#107 5th gen
Anthony Armistead est 1725 – | his parents
& first wife
& bef 1758 Mary Tucker ca 1740 – | her parents
& Mr. Williams | his parents
of Northampton Co NC
This is my working hypothesis – the way I see it as of this moment!!
Mary Tucker was the daughter of Anthony Tucker and Rosea, widow of Jonathan Curle.
“Anthony Tucker ca 1700 – married ca 1729 1st Mary Curle who had two children by a marriage with Harry Jenkins; Judith who married John Herbert, and Mary who married William King. By Anthony Tucker [Mary Curle] had Curle Tucker, and Sarah ca 1730 who married Thomas Dixon, father of Dr. Anthony Tucker Dixon of the American Revolution and of Mary who married 1789 George Beale.
Anthony Tucker married ca 1738??? 2nd Rosea, widow of Joshua Curle and had Mary ca 1740 who married Anthony Armistead. Anthony Tucker was adm. of Charles Tucker, whose widow Phebe Tucker in 1729 names her daughter Phebe and grandson Alexander Carver and Phebe Carver. Alexander Carver Armistead, son of Anthony Armistead and Mary Tucker his wife appears from this to have obtained his name through a marriage of the Tuckers.” Virginia Family Histories #3.
Will of Anthony Tucker 15 Sept 1758 -prob 2 Jan 1759 Elizabeth City county VA
names wife Rosea,
children Curle Tucker, Sarah Dixon and Mary Armistead,
grandson Anthony Armistead,
grandson Anthony Tucker Dixon.
Witnesses, Anne Armistead, R. Armistead.
Will of Rosea Tucker dated 1766
to her grandchildren: Elizabeth, Anthony, Robert, Westwood, and Alexander Carver, children of my daughter Mary Armistead by Anthony Armistead, her husband.
three daughters: Mary King, Judith Herbert, and Mary Armistead, names Sarah Dixon, and appoints William Armistead guardian of Elizabeth Armistead till twenty-one.
Children of Anthony Armistead & Mary Tucker:
1. Elizabeth Armistead
a. Mary Armistead
2. Anthony Armistead ca 1756 – 1841 Williamson Co MS? #204
married Sarah Archer
a. Anthony Amistead
3. Robert Armistead #205
4. Westwood Armistead 1763 NH co NC – 1848 Chatham Co NC #206
drafted into service 1781 – made pension application in 1844
married 1st Miss Horn
a. William Westwood Armistead
married 1st Rose Tyler
married 2nd Mary White
i. Kate G Armistead
married Samuel Livingston Reese
buried in Shiloh Cemetery at Ovilla, Ellis County, TX
line of Bill Page
b. Robert Horn Armistead
married 2nd Lucy Minor
a. Rosea
married Barbee
i. Mary Temples
ii. William Preston Barbee
5. Alexander Carver Armistead bef 1766 – 1822 Chatham Co NC will #207
married Frances Lasater? no issue execs of will wife and Thomas Lasater.
6. Capt William A Armistead aft 1766 – 1842
“In memory of Captain William Armistead, a soldier of the Revolution, a native of Virginia,
departed this life March 1st 1842, age eighty years.” ts moved ca 1818 Clark Co AL
married Rebecca Kimball [near Warrenton NC]
a. Westwood Armistead 24 Aug 1791 – 1845
married in NC Elizabeth Borrughs
i. William Westwood Armistead 13 Aug 1813 –
married 21 Mar 1840 Sarah Ann Lee no issue
married 5 Jan 1844 Elizabeth J Lee
1. Robert Lee Armistead
2. William Henry Armistead
3. Daniel Armistead
4. John Calhoun Armistead
married 31 Dec 1855 Cynthia Presnall no issue
married 13 Jan 1864 Nancy J Presnall
1. Dr. Livingston Lee Armistead 15 April 1865 –
married 30 Nov 1893 Olie Williams
a. William Cole Armistead 14 Aug 1911 –
married 3 June 1933 Emma Belle Overstreet
ii. Bryant Burroughs Armistead 15 Apr 1820 – 24 Nov 1906 buried Forest Springs Cem, Morvin AL
married 2 Nov 1851 Sarah Presnall
1. Mary Elizabeth Armistead 20 Mar 1866 –
married 19 Dec 1885 Isaac Carter
a. Ruby Armistead Carter 29 Dec 1886 – bur 9 Oct 1904 bur near Bryant Burroughs Armistead in Forest Springs Cem Morvin AL
married Ashby Henry Etheredge
i. Robert Lee Etheredge 8 Aug 1902 – 21 Mar 1972 Charleston SC
ii. Rueben Etheredge 6 Sept 1904 – 20 Jan 1983 Mobile AL
iii. Eliza Ann Armistead 4 July 1824 – 2 Feb 1897
iv. James Westwood Armistead 15 Apr 1828 – 9 Jan 1909 bur Forest Springs Cem, Morvin AL
v. Emma Judith Armistead 27 June 1934 – 1 Oct 1910
vi. Robert Starkey Armistead ?
