| 4. | John Ashby was born about 1645 in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England (son of Robert Ashby and Jane Stephenson); died on 1 Sep 1728 in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- FamilySearch ID: M2RL-352
- Religion: Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; Quaker - Society of Friends
- _UID: 1F6748A04B2947548E0470DA8681E8BE06A1
- Land & Property-Witness: 1682, Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; Transferred property to John, his son
- Land & Property: 6 Mar 1712/13, Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; Transfer to Robert Ashby of Quinton
- Land & Property-Witness: 12 Sep 1720, Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; Purchased of 16 acres of land
- Land & Property-Witness: 12 Sep 1720, Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; Purchased of 16 acres of land
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Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness
In 1682 Robert Ashby made a settlement of some of his property by a deed dated on the 29th September in that year and now in the possession of ?b?Morris Ashby?/b?. It is made between ?b?Robert Ashby?/b? of the first part, Samuel Preston the Younger and James Waringe of Bugbrooke Yeoman of the 2nd part, and ?b?John Ashby?/b? of Bugbrooke Yeoman (?b?son of the said Robert Ashby?/b?) and ?b?Mary his wife (ie John's wife)?/b? who was the daughter of Joseph Gammage late of Bugbrooke deceased of the third part. By this deed ?b?Robert Ashby?/b? in consideration of ?50 paid to him by his son John settled Norton's and one third of the homestead - as to Norton's on his son John for life, then to John's wife Mary for her life and then after the death of the survivor to the right heirs of ?b?John Ashby?/b?; and as to the third of the homestead, - on himself for life then to his son John for his life then to John's wife Mary during widowhood. Samuel Preston and James Waringe were made parties as trustees merely. The description of the homestead in the settlement states that it adjoined the house of the said James Waringe on the one side and the house of the said Samuel Preston on the other and abutted on the common fields on the west and on the common street on the east.
Land & Property:
John Ashby thus had more opportunity than his father of adding to his property. He does not appear however to have done very much in that way. He purchased about four acres of land from Edward Blake at some time previous to 1713. I have not found the purchase deed of that property, but in a settlement made by John Ashby in 1713 it is thus described:
"All that quarterne or fourth part of a yardland, (be it more or less) now also in the occupation of the said John Ashby lying in Bugbrooke aforesaid which was lately purchased by the said John Ashby of and from one Edward Blake."
The settlement in which this land was included was made on the 6th march 1713 between John Ashby the elder of Bugbrooke Yeoman and Mary his wife late Mary Gammage Spinster of the one part and Robert Ashby of Quinton Yeoman son and heir apparent of the said John Ashby by the said Mary his wife of the other part. The deed recites that John Ashby was possessed of one farmhouse and two thirds of its homestead where he dwelt and of two yardlands and four acres of meadow called the West Meadow in fee simple and also was possessed of the other third of the homestead and one other yardland called Norton's land for his life with remainders to his wife Mary and their children. The deed then goes on to say that John Ashby to the intent to make provision for himself during his life and to raise fortunes for his younger children had agreed with his son Robert to sell him all his house and lands at Bugbrooke (reserving a certain portion to himself and his wife during their lives) for ?320 and an annuity of ?20. The terms of the settlement were these ? John Ashby retained for himself for life,
"the east end of the said messuage, vizt the parlor end consisting of the parlor, the chamber over it called the Parlor Chamber and a buttery at the east end of the said parlor and the yard called the backyard also the garret over the said Parlour Chamber, and the mill house, and also free liberty to fetch water from the well belonging to the said messuage, and also half the lopp of all the hedges and hedgerows and half the bushes and breakes of and belonging to the aforesaid messuage land and premises, and one third part of the fruit of the orchard and common of pasture and keeping of one cow as well in winter as in summer in and upon the said premises. And also all those three lands parcel of the aforesaid premises, vizt one land on Allmead furlong Hugh Garlick West one land lying on Cross five acres Thomas Hipwell West one land at Smithway Corner Widow Upton North."
After John Ashby's death this was to go to his son Robert. By the settlement of 1682 it will be remembered Nortons and a third of the homestead were settled on John Ashby for life and then on his wife Mary, and by this settlement of 1713 John Ashby gave up his life estate on these properties to his son Robert. After John Ashby's death they were to go to his wife for her life in lieu of her dower, and then again to return to her son Robert. All the rest of the family property John Ashby conveyed to his son Robert absolutely. The deed contains an agreement by Robert to plough and manure the land reserved for his father and to bring home his crops and his share of the coppings and bushes.
Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness
in 1720 he appears as the purchaser of sixteen acres of land in Bugbrooke. The mode of conveyance adopted was one in which two documents were necessary, a lease for a year and a release. I have not found the last of these two documents and consequently have not ascertained what purchase money Robert Ashby paid. The lease for a year however is amongst Morris Ashby's old deeds. It is dated 12th September 1720 and is made between Robert Mobbs of Bugbrooke Shoemaker and Henry Billingham of Bugbrooke Butcher of the one part and Robert Ashby of the other part. The following is a description of the property contained in the deed:
"All that one yardland of arable ley meadow and pasture ground lying and being disposed on the ~~~ and common fields of Bugbrooke aforesaid lately conveyed to the said Robert Mobbs and Henry Billingham and to the heirs and assigns of the said Robert Mobbs (amongst other lands) by Nicholas Peake of Towcester in the said County Gentleman and Hatton Atkins of Kingsthorpe in the said County Gentleman which said yardland was lately in the possession of Abraham Clarke and is now in the tenure of the said Richard Mobbs or Richard Ashby or one of them."
This property did not go to form part of the old Family Estate as by his will Robert Ashby left it to one of his younger sons Robert Ashby of Shillingford the ancestor of the present Ashby's of Staines.
Land & Property-Witness:
Role: Witness
in 1720 he appears as the purchaser of sixteen acres of land in Bugbrooke. The mode of conveyance adopted was one in which two documents were necessary, a lease for a year and a release. I have not found the last of these two documents and consequently have not ascertained what purchase money Robert Ashby paid. The lease for a year however is amongst Morris Ashby's old deeds. It is dated 12th September 1720 and is made between Robert Mobbs of Bugbrooke Shoemaker and Henry Billingham of Bugbrooke Butcher of the one part and Robert Ashby of the other part. The following is a description of the property contained in the deed:
"All that one yardland of arable ley meadow and pasture ground lying and being disposed on the ~~~ and common fields of Bugbrooke aforesaid lately conveyed to the said Robert Mobbs and Henry Billingham and to the heirs and assigns of the said Robert Mobbs (amongst other lands) by Nicholas Peake of Towcester in the said County Gentleman and Hatton Atkins of Kingsthorpe in the said County Gentleman which said yardland was lately in the possession of Abraham Clarke and is now in the tenure of the said Richard Mobbs or Richard Ashby or one of them."
This property did not go to form part of the old Family Estate as by his will Robert Ashby left it to one of his younger sons Robert Ashby of Shillingford the ancestor of the present Ashby's of Staines.
John married Mary Gammage in 1671 in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England. Mary (daughter of Joseph Gammage) was born in 1653 in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England; died in 1733 in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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