[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 15, Ed. 1, Tree #3296, Date of Import: Dec 1, 2002]
CYCLOPEDIA OF EMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE ME OF THE CAROLINAS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY----------- A gentleman,many years ago,referring to "notices of the Ashe family printed in 1710" wrote"taht in the mother country for serveral generations they were the strenuous opponents of arbitrary power,and were not only actors,but sufferers in the paternal and also in the maternal line".A gentleman of this family compelled to sell his estate in Wiltshire,England ,by the pecuniary embarrassments, in which an excess of zeal had involved him,migrated to South Carolina at an early period in the history of that province. Thence one of his sons removed to North Carolina,whose character and abilities made him a prominent member of that colony,and from that time to the year 1814 the name of Ashe was always conspicuous either in the forum,the senate, or the field, and in the highest offices of the state". In the long parliment that maintained the liberties of England against the arbitrary power of Charles the First, were two brothers,John and Sam Ashe, of Wiltshire. In the next generation a scoin of that family,John Ashe settled in South Carolina, where he became an influentual member of the assembly. When the bigoted Lord Granville sought to oppress the dissenters of Carolina,Ashe was selected by the principal inhabitants of South Carolina to represent their grievances to the crown. While at Charleston to take shipping, his opponents raised a riot that lasted five days,and he was under the necessity of making his waythrough the wilderness to Albemarle. He was resolute,bold and high-spirited. The mild Quaker, Archdale,said that he did not seem well qualified for the work---"not that he want wit--but temper".His lofty spirit could not toleratewith patience attempted oppression. Arriving at London he drew up"The Representation".but died in 1703 before it was all printed,"not without suspicion of foul play".Defoe,the novelist, then took the work up and published his pamplet"Oppression in Carolina."and the train was laid that finally led to the downfall of propriety rule. THE HOUSES OF CHARLESTON-The Ash or Ashe family settled at an early date in Carolina,where John Ash,in 1704, was one of the leaders of the dissenting party,which so violently opposed the establishment of the Church of England as the State Church of the Province He was sent to London by this party to protest the Lords Proprietors and died there.
More About John Jr. Ashe and Martha Ivie: Marriage: 1671, Tiffont, W. England.56, 57
John Jr. Ashe (b. 1649, d. 1704)
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