Re: Nancy Ashford of Orange County, NC
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In reply to:
Nancy Ashford of Orange County, NC
9/03/00
Hello Linda,
How do you tie into the Walker family?
Below I am posting the information which I had given to another posting on GenForum, which may give you some information for thought.
I have been of the opinion that my Mary Ashford who married James Bird at Old Swede's Church in New Castle County, Delaware in 1745, was a child of Michael and Ann Ashford. The Mary in the will of Michael Ashford seemed to have been quite young, along with several other children, as I recall. Mary Ashford and James Bird settled in the part of Orange County, NC, which is now Alamance County. Just north of Alamance is Caswell County, where a William Ashford also settled in the period between 1750 and 1770. Also residing in Caswell County was Nancy Ashford, who was wife of John Walker, Revolutionary soldier who served as one of Washington's aide-de-campes.
The Ashfords owned land in Virginia which was sold by one of the elder sons,(George?) of Michael and Ann Ashford, land which was included in the holdings of George Washington in making up his Mount Vernon Estate. It would appear that these Ashford's, Walkers, and Birds were very much in the right places to support a connecting link.
I am also a descendant of a John Graham who married one daughter of Alexander Mebane, Frances, who lived in Chester County, PA which is just adjacent to New Castle County. When Frances died at an early age, John Graham married Mary Bird, daughter of James and Mary Ashford Bird; several of John Grahams daughters from both of his marriages, married into the John Walker family, which also demonstrates further close connections.
Have you any different information for the fate of Michael and Ann Ashford's daughter, Mary, as well as for William and Ann(Nancy) Ashford?
Best regards,
John Fox