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Samuel Armstrong (b. 1742, d. 02 Sep 1809)
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William RN-16831 ArmstrongCompact Disc #39Pin #320693
Sex: M
Event(s):
Birth:1695Place:Enniskillen, Fermanagh Co. Ireland
Death:16 Mar 1760Place:Augusta Co. Virginia
Parents:
Father:UnknownDisc #39Pin #323215
Marriage(s):
Spouse:Margaret HamiltonDisc #39Pin #320694
Marriage:abt 1720Place:Fermanaugh Co. Ireland
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Samuel ArmstrongCompact Disc #81Pin #447999
Sex: M
Event(s):
Death:12 Sep 1809Place:SC
Birth:1742Place:Ireland
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Marriage(s):
Spouse:Mary BoydDisc #81Pin #448000
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Samuel ArmstrongCompact Disc #116Pin #735207
Sex: M
Event(s):
Birth:1742Place:Ireland
Death:12 Sep 1809Place:SC
Marriage(s):
Spouse:Mary BoydDisc #116Pin #735208
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Samuel Armstrong
Year: 1767
Age: 25
Estimated birth year: abt 1742
Place: Charles Town, South Carolina
Source Publication Code: 7343
Primary Immigrant: Armstrong, Samuel
Annotation: From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761.
Source Bibliography: REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981.
Page: 88
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He served in an independent company of rangers under Captain Robert Ellison during 1775.S.C.H.&G., I, 196
SAMUEL ARMSTRONG was born in 1742 at Canonbie, On the Border, Scotland.
Samuel arrived in South Carolina on December, 1767 from Ballimena, County of Antrim, Kingdom of Ireland aboard the ship "EARL OF DENEGAL". The ship's Captain was Duncan Ferguson.
Along with Samuel, who was twenty five, was his wife, Mary Boyd, twenty three, their first son, William, two, and Sam's mother, Margaret Hamilton, sixty.
In the spring of 1768, Samuel was awarded 200 acres and his mother 100 acres, all on Waterbee Creek, Craven County, South Carolina.
Samuel lived in Abbeville County, South Carolina, and lived to sire nine children. He joined the "South Carolina Rangers", under the command of Captain Robert Ellison, in 1775 and served in the War of Independence.
Samuel died in Sept. 1809, in Abbeville, County, SC. He left the following will, dated 26 Aug. 1809, proved 11 Sep. 1809, Will Book, page 380, Abbeville Dist., SC.
WILL OF SAMUEL ARMSTRONG
In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Armstrong, being in a low state of health but sound of mind and memory, calling to mind the mortality of the body, do make and publish this, my last will and testament in manner following, viz. First I give my Soul to God, Who gave it, and my body to be decently buried in a Christian manner. Next, I allow all my just debts to be paid. Next, I give and bequeath to my loving wife, two cows and calves and all my household furniture during her life. Next, I give and bequeath unto my son John Armstrong, one hundred acres of land where he now lives, he paying my beloved wife ten dollars and one wagon load of corn yearly during her life. Next, I give and bequeath unto my son David Armstrong, one hundred acres of land whereon he now lives, he paying my beloved wife ten dollars and one wagon load of corn yearly during her life, and at my wife's decease, my son John Armstrong and my son David Armstrong is to pay my son Matthew Armstrong twenty five dollars each. Next, I give and bequeath unto my son William Armstrong, one dollar, Next, I give and bequeath unto my son Hugh Armstrong, one dollar. Next, I give and bequeath unto my son James Armstrong, one dollar. Next, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Martha Furlong, one dollar. Next, I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Emerson, one dollar. Next, I give and bequeath unto my son, Samuel Armstrong, one hundred acres of land, where he now lives, my beloved wife to have the benefit of the dwelling house during her life and I allow my son Samuel Armstrong to attend that piece of ground I formally attended, one half in corn and the other half in small grain, yearly, for my wife and also to give her a wagon load of corn yearly during her life and at my decease, I allow an inventory to be taken of all my movable property and at my loving wife's decease, for it to be sold and an equal division of the money to be made between my sons John, David and Samuel Armstrong and my daughter, Mary Emerson. Next, I appoint Abraham Livingston, my son David Armstrong and my son Samuel Armstrong, Executors of this, my last will and testament. Lastly, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, all my stock of hogs. Signed sealed and acknowledged, this to be my last will and teatament, this twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Loard, one thousand eight hundred and nine, in the preasence of Abraham Livingston, Robert Russell, Wm. Black Jr.
