John Ashe

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. September 20, 1768 At the Hillsborough camp, Robert Palmer is named one of six lieutenants general Palmer, whom Governor Tryon had made adjutant general of the militia marching on Hillsborough, was named a lieutenant general of the army in orders issued at the Hillsborough camp on September 20, 1768. The same orders posted a town guard of a hundred men, with the court house and market house as guard rooms. People: Robert Palmer, William Tryon, John Rutherford, John Sampson, Benjamin Heron, Samuel Strudwick, John Ashe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Journal of William Tryon's journey to Hillsborough, including orders to the militia, June 20 to October 2, 1768
2. September 1768 Herman Husband is jailed in Hillsborough's new stockaded prison during the superior court By Husband's account, soldiers in town for the court harried him with bayonets and once stood him on a tavern table to jeer at him until Colonel John Ashe pulled them off. When the court sat on the Monday, Fanning charged him with new crimes touching his life and he was committed to a newly built, higher prison fortified all round, crowded with nine or ten prisoners, most of them Regulators, under a gallows-like beam. He and William Butler were bailed that night. People: Herman Husband, William Butler (Regulator), Edmund Fanning, John Ashe Place: Hillsborough jailInternet Archive: Hermon Husband, An Impartial Relation (1770), ed. William K. Boyd, North Carolina Historical Review 3 (1926), p. 261
3. May 9, 1771 Tryon's army camps on the south bank of the Eno opposite Hillsborough Marching west from New Bern, Tryon's army entered Orange by an old road past Patterson's and camped across the Eno from the town on May 9. A hospital and a supply depot were set up at Hillsborough, and on May 11 the army marched through town and west along the later Graham road. People: William Tryon, Edmund Fanning, John Ashe Place: Eno River opposite HillsboroughNash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 23
4. May 15, 1771 Regulators seize Colonel John Ashe and Captain Walker and whip them On the morning before the battle, some of the Regulators caught Colonel John Ashe and Captain Walker while they were out scouting, whipped them severely and held them prisoner. Many Regulators condemned the act, and some threatened to leave the cause if it happened again. People: John Ashe Place: near Alamance Creek (then Orange County) · Also named: Captain WalkerInternet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 203
5. May 1771 Colonel John Ashe commands the guard left at Hillsborough When Tryon's army marched west from its camp across the Eno in May 1771, two of the four Orange County companies under Edmund Fanning stayed behind as a guard for Hillsborough under Colonel John Ashe. They rejoined the army before the Battle of Alamance. People: Edmund Fanning, William Tryon Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Internet Archive: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 23
6. June 20, 1771 Tryon takes leave of his army at Hillsborough and hands the command to Colonel Ashe Having received at Hillsborough camp the King's command to go at once to govern New York, Tryon thanked the officers and men for their conduct through the campaign, gave the army to Colonel John Ashe to march to Colonel Bryan's and disband by counties, and ordered the artillery escorted to New Bern and the horses taken in battle sold for the public. He reached New Bern on June 24 and sailed on the 30th. People: William Tryon, John Ashe Place: HillsboroughDocumenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Order Book for William Tryon's regiment in the military campaign against the Regulators, May 1 to June 20, 1771