Elizabeth (Cole) Ashton (abt. 1668 - 1736)

Born about 1668 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, Colonial America

Wife of Thomas White — married 1705 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey

Wife of John Ashton — married 1713 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 19 Aug 1736 at about age 68 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, Colonial America

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Biography

Born about 1683, probably in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New jersey. She was the daughter of Jacob Cole.

Elizabeth Cole married twice; First to Thomas White . She was his second wife and they had two sons, Jacob White and Levi White, married to Ann Lippincott.

She married second to John Ashton. She may be the mother of his four daughters. They married between 1712 and 1717. Thomas White died in 1712. She is mentioned at a wedding as Elizabeth Ashton in 1717. She died about 1736. She had a will dated 19 August 1736.

From Descendants of Thomas White and his brother Peter White:

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5. THOMAS 3 WHITE (THOMAS 2, UNKNOWN 1) died 1712. He married ELIZABETH COLE, daughter of JACOB COLE.

Children of THOMAS WHITE and UNKNOWN are: i. RACHEL 4 WHITE, m. ISAAC HANCE, 01 Aug 1710, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey. ii. SAMUEL WHITE, d. 1788. 11. iii. THOMAS WHITE, d. 08 Aug 1781. iv. ELIZABETH WHITE, m. THOMAS LIPPINCOTT, 17 Oct 1714, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey; b. 19 May 1693; d. 1760. v. MARY WHITE, m. JACOB LIPPINCOTT, 17 Oct 1717, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey. 12. vi. AMOS WHITE, d. 21 Dec 1770. 13. vii. LEAH WHITE, b. 1688.

Children of THOMAS WHITE and ELIZABETH COLE are: viii. JACOB 4 WHITE. 14. ix. LEVI WHITE, d. 1784.

3 Oct 1717. As Elizabeth Ashton , Elizabeth (Cole-White), the step-mother of the bride, signs at the marriage of James Tucker and Leah Wilbur (White) . 19 Aug 1736. Will of Elizabeth Ashton, to which John Ashton gave his consent. Calls herself the wife of John Ashton, of Upper Freehold. Refers to the fact that her former husband, Thomas White, had purchased "of my two sisters Exercise and Ellison, the sixty acres of land which they received from my father Jacob Cole, deceased." She also speaks of "my son Levi White and his other brother," and of her son-in-law Isaac Hance. ^[1]

From Historical and genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants by JOHN E. Stillwell M. D., VOL. Ill, NEW YORK,1914 Page 22 - 25

JOHN ASHTON, son of James Ashton, i, resided at Cream Ridge (Upper Freehold}, Monmouth County, where he died in 1774. (misprint 1744)

He married three times: first,(Unknown); second, ELIZABETH COLE, widow of Thomas White. and third, by a license, dated Aug. 19, 1742, Catharine, the widow of Edward Taylor, the second, and daughter of Thomas Morford, of Middletown, N. J.

In 1717. Elizabeth (Cole White) Ashton was a witness to a Quaker marriage, in Shrewsbury, N. J.

1736, Aug. 19. His wife, Elizabeth Ashton, made her will, wherein she set forth that she was the wife of John Ashton, of Upper Freehold; was sick, etc., and mentioned:

"my former husband, Thomas White, deceased, [v,-ho] purchased of my two sisters. Exercise and Ellison [Ebison?), sixty acres which they received from my father, Jacob Cole, dec'd."

"my son, Levi White and "his other brother."

"son-in-law, Isaac Hance."

Her husband, John Ashton, signed a consent to the provisions of the will. She made her mark. Witnesses; Jeremiah Stillwell, Rebecca Stillwell and Robert Lawrence.

Sources

1. ↑ Calendar of New Jersey Wills A Van Doren Honeyman, 1901, Vol II, page 25 https://archive.org/stream/calendarofnewjer01newj#page/25/mode/1up

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• Source:From Descendants of Thomas White and his brother Peter White:

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• Source: From Historical and genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants by JOHN E. Stillwell M. D., VOL. Ill, NEW YORK,1914 Page 22 - 25

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