Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Mercy Ashley

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Bob Taft — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 377 
  • Father:
  • James Ashley 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Day   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 May 1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Feb 1779 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Bancroft
  • Marriage Date:
  • Mar 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Bancroft (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mercy Ashley's given name is also seen as Mary.

• Sources for Mercy Ashley

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/10/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield, Vol. 1, p. 4, Birth record for son John Bancroft.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield, Vol. 1, p. 49, Birth record for Mercy Ashley.
  • ⁴ Frost, Thomas G. and Edward L. Frost. M.D., The Frost Family in England and America: With Special Reference to Edmund Frost and Some of His Descendants, Buffalo: Russell Printing Company (1909), 129-130.
  • ⁵ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Ashley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts, New Haven: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1896), 60.