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The surgeon examined the wound, but remained silent. Major Armis- tead understood him clearly, but no trepidation was visible, no alarm expressed. He remained calm, as if merely reclining to rest. He fre- quently spoke of the grief his sisters would feel. He said to me: "I have died in the right place, I hope at the right time, I know in the right cause." I am thus circumstantial, because I know every word and incident of his final hour will interest you. I did all I could to make him com- fortable under the circumstances, while I remained with him.
Our cause has lost a noble and gallant defender, our State an intellectual man, society a chivalrous and polished gentleman, his friends a true and beloved companion, and his sisters a brother who loved them better than his own life, and grieved only for them in his death hour.
I never saw such calm heroism before, and desire to cmulate him, should it be my fate to die, in defence of our country.
I was agitated while he was placid. I wept over his wounds, he sor- rowed only for his sisters.
I hope you may find some consolation in the circumstances attending his end. He died for his country, and in the hour that tries men's souls gave the strongest proofs of the nobility of his own. Rest assured that 1 sympathize deeply with you and yours in the sad bereavement, and only regret that I can do nothing to palliate your sorrow. May God give you and your sisters the strength to bear your loss with resignation.
Accept my kindest regards and believe me your friend,
THOS W. OLIVER.
Mrs. E. G. Fitzpatrick,
Montgomery, Ala.
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William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 3, January, 1898, p. 164, has the following :
The attempted identification of 9, John" Armistead (William4, John3, William2, Anthony1), of Gloucester County, with John Armistead, vestryman of Blissland Parish, New Kent (1722), father of Gill Armistead, is proved to be faulty by the ease in Barradall's Reports (see p. 99). It is there asserted that John" Armistead (not Gill Armistead) was "son and heir" of John5 Armistead, of Gloucester County, a faet which the editor strangely overlooked, but which has been ealled io his attention by Col. Wilson Miles Cary, of Baltimore, who has given much attention to the Armistead pedigree. John Armistead, of New Kent, was, instead of being a son of William Armistead, of Eastmore River, Gloucester County, a son of Major William Armistead, of Eliza- beth City County, who was son of Capt. Anthony Armistead, brother of Col. John Armistead, of the council.
The matter, therefore, should come in, in connection with the deseendants of Captain Anthony Armistead, of Elizabeth City County.
The following statement as to the descendants of William Armistead, of Eastmore River, is believed to be correct :
John5 Armistead (William4, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of William4. Married probably twice, his first wife being, probably, the Elizabeth Armistead named in James Burwell's will. If this is correet, John had no issue by her. He married, second ( Hen- ing's Statutes), Susanna Meriweather, b. 1708, daughter of Thomas Meriweather, of Essex, and had issue :
15. John Armistead®, untraeed.
16. William Armistead6, untraeed.
17. Susanna Armistead6. Married (in or before 1753) Moore Fauntleroy.
13. Joyce" Armistead (William4, John3, William2, Anthony1), daughter of William Armistead, of Eastmore River, was the wife of Mordecai Booth. A portrait of her is preserved in Gloucester County, in the family of Gen. William Booth Taliaferro, a descend- ant, whose line runs :
I. Thomas1 Booth, of Lancaster County, England, b. 1666; d. in Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Va., Oet. 11,
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1736 (tombstone). Married Mary Cooke, and had issue :
I. Mordeeai? Booth. Married Joyee Armistead and had :
I. George Booth8. Married Mary Wythe Mason and had :
I. George Wythe Booth4. Married Luey Jones and had issue :
I. Fanny Booth5. Married Warne T. Taliaferro, whose issue was :
I. Gen. William B. Taliaferro.
8. Henry Armistead4 (John3, William2, Anthony1), seeond son of Col. John Armistead, of the eouneil. Married Martha Burwell (baptized, November 16, 1685), daughter of Major Lewis Bur- well and Abigail Smith, his first wife. (William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. VI, No. 3, January, 1898, Burwell.)
He lived on the Pianketank, at a place called "Hesse." As William Armistead, son and heir of Col. John Armistead, lived on Eastmore River, the name Hesse probably originated with Henry Armistead. The briek house is still standing, though redueed in size and out of repair, when the editor visited it several years ago. His wife was the young lady with whom Gov. Franeis Nieliolson beeame so infatuated. In 1733 he was sworn eounty lieutenant of Caroline, and he died between July 7, 1739, and February 1, 1739-40, at which last date his son William sueeeeds him in the parish register as owner of slaves in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County. Issue :
18. William Armistead5.
19. 1mey Armistead5. Married Thomas Nelson, secretary of the colony.