vii. Martha Elizabeth Armistead 3 Jan 1831 – 27 July 1930
b. John Kimball Armistead 16 Dec 1792 –
lived in Wilcox Co AL then moved in 1840 to MS
married Julia Gaines
c. Elizabeth Lee Armistead 13 Oct 1794 –
married John Morris [her step-brother]
d. Martha Armistead 1 Sept 1796 –
married Edmund Waddill of NC
married 2nd Elizabeth Westmoreland [Morris] of Halifax Co NC
widow of John Morris – daughter of Lewis and Jane Westmoreland
e. Robert Starkey Armistead 1800 – 1866 TX
moved to Texas in 1835
married Anne Carney
f. Jane Westmoreland Armistead 1802 –
married in AL 1821 Dr. Neal Smith a native of NC
child of Elizabeth and John Morris
a. John Morris
Child of Mary Tucker [Armistead] and Mr. Williams:
1. William Williams
e-mail from Linda Rogers Weiss —
Hi Sally,
I found your site when I was trying to confirm info about William Westwood Armistead. The Alabama Pioneers site has him as the son of Capt. William Armistead and married to Mary White and Rose Tyler. That is not true. In fact the DAR shows it can’t be proven.
Capt. William Armistead of Clarke Co. Al was to my knowledge my g,g,g,great grandfather. His son Westwood had several children and among them was:
William Westwood whom you have with the correct number of marriages at 4.
Bryant Burroughs (who was my great, great, great grandfather- b. Apr 15, 1820 and d. Nov 24, 1906. He is buried in the Forest Springs Cem in Morvin, Al. His granddaughter who is was my great grandmother, Ruby Armistead Carter Etheredge is buried close by).
Eliza Ann b. Jul 4, 1824 d.Feb 2, 1897
James Westwood b.Apr 15, 1828 d. Jan 9, 1909 buried in Forest Springs, Morvin, Al
Emma Judith b. Jun 27 1834 d.Oct 1, 1910
Robert Starkey b. uk d.uk
Martha Elizabeth b. Jan 3, 1831 d. Jul 27, 1930
Bryant Burroughs Armistead married Sarah Presnall on Nov 2, 1851. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Armistead b. Mar 20, 1866 married Isaac Carter on Dec 19, 1885. Mary Elizabeth and Isaac’s daughter was Ruby Armistead Carter, b. Dec 29 1886. Ruby married Ashby Henry Etheredge, and they had two children; Robert Lee Etheredge b. Aug 8, 1902 and d. Mar 21, 1972 in Charleston, SC and Rueben Etheredge b. Sept 6, 1904 and d. Jan 20, 1983 in Mobile, Al. Ruby died shortly after of complication from childbirth on on Oct 9, 1904 and she is buried near Bryant Burroughs Armistead at Forest Springs Cemetery in Morvin, Al.
I don’t know if you would be interested in adding this. Everytime I read his name anywhere it is listed as Bryan, but it was Bryant and his middle name of Burroughs was his mother’s maiden name.
