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ASHTON OF MON'MOUTil COUNTY 19
Marie Ashton, born 1604-5, mairied, Sept. 16, 1629, Thomas Olncy, as appears by the
St. Alban's Abbey record?, although Austin states that the wife of Thomas Olney, born like-
wise 1604-5, was Aiary Small. Herein, perhaps, is an error, although it is not impossible that
Thomas Olney had two wives, both born 1605, the first being Mary Ashton, the second ]\Iary
Small.
Thomas Olncy embarked in the sliip "'Planter," Apr. 2, 1635, and sailed from London for
N'cw England. He was called thirty-five years of age; his wife, Mary, thirty; his son Thomas,
three; and his son Epinetus, one, at the time of embarkation.
He became extremely prominent in the early history of Rhode Island, and his personal
and family history is fully outlined in Austin's Rhode Island Genealogical Dictionary.
Alice Ashton, born 1617-1S, probably accompanied her sister IMar}-, in her migration to
this country, and I have little or no doubt but that she became the wife of Thomas Angeli,
who sailed in the shiji "Lyon," from Bristol, England, in December, 1630, in company with
Roger Williams, John Throckmorton, and others, who afterwards founded the Rhode Island
settlement at Providence. Thomas Angeli was a mere youth, probably not more than t^^"elvc
}cars of age, at the time of his emigration. His marriage to Ahce Ashton must have occurred
some time prior to 1646, as his son, John, was baptized in that year.
The declaration of this son, John Angeli, made Dec. 14, 1716, states that, in 1667, he was
desired by his uncle, James Asten, to take care of liis 60 acre lot. Austin.
The history of the Angell's has been traced by Austin full}-, and no further allusion to it is
necessar\' here.
The testimony, howe\'er, of John .Angeli, is to my mind absolutely confirmaton,- of the
relation of James Ashton to ^larie Olney, and infercntially to Alice Angeli. They could ha\e
been none other than brother and sisters. Accepting this deduction, James Ashton, who first
appears in Rhode Island, in company with Thomas Ashton, in 1639, when they were called
Proprietors, must have been James, the son of James Ashton, baptized, at St. Alban's, England,
Mch. 4, 1603.
Thomas Ashton, who appears as brother to James, in the Hst of baptisms, could not have
been the early Proprietor of Rhode Island, because, in 1639, he was but nine years of age. If
kinship existed between Thomas and James Ashton, the Rhode Island Proprietors, which I
think is most likely, it was on a more remote plane.
Ashtons appeared in ?klaine, and in Pennsylvania, in periods nearly contemporary with the
early settlement of Monmouth County, and it has been surmised that the first were descendants
of Henry Ashton, who Savage states was a resident of Boston, in 1673, and who came
from Lancaster, England, and who, according to the same authority, was of Pro\"idence,
Rhode Island, in 1676, when he was one of the men. entitled, for staying out of the war, to
receive an Indian for a sla\-e.
The Ashtons of Pennsylvania are thought to have descended from Thomas Ashton, of
Rhode Island.
1703. Thomas and Reuben Ashton, received one hunded acres, in L'pper Makefield Township,
Bucks Co.
1736, Nov. 30. Isaac Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., had a license to marry Dorothy Carr.
Trenton, N. J. Records.
1741. Ralph Ashton bought 1005 acres in Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pa.
174S, Feb. 15. Robert Ashton had license to marry Hannah Fannworth.
1756, Jan. 26. Joseph Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., had license to marry Susanna Nutt.
1758. Peter Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., made his will. Doyiestown, Pa. Records.
1758. John Ashton, of Bucks Co., Pa., made his will. Doyiestown, Pa. Records.