William Armistead

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Posted by: John Harris (London) Date: November 10, 2000 at 11:04:19

William Armistead bought for 450lbs of tobacco, a maid servant Katherine Teague.
She was a passenger on the ship "Tristram & Jane", (passenger No 49).
Her master was named as William Armistead No 00450.
This ship departed from England in late summer or early fall 1636.
Then returned to England 26th April 1637.
Could this have also have been the ship that transported William the immigrant in 1635/36?

WILLIAM ARMISTED the progenitor of the family in Virginia was baptized August 3, 1610, in "All Saints Church" the only church in the parish of Kirk Deighton. He was twenty-five when he emigrated to Virginia about 1635, and obtained large grants of land in Elizabeth City county, and subsequently Glouchester county, which was formed from York County in 1642. .

William Armistead

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1610 in Kirkdeighton, Yorkshire, England
• Death: 13 JUN 1671 in Gloucester, Virginia
• Emigration: 1635

family

• Father: Anthony Armistead b: 1583 in Kirk, Deighton, Yorkshire, England
• Mother: Frances Thompson b: 1587 in Kirk, Deighton, Yorkshire, England (unproven)
• Marriage 1 Ann b: 1615 in Giggeswick, Kirkdeighton, Yorkshire, England Married: 1632 in Giggeswick, Yorkshire, England

Children

1. William Armistead dsp before 1660
2. John Armistead b: in Elizabeth City, Virginia. m. Judith.
3. Anthony Armistead b: 1636 in Elizabeth City, Virginia. m. Hannah, daughter of Robert EUyson of James City County
4. Frances Armistead b: 1646 in Elizabeth City, Virginia. m. 1) Rev. Justinian Aylmer of Jamestown ; second, Lieut.-Col. Anthony Elliott of Middlesex County, who d. in 1665; third, Col. Christopher Wormeley ; d. 25 May, 1685.

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According the account of the Armistead family by C.P. Keith: William was baptized in in All Saints, Church, Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire. Therefore, he would have been age 25 when he emigrated to Virginia.& obtained large grants of land in Elizabeth City Co. Va. & later in Gloucester County which was formed from York in 1642.

Coming to Virginia c1635, he received a patent for 450 acres of land-Elizabeth City Co, Va... He also had patents for land in Gloucester Co. Va. lying southeast upon the land of Mr. Southell. northeast upon the land of John Brancz (Branch?)easterly upon the creek, westerly to the woods; among the persons he had transported to the colony being his wife Anne. The name is spelt 'Armstead' in a patent of 1651. Elizabeth City, York co., Va. is given as one of the 8 'original shires'. It was one of the 13 counties formed in 1643.

William, the emigrant to Ameirca seems, from the names of his children, Anthony and Frances, to have been the son of Anthony Armistead of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, and Frances Thompson of the same place, who obtained a marriage license in the year 1608.

He was a member of the House of Burgesses & Lt. Col. of militia for Elizabeth City,

William Armistead died bef 1660 because in that year York Co. records: his second son John was heir to his elder brother William who died childless. John Armistead, "as heyre and one of the Executors of Mr. William Armistead, made a power of attorney in York county"...

GEDCOM Note

(Research): William built the fist manor house at Hesse Plantation, Gloucester Co. va. He returned to Kirk Deighton, England where he died. His estates passed to his younger brother John.

Sources

• The Family of Armistead of Virginia (1899). By William S. Appleton. link “William Armistead with wife Anne was undoubtedly in Virginia soon after 1635. They had 4 children: William, John, Anthony, Frances.”
• “Armistead Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3, 1898, pp. 164–171. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914603. Accessed 21 Aug. 2021.
• The Armistead Family: 1635-1910, By Virginia Armistead Garber GoogleBooks
• # The Armistead Family 1635-1910, Virginia. A. Garber., Edited and revised by Douglas E. Zimmerman, 1998. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~enchantedworld/genealogy/Armistead....
• “Colonial Families of the United States.” Page 12. link
• Periodical William & Mary Quarterly Armistead Family Mr. C.P. Keith in "Descendants of Benjamin Harrison" & Berkeley Manuscripts William & Mary Quarterly Vol ! Y Y Pg 105
• Armistead Family 1635-1910 The Armistead Family Virginia Armsitead Garber Richmond, Virginia Whittet and Shepperson printers 1910 Y Y Pg 19
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0551... has errors