20. Martha Armistead5. Married Dudley Digges, of the Com- mittee of Safety.
21. Robert Armisteado.
18. William Armistead5 (Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), succeeded his father at "Hesse." In 1739 the Virginia Gazette mentions the marriage of "Mr. William Armistead, son of Col. Henry Armistead, of Gloucester County, to a daughter of James Bowles, deceased, one of the Council of Maryland, and grand- daughter of Tobias Bowles, formerly a merehant in London in the Virginia trade." As shown in suit of Ragland v. Price (Chaneery papers in Williamsburg), she was Mary Bowles, sister
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of Eleanor Bowles; married, first, William Gooeh, son of Sir William Gooeh, governor of Virginia; and, second, Warner Lewis, of "Warner Hall," Gloucester County, Virginia. Aeeording to Keith's Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, her father, James Bowles, of Maryland, married Rebecea, daughter of Thomas Addison, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tasker, treasurer of Mary- land. This William Armistead made his will in 1755, leaving issue :
22. I. William Armistead".
23. II. John Armistead6.
24. III. Bowles Armistead6.
25. IV. Henry Armistead"; died before 1773.
(Hening's Statutes, Vol. VIII, pp. 487, 667.) Mary (Bowles) Armistead survived her husband and married, second, Rev. Thomas Priee.
22. William Armistead", of "Hesse" (William", Henry+, John", William2, Anthony1), studied at William and Mary College in 1755, when Secretary Nelson and Dudley Digges are named in the bursar's book as his guardians. Married (1765) Maria Carter, daughter of Charles Carter, of Cleve, and Anne Byrd, of West- over. (See Carter Family, Chapter VII.) Under his father's will he received all lands in Gloucester and Middlesex. Issue :
26. I. Mary A. Armistead7. Married Thomas Taylor Byrd, of Westover, b. Jan. 17, 1752.
27. II. Luey B. Armistead. Married Harvey.
28. III. Jane Armistead7. Married William Coeke, of Bremo, and had issue :
I. William Armistead& Coeke, of Oakland. Married Elizabeth Randolph Preston, daughter of Major Thomas Preston and Edmonia Randolph, daughter of Gov. Edmund Randolph. (See Randolph Family, Chapter V.) They had issue :
I. William Fauntleroy Cocke®, killed at Gettysburg.
II. Thomas L. Coekeº.
III. Capt. Edmund R. Coekeº, prominent politieian.
IV.
Preston Coeke", prominent attorney-at-law, now of Richmond.
29. IV. William B. Armistead7 (Master Billy), b. Oet. 26, 1769; d. before 1797, when his brother, Charles Carter Armistead, became "son and heir."
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30. V. Anne Cleves Armistead7, b. Nov. 7, 1773. Married (March 14, 1793) John P. Pleasants, of Balti- more, and had issue :
I. J. Hall Pleasants8.
II. Richard H. Pleasants8.
31. VI. Judith Carter Armistead7, b. Dec. 29, 1774. Mar- ricd ( April 16, 1797) Richard H. Moale, of Balti- more, b. Jan. 28, 1765; d. July 22, 1802. Issue :
I. William A. Moale8.
32. VII. Charles Carter Armistead7, d. sine prole, after 1797.
33. VIII. Sarah Armistead7, b. Feb. 22, 1776. - Married Fair- fax Washington.
34. IX. Eleanor B. Armistead7. Married William Mc- Meehen, of Baltimore, and had :
I. Eleanor McMechen8. Married Robert S. Buchanan. The ease of Ragland v. Price involves a suit in the high court of chancery between "James Price, legatee and administrator of Mary Bowles, deceased, and her only child by her sceond husband, Thomas Price, plaintiff, v. Charles Carter Armistead, an infant by William Nelson and Maria Armistead, executors of William Armistead, son of William Armistead, deeeascd, defendant." A decrce in 1797 orders the defendant to pay to the plaintiff £2,666, 13s, 4d, current money of Virginia, equal to £2,000 of lawful money of Great Britain, with interest from 1783, and in default to pay the same, such portion be sold as is necessary of 3,879 aeres on the Pianketank River, described in an annexed survey, after a deduction therefrom of 1,200 acres, "whereof Henry Armistead, father of William Armistead, former husband of Mary Bowles, was seized," on which was the mansion house of said Henry. Major Charles Ragland, of King and Queen, bought the land for sale. A suit was begun against him by Rev. James Priee, who delared that Ragland promised to act as his agent in the purchase and not in his own behalf. Rev. James Priee married Catherine, daughter of his uncle, Robert Priec, and had an only ehild :
