Person:Jonathan Ashley (2)

m. 1 Feb 1699/00
  1. Abigail Ashley1701 -
  2. Azariah Ashley1704 -
  3. Mercy Ashley1707 -
  4. Lydia Ashley1710 - 1772
  5. Rev. Jonathan Ashley1712 - 1780
  6. Benjamin Ashley1714/15 -
  7. Ebenezer Ashley1717 - 1752
  8. Phineas Ashley1729/30 - 1752
m. Bef 1737
  1. William Ashley1737 - 1737/38
  2. Jonathan Ashley1738/39 - 1787
  3. William Ashley1740/41 - 1742
  4. Dorothy Ashley1743 - 1833
  5. Elizabeth Ashley1745 - 1808
  6. Solomon Ashley1747 - 1748
  7. Dr. Elihu Ashley1750 - 1817
  8. Solomon Ashley1754 - 1823
  9. Charissa Ashley1757 - 1806
Facts and Events
Name Rev. Jonathan Ashley
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 11 Nov 1712 Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Graduation? 1730 Yale College
Marriage Bef 1737 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Dorothy Williams
Death[4] 28 Dec 1780 Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England. (Lancaster, Massachusetts: The Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1936)
    p. 21.

    Jonathan Ashley, Jr., A.M., b. Westfield, Nov. 11, 1712, son of Lieut. Jonathan and Abigail (Stebbins) Ashley; Y.C., 1730, A.B., A.M.; Ord. Deerfield Nov.8, 1732; sett. Deerfield, 1729-1780; published many sermons, own cousin to Rev. Jonathan Edwards; brilliant and liberal preacher; d. Deerfield 28 Aug 1780, a. 67.

  2. Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. Births, marriages, and deaths, 1669-1838, 1844-1854 (Westfield, Massachusetts). (Microfilm of records at town hall: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958)
    p. 121.

    Jonathon Ashley the son of Jonathan Ashley & Abigail his wife was born nouember 11 = 1712.

  3.   Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the Times when and the People by whom it was Settled, Unsettled, and Resettled, with a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley; with Genealogies. (Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1895-1896)
    p. 710, Vol. 2, p. 735.

    Rev. Jonathan Ashley was settled here for life, and nothing short of an ecclesiastical, as well as civil revolution, could unsettle him. He had prayed publicly for the King for forty years, and continuing true to him and his Ministers, took no pains to conceal his loyalty. He was a strong-minded man and his influence was all against the Whigs and their wicked rebellion. The Whigs were desirous to get rid of him by any means in their power. The town hoping to freeze him out, in 1774, refused to vote him any salary or firewood...

    At the time Mr Ashley died there had been no settlement of accounts between him and the town since 1774, when the town voted his receipt in settlement was "unsatisfactory", and very little had been paid him in the heat of the war. His executors brought a large claim against the town. In December, 1782, Joseph Stebbins, Seth Catlin, and Asahel Wright were chosen a committee to examine this claim. They reported as being due to Mr Ashley the sum of £787, 17s, 6d in silver, as arrearage for salary, firewood, and rent of town lot. The town voted to pay that amount, which was accepted by the executors. The town also voted to refund to those who had paid any minister's taxes during this period the full amount so paid, thus assuming the whole amount of the salary in a lump and equalizing the burden by a new assessment. This action of the town shows that Mr Ashley had been hardly and unjustly dealt with by withholding that support to which he had a legal claim. It also shows that the irritating cause removed, the town was willing to make full reparation.

  4. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1920)
    p. 259.

    ASHLEY, Jonathan, Rev., Pastor of the church, [died] Aug. 28, 1780. (In his 68th y. and 48th of his ministry. GR1)
    [Age 67, so born about 1713. GR1=Old Cemetery, Albany Road.]