James ‘of Paxtang’ Armstrong, Il

Source-Enniskillen Parish Marriage Records Fermanaugh Co., Ireland

James (lI) & wife Janey left Ireland and arriving in America in 1734, with Father (James I) & Mother (Jane Beatty) & family in 1734, first settling in Augusta Co., Virginia USA. Compiled by W.L.A.(Az.)

Source-Enniskillen Parish Records, Fermanaugh Co., Ireland

Family

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Armstrong_%2867%29 Shows Marriage Bef 1707 Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland to Jane Campbell

< Allshouse Family History > shows these children born at Brooksboro:

• 1 Mary Armstrong (17 Jan 1696 - ) [sic: probably b.Abt 1728]. [Married George Brandon.] DISPUTED Mary Ann Brandon
• 2 Margaret Armstrong (1708 - 1770) [not the Margaret Armstrong who married Rev. George Duffield, Jr.]
• 3 Christopher Armstrong (1711 - )
• 4 John Armstrong (13 Oct 1717 - 1748) [not the “Indian Fighter” John Armstrong who died 1795]
• 5 James Milford Armstrong (1719 - 1774) [1707-1760: married Elizabeth McCord??]
• 6 George Armstrong (1720 - 1785)
• 7 Elizabeth Armstrong (1725 - 1806). Married William Marshall.
• 8 Frances Armstrong (1726 - 1770)

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James (II), wife Janey (Jane Campbell) & son John (not William twice) & daughter Jenny, son James (III) & wife (Mary Campbell) & son William (Born: 1714) left for America, arriving in 1734 and settling in Augusta Co., Va. for several years.

Source-Rutledge Files & William Lyons Armstrong book compiled & written and added after the history was written in 1901.

William (I) arrived in America in 1734 with wife Jane Gaffney , Brother James & wife Janey (Jane), Niece Jenny, Nephew William , and son William (II) age 22 & his wife Mary Caldwell age 19. Source-Citations include WLA Book, added after the history was written in 1901. Source-Chron-368, Margaret Armstrong of Mason Texas; NSS A R 93, Price. Source-From the Rutledge Files.

The family settled in Augusta Co., Va. and resided there a few years: then William moved with his wife, to South Carolina and resided in Hone a Path, Anderson Co., S.C. until his death in 1775. - Source-DeWolfe Miller manuscript states that Jany/Jenny is sister to William (I) Compiled by W.L.A.(Az.)

James Armstrong (II) & wife Janey (Jane Campbell) left Ireland and arriving in America in 1734, with Father & Mother & family in 1734, first settling in Augusta Co., Va. Father may have been James Armstrong (I) and Jane Beatty. http://www.joelrobinson.com/robinson/origin/augusta.html

Immigration 1694 North Carolina, British Colonial America

James Armstrong, in January 1759, along with his wife Jane, sold 229 acres on Beaver Dam Creek and Catawba River. February 5, 1760 he sold 62 acres on Dutchman's Creek, granted by patent to Robert Leeper, 31 March 1750, to George Rutlege and Francis Beaty, signed by James Armstrong. His spouse Jean O. did not sign.

James Armstrong's (II) Will, 11 May 1760 probate: William Armstrong (I), one bay mare, John Armstrong, one reged cow, Martin Armstrong, one gray mare and colt, James Armstrong (III), One black mare, To James (III) and Joseph, 2 tracts of land, 450 acres adjacent to my plantation to be equally divided up between them, To Benjamin and Matthew, two youngest sons, tract of land on which i now live, 370 acres. To Mary Armstrong, forty pounds , horse and cows. All balance of estate to James, Joseph, Benjamin and Matthew, ex. James (II) and Mary (Campbell) Armstrong

NOTE: All brackets highlighted yellow were added to climate confusion on identities.

Note about children:

We have two James Armstrongs here, a father and a son, both born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, both married Campbells, and both died in Paxtang, PA. This lends itself to an epic case of inter-generational confusion.

Many children that are said to be the sons and daughters of the elder James probably are in fact the children of the younger James. The trick is figuring out which is which.

One notes a very large gap in the birthdates of these children; while the eldest is born in 1684, there is a noted cluster in the first quarter of the 1700's. These children probably belong to the younger James.

James Armstrong b: Abt 1684 in Brooksboro, Fermanagh County, Ulster, Ireland married Mary Campbell b: Abt 1688 in Brookboro, Fermanagh, Ireland.

Son of James Armstrong, Sr. and Jane (Campbell) Armstrong

His BROTHER was Brig Gen John Armstrong, whose notes are below.

James & Mary Campbell's children included a son John (about 1717 - about 1748) - not the same as the Brig Gen.

Immigrant from Ireland 1722 to Pennsylvania.

James Armstrong in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900sNo Image
• Text-only collection
• Name: James Armstrong
• Arrival year: 1722
• Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
• Primary Immigrant: Armstrong, James
• Source Publication Code: 9450
• Annotation: Published extracts from The Magazine of American Genealogy, section 4, nos. 1-27 (1929 - [1932]). Good compilation but incomplete, since publication of the magazine was suspended; it contains names from beginning of alphabet through 'Battles' only. Source
• Source Bibliography: VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrants to America before 1750. An Alphabetical List of Immigrants to the Colonies, before 1750, Compiled from Official and Other Records. Surnames 'A through Battles.' Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. 220p.
• Household Members:
• Name Relation
• James Armstrong

Source Citation

• Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1722; Page Number: 74

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Lineage

James Armstrong I and Jane Ross Beatye - 8th
James Armstrong II and Catherine Jane Campbell - 7th
James Armstrong III and Mary Jane "Janey" Campbell - 6th

References

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 20 2020, 18:56:34 UTC
• Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
• Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
• Reference: TNG Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 30 2021, 18:35:21 UTC
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Armstrong_%2867%29
• Not the same as this family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Armstrong_Sr. John Armstrong was born on October 13, 1717, in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland, parents not determined, who married in 1704.[1] He was one of approximately 15 children born to his parents that included: Margaret Armstrong (1737–1817), who married Rev. George Duffield (1732–1790),[2] and Rebecca Armstrong (1738–1828), who married James Turner (1737–1803).[3][4] John was educated in Ireland and became a civil engineer before emigrating to Pennsylvania,[5] with his brother-in-law, John Lyon, around 1740.[6]