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Samuel Ashe (March 24, 1725 – February 3, 1813) was the ninth governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. He was also one of the first three judges of the North Carolina Superior Court in 1787. Life story. Ashe was born in Beaufort in the Province of North Carolina. [1] .
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Born in 1725 in the town of Bath, Samuel Ashe was the second son of John Baptiste Ashe and Elizabeth Swann. Both of Ashe’s parents died soon after moving to a Cape Fear plantation in New Hanover County in the early 1730s. Samuel and his two siblings were raised by their uncle Samuel Swann.
See also: Samuel Ashe, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Samuel Ashe (1725-1813), prominent leader for the Patriot cause, was born near Bath to parents of considerable wealth, social status, and political influence.
1725–3 Feb. 1813. Samuel Ashe, judge and governor, was born near Bath, where his father, John Baptista Ashe, was speaker in the assembly, representing the Beaufort Precinct. His father and his mother, Elizabeth Swann, moved to the Cape Fear region, where Samuel's brother John, later general, Stamp Act patriot, soldier, and colonial legislator ...
Samuel Ashe was born in Bath in 1725 to John Baptista Ashe and Elizabeth Lillington (Swann) Ashe. They moved to Rocky Point and the Sloop Point Plantation, built by the Governor's father, in 1726. The Sloop Point home has been authenticated as the oldest surviving structure in North Carolina.
Samuel Ashe (1725 – February 3, 1813), judge and governor, was born near Bath, where his father, John Baptista Ashe, was speaker in the assembly representing the Beaufort Precinct. His father and his mother, Elizabeth Swann, moved to the Cape Fear region, where Samuel's brother John, later general, Stamp Act patriot, soldier, and colonial ...
Feb 23, 2021 · Samuel A’Court Ashe was born on September 13, 1840 at Wrightsville Sound, near Wilmington, North Carolina. His parents were William Shepperd Ashe and Sarah Ann Green. During his youth, Ashe lived on his father’s plantation at Rocky Point, north of Wilmington. At the age of nine, he was enrolled in a boarding school in Macon, Georgia.
