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Mary Ann (Tate) Armstrong (abt. 1744 - abt. 1836)

Mary Ann Armstrong formerly Tate
Born about in Bristol, Washington County, Colony of Virginiamap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of [uncertain] and
Wife of — married about 1766 in North Carolinamap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 92 in Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Born ca 1746. Mary Tate married Martin Armstrong In 1766 when she was 20 and Martin was 27. They married in Rowan County, North Carolina.

"Mary and Martin were the parents of at least six children: Thomas Temple, Jane, Martin Jr., Mary Ann Elizabeth ("Mae"), Joseph, and John Barclay."

Mae married Alexander McCall ca. 1795, probably in North Carolina. "Mae and Alex settled in Smith County, TN, as did John Barclay and Jane. Thomas Temple returned to Surry County."

Mary Tate Armstrong reportedly wed a second spouse: Matthew Van Kuykendall.

Mary Tate Armstrong Kuykendall died in Smith County, North Carolina. in Jun 1836; she was 90.


Sources


Mayfield, Reuben N. Boone, Mayfield, Short and Tate: Brief Family History (New York, 1902). See Tates, p. 18.

McClure, James Alexander. The McClure Family (Petersburg, Virginia: F.A. Owen, 1914). See The Tate Family, pp. 215 - 219.

McIlhany, Hugh Milton. Some Virginia Families : Being Genealogies of the Kinney, Stribling, Trout, McIlhany, Milton, Rogers, Tate, Snickers, Taylor, McCormick, and other families of Virginia (Staunton, Virginia: Stoneburner & Prufer, Printers, 1903). See The Tate Family, pp. 100 - 107.


Online Family Trees

Mary Ann Elizabeth Tate - Denney Family Tree, Ancestry.com

Mary Ann Tate (1744 - 1836) - Genealogy Gophers

Tate Family Trees, Crests, Genealogies, Biographies - Linkpendium

Anon. Montgomery County, TN. (Tennessee: Turner Publishing Co, 2000) p. 125 via Google Books.

Family Search "North Carolina Research" Wiki page here: [1]

Family Search "Washington County, North Carolina Research" Wiki page, here: [2]

Family Search "North Carolina Marriages, 1759 - 1979" Search Engine, here: [3]


1839 Probate Record [Morganton, Burke County, NC]

Mary Tate North Carolina Estate Files

  • Name Mary Tate
  • Event Type Probate
  • Event Year 1839
  • Event Place Burke, North Carolina, United States
  • Number of Names with File 1
  • File Name Mary Tate
  • First Image Number 01570
  • Last Image Number 01580
  • Number of Images 11

Citing this Record

"North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1LM-3MQ : 20 November 2015), Mary Tate, 1839; citing Burke, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,977,111.

North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979 GS Film Number 001977111 Digital Folder Number 005274812

Daughter Mary McCall Armstrong in 1840 U.S. Census [Smith County, Tennessee]

Mary M Armstrong in the 1840 United States Federal Census

  • Name: Mary M Armstrong
  • Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Smith, Tennessee
  • Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
  • Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
  • Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
  • Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
  • Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
  • Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 2
  • Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
  • Slaves - Males - Under 10: 3
  • Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
  • Slaves - Males - 55 thru 99: 1
  • Slaves - Females - Under 10: 2
  • Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 3
  • Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1
  • Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
  • Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
  • Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
  • Total Free White Persons: 9
  • Total Slaves: 11
  • Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 20

Source Citation Year: 1840; Census Place: Smith, Tennessee; Roll: 534; Page: 263; Image: 537; Family History Library Film: 0024549

Source Information Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Description This database details those persons enumerated in the 1840 United States Federal Census, the Sixth Census of the United States. In addition, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to the actual images of the 1840 Federal Census. Enumerators of the 1840 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household, number of free white males and females, number of other free persons, names of slave owners and number of slaves, number of foreigners, and town or district and county of residence.

1855 Revolutionary War Pension Application by Descendants of Martin Armstrong

Pension application of Martin Armstrong R256 Transcribed by Will Graves

SOURCE: Revolutionary War Applications website at this link: [20]

State of Virginia, County of Washington

On this 29th day of March 1855 personally appeared in Open Court, Dr. Alexander McCall a resident of Davidson County, in the State of Tennessee, aged 58 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th, 1836, Granting pensions to Widows [of] Officers and Soldiers, who served during the revolutionary War, also the provisions of the Act, passed 3rd of March 1855.

