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| | Henry Graham Ashmead - Biography |
 | | HENRY GRAHAM ASHMEAD, of Chester, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of John Ashmead, who was born at Cheltenham, county of Gloucester, England, October 14, 1648, and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, accompanied by his mother, Mary Ashmead, his wife and two children. |
 | | Ashmead and his brother-in-law, Toby Leach, had purchased from William Penn a large tract of land in what is now Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, then included in Philadelphia, where they settled, giving to the township the name Cheltenham, a reminder of their old home in the motherland. |
 | | The eldest child, John Ashmead, was born at Cheltenham, England, July 12, 1679, and when at the age of nine years, five months and ten days, on the death of his parents, the second John Ashmead became the head of the family in the new world. |
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