Samuel Ashe (March 24 1725 – February 3 1813) was the ninth Governor of the U.S. State of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.Ashe was born in Beaufort North Carolina. His father John Baptista Ashe and brother John Ashe both served as Speaker of the North Carolina Colonial Assembly or House of Burgesses. Ashe became an orphan at the age of nine. He married Mary Porter in 1748; they had three children including John Baptista Ashe who would serve in the Continental Congress.
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1725-03-24
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North Carolina, Carteret County North Carolina, Beaufort North Carolina, Crown colony
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