Robert Armstrong (1625 - bef. 1680)

Born 1625 in England

Husband of Dorothy (Marriot) Armstrong — married about 1672 in Virginia

Descendants

Died before 1680 before age 55 in Rappahannock County, Virginia

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Robert Armstrong was a Virginia colonist.

Biography

Robert paid taxes in Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, based on his labor force. The county assessed him for three tithables, 6 Feb 1655.^[1]

The will of Robert Armstrong recorded in Essex Co. VA in 1708 left a tract of land to his grand daughters Ann and Hannah jointly. For several years it was thought that their name may have been Armstrong also but no proof of this was found. More research in the records of Essex Co. disclosed the fact that the second wife of Argyle Blackstone was Elizabeth Armstrong, daughter of Robert Armstrong, and that Argyle and Elizabeth had daughters named Ann and Hannah. No marriage record of Ann was found but there is a record of the marriage of Hannah and John Zachary.

The records of Spottsylvania Co. show that in 1723 John & Hannah Zachery and James & Ann Stodgill sold the tract of land given to Ann and Hannah by the will of Robert Armstrong. (Partial copy of the original deed shown on a following page) These records leave no doubt that the wife of James Stodgill of Orange (Greene) Co. VA was Ann Blackstone, daughter of Argyle Blackstone and Elizabeth Armstrong. John Zachary and Hannah later settled near James and Ann in present Greene Co. and the early Orange Co records show that they witnessed deeds and other documents for each other and owned adjoining land.

IMMIGRATION: Robert was transported to Virginia in 1654 among 80 persons by John Wyre, John Gillett, Andrew Gilson, and John Phillips. They settled on 4,000 acres "on the southside in the freshes of Rappahannock River, about 12 miles above Nanzemum town on Eastward side of a navigable creek called Wyre Creek". He soon married his first wife, Elizabeth, and began acquiring land, buying his first share of 100 acres for two thousand pounds of good tobacco. He was a tobacco planter, and his "plantacon" produced 2,430 pounds of tobacco in 1663, according to a contract he made for it. One piece of 400 acres he purchased included in the description an "Indian Path". His name appears numerous times in land dealings in Rappahannock County, and in the giving and marking of cattle. By Elizabeth his children were Thomas, Mary, Letticia, and [BO:Elizabeth:BO]. Elizabeth died around 1670, and he then married Dorothy, by whom he had children Katherine and Millicent. She may have been a Marriott

Dorothy Marriott was born to Thomas Marriott and Elizabeth. Dorothy ... Dorothy married Robert Armstrong in 1650, at age 35 at marriage place, Virginia.

Daughters Millicent and Elizabeth. They were half sisters. They both married Argyle Blackstone II

Sources

1. ↑ 1655 Tax Assessment. Tax Assessment Record, 6 Feb 1655. Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, Deed & Will Book 1, 1652-1657, pp. 174-178. Available online without restriction courtesy of FamilySearch here. Accessed 8 Feb 2024. To see what others appear on this tax assessment, in alphabetical order, and for a list of the colonists with the largest labor forces, visit Lancaster County Tax Records.

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