Asa Man

Asa Man

Asa Man candidate

b 4-5-1755 Wrentham – d 1820 Franklin, yeoman in probate documents, parents Elisha and Susannah Man

Only one deed was found from 1825 with Asa deceased. It involved sale of Asa’s inherited land, but his trade was not given. Note that other surrounding counties were checked and no other deeds were found.

1798 Franklin taxes record that Elisha Sr.’s heirs owned and occupied one property, his widow Susanna occupied another property owned by the heirs and that the brothers Billy and Elisha each owned and occupied their own properties. The inherited properties in Franklin, Wrentham, Bellingham and Cumberland remained intact until they were divided after Asa died in 1820. (Their sister Dorothy had died earlier.) In the Franklin US census records, Susanna was the head of household in 1800 (1M 26/44, 2F 16/25, 1F 45+) and Asa was the head of household in 1810 (1M 45+, 1F 16/25, 1F 45+). The ages and makeup of the two households appear to describe the same “family unit” in the two censuses. Considering these clues, plus the lack of named heirs in Asa’s 1820 probate, it would make sense that Asa and Susanna lived on the 56 A of land in Franklin which they had inherited (the only property which had buildings), and that neither had married. (Susanna’s 1824 deed of sale, for her 5/16th portion of the same sections of land, states that she was a singlewoman.) (Dorothy was likely following this same pattern, when she died in 1808.)

RW. Asa was a private in Capt. John Gay’s Massachusetts militia company, when he requested pay for travel on 11-29-1776.