Susan "Sudie" Walters-Cessna
Susanna Ashcraft
John C. Walters
"Coonrod" Walters
Nancy Ann Redmon
Jediah Ashcraft
Nancy Friend
Joseph W. Walters
Susan Cessna
Daniel Ashcraft
Elizabeth Lewis
b. 4-28-1856
d. 2-16-1925
b. 7-11-1816
d. 4-2-1888
b. 1815
d. 9-24-1895
b. 4-30-1770
d. 4-17-1852
b. 1749
d. 1830
b. 3-21-1712
d. 5-8-1792
b. 1773
d. 1838
b. 1735
d. 4-19-1794
b. ~1740
b. 1702
d. 1788
b. 8-14-1698
d. 10-9-1755
d. 4-1829
John Ashcraft III
b. 8-12-1671
d. 6-6-1732
b. 1672
d. 1750
Mary Burrows
John Ashcraft
Hannah Osborne
b. ~1644
d. 9-16-1680
b. 12-18-1657
d. 8-17-1715
Cessna Branch
m. 12-12-1670
m. 9-12-1690
m. 1765
m. ~1769
m. 9-14-1791
m. 10-17-1837
John Ashcraft
Elizabeth Peers
Richard Ashcraft
Alice Towers
Richard Ashcraft
Dorothy Towers
William Ashcraft
John Osborne
Anne Oldage
John Osborne
Susan Juggins
Richard Oldage
b. 7-12-1618
d. 4-28-1666
d. after 1678
b. ~1618
b. ~1621
d. 10-27-1686
m. 5-19-1643
m. 1-20-1626
b. ~1605
b. 1-15-1627
b. ~1559
b. ~1596
d. 10-27-1686
d. 8-28-1689
d. 5-21-1660
b. ~1590
d. ~1628
b. ~1600
d. ~1702
b. ~1550
d. after 1612
b. ~1575
d. ~1621
b. ~1525
d. ~1621

The Ashcraft and Walters Branches

The nine generations of Ashcrafts represented here present a wild ride through Colonial America, and later through the young United States. The first three generations lived and died in England, and I have no significant stories about them.

Then, one of them gets involved in the shipping trade, described as "seafaring," and makes his home in Barbados. His 18 year old son arrives in Connecticut about 1660, sows some wild oats, and eventually raises a family, only to die in a yellow fever epidemic, along with most of his children.

Two generations later, another Ashcraft is tried for murder, is acqiutted, yet feels compelled to relocate to Virginia, where his future becomes entwined with "Indian Problems." Indeed, one of the man's sons is eventually killed by Indians in one of the last skirmishes in Kentucky.

Coonrod Walters, John C. Walters and Jediah Ashcraft are all described as "Indian Fighters": it is nearly an occupation.

The links from several of this document's names lead to my Ancestry Document, where you can read about the folks, navigate up and down the generations with the numbered llinks, or return here by linking back through the same name.

John Burroughs
Hannah Colver
Edward Colver
Ann Ellis
Robert Burrows
Mary Ireland
m. 12-14-1670
m. 9-19-1638
b. abt. 1610
d. 1685
b. abt. 1618
b. 1652
b. abt. 1642
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