Ashwood Plantation on the Cape Fear River
By Jeannette Holland Austin

John Baptiste Ashe owned a large plantation on the northwest branch of the Cape Fear River in Bath County, North Carolina which he called "Ashwood." Also included was another plantation called "Turkey Point" which was located on the north side of the river; a plantation called "Stumpy Island" on Stumpy Sound, and 2,560 acres on Rockfish Creek. Ashe was doubtless the wealthiest landowner in the district. His children were well educated in Latin and Greek and sent to the best schools in Virginia to learn French. At the time of his death, his wife had already predeceased her so he ordered that a brick vault be built at Grovely and the body of his wife was taken up out of the earth to lie there. When Bartram's Travels was written "Ashwood" still stood because the home was eloquently described in that book and the Bartram family owned it and it later fell into Bladen County. More information concerning the Ashe family is available to Members of North Carolina Pioneers.

Bladen County Genealogy, Wills, Estates, Probate Records

Bladen County was taken from New Hanover County in 1734 and named for Martin Bladen, Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantation. The county seat is Elizabethtown, formed in 1773 but not incorporated until 1895.

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Images of Wills 1766 to 1833

Adair, James | Adair, James (2) | Allen, Joseph | Andres, Samuel | Andres, William | Andrews, James | Andrews, John | Atkinson, Willis

Bailey, Thomas | Baldwin, John | Baldwin, William | Barfield, Richard | Beard, John | Beard, Will | Beasley, Robert | Beatty, John | Benson, Daniel | Blackenell, Elizabeth | Blue, Catherine | Bradley, James | Bridges, Matthew | Bright, Robert | Bright, Simon | Brown, George | Brown, John | Bryan, Caroline | Bryan, George | Bryant, William | Burney, William | Byron, Alexander | Byron, John | Bryne, Matthew

Cain, James | Cain, Joseph | Cain, Samuel | Campbell, Archibald | Campbell, James | Campbell, Margaret | Cawel, Samuel | Chance, Daniel | Chause, Joseph | Cheshire, Richard | Child, James | Clady, James | Clark, Benjamin | Clark, David | Clarke, Daniel | Cohoon, John | Coleman, Moses | Collins, Richard | Cooper, Benjamin | Cooper, Joseph | Cowan, William | Crawford, Margaret | Cromartie, A. | Cromartie, Calvin | Cromartie, James | Cromartie, John | Cromartie, William | Culbraith, Archibald

Daniel, Overton | Davey, Euphoria | Davis, Edmond | Davis, Edward | Davis, Henry | Davis, Isabella | Davis, Turner | Davis, William | Deacon, Mary | Devane, John | Dickson, Calvin | Dorsey, James | Dove, Esther | Downing, George | Dunham, William | Dupree, Auralia

Ellis, Evan | Ellis, John | Evans, James | Fitzrandolph, Benjamin | Flinn, David | Fort, John | Franklin, Edwin

Gardner, Ann | Gates, Jean | Gates, Peter | Gibbs, George | Gibbs, John | Gillespie, James | Glass, Levy | Gray, Abraham | Green, Mary

Hall, Jonathan | Harrison, John | Harvey, Priscilla | Harvey, Robert | Harvey, William | Haynes, Joshua | Hays, Elizabeth | Hendon, William | Henry, William | Herring, Mary | Herrington, Elizabeth | Hester, Thomas | Hill, Isaac | Hodge, Robert | Hollingsworth, Stephen | Holmes, Edward | Holmes, Moses

Ikuer, George | Jennigan, Whitmal | Jessip, John | Johnson, Joel | Johnson, William | Johnston, Lelah | Jones, Griffith | Jones, Isaac | Jones, Levi | Jones, Musgrove | Jordan, River | Joseph, Isaac

Kea, John | Kelley, James | Kelley, Thomas | Kelly, Archibald | Kelly, Mary | Kelly, Neil | Key, Duncan McCones | Key, Matthew | King, Alexander | King, Duncan

Lamb, Mary | Laurent, Duncan | Lewis, Richard | Lloyd, Anna | Lloyd, Nancy | Lock, Elizabeth | Lock, John | Lock, Joseph | Lock, Mary | Lock, Leonard | Lorris, Francis | Lorris, Richard | Love, Thomas | Lucas, Francis | Lucas, Henry | Lucas, Thomas | Lyon, Eleanor

