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m. Sarah White
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Recorded occupation: Farmer

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Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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BirthBirth — 1775
20 June 1775
West Springfield, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
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Name: Benjamin Ashley
Gender: Male
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Place: West Spfg.
Death Date: Nov 1856
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Place: West Springfield
Age: 81
Birth Date: 1775
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Occupation: Farmer
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Marital Status: Widowed
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B39208-2
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
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Film Number: 186172
Reference ID: Book 5, P. 40, # 30

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch : 10 December 2014
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Ashley Cemetery West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA PLOT #23

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Ashley Cemetery West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA PLOT #23
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Did You Know?The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)

1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England
1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay
1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state

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