Asa Childs (1715-1756) was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the third of eight children born to Samuel Childs (1679-1756) and Hannah Barnard Childs (1685-1727.) His father was a blacksmith; both parents were among the town's early settlers. Asa became a farmer and was 22 years old when he married Rhoda Wright Childs in 1737. The couple lived in both Deerfield and Shelburne; they had nine children before Asa's death at age 41 in 1756. Rhoda was a well-known midwife who survived her husband by many years, dying in about 1800.
In the 1750s, Asa Childs rented the labor of Titus and Cato, two men enslaved by the Reverend Jonathan Ashley (1712-1780) to perform a variety of agricultural tasks including mending fences, picking and husking corn, threshing grain, and mowing hay.
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