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Electric Scotland Family Tree by Beth Gay (General Genealogy)
Some
Descendents of General John Armstrong, Jr.
From The Armstrong Chronicles, August 2005 with minor edits. Original article by
Jonathan Armstrong Hayes, Seattle, WA, USA
In the April, 2005 issue of The
Armstrong Chronicles, Question 2 [Major (retired) Thomas
Armstrong's article] asked if General John Armstrong, Jr. left any male
descendents. That he did.
His eldest son, Henry Beekman
Armstrong, was born May 9, 1791. He married Mary Simmons Armstrong of
Charleston, SC. Their sons were John Armstrong*, William Armstrong, and
James Simmons Armstrong.
His three other sons, John Beekman
Armstrong, Robert Livingston Armstrong, and James Kosciusko Armstrong
all died unmarried.
Horatio Gates Armstrong's son John Armstrong*,
had two sons, Robert Livingston Armstrong and Horatio Gates Armstrong,
born March 29, 1856. This Horatio Gates Armstrong had two children by
his marriage to Fanny Carmen Johnson of Baltimore. Children are Horatio
Gates Armstrong (the second), who died in childhood, and Margaret
Hughes Armstrong, who was the author’s grandmother.
There is a biography of the
"young General" titled John Armstrong, Jr., 1758-1843
by C. Edward Skeen, Syracuse University Press, 1981. It's out of print,
but you might be able to
find a copy through second hand sources.
The “young General" (so-called
to distinguish him from his father, the "old General") was
also the author of the "Newburgh Letters" during the
Revolution. He is pictured in the painting "The Coronation of
Napoleon Bonaparte" by David in the Louvre in Paris. That painting
is quite a political statement showing people who weren't there - such as Napoleon's mother - and
omitting many who were. Napoleon himself decided who got in and who
didn't. Only three members of the diplomatic corps were included, and
General John Armstrong was one who got the nod. There are three men
painted just to the right of the pillar in the center of the painting.
General John Armstrong is the center one in that triangular group,
slightly higher than the other two. Next time you're in Paris, take a
look.
Is
there an Archibald Armstrong in your genealogy?
By: Sam McCray; From The
Armstrong Chronicles, April, 2005.
Archibald Armstrong lived from 1737 to 1801, but as his people
immigrated from Brookeborough, Fermanagh in Northern Ireland around
1730-1745, his birthplace is uncertain but I suspect Virginia.
The possible father of Archibald Armstrong is
Archibald Armstrong. Augusta Co. references to him in 1747 when
Archibald would have been ten years old. (May 30, 1750 A stated account
of the Bill of Charges of the Indian Warriors in their travels to War
in 1747)
May, 1762 Archibald Armstrong and Margaret, his wife, vs Robert Grimes
and Jane, his wife - slander.
Archibald Armstrong 120 acres Jackson River Nov. 5, 1766; 435 acres
Cowpasture River May 5, 1768.
August 18, 1773: Road surveyor from Painters Gap to Widow Elliotts.
July 17, 1787: refusing to give in their taxes to Commissioner.
Archibald Armstrong, died a large land owner
in Augusta County,VA, leaving behind his wife Margaret and seven known
children born in Augusta Co.VA and mentioned in his January 14, 1801
will, which begins "I being weak in body by reason of old age and
kidneys but sound of mind..."
More information on Archibald and Margaret
Armstrong's children:
Jane (1762, Augusta Co., VA - 1808 Jackson Co., Ohio); Marry Samuel McCray,
1793, Augusta Co., VA: 9 children born 1795 to 1808 in Augusta,
Co., VA
Robert, dob about 1763, Augusta Co.; Child Robert b 26
Aug. 1778, Augusta Co.;
Ann, dob about 1765 in Augusta Co.; Marry James Elliot;
Thomas, 1767 Augusta Co.; Marry Isabella Armstrong,
1786, Augusta Co.- Inherited father's plantation and bulk of estate.
Children Archibald and Thomas born before 1801, Augusta Co.
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