Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 24. Page 1. 27/6/1951 (123) REVEREND WILLIAM ARMSTRONG The following information was sent to me on February 18/1904, by James E. Shaw, County Buildings, Ayr, Scotland, copied from a book in his possession entitled "The History of the Dalrymples of Langlands", in which there is a full account of the Armstrongs of Cherry Valley, near Belfast, Ireland, and particularly of Captain John Armstrong who married Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands. This account was written in 1854 by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan, Ireland, who was the second son of Thomas Armstrong, the fourth son of the above Reverend William Armstrong, see page 5. I have amplified this with further information given me by Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor Maine, likewise a descendant of Thomas Armstrong - see page 9. The Reverend William Armstrong is said to have been born about 1720, and to have died in 1808. He was a clergyman at Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and was said to have come from County Sligo. The name of his first wife was Jane Irwin, of a very respectable family: she was said to have had a large mouth and thick lips. He married a second time at an advanced age, but the name of this second wife is not known. AM 12/3/1996: found to have married at Killashandra, Jane Irvine, 15/2/1747. Issue:- (by his first wife Jane Irwin) 1. William Armstrong. Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829 at Cheltenham or Leamington, England. The name of his wife is not known. Further details about William will be found on this page below. 2.James Armstrong. Dates of birth and death unknown. Further details about James will be found on page 2. 3. Son. name unknown. Nothing is known about him except that he was an attorney at Cork, Ireland, 4. Thomas Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1756, shot to death in 1787. He married at St. Croix, B.W.I,, Mary Aletta Biggs, born about 1770, daughter of Dr. and -- (Heyleger) Biggs of St. Croix. Further details about Thomas will be found on pages 2 to 14. 5.John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra in 1762, died at Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March 12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died in 1818. He married, 2nd, in 1818, Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820. See subject 12 for issue and further particulars. 6. Mary Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, date unknown, died 1808. She married John Goodfellow, a British Army officer. Further details about Mary will be found on pages 14-15. Dr. William Armstrong's narrative contains the following;- "We are, I believe, all descended from a man who was hanged for stealing cattle, the famous Johnny Armstrong, the Scottish Border Chief. Raiding the northern English counties and stealing their cattle, was the favorite pastime of the Scottish Border Chiefs in those days. His history of the above six children of the Reverend William Armstrong is as follows:- 1. William Armstrong, Born at Killashandra about 1752, died about 1829 at Cheltenham or Leamington, England. He was buried in the same tomb as his younger brother John: the tombstone is inscribed as follows:-"In the memory of William Armstrong, formerly of the island of St. Croix, in the British West Indies, 1830. This memorial of affection was erected by the children of Captain John Armstrong, in commemoration of their lamented father and uncle, whose bodies are interred herein", It is not known what was the name of William's wife, but she is said (AM 1996: found at Leamington Buried 13/4/1830 age 78). Subject 24 P2 (124) to have been a sister of a bank director in London, and a sister of Lady Broughton, whose father, the Rev. Thomas Broughton County Stafford, the sixth baronet, married thirdly in 1794, Mary, daughter of Michael Keating, of the County of Cork, and widow of Thomas Scott Jackson Esq., one of the directors of the Bank of England. William had a place called Roundwood in Queen's County, Ireland, where he appears to have had an estate. He was spoken of as "Billie the Beau". I know very little of him after he left Ireland, except that he became a quack doctor in London. Some tine later he was a West India merchant in London. He then went to St. Croix, where he bought an estate named "Pearl": "Lebanon" was also mentioned. He resided there for several years, and they said he lived like a prince. He lost the estate through the mismanagement of his son-in.law Cuvalie, the price of sugar, and a succession of dry seasons and bad crops. He owed Dr Biggs, the father of the wife of his younger brother Thomas, a very large sum, and one of the estates he had later bought, named "Lebanon", was sold to one of Thomas' sons for œ15,000. of this neither principal nor interest, was ever paid, for the emancipation of the negroes ruined him. He had a hundred slaves worth œ10,000, all of which he lost, and has now to pay and support sixty of them, which he could not do and support his family in the most humble manner. He then returned to London, and I have heard that he married again, a short time before his death, and left his widow five or six thousand Pounds, which he had inherited from some relative. Issue:- 2/1. James Armstrong, died at St. Croix, leaving a wife and family. 2/2. Thomas Armstrong, no data. 2/3. Anna Maria Armstrong, who Dr. William Armstrong said he had the pleasure of meeting at Lady Broughton's house. She went to St. Croix, and married a Mr. Cuvalie, It is believed Lady Broughton left her three or four hundred Pounds per annum. Anna's husband died at St. Croix, and I don't know what became of her or her family. 