John Ashby (b.1727)

He is, according to some histories, supposed to be the same John Ashby who married Martha Randolph of Virginia and settled in Kentucky. It would seem these two John Ashbys were two different people. According to Carolana: "John Ashby III, the third Cassique, married Elizabeth Ball, daughter of Elias Ball, and they had a son - John - who died young without issue. John III died around March of 1729, and all the lands went to Elizabeth, who remarried to John Vicaridge, who also died soon, and she remarried a second time to Richard Shubrick. They had a son, also named Richard, who inherited Quenby Plantation." This story is corroborated by J. Russell Cross' Historic Ramblin's Through Berkeley, "The third Cassique, John Ashby, was married on Nov. 8, 1726 to Elizabeth Ball, daughter of Elias Ball, and died in 1729, leaving Quenby to a son John, and Webdoe, a 500 acre tract on the Santee, to an unborn child. Neither son survived and the widow inherited the property. On  Feb. 10, 1729/30, she married John Vicaridge who died. before Oct. l5, 1740, when the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Vicaridge, married Richard Shubrick, a London merchant before coming to Carolina. Quenby passed to the Shubricks and through. a series of transactions to Roger Pinckney and in 1816 to Isaac Ball."