Maultsby, Anthony | Maxfield, Mary | McCall, Duncan | McConkey, Robert | McDonell, Alexander | McDougal, Allen | McDugald, Margaret | McEwen, John | McKay, Ann | McKay, Iver | McKay, James | McKay, Ralph | McKee, Ann | McKuhan, Duncan | McKuhan, D. F. | McLeod, Lauchlin | McLearn, John | McLelland, Andrew | McMaster, Felix | McMillan, Dugard | McMillan, Duncan | McMillan, Edward | McMillan, Jeannette | McMillan, John | McMillan, Joseph | McNaughton, John | McNeill, John | McNeill, Mary | McNeill, Hector | McRee, James | McRee, Robert | McRee, William | Meek, George | Melvin, Daniel | Melvin, George | Melvin, John | Melvin, Joshua | Melvin, Robert | Meredith, James | Miller, Frederick | Monroe, Duncan } Monroe, Nancy | Moore, Berenger | Moore, James | Moore, Maurice | Moore, William | Moore, William | Moorhead, James | Moorhead, Mary | Morrison, John | Mosick, Jacob | Mossinger, Joseph | Mulford, Elizabeth | Mulford, Ephraim | Mullington, Richard | Murphy, Hugh | Murrell, Zachariah | Mustlewhite, Thomas

Norman, Jeremiah | Nortin, Shadrach | Owen, John | Owen, Thomas | Parker, William | Patterson, Paul | Phares, Samuel | Pitman, Jacob | Plummer, James | Pope, Anney | Porter, John | Porter, John (2) | Powell, John | Powell, Zilpha | Purdis, James

Ray, Dugald | Reese, Thomas | Regan, Joseph | Register, William | Rials, Elizabeth | Richardson, Nathaniel | Richardson, Samuel | Richardson, Samuel Neal | Robeson, Thomas, Colonel | Robeson, Thomas | Robison, James | Robison, Samuel | Rowland, James | Russ, John | Russ, John (2) | Russ, Joseph | Russ, Mary

Salkeld, Isaac | Salter, Richard Sr. | Salter, Sarah | Salter, William | Salter, William (2)| Shaw, Archibald | Shaw, Catherine | Shaw, Daniel | Shaw, John | Shaw, Penelope | Sherridan, Thomas | Shipman, Daniel | Shipman, Hayes | Sikes, David | Simmons, Saunders | Simpson, John | Singletary, Benjamin | Singletary, David | Singletary, Edward | Singletary, John | Singletary, Joshua | Singletary, Josiah | Singletary, Richard | Smith, Benjamin | Smith, David | Smith, James | Smith, John | Smith, Margaret | Smith, Samuel | Smith, Thomas | Smith, William | Stephens, John | Stone, Benjamin | Storm, Mary | Stubbs, George | Sutton, William

Tatom, Theophilus | Taylor, Daniel | Taylor, John | Thaggard, Isaac | Thomas, George | Thomas, Michael | Thomas, Sarah | Thompson, Lewis | Troy, Robert

Vernon, Ann | Waddell, Mary | Weathersbee, Cade | Westbrooks, James | White, John | White, Matthew | White, William | Wilkerson, William | Williamson, Lewis | Willis, Betty | Willis, David | Willis, John | Willis, Robert | Wingate, John | Wootin, John | Yedder, George | Young, Matthew | Young, Nathan | Young, William

Images of Wills 1731 to 1771

Adams, Roger | Ashe, John Baptista | Bartram, Elizabeth | Benbow, Gershon | Blaning, Hugh | Caldwell, Robert | Carver, James | Carver, James (2) | Carver, Samuel | Clark, James Sr. | Davis, David | Davis, Thomas | Doway, Robert

Eagan, James | Edwards, Catherine | Green, John | Hall, William | Hamilton, John | Humphrey, Joseph | Jones, Edward | Jordan, Deborah

Lock, Benjamin | Lock, Thomas | MacNaughton, Ronald | Maultsby, John | McKeithan, Dugald | Moorhead, James | Porter, Samuel | Rayford, Matthew | Thomas, Francis | Thomas, Thomas

Images of Wills 1864 to 1895

Allen, Ephraim W. | Allen, Henry | Allen, John | Anders, Eliza B. | Ashford, Hart | Avery, Mary | Ballentine, George W. | Barnhill, A. J. | Barnhill, Catharine Ann | Beard, Catharine L. | Beard, Elizabeth | Beasley, Robert | Boon, Samuel | Boswell, L. F. | Bradley, Ann | Bradley, James | Bradley, Margaret | Brown, Bettie | Brown, John | Brown, Lucy Ann | Brown, Thomas | Bryan, Nathan | Buie, Neil | Burney, John W. | Bush, William J. C. | Butler, John

