My 4th great-grandfather, Daniel Ashby, son of Captain Stephen Ashby served in the Revolution.
His DAR Ancestor# is 203307 and his service is summarized:
Service: Virginia Rank(s): Ensign
Birth: 8-30-1759 Frederick Co Virginia
Death: 9-13-1836 Hopkins Co Kentucky
Pension Number: *S14927
Service Source: *S14927
Service Description: 1) Capts Daniel Richardson, Wilton, Thomas Neal; Cols Glenn, Vanmetre
Daniel Ashby's service is reported in his 16-page pension file, found at Fold3.
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This page of Daniel Ashby's pension file summarizes his service (see below) and reports his pension information:
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky-
at the rate of 110 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Nov
1832 and sent to Samuel
Woodson, Madisonville, Ky
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 - 165
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 55
March 1833 $220
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Information about his service:
Daniel Ashby (who is referred to as Daniel Ashby, Sr.) was born in Frederick County, Virginia. He moved to Hampshire County, Virginia (now part of West Virginia) and enlisted in Captain Daniel Richardson's company in Colonel Glenn's Virginia Regiment in 1780. He first served as a private for six months, marching through North and South Carolina, and back to Hillsboro, North Carolina, where he aided in guarding prisoners taken at the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781). He then marched with them to Albemarle Barracks, Virginia. (See Albemarle Barracks for interesting history about this prisoner war camp.)
From there, Daniel marched home and was discharged.
In March or April 1781, Daniel was appointed ensign in the Hampshire County Militia and served in Captains Wilton's and Thomas Neal's companies in Colonel Vanmetre's regiment until November 1781 when he went to Winchester, Virginia, and guarded the prisoners taken at Yorktown. He served nine months as an ensign.
After the Revolution he moved to Mercer County, Kentucky (where he married Mary (Polly) Benson in 1789) then to Hopkins County, Kentucky, likely with extended family; this is where his father, Stephen Ashby died in May 1797.
He lived in Hopkins County for the rest of his life; it's where he was living when he applied for and received his pension in 1832-33 and it's where he died on 13 September 1834 (or 1836). His gravestone reports a death year of 1834, but a 1932 letter responding to an inquiry in his pension file reports 1836. (There doesn't seem to be an original statement of his death in the file so I'm not exactly sure what source the DAR is using for the 1836 death date.)
Daniel Ashby was buried in Hopkins County, Kentucky, at the Old Ashby Farm Cemetery. See his FindAGrave memorial.
I descend from Daniel Ashby as follows:
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