T. Catherine Price, who died sine prole.
23. John Armistead7 (William", William5, Henry4, John3, William2, Anthony1), was at William and Mary in 1755, when
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Thomas Nelson and Dudley Digges are named in the bursar's book as "guardians." He received by his father's will all the land in Prince William and much stock in Culpeper and Caroline. He was executor of his brother Bowles Armistead in 1785. He married (March 17, 1764) Lucy Baylor, of New Market, Caroline County. He had issue :
35. I. John Baylor Armistead8.
36. II. William Armistead8.
37. III. Addison Bowles Armistead8.
38. IV. George Armistead8.
39. V. Lewis G. A. Armistcad8.
40. VI. Walker Keith Armistead8.
41. VII. Mary Burwell Armistead8. Married Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, and had issue :
I. Armistead Carterº. Married De Butts. Issue :
I. Landon De Butts19.
II. Mary Carter". Married Capt. Eleason. Issue :
I. Talcott Eleason19.
II. Mary Eleason10. Married Dr. A. S. Mason, residing at Hagerstown, Md. (In Chapter VII, Carter Family, will be found pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall. Also see Mason Family, Chapter XVII: Jaquelin, Smith, Volume III, Chapters VI and VII.)
42. VIII. Frances Armistead8. Married Dr. Gillies, of Alex- andria, Va., and has issue :
I. Dr. Thomas Gillies, of Philadelphia.
43. IX. Eleanor Bowles Armistead8, b. after her father's death. Married Capt. John Dangerfield, of Essex County, and had issue :
I. Henry W. Dangerfield". Married Courtney Tucker Up- shaw.
II. Emily Dangerfield".
III. Armistead Dangerfieldº.
IV. William Dangerfield".
V. George Dangerfield".
VI. Lucy Dangerfieldº.
VII. Ann Dangerfield".
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(See Brock, in Richmond Standard, May 20, 1880; Armistead et als. v. Dangerfield and wife, Munford's Reports IV, p. 20, and Chapman v. Munford, Hening and Munford IV, p. 382.)
35. John B. Armistead8 (John7, William®, William5, Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), captain U. S. Light Dragoons in 1799 and honourably discharged in 1800. Married Anne B. Carter, of Prince William County (see marriage articles in Whiting v. Rust, Grattan's Reports, 1844) and had issue :
44. I. Robert Armisteadº. Married Mary Carter.
45. II. John Armisteadº. Married Anne Harrison:
46. III. Louisa Armisteadº. Married Taliaferro.
47. IV. Mary Armistead9. Married Kerfoot.
36. William Armistead8 (John7, William®, William5, Henry4, John3, William2, Anthony1), of Prince William County, son of John7 Armistead and Lucy Baylor, his wife. Married Anne Cary Norton and had issue :
48. I. Hebe Armistead9.
49. II. Wilson Cary Armisteadº.
50. III. E. Randolph Armistead9.
51. IV. Mary Armistead9.
52. V. Willie Ann Armistead9.
53. VI. George Armistcadº. (Richmond Standard.)
37. Addison Bowles Armistead8 (John7, William", William5, Henry+, John8, William2, Anthony1), of Prince William County, son of John7 Armistead and Lucy Baylor, entered the United States Army and was made captain, September 30, 1806; d. February 10, 1813. Married (1808) Mary Howe Peyton, b. May 1, 1781; d. - , daughter of John Peyton, of Winchester, Va., and Susanna Rutherford, daughter of Hon. Robert Rutherford. Member first U. S. Congress from Virginia 1793-1797. Issue :
54. I. Mary Armisteadº.
55. II. Susan Peyton Armistead", b. 1810. Married James Innis Randolph, son of Peyton and Anne (Innis) Randolph; he was dead in 1866, and she was at this time residing in Richmond, Va. (See Hayden, p. 530.) Issuc:
I. Mary Randolph10. Married, first, Dr. Martin Johnson; second, Townshend Seaton.
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II. Elizabeth Randolph10.
