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William Armistead (1762–1799) was a Revolutionary War drummer boy from Elizabeth City County, Virginia, who became a planter (and slaveowner) in North Carolina and later in Alabama. [1] 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 ...
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 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 William Martin Armistead (1873–1955), publicist for the N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency
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 .
The son of the former Agnes Knowles and her husband, Col. John Armistead, was born in New Kent County. He was likely named to honor his grandfather, Capt. (then Major) William Armistead, who had a brother Gill Armistead and both served on the vestry of Blisland Parish (although Col. John Armistead moved to St. Peter's Parish and served on its vestry, in addition to his military duties and ...
Through his son William, he was the paternal grandfather of William Armistead Moale Burden Jr. (1906–1984), [29] a banker [30] who served as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1959 to 1961, [31] [32] and Shirley Carter Burden (1908–1989), a prominent photographer.
William Armistead Moale Burden III (1931–1962), [32] a reporter for The Washington Post who was married to Leslie Lepington Hamilton (1932–1998), granddaughter of Bishop Franklin Hamilton, in 1951. [33] Robert Livingston Burden (1934–1974), who was the head of the science department at Thomas Jefferson School in St. Louis. [34]