CHILDREN OF MOSES3 ASHBR00K
The 1790 census shows Moses Ashbrook's household with 2 sons over 16, 3 sons under 16 and 6 daughters. The sons over 16 were Aaron and William Ashbrook. The sons under 16 were Moses Ashbrook, James Ashbrook and 1 unidentified son. Two of the 6 daughters were Elizabeth and Sarah. The other daughters are unidentified. George and Hannah Mary Ashbrook were married and gone from home.
At first glance Moses Ashbrook Jr. seems to be so much younger than the other children of Moses Sr., but if the 6 daughters and 2 sons are inserted into the family chart, the family of Moses3 Ashbrook shows children born about every two years from George born in 1763 to Moses born in 1788.
The unidentified son may have died young since no trace of him has been found.
"Abstracts of the Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Hampshire County 1750-1784"
Feb. 18, 1761----Nov. 14, 1761.
Capt. John Greenfield of Frederick County and Major James Levingston 270 acres on North River Cacapehon adjoining David Wood in warrant, but none in survey.
Chain Carriers: John Roussau, Samuel Wood.
Pilot: Moses Ashbrook Surveyor: John Mauzy
Dec. 20, 1774----JuLy 26, 1775.
Christopher Witzel/Whitzel of Frederick County 413 acres on Pine Cabin Lick
drain of Tear Coat adjoining His Excellency, the Earl of Dunmore.
Chain Carriers: Moses Ashbrook, Polk Keran. Pilot: Peter Keran.
Surveyor: Elias Poston
Feb. 18, 1775----June 9, 1775.
William Anderson, assignee (in 1777) of Moses X Ashbrook
Being the same land for which William Anderson obtained warrant Feb. 17, 1769 and did not execute. 412 acres on both sides of the Waggon Road from Winchester to Romney and on Crooked Run a drain of Little Cacapehon/Capon, Gibbins Run adjoining Lee and land of James Anderson sold to Joseph Watson.
Chain Carriers: John Hagerty, Hugh Lewes. Surveyor: Elias Poston.
Jan. 1, 1775----Dec. 23, 1774 (sic)
Henry Baker of Frederick County 114 acres on North River of Cacapehon adjoining
Samuel Pritchard, Jonathan Pugh, Keys & Co., Hannah Ashbrook (warrant has widow Ashbrook).
Chain Carriers: Moses Ashbrook and Henry Baker.
Marker: Joseph Baker. Surveyor: Elias Poston.
Note: Hannah Ashbrook was the mother of Moses Ashbrook.
Feb. 18, 1775----Jan. 29, 1777
Edward Blackburn of Fairfax County assignee (in 1777) of Moses x Ashbrook
408 acres on head or near drains of Maple Run a branch of Great Cacapehon crossing
Redstone Road; adjoining or near the late Joseph Watson in warrant and in survey John Prunty.
Chain Carriers: John Prunty, Andrew White. Surveyor: Elias Poston.
Feb. 21, 1775----June 10, 1775
John Hegirty of Frederick County 418 acres being same land Hegirty got warrant for
Feb. 17, 1769 on Crooked Run drain of Little Cacapehon, Gibbon's Run both sides of
Waggon Road from Winchester to Romney adjoining Moses Ashbrook.
Chain Carriers: Patrick Keran, Hugh Lewis.
Pilot and Marker: William Anderson. Surveyor: Elias Poston.
Hampshire County Virginia Deed Bk 4, p 60
Lease----March 25, 1774.
Joseph Arnold late of Hampshire Co to Moses Ashbrook of same - - - 5 shillings
400 acres North River of Great Cacapeon formerly granted to Josiah Arnold by
Lord Fairfax by a patent April 14, 1752.
Wit: Levi Ashbrook, John Prunty, Jonathan x Pugh, Isaac x Johns, Bean x Pigman
/s/ Joseph Arnold.
Release March 26, 1774. Joseph Arnold late of Hampshire Co VA to Moses Ashbrook
80 pounds - - - Granted to Josiah Arnold deceased father of above Joseph.
Recorded March 14, 1775.
Note: Levi Ashbrook was the brother of Moses Ashbrook.
Hampshire County Virginia Deed Bk 5, p 10 and 11
Lease----Jan. 27, 1779
Moses Ashbrook of Hampshire Co to Jacob Hubbard of same - - - 400 pounds
400 acres North River of Cacapehon formerly granted to Josiah Arnold by patent
April 14, 1752 - - - conveyed by Joseph Arnold to Moses Ashbrook March 25, 1774.
Wit: Elias Poston, William Milburn, James Smith.