III. Anne Innis Randolph10. Married Wm. H. Hall, of New Jersey.
IV. Peyton Randolph10, manager R. and D. R. R. Co., Va. Married Mary Fisher and had issue :
I. Elizabeth Randolph11.
II. Mary Randolph11.
III. Susan Randolph11.
IV. Anne Randolph11.
V. Susan A. Randolph10.
VI. Major Innis Randolph1º, C. S. A. Married Ann King and had issue :
I. Armistead Randolph11.
II. Harold Randolph11.
III. Clare Randolph.11.
IV. Maud Randolph11.
VII. John Randolph10. Married Milicent Payne and had issue :
I. Shirley Randolph11.
II. Wilton Randolph11.
III. Mary R. Randolph11.
VIII. Armistead Randolph10.
IX. Dr. Robert Randolph10. Married Mary Keene, of New York.
X. Wilton Randolph10. Married Ida, daughter of Col. T. J. Evans, and had issue :
I. Peyton Randolph11.
II. Louise Randolph11.
III. Ida Randolph11.
XI. Marion Randolph10.
XII. Lucy Randolph10. XIII. Eva Randolph10.
(See Hayden's Genealogies, Peyton Family, p. 530.)
38. George Armistead8 (John7, William®, William5, Henry4, John3, William2, Anthony1), was known as the "Hero of Fort Mc- Henry," son of John7 Armistead and Lucy Baylor, b. at New Market, Caroline County, Va., April 10, 1780; d. at Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1818; appointed second lieutenant United States
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Army, January 8, 1799; eaptain, November 1, 1806; major third artillery, March 3, 1813; was distinguished at the capture of Fort George, upper Canada, May 18, 1813; and was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for the defense of Fort McHenry, September 12, 1814. Married (October 26, 1810) Louise, sister of Chris- topher Hughes, of Baltimore, United States Chargé d'affaires in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. George Armis- tead d. April 25, 1818. They had issue :
56.
I. Margaret Armisteadº. Married Howell.
57. II. Georgiana Armisteadº. Married William Sumner Appleton, of Boston, Mass.
58. III. Mary Armisteadº. Married Bradford.
59. IV. C. Hughes Armistead®, b. 1816; d. Feb. 14, 1876. Married Agnes Gordon, of Fredericksburg, Va. Issue :
60. I. J. R. Armistead10, who inherited the silver bowl and sword presented to his grandfather, George Armistead.
39. Lewis Gustavus Adolphus8 Armistead (John™, William", William5, Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of John Armistead and Lucy Baylor, his wife; was first lieutenant and captain of Riflemen and was killed September 17, 1814, in a sortie from Fort Erie, Canada, during the second war with Great Britain.
40. Walker Keith Armistead8 (John7, William", William5, Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of John Armistead and Luey Baylor, his wife; b. 1785, graduated at West Point, March 5, 1803. Chief engineer in. the United States Army in Canada in 1812; made lieutenant-colonel, July 31, 1812; colonel third artillery, June, 1821, and on November 12, 1828, brevetted brigadier-general for ten years' faithful serviee in onc grade. He died October 13, 1845. Married Elizabeth Stanley, of North Carolina, and had nine children :
61. I. Gen. Lewis Addison Armisteadº, b. at Newbern, N. C .; graduated at West Point; killed on the heights of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, after he had pene- trated, with heroic bravery, far into the lines of the Federal army. He entered the Sixth United
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States Infantry in 1839, and in the Mexican War was brevetted captain and major for gallantry at Contreras, Churubusco, and Molina del Rey. At Chapultepec he was one of the storming party and was wounded. He was made captain, March 3, 1855. In 1859 he commanded a detachment against the Indians, defeating them. On the break- ing out of the war in 1861 he resigned from the Federal army and was made colonel of the Fifty- seventh Virginia Infantry, and in the same month (April) made a brigadier-general in the Con- fedcrate States Army. Married Cecilia Lec Love Lord, and had a son :
I. Walker Keith Armistead10, who was one of his father's staff, married Julia Appleton, of Boston, grand- daughter of Daniel Webster.
