James Ashton

- Bef 1705

• Name	James Ashton  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 19 May 1705	Monmouth County, New Jersey   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Alternate death	Aft 19 May 1705  [7]
  Person ID	I30876	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Deliverance Throckmorton,   b. Abt 1645   d. Aft 19 May 1705 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Marriage	25 May 1669	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island   [8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca Ashton   d. Aft 20 Apr 1714
  Family ID	F18332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He may have been a son of James Ashton of Providence, but this is unproved. "He was apparently a divine, for he is spoken of in old documents as the Rev. James Ashton, yet it is likely that he was not ordained. Be that as it may, he was the first who ministered to the spiritual wants of the infant settlements in Monmouth County, which were of the Baptist persuasion. He was held in great esteem and filled numerous responsible positions." [Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 5, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4862] Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 5, by John E. Stillwell. New York, 1932. [S4864] "Notes and Corrections." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:234, 1963. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S3107] Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 3, by John E. Stillwell. New York, 1914., year and place only. [S4863] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Ancestry of John Throckmorton of Providence." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 98:67; 98:111; 98:271, 1944., year and place only. [S976] A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmorton Family in England and the United States by Charles Wickliffe Throckmorton. Richmond, Virginia: Old Dominion Press, 1930. Useful for its wealth of primary source material; deeply unreliable in its conclusions., year only. [S4895] Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume XXIII: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I, 1670-1730 by William Nelson. Paterson, New Jersey: Press Printing and Publishing Company, 1901. [S4863] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Ancestry of John Throckmorton of Providence." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 98:67; 98:111; 98:271, 1944., date only. [S4862] Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 5, by John E. Stillwell. New York, 1932., place only.