Armstrong Family - from Ireland- to Pennsylvania-Virginia

Presented by Deborah Shelton Wood

Mary Katherine Armstrong, daughter of Captain Joseph and Jennet Armstrong of Pennsylvania married James Currie on May 31, 1758 in the Espiscopal Church of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. They are my ancestors.

"Mary Katherine ARMSTRONG; died in Caswell Co NC married 1758 Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, PA to James COUREY b 1732/7 son John CURRY and Mary Ann ; estate settled Dec 1782 Caswell Co NC. '" Source: Armstrong Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters by Virginia Carpenter Jansen and George Jansen Jr.

Captain Joseph ARMSTRONG, Sr. was born circa 1711 in Londonderry, Ireland. Joseph came to Pennsylvania in 1731 and settled in the Cumberland Valley in 1751. About ten short years later he died in Carlisle Pennsylvania. He was buried in HamiltonTownship. He is believed to have married Jennet STEWART.

Captain Joseph's parents were John and Susannah Armstrong of Ireland. John was from Brookboro, Fermanagh County IRELAND

The ARMSTRONG legacy is one of wars and battles in Ireland, Scotland and England as well as in America.

"Among Col. John Armstrong’s 300 frontiersmen who made the daring rescue at Kittanning was a company headed by Captain Joseph Armstrong, Sr. (In 1756, two McCords were in Captain Armstrong’s company, William and John McCord) For the daring rescue, Colonel John Armstrong and his officers received medals and monetary awards from the Penn family."

"Captain Joseph Armstrong Sr.’s son, Colonel Joseph Armstrong, Jr. had a farm just a couple of miles south of Fort McCord and was married to Elizabeth McCord of the Fort McCord families, further research has shown. Colonel Armstrong, and we believe Elizabeth McCord Armstrong, were buried in the Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church graveyard not far from Ft. McCord. The McCords attended Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church and William McCord and Colonel Armstrong had pews there". FORT McCORD is near present day, Chambersburg, PA

John Armstrong's parents are probably John ARMSTRONG and Ellen CURRY who married in 1667, Ireland.

1 John ARMSTRONG
+ Ellen CURRY
    2 John ARMSTRONG
      + Susannah
        3 Joseph ARMSTRONG b: ABT 1711 d: ABT 1761
          + Jennet STEWART
            4 Mary Katherine ARMSTRONG b: ABT 1740
              + James CURRIE SR. b: 1737 d: BEF 1782
                5 James CURRIE b: 26 Apr 1765 d: 16 Jan 1842
                  + Sarah BLACK b: ABT 1770
                    6 Jane CURRIE b: ABT 1799 d: ABT 1845
                      + Robert SALE b: ABT 1786
                        7 Jane SALE b: ABT 1808 d: 1873
                          + Constantine Allen GRAY b: ABT 1797 d: 1863
                            8 Mary Ann GRAY b: 22 Jan 1828 d: 13 Apr 1896
                              + William WILLARD b: 20 Aug 1820 d: 2 Feb 1915
                                9 Margret J WILLARD b: 1847
                                  + Bluford Calhoun COLEMAN b: 1847
                                    10 Dorothea Maud COLEMAN b: 23 Apr 1890 d: 28 Dec 1957
                                      + Ewell Branson REYNOLDS b: 2 Nov 1882 d: 6 Jul 1959

SOURCES: Armstrong Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters by Virginia Carpenter Jansen and George Jansen Jr.

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