/s/ Moses M (his mark) Ashbrook
March 9, 1779 release deed for 400 pounds from Moses Ashbrook and Sarah his wife.
/s/ Moses M (his mark) Ashbrook /s/ Sarah x Ashbrook
VIRGINIA RECORDS----SOUTIIWEST VIRGINIA AREA
"Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800" by Summers
Montgomery Co Virginia Court Records
At a Court held for Montgomery County May 3, 1780.
Jury: Moses Ashbrook
May 1 , 1781. A Grand Jury inquest included Moses Ashbrooks
Washington Co Virginia
Court held at Washington County March 20, 1783.
Moses Ashbrook (and others) appointed to settle the boundary lines between John Hays
and John Saunders.
Revolutionary War Pension Application of George Ashbrook
Application made March 31, 1836 in Washington County Missouri.
George Ashbrook of said County, aged 62, declares he was born in Hampshire County VA Nov. 1763 (record in his father's Bible which was burned in a school house when he was 16). He moved with his father in 1779 to that part of Montgomery County which is now Wythe County In July 1780 he entered service as a mounted volunteer at the place of rendevous in Montgomery County called Poplar Camp etc. and in 1784 he moved to what is now Tennessee and stayed 4 years. He then returned to Montgomery County VA until 1796 when he moved to Mero District Tennessee for 4 years. He then removed to the place he now resides which was St. Genevieve County, Upper Louisiana.
Bible Record of Moses5 Ashbrook, son of George Ashbrook
Moses Ashbrook was born in Grayson Co Virginia on the 13th of May 1796.
NORTH CAROLINA RECORDS
1790 Census Rutherford Co North Carolina----Fourteenth Company
Moses Ashbrook M 16 and up 3 Females 7
M under 16 3
Note: Nicholas Woodfin was also in the Fourteenth Company.
Buncombe Co North Carolina Bk I, p 92----Aug. 18, 1792.
Moses Ashbrook to Nicholas Woodfin - - - 150 pounds
Part of a tract of land said Ashbrook now lives on containing 510 acres on the
western waters on the east side of French Broad River on the upper side of a
Creek called Crab Tree.
Wit: Thos. Brittain, Edward x C. Johnston
Buncombe Co North Carolina Court Minutes
Ordered by Court that the following persons serve as jurors at Oct. Sessions 1792.
(Included) Moses Ashbrook
Oct. 1792----Grand Jury: (Included) Moses Ashbrook
Buncombe Co North Carolina Deed Bk I, p 124----March 8, 1793.
Thomas Wadlington of the Co of Rutherford NC to Moses Ashbrook of Buncombe Co.
200 pounds - - - 510 acres. On the western waters on the east side of French
Broad River on both sides of a creek granted him by patent bearing date Dec. 15, 1787.
Wit: Amos Justice, Cad G. Newport
/s/ Thomas Wadlinton
Buncombe Co North Carolina Deed Bk 3, p 213---- July 20, 1799.
Moses Ashbrook to John Nichols
Buncombe Co North Carolina Deed Bk 3, p 233---- May 18, 1799.
Moses Ashbrook to John Nichols
Buncombe Co North Carolina Deed Bk 4, p 441----July 20, 1799.
Moses Ashbrook to John Nichols
TENNESSEE RECORDs
Notes: By 1800 Moses Ashbrook had moved to northern TN in Smith County. In his Pension Application, his son George Ashbrook said he was living in the Mero District of TN 1796 to 1800. This area would have included Smith County at that time.
*Smith Co., TN Court Minutes 1799-1804
Page 12----June 16, 1800
Moses Ashbrook appointed overseer of road from crossing of Salt Lick Creek to top of ridge between s’d creek and Defeated Creek and all hands that worked under Mr. Kearby are to work under said overseer.
Page 21----Dec. 15, 1800
William Ashbrook venire face as to the next ensuing court: viz: William Ashbrook (and 36 other men)
Page 35----June 15, 1801
George Ashbrook venire for the ensuing county court.
page 36----Same date
George Ashbrook elected and sworn as grand jury
Page 57----March 17, 1802
Moses Ashbrook to mark and lay off a road from Captain Paits on Fort Blount Road to Bowmans Mill
Page 76----1802-1805
ordered that William Sullivan, SNR. Appointed overseer of road from Fort Blount Rd. to Sullivan’s Ferry on Cumberland River near mouth of Buffelow Creek and that the hands on Defeated Creek below the said road work on the same. William Richards and Moses Ashbrook and all other hands above said road who live nearer to it than the Fort Blount Rd.
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Defeated Creek is a fairly large stream coming off Cordell Hull Lake, a lake and dam on the Cumberland River in Smith County. Defeated Creek appears to go all the way to the KY line. Buffalo Creek is a short distance east of Defeated Creek. The area is just north of Carthage, TN.
