Notes for Asa D. Brasher

Notes for Asa D. Brasher

Name was listed as BRASHER in records.

!Charlie Brashear (SDSU) (Pension Abstracts Index, Vol.7, p.81.): Was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, later called "Colonel"
!A Brashear(s) Family History, Descendants of Robert and Benois Brasseur; Vol. 2; Robert C. Brashear of North Carolina and Some Descendants in TN, KY, MO, TX, etc., by Charles Brashear; page 87: Asa Brasher, (v1695, Back#94) b. Fairfax Co, VA, 1745, d. Rockingham Co, NC, 1818, has been identified definitely as the son of Robert C. Brashear (v1285; Back#29); a notation to that effect was made in her family Bible by Ann (Brashear) Ball, Asa's sister. He lived his adult life in Rockingham and Guilford Counties, near the northwest corner of present-day Guilford Co, NC.
Jemima Nelson, (parents unknown), b. c1755, d. 1826. They are listed in the Salisbury District, Guilford Co., NC, in the 1790 Census of Heads of Families. His household included 3 males 16+, 4 m under 16, 3 fem, and 7 slaves. His will in 1818 named only four sons and two daughters; perhaps some of his children died young.
Asa Brasher received State of North Carolina land grant #1241 of 200 acres on May 16, 1787, for which he was required to pay 50 shillings per 100 acres. (See Rockingham Co, NC, Deed Book M, p. 202, witnessed and signed by James Turner, Governor and Captain General of North Carolina; State Archives Deed Index Book 65, p.66, file #1283.) The metes and bounds in the grant read: "Two hundred acres, Lying and being in our county of Guilford on Jacob's Creek, beginning at a poplar on the east end of a ridge near a swamp, running thence west two hundred poles to a black oak in Margery Feagin's line, then along her line south, crossing the double branches, one hundred and sixty poles to a post oak saplin, thence east two hundred poles to a grub, then to the first station, to hold to the said Asa Brasher ..." His brother, Zaza Brasher, got a grant on Jacob's Creek, but in Rockingham Co in 1788. [See C. Brashear book for more details]

NOTE: Records show name reflected as BRASHER - not necessarily "legal" change, but name became spelled as Brasher.

!(Rockingham Co, NC, Will Book A, p.158: Asa made his will in Rockingham Co, NC, on 4 Aug 1818: "of perfect mind and memory .... " To wife Gemima "tract of land where on I now live, together with my Mantion house and my negro boy Jacob and my negro woman, Mary, and my negro boy Stephen during her life time or (until) ceasing to be my widow. And I also give her my negro boy, Abraham, to dispose of as she may see cause. I also give her two cows and calves, choice of my stock, and five head of sheep, choice of the stock, and ten head of hogs, choice of my stock, and two feather beds and furniture, choice of my beds, and four chairs, choice of the chairs that belong to the house, and one grey mare and her own bridle and saddle and one bay horse two years old, the colt of the mare I call ______ and one table, the choice of the tables I now own and all the kitchen furniture and cupboard and cupboard furniture and one plow and one set of Guns and one chest which was always called her own chest. It is understood that none of the above property left my wife is to be at her disposal except the negro boy Abraham, but at her death all the rest of what remains is to be returned into my estate." To son Zaza, 10 shillings; to dau Margery Ford, 10 shillings; to son Jesse, 10 shillings; to dau Jemima Morrow, 2 pounds; to son Nathan, 10 shillings; to son Lamuel, 10 shillings; to grandsons Asa B. Ford, Asa D. Brasher, son of Z. D. Brasher, and Asa D. Brasher, son of Lamuel Brasher, 100 dollars each. "Remainder of property to be sold and equally divided between my 5 children, Zaza D., Margery, Jesse, Nathan, Lemuel, and two granddaughters, Claricy Grant and Polly Grant." Exr: Levi Ross and Burgess Delay, signed Asa (X) Brasher. Witnesses: Nath D. Murray, Wm. Blair, Wm Williams. The will was proved, Nov 1818.