Eggleston, Editha

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• Reference Number: 35858

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• Reference Number: 35824

Nathaniel married Wait, Esther on 13 Aug 1741. Esther was born on 23 Oct 1717; died in in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 35857

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• Reference Number: 35821

Nathaniel married Ashley, Hannah on 13 Sep 1694 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Ashley, David and Glover, Hannah) was born on 26 Dec 1675 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 35822

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• Reference Number: 35609

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David Ashley settled in Springfield and lived there the first three years and a half of his married life. In 1661 grants of lands had been made to Captain Pynchon, Robert Ashley and George Colton at the new settlement then being made at Woronoco, now Westfield, and David Ashley eventually had his father's title confirmed to him. On February 8, 1663-4, David Ashley received a thirty acre grant at Woronoco, on condition that he and the other grantees were "to pay the Indians for their purchase within three years and that they go there to dwell." He was one of the original grantees of land on the Fort Side (Main Street) on July 6, 1666. This land was to be settled "in their own persons on the last of May next." He probably removed his family to Westfield in the spring of 1667. He lived near the confluence of Great and Little rivers, and styled himself "yoeman." In March, 1668, a division of territory was made into three parts, and lots cast for it, and David Ashley's lands fell in the first division. In March, 1669, Sacketts creek was granted to Joseph Whiting and David Ashley "to set a mill thereon and grind corn."
At a county court held at Springfield September 27, 1670, Walter Lee brought an action against David Ashley "for taking away from him 10 shock of his wheat last year and a load of Indian corn this year off the ground which he had plowed and sowed." This must have been a mistake on Mr. Ashley's part, as the parties agreed before the jury brought in their verdict.

The gravestones of David Ashley and his wife are among the oldest in the old Westfield cemetery. They are short irregular slabs of native stone, and are so weather-beaten that they were deciphered with difficulty as follows:


DAVID
ASHLEY
DYED ON DES
YE 8 1718
AGED 77 YEAR
HANNAH
YE WIFE OF
DAVID ASHL
EY DYED ON
IVNE T-E 7 1722
AGED 76 YEAR


Administration was granted on the estate of David Ashley 10 March 1718-19 to
his widow Hannah. [Hampsh. Co. Prob. Rec., vol. 4, p. 13.] The inventory was
taken 6 January 1718-9 and amounted to

David married Glover, Hannah on 24 Nov 1663 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Hannah was born in May 1646 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 7 Jun 1722 in Westfield, Hampden, MA; was buried in Westfield Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 35827