The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
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n SeLLlellldu was d SoSSe9
planter, and acquired a large
estate.
Of high intelligence and re-
markable for his fine conversations
al talent, DR.. Edmund S%trudwick OF
Hillsboro, is we'll known as one OF
the ablest physicians of the state,
and especially eminent as a sur-
geon. Betsy, the elder daughter
married Mr.. Paoli Ashe, and was
the mother of the Hon. Thomas
Ashe, one of the associate justices
of the Supreme Court Of North
Carolina, and a gentleman distln-
guished alike for professional aoll-
itv and great worth and purity OF
character.
Stag Park was sold about the
wear 1917 for division among the
heirs. and purchased by Ezekiel
Lane. Esq. for $40, 900. This gen
tleman we will have occasion to
mention farther on. The next place
descending the North East in the
Neck, the residence of Governor
Saml. Ashe, who together with
his brother Genl. John Ashe, were
among the most prominent and
influential characters in the Cape
Fear region, both before and after
the Revolutionary war. Co.. Ashe
held with distinction the position
of District Judge up to the time
of his election as governor to the
state.
His eldest son, John Baptise
Ashe, was also elected governor,
but died before he could be in
Quoted into office. There were two
other sons of Gov. Ashe, Samuel
and Thomas. The latter was the
grandfather of the present Judge
Ashe already spoken Ct, and the
former will be mentioned farther
on. There was still another son,
named Cincinatus, who with some
other youths of the Capt Fear
gentry volunteered as midshipmen
on board a privateer fitted at Will
mington and commanded by a
Capt. Allen, All Englishman. The
vessel went to sea and was suppos-
ed to have been sunk by a British
ship, or foundered in some o:her
way, as she was never more heard
of. The writer remembers when he
was a child. an old lady, a Mrs.
Allen, entirely blind, he widow
of an English captain, who lived
with the families of the North East,
first with one and then another,
with whom she was always a well
come guest, and treated with
much respect and consideration.
Still below the Neck, and within
the precinct known as Rocky
Point, was Green Hill, the resi-
dence of Genl. John Ashe. This
gentleman did more probably
than any man in the Province, to-
wards rousing the spirit of resis-
lance against what was called
British oppression. He was the
prime mover and leader of the
party which resisted the then gov
ernor in his attempt to enforce
the Stamp Act. And when the wal
of the Revolution did break out
he raised a regiment at his own
expense. So ardently were his feel
ings enlisted in the ause. But the
history of Genl. Ashes services,
is or ough. to be known well to
the people of the Capt Fear. But
it may not be known that he died
in obscurity, and the place of his
internment cannot be pointed out.
The story is tina: on a visit to his
family at Green Hill, in feeble
health, he was betrayed by a
faithless servant, to a party of
soldiers sent out from the garrison
at Wilmington for his capture.
Taken to Wilmington, he was con-
fined in Craig's bull pen as it was
called. Here his health became so
feeble that he was released on
parole, and attempted to get to
his family at Hillsboro, but he
reached no farther than Sampson
Hall, the residence of Col. John
Sampson, in the county of thai
name. Here he died and was
buried and there is neither stone
o mound to mark to spot.
Genl. Ashe left a son who also
had served in the war of the Revo-
luton. This was Maj. Saml. Ashe.
He was an active politician of the
Democratic parry and represented
for many years the county of New
Hanover in the legislature. Of the
three daughters of Genl. Ashe one
OF them married Gov. Joseph Al
ston of South Carolina, another
married Mr.. John Davis, and the
third Mr.. William H. Hill, the most
talented man of the family, with
the most brilliant promise of dis
JUNCTION, when he died at the early
age OF thirty-six. This Green Hill
property is now owned by the
estate of the late Maj. John Wal
ker.
The Ashe family in early times,
after the Revolution, differed in
politics with the generality of the
Cape Fear gentry. The Governor
and his sons with the exception Of
Col. Saml. Ashe were leaders Of
the Republican or Jefferson fac
ton whereas the large majority
OF the gentry and educated class
were F%ederalist of The Hamilton