Sincerely, Linda Rogers Weiss
Will of Alexander Carver Armistead 22 June 1822 – prob Nov Ct 1822
– wife Frances – [but no children]
– nephews Robert and William Armistead, sons of brother Westwood
– Anthony, son of his brother Anthony,
– niece Mary Armistead, daughter of sister Elizabeth,
– William Williams, “brother by mother”
– brothers Anthony and Robert he left eleven slaves to be divided at the death of each brother among “the three children which they had by their first wives.”
– wife and Thomas Lasater to be executors.
Armistead, Anthony [b. Northampton Co NC; d. 1841 Williamson Co MS] mentioned in brother Westwood Armistead’s Federal pension application #W8100. married Mary —-. Likely brother also of Wm. Armistead of Clarke Co AL. NCGSJ vol XI – 162
ref: Garber, Virginia Armistead The Armistead Family. Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond 1910.
re-thinking by Sally 4 Oct 06.
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Here are some notes concerning Westwood Armistead’s Revolutionary War service.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR EXPERIENCES OF
WESTWOOD ARMISTEAD
by Bill Page of Bryan TX
Our knowledge of the war experiences of Westwood Armistead come mainly from his request for a federal pension. Westwood Armistead made his testimony before William Hill, Justice of the Peace, in Chatham County, North Carolina, as part of the process of requesting a pension. It reads:
“This day, the fifth March, A.D. 1844, personally appeared before me, Thomas Bell, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county, Westwood Armistead, and after being sworn, made the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under the Acts of Congress made and provided for the benefit of certain surviving soldiers of the Revolutionary War, viz: this deponent sayeth, first, that he is eighty one years old [that is, born ca. 1763]; that when very young he was drafted into the army in the year 1781, a short time before the Guilford battle; that at the time he was drafted he lived in the county of Northampton, in the State of North Carolina, and after being drafted he was ordered to and did rendezvous at Halifax on the Roanoke, in the state of N.Ca., and marched from there under Capt. Madre to Guilford C.H. [court house] ‚Äì was in the Guilford battle ‚Äì his whole company fled but again rendezvoused at Troublesome Iron Works …”
The Battle of Guilford Court House, took place on 15 March 1781. The American forces, commanded by General Nathanael Greene, faced the British, under the command of Lord Cornwallis. “As the British quickstepped across the field, bayonets fixed, the North Carolina militiamen stood for a moment, transfixed by the sight of cold steel. Then they broke, throwing away weapons, cartouche boxes, and everything else that threatened to impede their flight …” (See Hugh F. Rankin, The North Carolina Continentals, 1971, pp. 304?305).
A lot has been written about the retreat by the North Carolina troops. Years later William Richard Davie, who was at the battle, recalled that about half the militia were positioned behind a split-rail fence, a “cover too insignificant to inspire confidence.” Most of the North Carolina troops were unseasoned in battle Рhardly the kind of soldiers one would hope for in such a key position. (Buchanan, John, The Road to Guilford Courthouse, 1997, pp.372-373).
General Greene and Light Horse Harry Lee both felt the North Carolinians had behaved ignominiously and said that they had fired without having fired a shot. That charge, however, was not true, for eye-witness accounts indicate that the North Carolinians fired at least one volley. One British captain reported “one half of the Highlanders dropped on that spot.” The retreat itself appears to have been the result, at least in part, of their following orders by General Greene that after firing two rounds of fire the Carolinians should retreat. (Pancake, John S., This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas 1780-1782, 1985, pp.178-179).
Amistead continued … “and that he was then returned a soldier for twelve months under Anthony Armistead, his brother; then marched to Camden in the State of S.C., and was in the battle which there took place ‚Äì Hobkirk’s Hill …”
Hobkirk’s Hill fell on about 24 Apr. 1781. (See B.J. Lossing, A Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, pp. 677-679).
Armistead continued, “… from there marched to Ft. Motte, from thence to Augusta in the State of Ga., and was there again in battle ….” Fort Motte fell on May 12, 1781. (See B.J. Lossing, A Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, pp. 681, 683, 685).
