Ashleys of America : quarterly news bulletin
(Online Content)

Semi-Annual

Quarterly (through July 1976); semiannual thereafter.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Oct 1970) - vol. 12 no. 1 = issue 35 (fall 1981)

Later published: South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Edited and published by Robert E. Ashley for Ashleys of America, Inc.

Editor: Esther Ashley Spousta; Nancy Ashley; Robert E. Ashley.

Publication ceased under this title with vol. 12no. 1 = issue 35 (fall 1981).

Published in Bridgewater, Massachusetts & South Darmouth, Massachusetts.

Some pages have bleed-through, or are otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (4 Nov. 2005).

Quarterly and semiannual issue numbering changed to whole (consecutive) numbering in vol. 12.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ashleys (and variant spellings) who came from England and Ireland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) five family lines. These are: (1) the Old Colony Ashleys descended from the brothers Abraham and Joseph Ashley of Rochester, Massachusetts, ca. 1700; (2) the Pioneer Valley Ashleys descended from Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1638; (3) the Southern Ashleys descended from Ann, Sam and Mary Ashley, who settled Virginia in 1623-1634; (4) the descendants of Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftsbury, of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset (England), who owned a barony on the Ashley River in South Carolina, and who came to America after 1800; and (5) descendants of William Holbrook, of Bath (England), who immigrated ca. 1850, and died 1870 in New Jersey. Families of these and other Ashley progenitors lived in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia in the 1600-1700s. During the 1800s, some moved to Ontario (Canada), and to Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Later descendants also lived in Alberta (Canada), and in Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Washington D.C., Wyoming, and elsewhere.

Microreproductions of originals published: Bridgewater, Massachusetts : Ashleys of America, Inc., 1970-1981. 12 v. : ill., coats of arms, facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.

Title varies: Ashleys of America quarterly news bulletin; Ashleys of America quarterly; Ashleys of America.

The Ashley Family Association was organized in August 1970. It was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1973 as the Ashleys of America, Incoporated, with main headquarters in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The Association also has various regional branches organized since 1972.