Joseph Armstrong1

b. 1739, d. 29 August 1811
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2nd great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
4th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Joseph Armstrong was born in 1739 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.2 He was the son of Joseph Armstrong and Jennet (—?—) (Armstrong).1 He married Elizabeth.3 He died on 29 August 1811 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.2 He was buried in Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church Yard, Letterkenney township.2 His will was proved on 31 August 1812 in Franklin County.3
     
Additional Data
On 8 September 1756, brothers John, Thomas and Joseph Armstrong were with their father at the destruction of Kittanning.4 He was an ensign in 1758. A little later he was a lieutenant in the Second Battlion and was with Colonel Henry Bouquet in 1764.4

Joseph, John and Thomas Armstrong were co-executors of their father Joseph Armstrong's will dated 3 September 1760 in Hamilton township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Joseph inherited from his father "that part of my plantation whereon I dwell".1 Click to view image

Joseph Armstrong raised a company of associates and was subsequently, July 1776, placed in command of the Fifth "Flying Camp" Battalion of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, serving in the Jersey campaign of that year.4,5,6

Joseph Armstrong made a will on 2 August 1811 in Hamilton township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Mentioned in the will were wife Elizabeth; nephew Joseph Armstrong, son of John Armstrong of Orange County, North Carolina; Mary Jacob, daughter of Patrick Jack; Mary McConoughy daughter of Robert McConoughy; Samuel Armstrong Findlay, son of John Findlay deceased; Joseph Armstrong Blackburn, son of John Blackburn of the State of Ohio; George Armstrong Esq of Greensburg, PA; John Findley, son of John Findley deceased; Mary Jack and Samuel Findlay. Exec: Wife Elizabeth, Edward Crawford, and Dr. Samuel D. Culbertson. Wit: John Wilson, Matthew Patton, and David Wilson.3

Citations

  1. [S312] Joseph Armstrong will (1760), Cumberland County Will Book A: 79, County Clerk's Office, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
  2. [S311] George Overcash Seilhamer, "From Braddock to Bouquet", The Kittochtinny Magazine 1 (October 1905): 379.
  3. [S315] Joseph Armstrong will (1811), Franklin County Will Book C: 19, County Clerk's Office, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
  4. [S317] Harry E. Foreman, North Mountain Shadows and Loudon Road History (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: n.pub., 1952), 7.
  5. [S311] George Overcash Seilhamer, "From Braddock to Bouquet", 385.
  6. [S307] Dr. James Lewis Armstrong, ed., Chronicles of the Armstrongs (New York: The Marion Press, 1902), 379.