Robert Ashley [c1610-1682]

  Robert Ashley was born about 1610 in England, first appears on record as a resident of Springfield, Hampden County, MA, on 13 January 1838-9 when there was a rating of £40 agreed upon to meet a portion of the expense of the minister's residence and maintenance, took the oath of Freeman in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 6 February 1648-9, and died in West Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 29 November 1682.
  He married in Springfield, MA, about 1641, Mrs. Mary Horton, "widow of Thomas Horton of Springfield, who had died the previous summer, leaving her with two children, one three years old and the other an infant." Mary [Horton] was Christened in Nayland, Suffolk County, England, 10 March 1625, immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay aboard the Mary and John in 1632-3, moved to Windsor, Hartford County, CT, in 1634, moved to Springfield, Hampden County, MA, in 1636, and died in West Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 19 September 1683.
  Five children were born to this union:
  01. David Ashley was born in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 3 June 1642, and died in Westfield, Hampden County, MA, 8 December 1718. He married in New Haven, New Haven County, CT, 24 November 1663, Hannah Glover.
  02. Mary Ashley was born in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 6 April 1644. She married in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 18 October 1664, John Root.
  03. Jonathan Ashley was born in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 28 February 1645-6.
  04. Sarah Ashley was born in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 23 August 1648.
  05. Joseph Ashley was born in Springfield, Hampden County, MA, 6 July 1652.

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Resources

  Trowbridge, Francis Bacon. The Ashley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts [New Haven, CT: Printed for the Author, 1896], Pages 3-18.