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John married Sarah (Sallie) SMITH on 5 Aug 1799 in , Fauquier, Virginia, United States. Sarah (daughter of John SMITH and Mary Ann ADKINS) was born in 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Virginia Marriages to 1800
Spouse 1: Ashby, John
Spouse 2: Smith, Sarah
Marriage Date: 05 Aug 1799
Marriage Location: Virginia Fauquier County

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Served with the Culpeper Minute Men first and later was appointed Captain, 3rd Virginia Regiment, Revolutionary Way. Capt Ashby took part in battles of Great Ridge/Bridge, Brandywine, and on 18 Mar, 1776 he was Wounded at Germantown 4 Oct 1777, resigned 30 Oct 1777. He was a Major in the Virginia Militia 1780-81, and was listed as an invalid 1781. (See Revolutionary War Records; also DAR Patriot Indes, Washington, DC, 1966 P20., VA. Doc. 31 pp 3-16. On 13 Apr 1838 by executive order of the State of Virginia additional land bounty was given the heirs of John Ashby for his services as a Captain in the Continental line, Revolutionary War. His name remains in Mineral County, West Virgini at Fort Ashby where he was particularly active.
will dated 18 Jan 1812, Will proved 28 Aug 1815
"The Ashby Homesteads in Upper Fauquier County, Virginia", Author Unknown to Compiler
Greenland; The home of Captain John Ashby. It was inherited by his son Marshall Ashby and was the birth place of the latter's son, General Henry Marshall Ashby. Colonel Turner Ashby and his wife were buried a short distance north of the house.

Will Book 6, Fauguier Co., Virginia, p140; will of John Ashby dated 18 Jan 1812, proved 28 Aug 1815;
" To son Samuel Ashby half of tract of land on Horner's Fork containing by patent 800 acres, also a tract of land containing 200 acres adjoining a tract of 500 acres entered in the name of John Marshall, near the Kentucky River, both these tracts being in Kentucky, also a tract of land in the Manor of Leeds which I purchased from Daniel Routt.
To son John Ashby tract of land lying on waters of Horner's Fork of Licking in Kentucky, also tract of land in Manor of Leeds purchased from John Adams.
To daughter Martha Ann Withers negro after her mother's death.
To daughter Dolly Jones negro also loan of two negroes during her life, and afterwards to her children.
To daughter Elizabeth Tutt, negroes.
To three daughters above mentioned a tract of 1,000 acres on north fork of Licking in Kentucky to be equally divided.
To son Nimrod, negroes.
To son William, negroes, also a tract of land in Manor of Leeds adjoining the land of Nimrod Farrow.
To son Thomson tract of land in Manor of Leeds known by name of my mountain plantation, also negroes.
To son Turner, tract of land on Grove Creek adjoining the land of Thomas Adams, also negroes.
To son Marshall, negroes etc.
To sons Turner, and Marshall after their mother's death, the land I live on, the land I purchased of John Hickman and land I purchased of John Adams.
To three sons, Nimrod, William, & Thomson half of 1000 acres on North fork of Licking in Kentucky, also 1,500 acres of main branch of Licking.
To my beloved wife Mary Ashby negroes, etc. Wife to be executrix and sons Samuel and Nimrod executors. signed: John Ashby
Witness: John Adams, Willis O'Bannon, Henry_______

John married Mary E. TURNER on 28 Feb 1768 in , Fauquier, Virginia, United States. Mary (daughter of Samuel TURNER and Virlinda McPHERSON) was born on 23 May 1750 in , Charles, Maryland, United States; died on 23 May 1828 in , Fauquier, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Will dated 24 Feb 1826, will proved 23 May 1828

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Spouse 1: Ashby, John Jr.
Spouse 2: Turner, Mary
Marriage Date: 22 Feb 1768
Marriage Location: Virginia Fauquier County

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John married Mary Ann ADKINS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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arly Fauquier Houses, Fauquier County, Virginia, 276,277:
"Yew Hill - U. S. Route 17, near Delaplane, Virginia." Yew Hill is an early pioneer house of characteristic type, clapboard with dormer windows, Jacobean sloping gables, huge chimneys, and full length porch, It is located on the 320acre grant secured in 1742 by Thomas Ashby, pioneer, who was then living on the Shenandoah River above Burwell's Island. His son, Robert, was the first of the family to make Yew Hill his home in 1760. While engaged in surveying his own tract of land lying near Ashby's Gap, George Washingron made his headquarters at Yew Hill from March 9 to March 18, 1769.
Title was held by the Ashby family until 1807 when it passed to Edward Shacklett whose daughter held possession until 1880 when it reverted to relatives and descendants of the original owner. In 1935 it was purchased from John T. Ashby, Jr. R.C. Iden who has recently sold this property to the J.B. McCartys. The dwelling is now undergoing restoration and repairs, no change structurally only superficial alterations need to add the comforts of today to the atmosphere of bygone yesterdays. With this uplift, Yew Hillshould stand sturdily for another two hundred years as a landmark of the wilderness outpost of civilization in the highlands of Fauquier."
News feature - unknown source - dated 23 April 1959; Quaint Old Cottage - So described on deeds of the 1800's is this cottage at Chancellors Corner where George Washington stayed for nine days when surveying in Northern Fauquier. Mrs. Bolling Lynn Robertson is now maintaining an antique shop and guest quarters in the house restored by Mrs. J Benjamin McCarty...The Washington room has been furnished by Mrs. Robertson as it may have looked when the future President stayed there. During Washington's stay here he was visited by Colonel Thomas Marshall, the father of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Robert married Mary Elizabeth Holloway about 1735 in , Fauquier, Virginia, United States. Mary was born about 1720; died on 15 Oct 1754 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel married Virlinda McPHERSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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