62. II. Frank Stanley Armistead®, graduated at West Point ; lieutenant in the U. S. Army and colonel C. S. Army.
63. III. Bowles E. Armistcado, captain Company A, 6th Va. Regiment Cavalry, C. S. A. Married, first, Susan Lewis Marshall, of Fauquier Co., Va., by whom no living issue ; sccond, Elizabeth Lewis Marshall, daughter of Henry M. Marshall, by whom he had five sons and five daughters. (See Volume 1, Chapter VII.) Issue :
I. Henry Marshall Armistcad10.
II. Lewis Addison Armistead10.
III. Stanley Armistead10.
IV. John Baylor Armistcad10.
V. Robert Morris Armistcad10.
VI. Mary Morris Armistead10.
VII. Eleanor Bowles Armistead10.
VIII. Elizabeth Marshall Armistcad10.
IX. Virginia Baylor Armistead10.
X. Courtenay Warner Selden Armistead10.
(See Marshall Family, Chapter XIV.)
64. IV. Mary Landon Armisteadº.
65. V. Lucy Baylor Armistead".
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66. VI. Bettie Frank Armisteadº.
67. VII. Virginia Baylor Armisteadº.
68. VIII. Cornelia Armisteadº. Married Washington Irving Newton, of Norfolk, major U. S. Army. Left issue :
I. Elizabeth Stanley Newton10.
II. Cornelia Armistead Newton10.
III. Armistead Newton10.
Of these, Elizabeth Stanley Newton10 married Dr. Pedro M. Lusson, of Havana, Cuba, and had issue :
I. Cornelia Armistead Lusson11.
II. Adele M. Lusson11.
III. George Newton Lusson11.
Of these, Cornelia A. Lusson married (April 10, 1890) Arthur Crux, of Kent, England.
24. Bowles Armistead? (William6, William5, Henry4, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of William Armistead and Mary Bowles, was a student of William and Mary College from 1763 to 1766. His will was proved in Culpeper County, July 21, 1785. He got all his father's land in Culpeper. Married Mary Fontaine, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Winston Fontaine and had issue :
69. I. William Bowles Armistead8, d. unmarried.
70. II. Peter Fontaine Armistead8.
71. III. Mary Armistead8. Married, first, C. Alexander; second, W. C. Selden. (See Chapter IV, Cary and Selden Families.)
72. IV. Elizabeth Armistead8. Married Ludwell Lee. (See Chapter VIII, Lee Family.)
73. V. A daughter Armistead8. Married Terrell. (Virginia Historical Collections, Vol. V, Hugue- not Emigration, p. 146; Virginia Magazine; Hist. and Biog., Vol. III, p. 432; "St. Mark's Parish," by P. Slaughter.)
70. Peter Fontaine Armistead8 (Bowles7, William®, William5, Henry", John3, William2, Anthony1), son of Bowles Armistead7 and Mary W. Fontaine, daughter of Isaac Winston, and had issue of twelve children. Nine of these were:
I. William B. Armisteadº.
II. Peter Fontaine Armisteadº.
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III. Patrick Henry Armistead". Married Miss Clanton.
IV. Isaac Coles Armistead".
T. Eliza Armisteadº.
VI. Virginia Armisteadº. Married Lanier.
VII. George Washington Armisteadº.
VIII. Mary Ann Armisteadº.
IX. Martha Armisteadº.
Of whom there is now living (1898) Peter Fontaine Armistead, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, aged eighty years. His son Fontaine Armistead1º, not living, married the daughter of a distant relative, George Graham Armistead, whose first wife was Alice V. Fontaine George G. and Alice were married November 7, 1831, and moved later to Alabama. She was a daughter of Aliee Berkeley and Fontaine, and granddaughter of Col. Edmund Berkeley, of "Barn Elms," Middlesex County.
19. Lucy Armistead® (Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), daughter of Henry Armistead and Martha Burwell, his wife. Mar- ried (about 1745) Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown County, Virginia, secretary of the Colonial Council of Virginia, and lienee known as Secretary Nelson, second son and third child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of England and the same place, progenitor of the Nelson family in Virginia; and Margaret Reid, his first wife, was b. Yorktown, Va., 1716; d. there 1782, aged sixty-six He is buried there, but no tombstone marks his grave. No portrait of him exists.
Secretary Nelson and Lucy Armistead, his wife, had no daughters, and only three surviving sons, all of whom were heroes in the Revolution, and beeamc offieers in the American army under Washington. They were all present at the siege of York- toîn, in October, 1781, and brought their father into the American lines under a flag of truce. They were as follows :
I. Col. William Nelson", of the American Army, eldest, was born at Yorktown, Va., June 17, 1746, and removed to "The Dorrill," Hanover Co., Va. Married ( Nov. 24, 1770) Lucy Chiswell.