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Expend: Oct 27, 1826. To cash paid for Matilda V. armstrong, board, $9.00
Feb. 6, 1826. To cash paid Watt Bowie for Eliza Armstrong, $14.56 1/4
Feb. 6, 1826. To cash paid James Armstrong of his share.
Feb. 24, 1827. Paid Ord. for guardianship to Matilda and Amanda Armstrong, $3.00
Paid John Wier for boarding John Armstrong, $3.00
Jan. 1, 1824. Paid Mary Ann Armstrong legacy in part, $105.88
Samuel Armstrong had a note for $6.00 on Matthew, Martin and Henry Emerson. Also a note on William Emerson, $5.00.
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On 21 Feb. 1827, Samuel Huston, John Power and Patrick Johnson bound unto Moses Taggart, Ord. Abbeville Dist, the sum of $2000.00. Samuel L. Houston was guardian of Matilda Vasti Armstrong and Amanda Zena Armstrong, minors under 14 years. Eliza Armstrong has also been listed as a minor. These may have been Samuel's grand daughters.
More About Samuel Armstrong:
Alt Birth: 1742, Canonbie, On The Border, Scotland.
Alt. Birth: Abt. 1742, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Province Of Ulster, No. Ireland..375
Arrival 1: 1767, South Carolina.376
Arrival 2: 1767, Charleston, South Carolina.376
Date born 2: Abt. 1742, Ballymena, Antrim Co., N. Ireland.377
Date born 3: 1742378
Date born 4: 1742378
Date born 5: 1742, Ballimena, Antrim, Ireland.
Died 2: 12 Sep 1809, Abbeville Co., South Carolina.379
Died 3: 12 Sep 1809, South Carolina.
Record Change: 17 Dec 2002
Religion: Protestants From Ireland.
More About Samuel Armstrong and Mary Ann Boyd:
Marriage 1: 1764, Fermanaugh, Ireland.380, 380, 380
Marriage 2: 1763, Ulster,Ireland.
Marriage 3: Abt. 1764, No. Ireland.381, 382, 383
Marriage 4: 1764, Fermanaugh, Ireland.384
Marriage 5: 1764, Ulster, Northern Ireland.384
Marriage 6: 1764, Ulster, Northern Ireland.384
Marriage 7: 1764, Ulster, Northern Ireland.384
Marriage 8: 1764, Ulster, Northern Ireland.384
Marriage 9: 1764, Ulster, Northern Ireland.384
Marriage Notes for Samuel Armstrong and Mary Ann Boyd:2_PREF Y
Children of Samuel Armstrong and Mary Ann Boyd are:
- +James Armstrong, b. 06 Apr 1764, Kingstree, South Carolina, USA384, d. 11 Nov 1837, Maury, Tennessee, USA384.
- William Armstrong, b. 14 Aug 1765, Fermanaugh, Ireland384, 384, 384, 384, d. 04 Sep 1834, Anderson, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384, 384.
- +Samuel Armstrong, b. 1767, Abbeville Dist, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384, d. 1823, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384.
- David Armstrong, b. 1768, Camden District, South Carolina384, d. 26 Oct 1849, Dallas, Alabama384.
- Hugh Armstrong, b. 1770, Camden Dist, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384, d. 1833, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384.
- John H Armstrong, b. 30 Apr 1772, Dist, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384, d. 1843, Abbeville, South Carolina.
- Martha Armstrong, b. 1774, Abbyville, Dorchester, South Carolina, USA384, 384, d. 1791384, 384.
- Matthew Armstrong, b. 1779, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA384, 384, d. 1851, Sumner, Tennessee, USA384, 384.
- Mary Ann Armstrong, b. 1777, Abbeville Dist, South Carolina, USA384, 384, 384, d. Sep 1823, Penny Creek, S384, 384, 384.