Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ashley is becoming a not uncommon name in the United States. Besides the descendants of the Ashleys who settled here before the year 1700, many others have arrived since from England, while numbers have crossed over from Canada, some of the latter having merely assumed the name.

To set forth the difficulties encountered in the compilation of this Genealogy, would give 110 new facts to the genealogist or interest others, so a detailed account of them and the various sources of information made use of is unnecessary. The compiler will say, however, that all statements contained in this Genealogy are the result of personal examination of public records or are based on correspondence with members of the family. The names and dates in the family registers are printed exactly its they appear on record or in the letters received, as the proof sheets were compared with the compiler's original notes and the aforesaid letters. A few typographical errors, the only ones it is hoped, arc corrected on page 408.

The facts concerning the earlier generations of the family were collected by the compiler by means of a personal search of the public records; in the later generations he has had to depend for the most part, naturally, on correspondence. Very little, and that for the most part on trustworthy, has appeared in print about Robert Ashley and his descendants.

Ashley is becoming a not uncommon name in the United States. Besides the descendants of the Ashleys who settled here before the year 1700, many others have arrived since from England, while numbers have crossed over from Canada, some of the latter having merely assumed the name.To set forth the difficulties encountered in the compilation of this Genealogy, would give 110 new facts to the genealogist or interest others, so a detailed account of them and the various sources of information made use of is unnecessary. The compiler will say, however, that all statements contained in this Genealogy are the result of personal examination of public records or are based on correspondence with members of the family. The names and dates in the family registers are printed exactly its they appear on record or in the letters received, as the proof sheets were compared with the compiler's original notes and the aforesaid letters. A few typographical errors, the only ones it is hoped, arc corrected on page 408.The facts concerning the earlier generations of the family were collected by the compiler by means of a personal search of the public records; in the later generations he has had to depend for the most part, naturally, on correspondence. Very little, and that for the most part on trustworthy, has appeared in print about Robert Ashley and his descendants.