II. Major John Nelson", of the American Army, b. York- town, Va., about 1748 and removed to Oakhill, Meck- lenburg Co., Va. Married (about 1772) Naney Carter of Williamsburg, Va.
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III. Capt. Thomas Nelson®, of the American Army, b. about 1750, Yorktown, York Co., Va., and removed to "Bear's Spring," Hanover Co., Va. Married (about 1775) Sally, daughter of Col. Wilson Cary, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. (See Page Family in Virginia, p. 168; also Chapter IV, Cary Family ; Hayden's Va. Genealogies.
21. Robert Armistead5 (Henry+, John3, William2, Anthony1), son of Henry Armistead and Martha Burwell, his wife; was elerk of King George County Court in 1727-57, and married (about 1750), first, Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, widow of Jeduthan Ball, and daughter of Charles Burgess, of England, and his wife, Franees Fox, daughter of Samuel Fox, son of Captain David and Hannah Fox, his wife. There is a deed in King George County, dated 1767, which shows that Burgess Ball and Burgess Smith were eo-heirs of Charles Burgess as grandfather of Burgess Ball. We have seen that Charles Burgess had a daughter, Frances, who married Baldwin Mathews Smith, and Burgess Smith was his son.
Issue of Robert Armistead5 and Elizabeth Burgess, his wife: 74. Henry Armistead®, of Fredericksburg, Va. Married Wini- fred Peachy, daughter of Col. William Peachy.
Henry's will was proved in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1787 and names daughters Eizabeth Burgess Armistead", Aliee Armistead", brother, Burgess Ball (eolonel in the Revolutionary army) ; my wife's father William Peachy, my wife Winifred, my brother Thomas Armistead, and friends Le Roy Peachy and Benjamin Dabney.
Robert Armistead5, married, second, Ann, sister of Rev. Thomas and Col. Gregory Smith, aunt of John Augustine Smith, presi- dent of William and Mary College. (See Volume III, Chapter III.) And had by this marriage :
75. I. Thomas Armistead6.
76. II. Martha Burwell Armistead6. Married Benjamin Dabney, of Gloucester Co., Va. Had issue of three daughters, of whom Ann married her cousin, Thomas Smith.
77. III. Richard Armistead®. Married , and is said to have had six ehildren.
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75. Thomas Armistead" (Robert", Henry+, John3, William", Anthony1). Married Miss Merchant, of North Carolina. He was captain of the First Virginia State Regiment from April 6, 1278, to January, 1780, in the Revolution. Issue :
78. I. Martha Burwell Armistead7. Married - Fowler, and lived in Baltimore.
79. II. Abiah Armistead7. Married William Mitehell, and had issue :
I. Alfred Mitehell8, of Richmond.
II. Judge William Mitehell8, of Texas.
80. III. Anne Smith Armistead™. Married and had issue :
Barton
I. Armistead Barton8, d. in New Orleans, La.
II. A daughter Barton8. Married Hutchings, of Williamsburg, Va., and had issne :
I. A daughter Hutchings". Married a West India planter.
II. A daughter Huthings". Married Moody, of Williamsburg, Va.
81. IV. Catharine Armistead", b. March 25, 1787. Marricd, first, William Pierec, of James City Co., Va. Issue :
1. Pieree8.
II. Emily Pierce8. Married Robinson Arnold. Issue :
I. Catherine Armistead Arnold.
Catharine Armistead7, married, second, Everard Hall, a dis- tinguished lawyer of Norfolk, Va. She died in Richmond, Va., June 2, 1864.
5. Anthony Armistead3 (William2, Anthony1), son of the emigrant William2, resided in Elizabeth City County, Va. He was one of Sir William Berkeley's courts-martial in 1676 to try the Bacon insurgents; justice of the peace and captain of horse in 1680; burgess in 1693, 1696, 1699, and one of the committee in 1700 to report a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705. Captain Armistead married Hannah, daughter of Dr. Robert Ellyson, of James City County, Va. This Robert Ellyson appears in the Maryland records as early as 1643 as "barber-chirurgeon," and, after holding the offiec of sheriff of St. Mary's, emigrated to Virginia, where he was high
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