2. James Armstrong. Birth and death dates not known. We want out to St. Croix, and later emigrated from there to Demerara, British Guiana, with his wife, children and negroes. The ship and cargo represented his entire property: the ship was wrecked. the cargo lost, and he saw his wife, children, ship's crew, and negroes, die one by one of starva- tion. He finally landed at Demerera, but I believe died soon after. 3. Son. name unknown. Nothing of him is known except that he was an attorney at Cork,Ireland. 4. Thomas Armstrong. Born in 1755 at Killashandra, shot to death from ambush in 1787. As a young man, he was sent out to St. Croix by his elder brother William to look after the latter's estates there, a very young man for such a position. There was living in St. Croix at that time, an Englishman by the name of Dr. Biggs, who had become rich through buying sick slaves, curing them, and selling them again. Thomas then had an estate called "Lebanon", worth œ100,000. Dr. Biggs at that time, had a daughter still in her teens named Mary Aletta Biggs, with whom Thomas fell in love. Dr Biggs' wife was a Dane by the name of Heyleger. Thomas wooed and won Mary Aletta, much against the wishes of her father. Naturally he was opposed as she was so very young, not over fourteen years of age. Mary Aletta became engaged to Thomas, but her father forbade them to marry, so a woman friend came to the rescue, Subject 24 P3 (125) and helped her to elope with Thomas. She threw a feather mattress out of the window for Mary to alight on so she would not hurt herself. They then drove into the town to the clergyman's house. Dr. Biggs was aroused and started off on horse back in post haste, partly dressed, one shoe off and one shoe in stockings. When he got to the clergynan's house, they would not let him in, so he called out "when you get through come home again". A day or two after, when Thomas returned from town, he found his youthful wife sitting up in a tree, playing with her dolls. I believe they were married in the year 1784. Thomas and his bride then returned to Ireland, where Thomas became overseer of his brother William's estate at Roundwood, because William was busy in London, and William's younger brother John in the Army. One morning early, Thomas went out to make a tour of the estate: time passed and he failed to make an appearance: he was found dead, having been shot from ambush from the other side of the hedge by which the estate was surrounded, by one of the employees with whom he had had a dispute over the stealing off timber. He left a wife not quite eighteen years old, and three sons. I do not know where Mary Aletta died. In 1793, Mary Aletta married, 2nd, Mr. Luke Flood, an estated gentleman of Roundwood, whose name is found in "Vicar's List of Prerogative Wills", Dublin. Luke died within seven years, leaving three children. First, Fanny Flood, who married Milliard Stubbers and had nine children. Second, Edward Flood, who married, 1st, at 18 years of age, Miss Driscoll, by whom he had six children: she died after eight years. and he married another young lady by whom he had four children: his eldest son married an English lady who died leaving six children: his eldest daughter Fanny Flood. married her cousin Sewall Milliard Stubbers: his next two children, Oliver and Caroline, are well married and comfortable: his two youngest children, William and Robert, spoke of going to America. third, Luke Flood, about whom I have no information. In 1810, Mary Aletta was persuaded by a friend to venture into matrimony for a third time, and the choice of herself and her friend, was James Horan, an estated gentleman, but of very cranky and disagreeable disposition. She left him soon, after they had a child who died in infancy. Issue:- (of Thomas and Mary Aletta (Biggs) Armstrong) 2/1. Benjamin Armstrong, who became a subaltern in the 71st, and aide de camp to General Dalrymple: he died at 22 years of age on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope when his regiment formed a part of General Beresford's army in 1808. He was born before his father was shot. 2/2. William Armstrong, who wrote this history of the Armstrongs. He wrote about his life as follows:- I was nursed in a cabin, according to the Irish custom at that time, and became ricketty. I could not walk at three years of age. My grandfather Biggs often told me that I inherited nothing from my grandfather or grandmother Armstrong, but the Irwin mouth. Then, in consequence of my mother's second marriage, I was sent to an old great-aunt, one of whose sons I killed accidentally when I was 11 years of age. I went to Edinburgh college at 14 years of age. Then took out my diploma as physician, surgeon and accoucheur at 12 years of age, being the youngest of fifty students. I then entered the Army as Assistant Surgeon of the 7th Royal Fusileers. at 19 years of age. I was elected president of the Royal Physical Society at Edinburgh at 17 years of age. I was surgeon and physician to the forces at 26 years of age. I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1812, to marry Subject 24 P4 (126) my first wife, Miss Taylor,who was the only child of a wealthy English merchant at Halifax. Supposing I had #5000 at St. Croix, I resigned my commission in 1813, with the intention of living a quiet domestic life. I soon discovered that I had no chance of any income from St. Croix, and my father in law, in consequence of several of his ships being taken by the Americans during the war, was reduced to poverty and could not assist us, so I found myself compelled to