Capt. Thomas Armstrong

DAR Ancestor #: A003163
ARMSTRONG, THOMAS Ancestor #: A003163
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Birth: CIRCA 1734 PENNSYLVANIA
Death: 9-26-1776 LONG ISLAND-PROB NEW YORK

COMMENTS (Overview)
1) PREVIOUSLY CREDITED SERVICE SOURCE IS FOR A MAN WHO WAS LIVING AFTER THIS
2) MAN'S DEATH IN SEPT 1776. DATACF. 1/2017

RESIDENCE
1) City: HAMILTON TWP - County: CUMBERLAND CO - State: PENNSYLVANIA

SPOUSE
Number Name
1) MARY X

Child [Spouse #] Spouse
JEAN JANE [1] JOHN BLACKBURN
WILLIAM [1] JEAN X PURCHASE

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(Part of Armstrong manuscript from Grace Torrance Clark, Member National Society D.A.R., No. 148190 signed November 30th, 1919.)
Thomas Armstrong was born about 1734 and had a wife Mary. He died September 26, 1776, and we feel he died in the service of his country in the Revolutionary War, probably at Long Island. We have not yet proven this, and may not be able to, though we are still working on it. We do know he left a widow Mary and minor children Joseph, the eldest son, Jean, Sarah, William and Thomas. Joseph Armstrong, Jr., son of the first Joseph, was Jean Armstrong's Guardian. He was a Colonel of Cumberland County militia, 5th Battalion, during the Revolution.
We have record evidence that "Jean intermarried with John Blackburn." He called her Jane in his bible, but she signed her name Jean to deeds. They had nine children...(list not included)
The oldest son, William Blackburn, was a Captain of Columbiana County, Ohio, militia in the War of 1812. By President Van Buran he was appointed Commissioner of the Land Office and moved to Allen County, Ohio, where he was later on Major General of the Northwestern Division of Ohio militia.

Joseph Armstrong, Jr., son of Captain Joseph Armstrong, and brother of Thomas Armstrong (the father of Jean), was a Colonel of Cumberland County militia in the War of the Revolution. In his will appears a paragraph which will ...

"To Joseph Armstrong Blackburn, son of John Blackburn of the State of Ohio, the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid to his father or legal guardian for the purpose of educating the said Joseph, and in case of the death of the said Joseph in his minority then to his brothers and sisters and their legal representatives in equal portions."

The Armstrong family is a very interesting one. Many facts have been collected during the prosecution of our search, which it is expected will be compiled and printed as opputunity offers.

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The Second Generation…..Thomas and Mary of PA

Thomas Armstrong was a man of wealth and distinction in the community. He was born in 1734 and died Sept. 26, 1776. I have no record of his wife except that her first name was Mary.

According to his father's will Thomas inherited "that tract of land situated lying between Robert Elliot's and William Rankin's in Hamilton Township."

Thomas and Mary had five children. Their names were Jane (who married John Blackburn), Sarah (who married Hugh McClelland), Joseph, William and Thomas.

http://www.geocities.com/mp_cemetery/arm_genealogy.html

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The First Generation….Joseph & Jennet of Pennsylvania
Joseph Armstrong was born about 1711 in North Ireland. In 1731, he emigrated from Fivemiletown, County Fermanagh (now known as Fermanagh District, Northern Ireland), about five miles from Brookeborough, settling in the Cumberland Valley, at that time in Franklin County, PA. He purchased his land from the Penn Properties. The earliest date which shows positive possession of land is 1737 but his first warrant, numbered 9, was dated August 26, 1751 and can be found in Survey Book A66, page 255, Pennsylvania Land Office, Harrisburg. This warrant antedated the town of Chambersburg, or Falling Spring, which was laid out in June 1764. He acquired other land in the vicinity as well, eventually owning over a thousand acres. That land is now part of St. Thomas Township, Franklin County and lies along the south slope of North Mountain near the present town of Edenville. It is well located, slightly rolling, very fertile soil watered by a spring fed stream then called Armstrong's Run (now known as Wilson's Run). That part which extended up the mountain was heavily wooded and was termed "mountain land". The Joseph Armstrong farm is well-marked wi

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Inherited "land between Robert Elliot's and Wilm. Rankin's".

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• Military service:

                           Col. Thomas Armstrong Captain 5th Battalion Cumberland - Sep 16 1776

• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 19 2024, 20:29:50 UTC