"Virginia's Descendants" compiles information on Virginia immigrants from many different sources into one file, using the Family Tree Maker 2006 (Version 16) genealogy program. We do not compile mere lists of names and dates, but include all the interesting material we locate on the immigrant and his descendants. The information we gather includes court cases; residences; employment; education; deeds; descriptions of homes; physical traits; personalities; transcriptions of wills; personal correspondence; and even contemporary reports of gossip circulating about individuals during their lifetimes. And we offer this colorful genealogy file to the descendants of Virginia immigrants for a fraction of what it would cost them to obtain the material on their own.

John Ashton emigrated from his native England to Virginia and appears first in the records of Westmoreland County, where he settled, on November 15, 1654, when he was granted 783 acres of land in that county for the adventure of sixteen persons to Virginia. He was then 31 years old according to his affidavit made in 1671. He died in 1677 in Westmoreland County, leaving issue.

Of the 520 surnames included, other than Ashton those appearing ten or more times: Alexander, Babbage, Baker, Bernard, Bolling, Boyd, Brooke, Burke, Carter, Chapman, Clifton, Conway, Corbin, Dade, Davis, Fitzhugh, Foote, Green, Grymes, Harrison, Hite, Hooe, King, Lee, Lewis, Lippett, Meade, Meredith, Morson, Posey, Roy, Seddon, Smith, Stith, Street, Stuart, Swann, Taliaferro, Taylor, Thornton, Throckmorton, Triplett, Washington, Watkins, Welch, Wellford, Willis, Wilson, and Woolfolk.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The information on the FTM Backup CD must be restored to Family Tree Maker 2006 for Windows 98/ME/XP to be accessed.