I59829: Thomas ASHTON Jr. (ABT 1660

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son of Thomas Ashton who died about 1690 and was a brother of Charles Ashton who had been involved in 1665 in a court case with the Rev David Lindsay which was described as a "very scandalous affair." By his will Ashton devised to his "stepson, Robert Lindsay" a life estate in certain lands on Cherry Point.

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Will: 4 NOV 1804 Wythe, Virginia: Wb1, pp. 308-309. Witnessed by John Folk, Sr., John Folk, Jr. Proven Feb. 1805 by John Folks, Jr.
Residence: 1787 Frederick, Virginia
Residence: 1793 Montgomery, Virginia area now Wythe

Children:
2 Robert Brooks
2 Jesse Brooks
2 Susanna Brooks + Harland
2 Ruthy Brooks + Greenwood
2 John Brooks
2 Margaret Brooks + Day
2 Sarah Brooks b: 1771 + Lahue
2 James Brooks b: 1772
2 Thomas Brooks b: 28 OCT 1775

From: History and Genealogies of The Families of Miller, Woods, Harris, Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaguh and Brown: By W. H. Miller. " p. 171.

William Cradlebough, a noted scout, woodsman and indian fighter went the same route,
Cradlebough was an unusually hardy, brave and adventurous spirit and well acquainted from Boonsborough to the Middle Fork of the Kentucky, and up the latter deep into the country seldom trodden by white men, and was one of the earliest pioneers, and who with Brooks and
Calloway, (Thomas Brooks and John Calloway) in 1780 had hunted and encamped for days and days, up the Middle Fork, and made and named Rock Back Encampment, Williams Creek, Cabin Creek were named by them, and Martin got much information from Cradlebough of the woods, the Little Picture Lick, and other Licks, the War Road and other traces, and of indian habits.

In Nov. or Dec. 1780, Cradlebough, Thomas Brooks and John Calloway,hunted and spied into the wilds of the Middle Fork and camped several days at a place on the south side of said fork, nearly opposite where one McWillard was living in 1805, and at this place they made a canoe in which they paddled up and down the river, and they cut on a beech tree the first or initial letters of their names: W. C. 1780, and J. C. and which they named Rock Back Encampment, and then about four miles above on the south side of the river at a Buffalo Lick on a branch near the mouth they marked "Brooks 1780," and F. C ." they camped in a bottom about four miles above the mouth of the creek, that they named Williams Creek because William Cradlebough whilst out hunting first found it, and here they encamped and cut down several trees, and cut on a tree the letters W. C. B. (but in 1805 this was called upper Twins) and on a creek they built a cabin and called the creek Cabin Creek. (which in 1805 was called Lower Twins.) At this place in an oak and beech they cut out cutlets, and their initial letters, which marks were there in 1805, the place is about three quarters of a mile up from the mouth of the creek.

When this party of three left Estill Station on this hunt they no doubt went the trace that led by Azariah Martins place, and the Little Picture Lick.

***In 1805 James McCormick and WILLIAM BRYANT were commissioned by the Court to take depositions to perpetuate testimony and with William Cradlebough went to Rock Back Encampment, and there commenced the taking of the deposition of Cradlebough, and adjournment from one to another of the Encampments of Cradlebough, Brooks and Calloway of 1780 made twenty five years prior thereto, and found the facts as Cradlebough had described to them two years previous, which their depositions and statements prove.

James McCormick then being on the Middle Fork, made this statement in writing:
In the fall of 1798 James Trabue applied to him to survey for him on the Middle Fork of the Kentucky, and furnished him with several entries, one calling for a Buffalo Lick at the mouth of a small creek on the north side with a tree marked thus "Brooks 1780" which tree and lick he saw the same fall and the marks that were on the tree appeared to be very old or old enough to have been marked at the same date. There were several entries that called for another encampment, called the Rock Back Encampment which by the direction of William Cradlebough he found at the same time with W. C. 1780, and J. C. 1780, cut on a small beech tree, which mark also appeared old enough for that date which Rock and Tree William Cradlebough this day swore to in his presence, also the bottom he surveyed for Daniel Trabue, with the trees fell down, was so well described by William Cradlebough, and the course of the river that he verily believed it to be the same bottom, notwithstanding the trees were rotted and gone, and being present with him in search of the bottom Aug. 12, 1805. James McCormick."

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Marriage(s):
Spouse: G W Corlew Marriage:abt 1920 Place: Stoddard Co., Mo.
Spouse: Jonathan Jefferson Bingham Marriage: 8 Oct 1894 Place: Stoddard Co., Missouri
Spouse: Newton Jasper Norman Marriage: 10 Oct 1875 Place: Stoddard Co., Mo.
Spouse: John W Jennings Marriage: 23 Jun 1889 Place: Stoddard Co., Mo.

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Spouse: Hannah HILLS (AFN: M0R5-22) Marriage: 17 Dec 1636 Lynn, Essex, MA
Father: Mr. HILLS (AFN: 22MG-H39) Mother: Mrs. HILLS (AFN: 22MG-H4H)

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2 Mann Page b: 26 OCT 1750

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Booker married Dewannah Frances MOORMAN. Dewannah was born 5 Aug 1823. She died 23 Aug 1891.

