History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, MA by Francis Bacon Trowbridge, New Haven, Printed for the Author, 1896 (available
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Pg 5 Robert Ashley Marr: abt 1641 Mary, widow of Thomas Horton of Springfield
(His wife Mary not Frances?)Pg 18 Children b: Springfield, MA:
(Pg21) 2. i. David, twins, b: 3 Jun 1642 d: 8 Dec 1718 Westfield MA Marr: 24 Nov 1663 New Haven CT Hannah Glover d/o Henry & Helena Glover; b: May 1646 New Haven d: 7 Jun 1722 Westfield both bur: Westfield Cemetery
ii. a dau, twins, b: 3 Jun 1642 d: soon aft birth
iii. Mary, b: 6 Apr 1644 Marr: 18 Oct 1664 John Root of Westfield
285. iv. Jonathan b: 25 Feb 1645-6
v. Sarah b: 23 Aug 1648, not mentioned in her father’s will made in 1679 and probably d: young
337. vi. Joseph b: 6 Jul 1652
US & Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
1009 (His ancestor? Him?)
Edward Ashley; Arrival: 1630 Salem, MA; Source: 263 Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in MA, 1620-1640. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 231p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1961. Rep0r 1984. Pg 206 Part I, pp.1-43, is a study of emigration to New England in colonial times; part 2, pp.45-207, lists passengers and the ships they arrive don (3600 passengers on 213 ships). From the Custom House records of English ports. Much of the information is contained in nos. 7906 and 7907, Savage; noose 1672 and 1674, Drake; and no. 3283, Hotten.
Robert Ashley; Arrival: 1638 Springfield, MA; Source: 9450 Virkus, Frederick A., editor. Immigrants to America before 1750. An Alphabetical List of Immigrants to the Colonies, before 1750, Compiled from Official and Other Records. Surnames A through Battles. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1965. 220p. Pg 83 Published extracts from the Magazine of American Genealogy, section 4, nos. 1-27 (1929-(1932)). Good compilation but incomplete, since publication of the magazine was suspended; it contains names from beginning of alphabet through Battles only.
Springfield V2_1647 Marriage Contracts Recorded by Judge William Pynchon:
35623 (Him?)
(15-16) Aug 7, 1641 Know all men that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended between the window Horton and Robert Ashly both of Springfeild: That the said window Horton (assigns her property to Robert Ashley) for the use and behafe of her two sons one suckling and the other about three years old called Jeremy....
Pg 985 Robert Ashley (-1682) & Mary (___) Horton (-1683), w/Thomas; m cont 7 Aug 1641; Springfield/Deerfield (Reg 2:394, 33:310; Pope’s Pioneers 21; Holbrook Anc (1942) 80; Ashley 3; Horton (1929) 483; Kimball Anc 41, Sv 1:68-9; Springfield Fam (ms) 12; Bullard Anc 33; Roosevelt Anc 156)
66948 (Him? wife Mary not Frances?)
Hampshire County MA Probate File Papers 1660-1889
64143 (No Robert Ashley or Frances Ashley)
CT Society of Colonial Wars Pedigrees
94638 (another marriage?)
Nathaniel Ross Parke Image11of12 Pg885 Pedigree4: Robert Ashley Marr: Mary __ d: 18 Sep 1683
Roland Mather Hooker Image12of12 Pg886 Pedigree4: Robert Ashley Marr: Mary __ d: 18 Sep 1683