Family of Thomas ASHBY and Elizabeth Rose LEJEAU

Husband: Thomas ASHBY (1680-1752)
Wife: Elizabeth Rose LEJEAU (c. 1680-1752)
Children: John ASHBY (1707- )
Thomas Edward ASHBY (1714-1786)

Husband: Thomas ASHBY

Name: Thomas ASHBY
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1680 Fauquier, VA, US
Immigration 1690 (age 9-10) to VA, US1
Death 4 Aug 1752 (age 71-72) Frederick, VA, US

Wife: Elizabeth Rose LEJEAU

Name: Elizabeth Rose LEJEAU
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1680 (est)
Death 1752 (age 71-72) VA, US

Child 1: John ASHBY

Name: John ASHBY
Sex: Male
Spouse: Jane COMBS (c. 1710- )
Birth 1707

Child 2: Thomas Edward ASHBY

Name: Thomas Edward ASHBY
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth MCCULLOUGH (1716-1760)
Birth 19 Feb 1714 Yew Hill, Fauquier, VA, US
Military Service
Private in the Revolutionary War, VA records
Death 1786 (age 71-72) Harpers Ferry, Jefferson, WV, US

Note on Husband: Thomas ASHBY

Thomas Ashby settled in Stafford County, Virginia abt 1710 along Beaverdam Rum of Aquia Creek and Chopawamsic Creek. By 1739 lands adjacent his had been surveyed in his son's names. He was an early explorer across the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley and "Ashby Gap" is named after him. He claimed 1269 acres on the East side of the Shenandoah River on November 19, 1733. He served as a Captain in the county militia and was active as a companion to surveyors of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He owned a ferry across the Shenandoah River and a tavern at Ashby's Gap. He died in 1752 with his will proven in Winchester Court August 4, 1752.

Sources

1Frederick Virkus, "Immigrants to America before 1750".
2"US Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783".