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d.s.p. RICHARD WILLIS From A Place in Time, pages 208-209: In his early years, Churchill's network of debtors within the county was confined to the lower precinct between the Rappahannock and the road. South of the road, Matthew Kemp held sway, operating in both Middlesex and Gloucester from holdings on the lower Piankatank, with Richard Stevens and Robert Dudley having to him the same relationship as Mickleburrough had to Churchill. Robert Beverley, Christopher Robinson, and Richard Willis divided the rest of the county. (The Wormeleys of Rosegill had little part in these intracounty credit relationships after roughly 1680; with their own connections in England, they exported and imported largely for themselves.)

Notably, the connections abroad and within the county that allowed these hegemonies did not automatically pass from father to son as land and personalty did, but shifted from one planter-merchant to another. We will return to the point. Suffice it here to note that Beverley had fallen heir to the connections of John Burnham, a major planter-merchant of the 1670s who died in 1681. When Beverley died in 1687, Robinson's area of influence grew. When Robinson died in 1693, Churchill's influence spread from the lower precinct into the middle, while Gawin Corgin--Henry Corbin's son, now grown to manhood, with extensive relations both in Middlesex and England--entered the scene to take Robinson's place on the Rappahannock side of the county from the Essex boundary to just below Sunderland Creek. And when Willis died in 1701, Corbin's and Churchill's influence swelled to fill the vacuum. Willis was much married but childless; his lands went to a nephew, John Alden, but Alden never assumed the merchant role of his uncle.

RICHARD WILLIS From The Vestry Book of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1663-1767, C.G. Chamberlayne, 1927, Old Dominion Press, Richmond, VA, page 65:
Att a Vestry held at Christ Church in Middlesex County the 12th of Novembr. 1689. Ordered that Richrd Willis pay Five hundred pounds of Tobo being his Sister Ellianor Alldin's fine laid Upon her by the Court for Comitting Fornication for wch he became security, and upon his Refusal Mr. Kemp is Desired to Take out Execution as he is Ch. warden.

RICHARD WILLIS
From Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia, 1680-1694, Part 2, page 64:
Page 379, 3 Dec 1688. Ordered that Ellenor Alding be finded to ye use of ye Parrish according to Law for comitting the act of fornication & Mr. Richard Willis does in open Court become securaty for paymt. of ye sd. Fine and alsoe for ye maintenance of ye sd. Childe & keepeing ye Parrish hareless and for ye said Ellenors fuetor good behaviour.

RICHARD WILLIS From Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia, 1680-1694, page 1: Page 446, 12 May 1690. Judgmt. is granted to Mr. Richard Willis agt. Mr. Deuel Pead upon a Scire-facias for two hundred and twenty pounds of good swt. sented tobacco & caske & ye sume of seaven hundred sixty eight pounds of tobacco wth: costs of this suite, noe execution to issue upon this Judgmt. untill ye 10th day of December next.
Judgmt. is granted to Mrs. Elenor Alding agt. Mr. Henry Thacker for five hundred pounds of good swt. sented tobacco & caske, & two barells & a halfe of Indian Corne, the one halfe of the said Corne to be paid forthwith & ye other halfe wth: ye sd. tobacco to be paid att ye Cropp wth: costs.

RICHARD WILLIS From Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia, 1680-1694, page 14: Page 492, 2 Feb 1690/91. Mr. Edwin Thacker & Mr. Thomas Stapleton are ordered & appoynted to auditt & settle ye Accots. in the difference between Elenor Alden & Mr. Richd: Willis, who returne the ballance due to Mr. Richd: Willis to be five thousand seaven hundred forty fower pounds of tobacco & costs.

Ordered that Mr. Richard Willis as Exr. of the Last Will and Testamt. of John Willis, doe deliver to Elenor Alden for the use of John & Mary, Son & Daughter of ye sd. Elenor Alden, two Cowes & Calves & a young Mare, which were bequeathed to the sd. Children by the sd. John Willis & hath bin formerly acknowledged in Courte for there use by the sd. Mr. Richard Willis.

RICHARD WILLIS From Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia 1680-1694, page 38: Page 540, 1 Feb 1691/92. The suite of Mr. Richd: Wilis vs. Samll. Action is dismist.
Judgemt. is granted to Mr. Matt: Kemp agt. Mrs. Elinor Aldin, for two hundred fifty four pds. swt. sented tobo: & cask wth: cost.

My Southern Family

Thomas ASHTON Jr.

ABT 1660 - 1734

ID Number: I59829

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Thomas BROOKS

ABT 1740 - BEF 12 Feb 1805

ID Number: I67066

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Samantha Paradine GAINES

25 Sep 1858 - 28 Sep 1940

ID Number: I98525

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Hannah HILLS

1618 - 22 Oct 1692

ID Number: I102257

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Nannie LAGROVE (LAGRONE?)

ABT 1896 - ____

ID Number: I6102

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Mann PAGE

26 Oct 1750 - ____

ID Number: I85921

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JOHN de POLLOCK

1494 - 1564

ID Number: I70383

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Booker Flournoy SMITH

5 Aug 1823 - 23 Aug 1891

ID Number: I31687

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Richard WILLIS

ABT 1660 - 1701

ID Number: I54462

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Franklin WRIGHT Jr.