Petitioners for Reduction of Constitution Limits of Jackson County Tennessee
The Prayer of your Humble petitioners showeth that they labour under many inconveniences by not having their County reduced to its Constitutional limits and their seat of Justice permanently fixed, relying on your clemency we hope your honorable body will pass a Law to that effect and fix our seat of Justice at Fort Blount. And your Petitioners in duty bound will ever pray on.
Jackson County----Juy 8, 1806
Among those who signed were
Moses Ashbrook, Sr.,
James Ashbrook
Moses Ashbrook, Jr.
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Moses Ashbrook shows on the Smith County TN records but signed this Petition from
Jackson County. This concerned the location of the “seat of Justice” which must have been the courthouse. They wanted it placed at Fort Blount. Two of the above road work assignments refer to the Fort Blount Road. Probably at this time the county boundaries were not yet firmly set.
*Smith County Will Book B part 1, page 156----Oct. 15-16, 1807
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James Ashbrook bought from the sale of the deceased Matthew Harper one black mare, one black cow half(?), and one _udeo steer totaling $53.18.
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Smith County Court Minutes 1808-1811 page 307 and 370----June 7, 1809
Moses Ashbrook to give a deposition at the Burchan courthouse of North Carolina in the case William McCall vs. Charles Mundine.
In December 1809 the case was transferred to Circuit Court of Smith Co., but those records do not list Ashbrook, plaintiff, or defendant in the index.
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1810 Smith Co., TN Reconstructed Census
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Lists Moses Ashbrook based on above court records.
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P LACES OF RESIDENCE OF MOSES3 ASHBROOK
1. Moses Ashbrook moved in 1779 from Hampshire County VA to southwest VA as is proven by the records.
2. Moses Ashbrook lived in either Montgomery or Washington County VA from 1779 through 1783.
3. From 1783 to 1790 there is no proof of where Moses Ashbrook lived. He might have gone to Tennessee with his son George who moved to Tennessee in 1784 and lived there until 1788.
In 1784 he may have moved to Buncombe County NC since his daughter Hannah Mary married Nicholas Woodfin there in about 1785. Nicholas Woodfin was definately in the Buncombe County NC area in 1785.
Moses4 Woodfin said on the 1850 census that he was born in Tennessee in 1788, but the census could be in error.
Nicholas Woodfin and Moses Ashbrook were both from Hampshire County Virginia. However Nicholas Woodfin left Hampshire County with his family about the year 1771 or 1772 and lived in Greenbriar County VA. He moved to the Buncombe County NC area in 1784.
4. Moses Ashbrook lived in Buncombe Co NC from 1790 to 1799. He left in 1799. Three grantor deeds in 1799 show that he sold his property in that year. He is not on the 1800 census of Buncombe County.
5. Moses Ashbrook appears on the Smith County TN records beginning in 1800. He appears to have joined his son George who lived in the Mero District of Tennessee from 1796 to 1800. The Mero District included the Smith Co. TN area.
The records of Smith County TN show that Moses Ashbrook Sr. and his sons William, George, James and Moses Jr. were all lving in Smith Co. TN area 1800-1809. His son Aaron Ashrook has not been found in the Smith Co. TN records.
Elizabeth4 Ashbrook, daughter of Moses, and her husband William Lewis Mackey moved from Rutherford County NC to Tennessee in 1795. The Lewis Family Genealogy says they lived in Christian Co, Robertson Co, Smith Co and Bedford Co TN. There is no Christian Co TN, but Christian Co KY is just across the state line from Robertson Co TN.
6. After 1809 nothing is known for certain where Moses Ashbrook lived or died.
On the 1812 tax list of Bedford County Tennessee appear Moses Ashbrook and William Ashbrook. This Moses Ashbrook could have been Moses Ashbrook Sr. or Jr.
Aaron Ashbrook appears in other early Bedford Co TN records. Moses Ashbrook Jr. was still in Bedford Co TN on the 1830 census. A Moses Ashbrook was involved in deeds in Bedford County TN in 1815 and 1817. If this Moses was Moses3 Ashbrook Sr., he would have been at least 75 years old at the time.
Nicholas Woodfin moved from Buncombe County NC to Bedford Co TN in 1811.. Moses Ashbrook Sr. Could have died in Bedford County TN.
However James L. Ashbrook, son of Moses Ashbrook Sr. moved across the Kentucky line
and married in Wayne County KY. He later lived in Pulaski Co. KY. Moses Ashbrook Sr. could have died in that area. More research may uncover the place of death of Moses Ashrook Sr.
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