Samuel Ashley of Winchester, NH, from Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. (1901)

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Surname: ASHLEY
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 20

Listed under Colonels:

SAMUEL ASHLEY of Winchester, who had a house in Ft. Dummer (Hinsdale, N. H.), 1749, was prominent
in the civil affairs of western New Hampshire and took part in the campaign against Burgoyne. 
Later he was appointed a judge, 1776-1791, and removed, 1782, to Claremont where he died. In 1775
he commanded the militia of the 13th district. 

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904.
Col. Samuel Ashley, son of Daniel A., b. Deerfield, Mass. March 20, 1720; d. of smallpox, Feb. 
18, 1792. He was a member of several Provincial Congresses, of the N. H. Com. of Safety, and of
the Ex. Com. of the State, 1776-80. Three of his sons were officers in the Continental Army. He 
was on Gen. Stark's staff, at Bennington, and it is a tradition that Col. Baum, the Hessian 
commander, died in Col. Ashley's tent. As grantee of Claremont, whither he removed about 1782-3,
he owned a tract of land 400 rods wide and extending across the entire township. (See Granite 
Monthly, May and Nov., 1892).