Col. George Ashman and Elinor Cromwell
Husband Col. George Ashman 1
Born: 1740 - Maryland 1 Christened: Died: 5 Nov 1811 1 Buried:
Father: George Ashman (1714-1765) 1 Mother: Jemima Murray (1720-1767) 1
Marriage: 15 Mar 1774 1
Wife Elinor Cromwell 1
AKA: Ellen Waters 2 Born: Christened: Died: Apr 1827 1 Buried:
Father: John Cromwell ( - ) 1 Mother: Elizabeth Todd ( - ) 1
Children
1 F Rachel Ashman 2
Born: 16 Oct 1773 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M James Ashman 3
Born: 7 Jan 1775 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 25 Jan 1808 4 Buried:Spouse: Mary Mason (1780-1852) 1 Marr: 5 Jan 1805 4
3 F Elizabeth Ashman 3
Born: 15 Mar 1776 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Palmer ( - ) 1 Marr: 19 Feb 1795 4Spouse: William Harvey ( - ) 4
4 M Richard Ashman 1
Born: 7 Oct 1778 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Sarah Ashman 3
Born: 25 Jan 1781 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M John Ashman 3
Born: 24 Feb 1783 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 1859 2 Buried:Spouse: Elinor Cromwell (1786-Bef 1859) 3 Marr: 15 May or 5 Dec 1820 2 5
7 M Josephus Ashman 3
Born: 10 Jul 1785 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 F Henrietta Maria Ashman 3
Born: 24 Aug 1787 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 29 Mar 1835 6 Buried:Spouse: David Hunter (1781-1853) 3
9 F Rebecca Ashman 3
Born: 14 Feb 1790 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 30 Nov 1862 - Orbisonia, Huntingdon Co, PA 6 Buried:Spouse: William Hamill ( - ) 7
10 F Eleanor Ashman 1 8
AKA: Elinor Ashman 2 Born: 15 Oct 1792 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 9 Mar 1867 9 Buried: Status: TripletSpouse: James McGirk (1789-1855) 9 Marr: 4 Jun 1824 - Philipsburg, Centre Co, PA 9
11 F Ann Ashman 3
Born: 15 Oct 1792 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried: Status: TripletSpouse: Did Not Marry
12 M George Ashman 3
Born: 15 Oct 1792 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried: Status: TripletSpouse: Jane Scott ( - ) 3
13 M Francis Ashman 3
Born: 1 Oct 1795 - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
14 M Oliver Ashman 1
Born: - Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Col. George Ashman
In June, 1776, he moved from Maryland to Bedford Furnace (later Orbisonia), Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, where, with his brother-in-law, Thomas Cromwell, and Edward Ridgely, he erected the old Bedford furnace about 1785, it being the first iron establishment west of the Susquehanna. After coming to Pennsylvania, he was on December 10, 1777, commissioned colonel of the Second Battalion of Bedford County Associators, and on November 21, 1780, appointed lieutenant of Bedford County. He was commissioned justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Bedford County September 24, 1784. The county of Bedford from 1771 to 1787 included the present territory of Huntingdon County. In 1794 he built a log house at Three Springs, Huntingdon County, six miles distant from Orbisonia, on a tract of 1,800 acres of valuable limestone land which he had acquired, and moved there from Bedford Furnace. In 1781, the Indians became so troublesome that he was obliged to send his family to Fort Littleton, Fulton County, where they remained in the fort until the country became settled.
Members of this family left their native soil about the middle of the seventeenth century, and landed in Maryland, settling at what was called "Ashman's Hope," where the Ashmans became prominent planters and slave-owners. George Ashman succeeded to this large estate, and carried on the plantation for many years. He was a kind master, and was greatly beloved by his slaves. He became noted throughout the country for his activity in military affairs, having organized a militia regiment, of which he was colonel. When the war of the Revolution broke out, he, with his regiment, enlisted, and served with valor all through that struggle for freedom. He was afterwards familiarly known as "Colonel George." Colonel Ashman was very ambitious, and the state of Pennsylvania offering great advantages, he disposed of his plantation, freed his slaves, and removed to what was then called Bedford Furnace, and later known as Orbisonia, Huntingdon County. Many of his slaves refused to leave him, and followed him to his new home. Among these was an old man who lived to the age of one hundred and five years, remaining in the service of Colonel Ashman up to his death. This removal took place a few years before the Revolutionary War; it was in this home, near Orbisonia, that all of his children were born. Here, with Thomas Cromwell and another partner, named Ridgely, Colonel Ashman operated the first furnace west of the Susquehanna river.
There was in the possession of Herbert Ashman, great-grandson of Col. George Ashman, at Three Springs, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, a looking-glass said to be over two hundred years old, on the frame of which was a double coat of arms, indicating the union of two families; one of these was the Ashman arms, and corresponds with the following description taken from Burke's Armorial Bearings and Heraldry: "Ashman (Lymington, Co. Wilts.) Or, on a bend, gales, between two talbots, heads erased, sable, three fleur-de-lis argent. Crest, a hautboy in pale." The motto is "Watch Weel." It is probable that the original Ashmans belonged to the Church of England, as all who came from Maryland to Pennsylvania were members of the Episcopal church. Col. George Ashman was a Federalist, and most of his descendants became Whigs, and afterwards Republicans.
1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 6.
2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 412.
3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 6, 412.
4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 7.
5 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 490.
6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 8.
7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 8, 412.
8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 170.
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Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 9.
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