84, the following appears:

    Henry Ash Sr; born circa 1740, Germany; died about February 14, 1801 in Maryland.  Married to Catherine ___PS, Maryland
    Henry Ash Jr; born circa 1760, died about January 4, 1850 in Pennsylvania.  Married to Barbara Miller Pvt, Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania Mortality Index of 1850, Henry Ash, Somerset County, died at age 88, in July. Birthplace was Pennsylvania. Cause of death, "piles". Barbara Ash, Somerset Co., PA, died at age 86 in December, 1850. Born in Pennsylvania. Died of "Palsy". (In the settlement papers of Henry's estate, his death date was listed as January 2, 1850. Another account lists February 7, 1850.)

Henry is buried on private property in a marked and maintained grave (by the DAR/SAR) near Allenvale, Lincoln Township, RD #3, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

In the "Index to Volunteer Soldiers 1784-1811", White, p. 18, the following appears:

    Cpl. Henry Ash, Smith's Co., 1st US Regt (Lt. Col. Harmar) 1785-1790

In "Bedford County Pennsylvania in the American Revolution", p. 128, the following appears:

    Henry Ash, Private, Artillery, Philadelphia County Militia, Capt. James Lang's Company.  Buried on Hervey Friedline Farm, Allenvale, Pennsylvania.

This was probably the younger Henry, as he died in Pennsylvania.

From NSDAR Application #406214 of Ruth Carey Albright Kysor, dated April 7, 1979: Henry Ash was enrolled in 1779 in Captain John Peters Jr.'s Eighth Co., Third Battalion, Philadelphia City Militia and served from May 24-June 11, 1779 as a member of Lt. Jonathan Pain's Co. Militia.

In the Revolutionary War Graves Register:

    "Henry Ash, Sr., 1760-1849; Ash Homestead Cemetery; Edie, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.  Private, PA, Barbara Miller.

In "Bedford County, Pennsylvania 1779 Tax List and 1784 Census"

    "Henry Ash, Bethel Township (1784 Census) - 75 acres, 1 dwelling,
    11 whites"  Is this the younger or elder.  There is no other evidence
    that the elder Henry lived in Bedford County, although many
    Revolutionary war veterans settled in Bedford County after the war.

In the "History of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Jefferson Township" p. 513 states the following:

    "The following is the assessor's list of owners of real property in Jefferson township, in the year 1847:  James Armstrong, woolcarder; Henry Ash, Sr., etc......"

In the 1800 census of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Henry is shown with 2 children under age 10, two males between 10 and 16, 5 females under age 10, himself, between 26 and 45, and same for his wife.

From newspaper abstracts of south central Pennsylvania: "378. EAM April 28, 1802: Statement to the public from Samuel Ringgold relative to lands sold to Henry Ash and Mathew Van Lear, supported by statements from Ambrose Geoghegan, Theodore Malott, Jacob Friend and Joseph Sprigg, containing references to Archibald Shearer, Col. Deakins. Jacob Friend recalls being employed by Samuel Ringgold to lay off lands in the fall of 1794, when the troops were laying at Wiliamsport, on their way to the westward, for the purpose of quelling the insurrection." (See the will of Henry's father, the elder Henry Ash.)

Henry died without a will. His son Henry was named trustee. In estate papers filed in 1852 the following appears: "The petition of Henry Ash, Trustee for the sale of real estate of Henry Ash, Dec., respectfully represents that in pursuance of an order of sale to him granted on the 30th day of November 1852 to sell the real estate in said order mentioned. Your petitioner after repeated offers to sell on the terms improved (sic) by said order and continuing from day to day, giving general and public notice of the sale , and not being able to get a satisfactory bid on the terms, did proceed after having given due and timely notice of the day and place of sale to dispose of the said real estate and did in the borough of Somerset on the 31st day of January 1854 sell the same to Benjamin Friedline at and for the sum of three thousand dollars cash, payable on the delivery of the deed on or before the first day of April, next. This being the highest and best bidder and that the best and highest price bidden for the same, which said sum and terms are the most favorable that could be obtained."

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   Pennsylvania Mortality Index, 1850;
   "Bedford Co., PA in the American Revolution", p. 128; National Society of Sons of American Rev., Rev. War Graves Register, p. 19; Somerset Co. Will Book Index, file 29, 1849.