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This William Armistead was born in 1762 to one of the First Families of Virginia, and considerable genealogical research has been performed to determine his parentage, due to his father's impecunious state and records lost over time. In 1838 he applied for a pension based on his Revolutionary War service, and stated his parents died as a boy. [2]
Armistead had US$55,000 ($1.7 million in 2024 dollars) to use for bribing chiefs to surrender. In November 1840, General Armistead met at Fort King with Thlocklo Tustenuggee, a Muscogee speaker known as "Tiger Tail", and Halleck Tustenuggee, a Mikasuki speaker. Armistead was authorized by Washington to offer each leader $5,000 ($115,023) to ...
Maj. Lewis Burwell (1621–1653), [3] was baptized on 5 March 1621/22 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England.In 1650, the wealthy planter (who owned about 7000 acres of land) married Lucy Higginson, whose parents had likewise emigrated to the Virginia colony to escape the English Civil War, but whose father Robert, after leading the Middle Plantation militia and arranging a stockade to protect ...
William Armitstead may refer to: William Armistead (burgess) (died c. 1716), represented Elizabeth City, Virginia in the Virginia House of Burgesses; William Armistead (1754–1793), slave owner and namesake of former slave and spy James Armistead Lafayette; William Armistead (1762–1842), Revolutionary war veteran and Alabama pioneer
John A. Carter (November 15, 1808 – 1890) was a Virginia lawyer, farmer and politician, who represented Loudoun County, Virginia in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly for two terms each both before and after the American Civil War, as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861.
Armistead C. Gordon, 5x great-grandson of William Randolph was a Virginia lawyer and a prolific writer of prose and poetry. John Skelton Williams , 2x great-grandson of Edmund Randolph, great-grandson of Peyton Randolph, was Comptroller of the Currency under President Woodrow Wilson .
On April 18, 1871, he was married to Evelyn Byrd Moale (1847–1916), [15] a daughter of William Armistead Moale (1800–1880) of Baltimore, Maryland, [16] who was a descendant of the Carter and Byrd families of Virginia. Her sister Judith Carter Moale was married to Robert Livingston Cutting Jr., a prominent banker. [17]
John Mason McCarty vs. Armistead Thomson Mason (1819) Stephen Decatur vs. James Barron (1820) Daniel Key vs. John Sherbourne (1836) Jonathan Cilley vs. William J. Graves (1838) A. Galletin Lawrence vs. Baron Kusserow (1868) Casualties; Barent Gardenier, wounded Armistead Thomson Mason, killed Stephen Decatur, mortally wounded Daniel Key, killed