Armistead’s statement continued, “… from thence took up march to Ninety Six, but was by the British taken prisoner on the way in a skirmish and carried to Charlestown, in the State of S.C. ‚Äì was there put on board a man of war ‚Äì the name of vessel not recalled ‚Äì remained in Charleston for some time, was carried from there to England. A fight took place on the way between the ship carrying this deponent and a French vessel.”
Some insight into the British viewpoint can be gained from the following messages.
CHARLESTON, May 17, 1781.
Gentlemen:
Several prisoners on parole, having been this day taken up, and sent on board ship, the motives for which are explained in the enclosed copy of a letter to them; I am directed by the commandant to desire you will insert the same in your next paper, for the information of the public. I am, gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant, H. BARRY, Sec’ty., and D. A. General
(From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 3, p. 72)
CHARLESTON, May 17, 1781.
Gentlemen:
Many have been the representations which the outrages committed by the American troops, and their violations of all the humaner principles of war, have compelled me to make to such of their officers as commanded parties in this province; but more particularly have I been obliged to remonstrate against the rigorous treatment, in many cases extending to death, which the loyal militia, when made prisoners, most invariably experience.
These representations, gentlemen, having been grounded on the truest principles of benevolence, and which it behoves each side equally to have advanced, I was as much surprised as I was mortified, to find them in all cases practically disregarded, and in many, wholly neglected. It is therefore become my duty, however irksome to myself, to try how far a more decided line of conduct will prevail, and whether the safety of avowed adherents to their cause, may not induce the American troops to extend a proper clemency to those whose principles arm them in defence of British government.
Induced by these motives, I have conceived it an act of expediency to seize on your persons, and retain them as hostages for the good usage of all the loyal militia who are, or may be made prisoners of war, resolving to regulate, in the full extent, your treatment by the measure of theirs, and which my feelings make me hope hereafter be most lenient.
And as I have thought it necessary that those persons, who some time since were sent from thence to St. Augustine, should, in this respect, be considered in the same point of view as yourselves, I shall send notice there, that they be likewise held as sureties for a future propriety of conduct towards our militia prisoners.
Reasons, so cogent, and which have only the most humane purposes for their objects, will, I doubt not, be considered by every reasonable person as a sufficient justification of this most necessary measure, even in those points where it may militate with the capitulation of Charleston; though indeed the daily infractions of it, by the breach of paroles, would alone well warrant this procedure.
Having been this candid in stating to you the causes for this conduct, I can have no objections to your making any proper use of this letter you may judge to your advantage, and will therefore, should you deem it expedient, grant what flags of truce may be necessary to carry out copies of it to any officer commanding American troops in these parts, and in the mean time the fullest directions will be given, that your present situation be rendered as eligible as the nature of circumstances will admit.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, N. BALFOUR
(From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 3, p. 72)
Armistead continued, “He was landed on the Island of Jersey in the English Channel; was there sick for a considerable time. On recovery was sent to Spithead prison and was there confined until peace was made. Was then sent by cartel to Havre de Grace in France; there saw the American consul, from whom he received some money and a pass.
The American consul referred to probably was Thomas Barclay, the first American consul to serve in a foreign country. He was appointed to serve in France in 1781.
The petition continued, “and [Armistead] went from there to L’Orient and there obtained passage on board an American ship commanded by Capt. Pearson, which landed in May or June 1783, at Boston, in the United States.”
Perhaps this procedure was not too uncommon. John Blatchford also described taking a cartel to France, and then sailing from L’Orient to Massachusetts. (See John Blatchford, The Narrative of John Blatchford, Detailing His Suffering in the Revolutionary War …, 1865, pp. 44?45.
