Martha Burwell (Armistead) Dabney (abt. 1765)

Born about 1765 in Virginia Colony

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Biography

Martha Burwell Armistead was the daughter of Anne Smith, a daughter of Gregory Smith and Lucy Cooke and second wife of Robert Armistead. Robert Burwell Armistead was the son of Colonel Henry of Hesse in Gloucester County and Martha Burwell, a daughter of Lewis Burwell. Miss Martha Burwell Armistead was named after her paternal grandmother. She married to Benjamin Dabney and was the mother of three children, George, Benjamin Jr., and Anne Dabney. Martha (Armistead) Dabney passed at a young age, possibly during the birth of Anne, with Benjamin Dabney remarrying to Sarah Smith, Martha's maternal first cousin, in 1991.

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Appleton, William S. (William Sumner), 1840-1903. The family of Armistead of Virginia Sponsor & Contributor: Boston Public Library on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/stream/familyofarmistea00appl#page/6/mode/2up/search/Robert+Armistead

Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, 1853-,Jaquelin, Edward, 1668-1730,Jaquelin, Martha (Cary) 1686-1733. Some prominent Virginia families Sponsor & Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/stream/someprominentvir04pecq#page/80/mode/2up

Source: Garber, Virginia Armistead "The Armistead Family (1635-1910)." Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond 1910. The original was full of errors due to its poor organization.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~enchantedworld/Armistead.html reorganized and corrected]] by: Douglas E. Zimmerman, 2002-2004.

"Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia : with some of their family records", Collected and Arranged by William Dabney of Boston, Dec 31, 1887.