Robert Ashman1

M, #1686, d. 15 March 1682/83
Last Edited: 25 Mar 2012
Charts:
Pedigree of Josephine Bailey

Family:

Catharine Jeacox d. a 10 Apr 1689

Children:

John Ashman5
Lydia Ashman+ 5 b. Apr 1647, d. 1730
Martha Ashman6 b. Aug 1650

Notes

  • Immigration*: circa 1647; New York
  • Note*: List of Proprietors of Hempstead in 1647: Ashman, Robert, 1650, at Hempstead; 1660 at Jamaica2
  • Note: Appears in the 1671 census, as #10, at Passyunk [east side of the Schuylkill River in present south Philadelphia]. Robert Ashman, and his associates, received a grant 1 January 1667/8 for 1,000 acres, bounded on the north by Peter Rambo and on the east by Molbees [Mullica's?] land. Citing New York Patents, 3:125.

    Robert Ashman (#10), from Hempstead, Long Island, leader of the group, returned to Jamaica, Long Island, before 1677 and died there 15 March 1682/3, survived by his widow Catharine, sister of Thomas Jeacox. On 22 July 1690, Lasse Cock (#2) and his wife Martha, and Olle Svensson (#4) and his wife Lydia sold their wives' shares of their father's 7-acre lot in Jamaica.3
  • Note: "Ashman, Robert, of Jamaica. A nuncupative will produced in court 13 June, 1683, was pro. by the oaths of Ruth (?) Smith, Jonathan Furman, John Carman, & the widow. On 10 April, 1689, Katrina Ashman, the widow, Nathaniel Denton, Jr., her son-in-law, & Wait Smith, were apt. admrs. Inventory shows personal estate £50. Will not recorded."4

Citations

  1. [S99] Craig, Dr. Peter S., 1671 Census of the Delaware (Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Monograph Series no. 4., 1999), p. 16.   Craig-P--1671-Census.pdf
  2. [S132] "The Early History of Hempstead, L.I." by Charles B. Moore, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol 10 (Jan 1879), p. 5-16 p. 9.   Moore--Hempstead.pdf
  3. [S99] Craig, Dr. Peter S., 1671 Census, p. 5, 16.
  4. [S52] Canfield, Amos, "Abstracts of early wills of Queens County, New York, recorded in Libers A and C of Deeds, now in the Register's Office at Jamaica, New York", in New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol LXV (Apr 1934), 114-120; (July 1934), 245-251; (Oct 1934), 319-328. (Reprinted in book Long Island Source Records, compiled by Henry B. Hoff. Publ by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore 1987, p. 127-149., ), p. 130.
  5. [S99] Craig, Dr. Peter S., 1671 Census, p. 16 & 17.
  6. [S103] Craig, Peter Stebbins, The 1693 Census of the Swedes of the Delaware; Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey & Cecil County, Md. 1638-1693 (Winter Park, Florida: Studies in Swedish American Genealogy 3; SAG Publications, 1993), p. 29.   Craig-P--1693-Census.pdf