On 22 July 1783, Benjamin Franklin, then in Paris wrote, ‚ÄúOur people who were prisoners in England are now all discharged. During the whole war those who were in Forton prison, near Portsmouth, were much befriended by the constant, charitable care of Mr. Wren, a Presbyterian minister there, who spared no pains to assist them in their sickness and distress by procuring and distributing among them the contributions of good Christians, and prudently dispensing the allowance I made them, which gave him a great deal of trouble, but he went through it cheerfully, I think some public notice should be taken of this good man. I wish the Congress would enable me to make him a present, and that some of our universities would confer upon him the degree of Doctor.‚Äù [2 Sparks’ Dip. Rev. Corr., 462; 8 Bigelow’s Franklin, 304.]
I believe that Forton Prison was located near Spithead, and may well be the place where Westwood Armistead was incarcerated.
For more information concerning the treatment of American prisoners-of-war in England, see:
Alexander, John K. “Forton Prison During the American Revolution: A Case Study of British Prisoner of War Policy and the American Prisoner Response to that Policy.” Essex Institute Historical Collections, 103 (October 1967), pp. 365-389.
Anderson, Olive. “The Treatment of Prisoners of War in Britain During the American War of Independence.”Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 28 (May 1955), pp. 63-83.
Prelinger, Catherine M. “Benjamin Franklin and the American Prisoners of War in England During the American Revolution.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 32 (April 1975), pp. 261-292.
Cohen, Sheldon S. “Thomas Wren: Ministering Angel of Forton Prison.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (July 1979), pp. 279-301.
The petition concluded, “This deponent further declares on oath that he has not at any time received pay for any part of his services.” It was signed, “Westwood Armistead.”
#83 4th gen
Col. Anthony Armistead est 1675 -1728 | his parents
& Anne ? | her parents
& Elizabeth Westwood – 1777 | her parents
of “Willocks” and “The Mill,” Elizabeth City County, VA
This is my working hypothesis – the way I see it as of this moment!!
“Willocks” faces on the county road; the land lays on plateau gradually rising higher, and sloping on up, including a woods, which was once a forest, until it slopes again to the broad water front of the river, flowing into the bay. This was the country home of #178 Robert Armistead and Elizabeth Smith, his wife; he also owned a home in Hampton, at the corner of King and Queen Street. Besides, he owned “Bay Tree Plantation,” or “Back Creek,” several miles from Yorktown; this he bought of Thomas Smith, father of his wife. Here several of his children were born (see Bible record).
“Father often told us of “The Mill” place during the War of 1812 -of how everything was manufactured on the place. There was a cooper shop, a shoemaker’s shop, a weaving room, spinning wheels, carpenter shop where rush and split-bottom chairs, etc., were made; the mill, always busy. As we stood on the bridge this summer over the inlet where the tide rushes in to the mill, and looked at the heavy blocks of stone–part of the foundation of the mill–memory was busy with the past: the wooings and weddings; once two weddings within a week; the births, the deaths, the merry goings-on in the servants’ quarters, the tum-tum of the banjo, the weird singsong moaning over the dead; the harvest song in the field. All the concomitants of plantation life passed in review. The old house was gone! The present one is built on the foundation of the old one, or certainly the old English-made bricks were used in the building, for we made a close examination of everything relating to the olden days.
It is beautifully situated on the Chesapeake Bay, indented by an arm of Mill Creek, near where the old dwelling stood; nothing left now but the English-made brick foundation, over grown with bushes and vines. We brought one of the bricks away with us. The Mill plantation was known as “The Mill” as early as 1695, as is shown by land office records: “Captain Anthony Armistead in 1676 patented 928 acres on northwest side of Back River; in 1695, 150 acres on the head of his own land, at ‘The Mill,’ thence and adjoining the land of Captain Henry Jenkins; Captain William Armistead, 1696, 130 acres adjoining his father, besides 750 other acres, Back Creek and Bay Tree Plantation. near Yorktown; the former spoken of in family Bible, the latter in a deed of Thomas Smith to Robert Armistead.” Mr. T. T. Hudgins, clerk of the court at Yorktown, writes the following: Bay Tree Plantation is in the lower end of Crab Neck, York County, and extended in colonial times from Back Creek to Chisman’s Plantation, and fronted on Chesapeake Bay, hence the name ‘Bay Trees,’ and is now so called. The bay front of the farm was and now is studded with pine trees. Temple farm is about one mile southeast from Yorktown, with a frontage of three-quarters of a mile on York River; Wormeley’s Creek is on the south-east of it. There is neck of land called Goodwynne’s Neck, between Temple Farm and Bay Tree Plantation, distant from each other about three miles.” All this tract, Temple Farm and Bay Tree, or Back Creek Plantation were owned by Lawrence Smith; Elisabeth Smith’s girlhood home, as several of her first children were born there.
