BUTLER COUNT OHIO - BIOS:  THE CASTLE FAMILY (published 1963)
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Ohio The cross road of our nation
Records & Pioneer Families
July-September 1963
Volume IV  No. III
Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT

                        A CONNECTICUT CASTLE FAMILY
       From History of Ashtabula County, Ohio by Williams Brothers

Amasa Castle, Jr., was born in Plymouth, Conn., April 5, 1786. Removed with
her parents to Burlington, Vt., then in 1808 to "New Connecticut" to
Ashtabula. The father Amasa Castle, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier. The
mother, Mary Stanley Castle was a direct descendant of the notable English
Stanleys. Her father and two brothers were Rev. war soldiers -brother
Frederick Stanley was one of Gen. Washington's aides-de-camp. Amasa Castle,
Jr. in January, 1813, married Rosalinda Watrous, in Ashtabula County, Ohio,
daughter of Capt. John Watrous who came here from Saybrook, Conn. in 1810,
with wife and ten children. Amasa Castle, Jr. and Rosalinda had six
children. Amasa Jr. died December 1870.