Cain, James Sr. | Cain, Joseph | Cain, Samuel | Campbell, Christian | Carter, Sarah House | Cashwell, John Sr. | Chancy, Neill | Clark, John Washington | Collum, Sion | Colvin, Charles | Corbett, James R. | Council, Arthur | Council, Kinchin K. | Council, Lyman | Council, Mary | Cowan, John | Cromartie, George | Cromartie, Rhemy | Cumming, F. F. | Cummings, Francis E.

Davis, James | Davis, Micajah Sr. | Davis, William Sr. | Dowey, James | Dunham, James S. | Dunham, William R. | Edge, Allen | Edge, Eliza M. | Edwards, Allen | Edwards, Charles | Ellis, James | Edwards, Stephen

Fisher, Raiford | Fitzrandolph, Benjamin | Francis, Herbert R. | Garvan, Richard | Gillespie, David | Gillespie, R. L. | Grimes, James | Hendon, Josiah | Hester, Daniel | Hufham, Solomon | Ivey, Charles | Ivey, John

Jacobs, Shadrack | Johnson, Daniel | Johnson, Richard | Johnson, Solomon | Jones, Calvin | Jones, Charity | Jordan, Benjamin | Kelly, Archibald | Kelly, James E. | Kemp, A. S. | Kemp, Joseph R. | Kemp, Joseph R. (2) | Kemp, William J. | King, Alexander | King, William | Lammond, Angus | Lamon, Alexander | Lennon, John M. | Lewis, Joseph Sr. | Lock, David | Londonderry | Lucas, J. J. D. | Lynn, Robert H.

Manley, Lydia | Marshburn, Daniel | Maultby, Samuel | Maultsby, Thomas | McBryde, Matthew | McCall, Harriet | McCall, John | McDaniel, John | McDuffie, Daniel Sr. | McDugald, Ann | McInnis, Duncan | McInnis, Malcom | McKay, Ann Eliza | McKay, John | McKeithan, William James | McLelland, Samuel | McLeod, Malcom | McMillan, John | McNorton, John | Mears, Elihu | Meares, George | Melvin, Demaris and Rosana J. | Melvin, James | Melvin, Jonathan | Memory, George | Miller, Augusta S. | Monroe, Archibald | Monroe, Colin | Monroe, John | Monroe, Sarah J. | Morgan, William | Mulford, Sarah | Murchison, Ida F.

Page, Abram | Pemberton, Elizabeth | Perry, John | Pridgen, William H. | Purdie, Ann M. | Purdie, James T. | Purdie, John W. | Reeves, Evan | Register, Daniel | Rialls, Stephen | Richardson, Ransom | Robeson, Alexander | Robeson, Bartram | Robeson, Eliza R. | Robeson, Margaret | Robeson, William | Robinson, John A. | Russ, John D.

Sanders, Christopher | Sawrey, Henry Sr. | Scriven, John | Seymore, Sarah | Shaw, Daniel | Shaw, Daniel (2) | Shipman, David | Sikes, Alexander J. | Sikes, John | Sikes, Jonathan | Sikes, Josiah | Singletary, Breyton | Singletary, Brister | Singletary, Ichamar | Singletary, James | Singletary, Mary | Singletary, Richard | Singletary, Thomas | Singletary, William | Smith, Daniel | Smith, John | Smith, Jonathan | Smith, Mary | Smith, Richard | Smith, Robinson W. | Smith, Stephen | Smith, Thomas C. | Stewart, Hugh | Stewart, Patrick | Stewart, William | Storm, Wandal | Suggs, William | Sutton, John | Sutton, Margaret | Sutton, Sarah | Sutton, William | Tarbe, Peter | Tatom, M. W. | Taylor, John | Thomas, John | Thomas, Joseph | Thompson, B. A. | Treadwell, Rachel Ann | Turner, Sarah

Waddell, Hugh | Watson, William | West, William | White, Henrietta | White, John | White, Joseph | White, Thomas | Whitted, Archibald | Wiggins, Jesse B. | Willis, Daniel | Wilson, Absalom | Wilson, Josiah Wingate, Ann | Woody, John D. | Wright, Isaac | Wright, Marchus

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