John Baptiste Ashe, Major General

1725 - 1781  (56 years)

• Name	John Baptiste Ashe  [1]
  Title	Major General
  Birth	24 Mar 1725	Brunswick, North Carolina, British Colonial America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Special	SAR Patriot #: P-104959
  FSID	LVV7-1CD
  Burial	1781	John Sampson Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson, North Carolina, United States   [1]
  Death	24 Oct 1781	Sampson, North Carolina, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I45008	footsteps | Lady Godiva, Charlamagne, Conqueor, Robert Capet II
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	John Baptista Ashe,   b. 25 Sep 1695, Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina, or Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, England d. 11 Nov 1734, Cape Fear, Craven, North Carolina, British Colonial America (Age 39 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Lillington Swann,   b. 26 Jun 1699, Perquimans, North Carolina, USA d. 1729, Cape Fear, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (Age 29 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1719	Bath, North Carolina, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F25159	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Rebecca Moore,   b. 1726, New Hanover, North Carolina, British Colonial America d. 1769, Brunswick, North Carolina, British Colonial America (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	Green Hill Plantation, NE Cape Fear River, NC   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Ashe,   b. 1760, Brunswick, Horry, North Carolina d. 1788, Waccamaw Neck, Georgetown, South Carolina (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F24757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 24 Mar 1725 - Brunswick, North Carolina, British Colonial America Burial - 1781 - John Sampson Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson, North Carolina, United States Death - 24 Oct 1781 - Sampson, North Carolina, United States Marriage - - Green Hill Plantation, NE Cape Fear River, NC  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  _Sons of the American Revolution

  
  

• Notes

  SAR Patriot #: P-104959 State of Service: NC Qualifying Service: Major General / Patriotic Service DAR #: A003388 Birth: 1720 / Brunswick / NC Death: 24 Oct 1781 / Sampson / NC Qualifying Service Description: MEM OF PROV. CONGRESS & MEM OF COMM OF SAFETY Additional References: Grave Registry form. National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR); The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011; “Biographical History of North Carolina from the colonial times to the present” by Samuel A’Court Ashe (1906)e Spouse: Rebecca Moore Children: Elizabeth Maria; Harriet;

  
  

• Sources

  [S766] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Record for John Baptiste Ashe https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=332631446130&indiv=try