Garber, Virginia Armistead The Armistead Family. Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond 1910.
Children of Anthony Armistead 83 and 1st wife Anne:
1. Elizabeth Armistead
2. Mary Armistead
married Thomas Tabb
Children of Anthony Armistead #83 and Elizabeth Westwood:
1. Westwood Armistead #169 d 1756
married Mary Tabb d. 1760
Will of Mary Armistead, widow – 22 Mar 1760 – r. 6 May 1760
-daughter Elizabeth
– daughter Mary to live with my sister Elizabeth Tabb;
– son Westwood
– to God-daughter Elizabeth Smelt for her education, which is to be under the direction of Mrs. Jane Allen
Exrs: brother William Tabb and cousin Captain John Tabb.
Wit: John Brodie, William Smelt, Sr.
Codicil Wit: William Smelt, St, Samuel Jones. John Tabb, qualified
security, John Tabb, Sr, James Wallace, book 1758-64 p153
a. Westwood Armistead #172 aft 1735 will 18 Jan 1782 – prob 22 June 1786
under age at father’s death 1756
married Mary Jenkins dau of Henry Jenkins and Mary Curle
i. Robert Armistead 9 Aug 1766 – 31 Aug 1817 #178
married Elizabeth Smith 22 Aug 1767 – his cousin
dau of Thomas Smith & Elizabeth Armistead
1. Robert Augustus Armistead
a. Westwood Smith Armistead 17 May 1854 – 2 Jan 1890
buried Hollywood, Richmond VA
married 10 Oct 1883 Mary Adela Talbott
dau of Charles Talbott and Caroline Moore Benson of Richmond
ii. Westwood Armistead dsp 179
b. Elizabeth Armistead #173
married ca 1760 Thomas Smith of York Co VA
i. Elizabeth Smith
married Robert Armistead #178
ii. Mary Smith
married Mr. Young of Scotland
c. Mary Armistead #174
2. Anthony Armistead #170 est 1725 –
married Mary Tucker ca 1740 –
Will of Anthony Armistead Sr of Elizabeth City Co 22 Feb 1727/28 – 18 Dec 1728
– son Westwood [not of age] land given to me by my father Anthony Armistead’s will, also land I bought of Edward Myhill
– wife Elizabeth
– son Anthony – land which I purchased of Dunn Armistead, being the tract given him by the will of Pasco Dunn
– daughter Hannah
Exs: brother Robert Armistead, brother in law William Westwood, friend Charles Jenings, Jr and cousin Robert Armistead
Wit: Moss Armistead, C Jenings, Charles Avery, John Lowry
Elizabeth Armistead qualified as Extr book 1704-30 p 150
Appraisal estate of Colonel Anthony Armistead by Simon Hollier, John King, John Lowry, John Tabb
recorded 19 March 1728/29. book 1704-30 p174
– son William [not 21]
Estate of Colonel Anthony Armistead account signed by Mrs Elizabeth Armistead
Cash paid Mr Nicholas King, his wife’s estate
cash paid Mr William Smelt, his wife’s estate
Audited by Joseph Banister, Thomas Mingham, John Selden 18 March 1740/41 book 1737-49 p102
ref: Garber, Virginia Armistead The Armistead Family. Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond 1910.
Chapman, Blanche Adams – Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City Co Virginia 1688 – 1800
Mary Tucker was the daughter of Anthony Tucker and Rosea, widow of Jonathan Curle. (not correct, she was the widow of Joshua Curle. John Curle passed away at about age 16.