When Captain John Ashley Esq was born on 27 June 1669, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David Ashley Sr, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Glover, was 23. He married Sarah Dewey on 8 September 1692, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 16 April 1759, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 89, and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places (especially in southern and central England) named Ashley, from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of French Canadian Asselin 2.
In some cases also an Americanized form of German Eschler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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