Ann Aylett

Note:

! (1) "Virginia Vital Records from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly" (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984), "Inscriptions on Old Tombstones in Westmoreland and Northumberland Counties," p.548.

(2) "1658-1758 Charles County MD Familes "The first 100 years": Wills, Court, Church, Land, Inventories & Accounts," by Michael Marshall (http://wc.rootsweb.com, mrmarsha database, 5 Oct 2007).

! Birth: (2) d/o Henry ASHTON/Elizabeth HARDIDGE.1701. Westmoreland Co., VA.

Marriage to William AYLETT: (1) (2) 1721. Westmoreland Co., VA.

Death: (2) Bef. 1731. Westmoreland Co., VA.

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Birth: 1701 Westmoreland County Virginia, USA Death: 1731 Nomini Westmoreland County Virginia, USA

Daughter of Col. Henry Ashton and his wife, Elizabeth Hardidge.

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!Major William Aylett. Son of Captain William Aylett (1). He was clerk of King William County, 1702-14, and held commission as officer in the Indian wars. Married Anne, daughter of Colonel Henry Ashton, of Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was alive in 1723, and the father of Philip (3), John, who married Mary Meriwether, and probably other sons and daughters, among them Elizabeth and Anne. Old King William Homes and Families, by Peyton N. Clarke, Louisville, J. P. Morton and Company, 1897, p. 26-27.

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WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS & WILLS. No. 8. Part 1 1723-1738 {Antient Press}: pp 44-45

TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come, Greeting, BE IT KNOWN that whereas upon a Treaty of a Marriage intended to be solemnized by and between WILLIAM AYLETT, JR., Son of WM: AYLLTT, of the County of KING WM:, Gent,, and MS. ANN ASHTON, the Daughter of HENRY ASHTON of the County of Westmoreland, Gent., the said HENRY ASHTON did agree and oblidge himself by Bond under his hand & seal bearing date the Eighteenth day of Janry. Ano: Dmi: 1724, in the penal sum of two thousand pounds Sterl: money of England (upon a consumacon of the said Marraige as a porcon to his said Daughter) to give to her & the heirs of her body lawfully begotten by him the sd. WILLIAM AYLETT JUNR, the lands & slaves hereafter menconed, to wilt, all the tract of land I now live on known by the name of NOMINY PLANTACON lying on the North side of NOMINY RIVER containing by estimacon one thousand acres be it more or less and formerly taken up & Patented by Coll THOMAS SPEAK bearing date the 16th day of September 1651, And likewise a tract of land formerly belonging to RICHARD STURMAN, the land lying in the Forrest of NOMINY containing one thousand & four acres by Patent bearingdate the 26th day of October Ana: 1666. I say I give to my [)Aughter all that is left at this time unsold of the said STURMANs Land, and the said ANN. now the Wife of WILLM: AYLETT, JR. to possess & enjoy the lands after the death of the sd HENRY ASHTON without the hindrance of any person, the slaves named Franck, Barrett, Joe, Brook, Patience, Sary, Arthur, Moll. Nell, Natt, )one, jenny, Matthew, Dick & Mulatto Richard, and doth promise to give to my Daughter after my decease five good Negroes between the age of six years old & twenty six years old in the same manner as is before expresst in all twenty, and doth likewise give to my Daughter. ANN. now Wife of WILLM. AYLETT, Jr_ forty head ofcattle and forty head of Hoggs, none of the said Cattle & Hoggs to be under twelve months old. NOW THIS DEED WITTNESSETH that as the Marriage between WILLIAM & ANN is consumated therefore I the sd. HENRY ASHTON in consideracon of the tender love and fatherly affecon which I bear to my said Daughter. And in complyance with my agreement and Bond hath and by these presents doth bargain sell & firmly make over unto my Daughter, ANN AYLETT and the heirs or Children of her body lawfully begotten by WM. AYLETT. the two tracts of land be they more or less and the fifteen slaves and five slaves after my death: Togethe with all houses orchards profits and advantages thereunto belonging; To have & to hold the two tracts of land and aforenamed fifteen slaves and the five slaves after the death of me the A, HENRY ASHTON. with their increase and the profitts advantages to be made of ANN AYLETT & the heir, or Children of her body lawfully begotten by WM: AYLETT JR And if no such issue. I give the land and slaves to my Daughter, ANN, and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten for ever: And if my Daughter. ANN. should die without issue of her body then the land & slaves to be at the disposal of me the said HENRY ASHTON as I shall think Fitt by Will: And I said HENRY ASHTON doth warrant the land slaves cattle and hoggs to the uses aforesaid from the claim of we my heirs: In Witness whreof 1 said HENRY ASHTON to these presents my hand and seal doth sett this 4th day of November Anno Domini 1723,

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