That he is the Grand Son, and Administrator, of Mary Armstrong deceased, late of Smith County, Tennessee, the identical Mary Armstrong who was the Widow of Martin Armstrong, deceased, who was, as declarant always understood, from his Father and Mother, and from his Grand Mother, the said Martin Armstrong Entered the Service of the United States, in the revolutionary War from the State of North Carolina, as early as the year 1776 in the militia of said State, that he served in various capacities as an officer, until he reached the Commission of Colonel of Militia, that he served in the Various Capacities until the middle or latter part of the War, the Greater part of said Service, he thinks, he performed as Colonel, but the particulars of said service he cannot give, as it is all from what he has understood from the above named parties and others, he understood that the part of his time was under General Benjamin Cleveland and a part under General Griffith Rutherford, that he was Engaged in the Battle of Gates defeat at or near Camden, that towards the latter part of said Revolutionary War, he went out to the Frontier with General Rutherford against the Indians and Tories, that he continued in said service for a considerable time, but for the particulars, duration, or all the particulars, [illegible word, looks like “Geddish”] declarant must rely upon the records of the State of North Carolina to which is now refers, Marked No. 1-- that at, or after the close of said War, said Martin Armstrong removed to the West, and some time thereafter, was appointed Surveyor General of the Northwestern territory, that he settled in the State of Tennessee, and died in Nashville on or about the __ [blank in original] day of September 1808, that he left his Widow Mary Armstrong to whom he was married about the years 1776 or 1777 as he always understood, in the County of __ [blank in original] North Carolina, that previous to his Grand Mother's Marriage with said Martin Armstrong, her name was Mary Tate. That after they removed from thence to Tennessee, and after the death of said Martin Armstrong, his widow, the said Mary, survived him and still remained his widow until, on or about the __ [blank in original] day of June 1836 when she died, that at the time of her death, she left declarant's Mother, Mary A. E. McCall, who was as declarant always understood the third Child of said Martin and Mary Armstrong, and who is now about 80 years of age, being Born, as declarant understands from his Mother and her Old record, on the 19th day of April 1775, that he is Mother the said M. A. E. McCall is still living in Smith County State of Tennessee, that she is the Sole, and only Surviving Child and Heir at Law of her Mother the said Mary Armstrong, of whose Estate declarant is Administrator, declarant further states, that he knows of no documentary or record proof of the services of said Martin Armstrong, beyond that now presented, or of the marriage of said Martin and Mary Armstrong, unless it may be in the family record of his Mother, the said M. A. E. McCall, he has also heard his Mother and relations speak of Colonel Armstrong's Commission, but which Commission he cannot produce, that the reason why his Mother, nor declarant never applied for a pension previous to this date, was that they supposed from the fact, that said Mary Armstrong having died the so short a time prior is passage of the Act of 1836, it was not worth claiming, but believing that the pension under the act of 1832, would commence in the 4th March 1831, and continued to the 4th July 1836 on to the death of said Mary Armstrong (to wit) in May or June 1836, he claims the same as Administrator of the Estate of Mary Armstrong, for the benefit of the said Mary A. E. McCall, her sole & only surviving Child, and Heir at Law, he also claims the benefit of the Act of 3rd March of 1855 making further provision for Officers' Widows &c of the revolutionary War. He refers to paper No. 2, letters of administration.

S/ Alexr McCall {SEAL} State of North Carolina Comptrollers Office

I George W. Brooks Comptroller of the Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military Service in the Revolution as follows Viz.:

Colo. Martin Armstrong Book E. G. Page 54 £31..4..4 allowed in April 1776 “ 58 £48..1 8 “ Nov. 1776 “ 74 £748..19..2 as Commissary in The Cherokee Expedition “ 78 £143..4..4 allowed in Nov. 1777 “ 36 £2410..0..0 “ Jany. 1779 Book C Entry 5312 £33..6..8 “ Jany 1787 “ A “ 8110 £112..8.. Kingston page 147 £3528.. currency Oct. 1779

I further certify that the Rolls show that said Martin Armstrong held the Rank of “Colonel of the Militia” and Contractor of N. Levies, of Salisbury District which agrees with the Books of “Army Accounts.” In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of

Office, in the City of Raleigh. This the 18th of February A.D. 1855 S/ Geo. W. Brooks, Comptr. NC


Comptrollers Office Raleigh NC February 1855 Alex. McCall, Esqr.

Sir – yours of the fifth instant came to hand a few days to go with the [illegible word]. Your request for the search has been attended to and a certificate of the results made out, which I enclose to you by tonight's mail. The Books and Rolls do not show under what officers he served nor in what Battles he fought. The Rolls have nearly all been destroyed. The Certificate contains all the information in this office. Secretary Hill has made a search but finds nothing as he has none of the Revolutionary records relating to the Militia. Colonel Armstrong seems to have served entirely in the Militia. I think the certificate will establish your claim so far as the evidence from this office is concerned. Secretary William Hill who is a very old man informs me that he was personally acquainted with Colonel Martin Armstrong and knows that he served a long time and was Surveyor of the Soldiers' Lands in Tennessee after the war closed. Should you want any other evidence to go before the Department at Washington perhaps he will avail you something.

Very Respectfully &c. S/ Geo W. Brooks, Comptroller N. C





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