Robert R. ASHBY

Abt 1715 - 1792  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Robert R. ASHBY
  Born	Abt 1715	Virginia, United States
  Gender	Male
  _UID	4E594CF9EC7CAA4D9308637159A414A06B10
  Died	27 Feb 1792	Virginia, United States
  Person ID	I6010	SteveParker
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2008

  
  

  Father	Thomas ASHBY,   b. Abt 1690,   d. Between Apr/Aug 1752, Frederick County, Virginia, United States  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Rose
  Married	Abt 1714
  _UID	0A2D31893B298F4CB5FBC9157319829D690B
  Family ID	F2233	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Elizabeth Holloway,   b. Abt 1720,   d. 15 Oct 1754, Virginia, United States  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Married	Abt 1735	, Fauquier, Virginia, United States
  _UID	472089228749D74C90F9768733D7E5AF2991
  Children	1. Capt. John ASHBY,   b. 1 Apr 1740, East side of Shenandoah, Warren, Virginia, United States ,   d. 4 Apr 1815, "Belmont, Delaplane,Fauquier, Virginia, United States  (Age 75 years)   2. Nimrod ASHBY,   b. 1742, Delaplane, Fauquier, Virginia ,   d. 29 Jun 1764, Near,Furman'S Fort,So Branch Potomac River, , , Virginia  (Age 22 years)   3. Benjamin ASHBY,   b. Abt 1743/1747, , Fauquier, Virginia, United States ,   d. Aft 30 Dec 1828, , Frederick, Virginia, United States  (Age ~ 81 years)   4. Enoch ASHBY,   b. Aft 1747, Virginia, United States ,   d. 30 Dec 1828, Delaplane, Fauquier, Virginia, United States  (Age < 79 years)   5. Ann ASHBY,   b. Abt 1749, Virginia, United States ,   d. 6 Oct 1807, Virginia, United States  (Age ~ 58 years)   6. "Mary "Molly ASHBY,   b. Virginia, United States   7. Winifred ASHBY,   b. Virginia, United States ,   d. Aft 1790   8. William ASHBY
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F2221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Catharine COMBS
  Married	28 Apr 1783	, Fauquier, Virginia, United States
  _UID	865BA16A31D5EC4C8712766DEA849033D75E
  Notes	Virginia Marriages to 1800 Spouse 1: Ashby, Robert Spouse 2: Combs, Cathrine Marriage Date: 28 Apr 1783 Marriage Location: Virginia Fauquier County Article in the Virginia Gazette, states "Whereas my wife Catherine Ashby has eloped from my bed and board, for reasons unknown to me, I therefore forbid all persons whatever, from harbouring or dealing with her on my accunt, as I am determined not to pay any debts to her contracting." signed: Robert Ashby, 21 Feb 1788
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F2234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  will proved 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.