THOMAS ASKEY
Birth: 1727 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Death: 24 NOV 1807 in Howard, Centre County, PA

Burial: 1807 Lick Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Jacksonville, Centre County, PA

Immigration: BET. 1745 - 1750 from County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Military Service: 1760 French and Indian Wars, Lieutenant

Military Service: Maryland Revolutionary Records; pension claims/ms, bounty land applications, marriages of soldiers by Harry Wright Newman, Washington, D.C., 1938

Military Service: BET. 1777 - 1782 Revolutionary War, Captain, 1st Class, 1st Co., 1st Btn., Cumberland County Militia.

h/o Elizabeth (Baker) Askey
Aka Betsy b: 18 APR 1745 in Germantown, Path Valley, Fannett Township, Cumberland County

Married: 12 JUN 1764 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania

Children:
•Rebecca Askey b: ABT 1765 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•James Askey b: 1767 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•Robert A Askey b: 1770 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•Catherine Askey b: 5 MAR 1770 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•Ann Askey b: 1771 in Howard, Centre, Pennsylvania
•John Ellis Askey b: 1772 in Path Valley, Fannett Twp, Cumberland, Pennsylvania
•William Askey b: 5 FEB 1774 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•Samuel Askey b: 14 FEB 1776 in Path Valley, Fannett Twp, Cumberland, Pennsylvania
•Margaret Askey b: 1777 in Bald Eagle Creek, Centre, Pennsylvania
•David Thomas Askey b: 25 JUL 1783 in Path Valley, Fannett Twp, Cumberland, Pennsylvania

Source: rootsweb.com
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Thank you for the tombstone photo 🪦 ... Added by: Storres Myers on 17 Apr 2009
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Thank you for the update information ... Graves
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Revolutionary War Soldier ... "Askey, Capt. Thomas. Died 1807. First marching company, first call July 31, 1777; first battalion Cumberland County militia called out by order of council; first battalion, Capt. Askey's company, return Oct. 23, 1777-78-79; eighth company, 1780; sixth battalion, 1781-82. Capt. Askey was a soldier in the Colonial wars, rank of ensign. Land granted him in Center County for services, where he eventually lived and died. Buried in (Jacksonville), Pa."

Ref: United States Congressional Serial set, Issue 6924 - Eighteenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution - Washington Government Printing Office - 1916
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Thank you for this information ... no documentary evidence of the year of birth of Thomas Askey. The earliest reference to "about 1727" (the earliest being the one closest to his alleged DOB) was in a DAR application from 1901. Where he was born is also undocumented. From the 125 DAR applicants, starting with the first claiming Thomas Askey as an ancestor, YOBs range from unknown, 1727, 1728, 1729, 1730 to 1745, none with reference to a source. Places of birth include Ireland, England and Pennsylvania, again without any source. Thomas Askey died in spring of 1807 based on probate records in Bellefonte, Pa. No exact date of his death is known. I believe the temptation to fill a YOB in the blank on the DAR application form was too great and once one of the earliest applicants guessed 1727 many others followed suit. Eventually the preponderance of 1727 YOBs led to the general acceptance and unquestioning of the date. Finally in 1969 a DAR genealogist complied biographical summaries of all of the Franklin County, Pa., Revolutionary War soldiers and stated in the published book Thomas Askey's YOB as 1727. Somehow, after over 240 years after his alleged YOB, the year 1727 come to be represented as fact, the first instance of its "documentation." ... Contributor: Donald Askey (51048864)
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