commence private practice in a town I had never heard of until informed of the resident doctor's death. In a year and a half, after having such high expectations, I was living in a small lodging or two apartments, and my wife a corpse after having given birth to my twin sons. I soon got sufficient practice to maintain me respectably and all went well until my brother proposed to purchase my step mother's share of our West Indies property, and go to St. Croix to take the estate into his own hands. She being a minor, her father's executors insisted on my joining, as my brother's security, and I unfortunately consented to sign the bonds he gave for the amount agreed upon. on his arrival at St. Croix, he wished to cancel the bargain on my account, but she would not consent, and I was placed in the power of her husband. He threatened me with jail, to avoid which I went to America, giving up a practice of #600 p.a. annum. Disappointment there, and letters from my patients in Ireland, induced me to return to Ireland in three months, and I had to borrow the means to do so I immediately got into a practice worth nearly £500 a year, and three months after I returned, married my present dear wife (name not given), and at the and of a year, her fortune and my practice gave us an income of #760 per annum. At the end of six years I became deaf. That, and the delicate state of my wife's health, made me decide to give up practice, and coming to live in Rathangan, Ten years since, my brother in law had me arrested, but my wife's property being entailed upon herself as if unmarried, he could get nothing, and it appearing, when brought before the Commissioner of the Insolvent's Court, that I had no just debt, my character was not injured. Previous to her death, my wife made a will, leavings the interest on the #4100 she bad died possessed of, to me, until proceeded against by my creditors, and then to my sons, and left me a disposing power of the #4100 at my death. My wife's aunt, Mrs. Price, after her niece's death, made a will in my favor, and requested me to continue to live with her, and in gratitude, I have consented to do so. So after all my campaigns in Copenhagen, Martinique, Spain and Portugal, I am doomed to spend the evening of my life as companion to an elderly lady, and she a Quaker. She died at the ripe old age of 92 years. Issue:- (by his first wife Miss Taylor) 3/1. William Rufus Armstrong, twin, born at Halifax, N.S., in 18l3- 14 When his grand parents, Mr. & Mrs. Taylor, who were living in Halifax, heard of their daughter's death, they immediately went over to Ireland and took charge of the infants. Here for the next ten years, they grew up in the care of their grandmother Taylor, during which time their grandfather died, and their father had gone to the United States and to St. Croix. William Rufus married Kate, grand daughter of Judge Gay of New Brunswick, Canada, by whom be had three sons and a daughter named Glencairn, He had & farm of 150 acres, or rather an estate, in Wisconsin, and says he is happy and prosperous: he is a Justice of the Peace. Subject 24 P5 (127) 3/2. Thomas John Armstrong, twin, born 1815-14 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a commission merchant at St. Croix, and the American Vice Consul. He was a man of high character and did well. 2/3. Thomas Armstrong born at Carrick, West Meath, Ireland, on February 23/1787, died at New London, Conn., August 3/1863, buried here with his wife. Nothing is known of his early youth or education. He married on May 31 1810, Catherine Louisa Cornelius, born at Springfield, County Cork, Ireland, April 11/1792, died at New London, Conn. May 5/1852. Her father, Henry Cornelius was said to have come from Holland and was twice married, probably living at Springfield, Cork, with his first wife, the pretty Kate Connor of Cork. Henry married, 2nd, a widow named Mrs. Rogers, many years younger than himself, and they lived at Montrath, Queen's County, where Henry was agent of the Earl of Mountrath. This probably explains how Catherine met Thomas Armstrong. Catherine was the daughter of Henry Cornelius' second marriage, and she had two sisters, Margaret, who married William Penrose Robinson of Shaxarook Lawn, Douglas, County Cork, and Bessie Cornelius. Catherine also had three brothers, Henry Cornelius, Captain Charles Cornelius of the 71st Regiment, and Richard Cornelius a captain in the army. Through the interest of her father Henry Cornelius, Thomas Armstrong got a sinecure position in Dublin worth £300, and they lived there nine years. This position he resigned to go to St. Croix. During their nine years in Ireland, eight children were born, four of whom lived to grow up. In 1819, Thomas and Catherine Armstrong went out to St. Croix, leaving five daughters behind. At St. Croix he bought an estate called Lebanon Hill from Dr. Biggs: he also got an estate named Mount Welcome which he got from his uncle William. The five daughters left in Ireland were placed in the care of relatives, and were sent to a school kept by Madame Despard in Dublin, and were taught music, dancing and deportment In St. Croix, seven children had been added to the family. Then preparations were made for the five sisters to come out from Ireland in the care of Dr. William Armstrong, who wanted his family to come over also. So on September 25/1825, the regular packet ship "Silas Richards", sailed from Liverpool, having on board as passengers, the five sisters, and their twin boy cousins, all under charge of the boys' grandmother Mrs. Taylor. After a somewhat tempestuous voyage, the ship arrived at New York on October 28/1828, with dry goods to Fish, Grinnell & Co. The ship was built in New York about 1822 for Grinnell, Minturn & Co., who established the Swallow Tail Line of packets: she was of 453 tons. The girl's father Thomas Armstrong, who had become acquainted with Captain Joseph W. Alsop of Middletown, Conn. was doing business with him, and arranged that the little girls should go to St. Croix in Captain Alsop's brig "Condor", Captain Goodrich commanding. The next outward voyage was not for two months, so the little girls had a delightful visit in New York. They stayed with a friend of Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Cadwallader Golden, whom she had met in England. They visited the Museum and other places of interest. Mrs. Taylor liked to show them off when walking on Broadway and they often heard persons passing by say:-"there go the little English girls". The "Condor" sailed on December 23/1828 from New York for St. Croix. The boys must have remained in New York with their father, and I'm sure Mrs. Taylor never went to St. Croix: I don't know what became of her. The little girls were in the care of the captain and the voyage was Subject 24 P6 (128) progressing favorably, when one day the Captain observed a strange sail on the horizon, coming nearer and nearer. The Captain, not liking the looks or the vessel, grew very uneasy as it was in the days of piracy. The Captain made the girls go down into the cabin and locked them in, telling them to remain very quiet. The vessel turned out to be a pirate, but unfortunately for the latter, the men were in a half starved condition and weak from want of food, and told the Captain that if he would only give them food, they would not molest them. The Captain considered they had had a most fortunate escape, and told the girls they might have been taken, but that he was prepared to shoot them before letting them fall into the pirate's hands. The voyage must have taken about three weeks, so around January 20/1829, they arrived at St. Croix, to be greeted by the mother who they had not seen for ten years, and by brothers and sisters they had never seen. I doubt that there were any opportunities for education at St. Croix. Up to the present, Thomas and Catherine had had fifteen children, several of them having passed away, and ere eight years had flown by, three more were added to the household. The name of the estate they lived at was Mount Pleasant, though the name Mount Welcome comes to my mind. In December 1832 the family were in Middletown, Conn., at what is now 180 Washington St. At this time their child Anna Maria received burns from the fireplace in the dining room, which caused her death. Thomas Armstrong was in New London in June 1839, and still there in June 1940. He was offered a lot by Captain Mather for $4000: the western half was 98 ft on Washington St. and 93 ft on the Rope Walk. At this time the Robert Beattys came back to the States, and Thomas Armstrong and his family went back to St. Croix, having bought the "Lebanon" estate from Robert Beatty for $14,474.97. There was also a fountain which cost $300. The family were in St. Croix in August 1844, by which time their son Thomas had gone out west to where his brother William was living, on the border of a lake where the hunting and fishing were excellent: Thomas was devoted to both sports. Thomas had left a name in St. Croix of being the most correct young man in business, and it was a pity that his talents should have been wasted in the back woods. Thomas and Catherine were still at Lebanon in 1849: there must have been an insurrection previous to this time end many people feared there would be another. There was a very strict Governor who was determined to have the strict laws obeyed. They were still there in 1851. Catherine had been in St. Thomas, as she was not well, and it was decided to send her to the States in Captain Tikiole's vessel to New Haven, as the doctors said it was the only chance for her health. Her husband Thomas had the hardest time that summer to get along: he was anxious to sell out and the family were anxious to leave St. Croix. Lebanon Hill was an estate of 500 acres, and was appraised on November 2/1849 for $24,424. The crops were sugar rum and molasses, which for the year 1849 were:-84 hogsheads and 145 barrels of sugar, 41 puns and 3 barrels of rum, and 53 casks of molasses, and the net proceeds were $3165.17. Mount Pleasant estate was rented to Mr. S. Kelton for $298. Lebanon Hill would rent for $200. Mrs. Mary Cummings, who died in 1846, and Mrs Wittroz were interested in the Lebanon Hill property. Thomas, Catherine and their family must have come to the states in 1852, the year in which Catherine died unexpectedly. Their coming may Subject 24 P7 (129) have been hastened by the insurrection. They did not have a large supply of this world's goods to bring with them. Thomas Armstrong's last years were spent in New London with his daughters Frances and Elizabeth keeping house for him. Amongst some of the silver of Thomas and Catherine which has come down through the family, is a spoon, with the crest of the Armstrongs of King's County, Ireland, which was "An armed hand holding a broken ulig spear, ppr". The motto is "Vi at Armis". The spoon has the hall mark of John Pitter, Dublin, 1810. Issue:- (of Thomas and Catherine Armstrong) 3/1. William Armstrong, born in Dublin, May 22/1811, died May 24/1812. 3/2. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born in Montrath, June 22/1812, died June 1813, 3/3. Catherine Louise Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, May 13/1813 died at Brooklyn, N.Y., December 5/1891, buried in Green Wood Cemetery there. She married on May 21/1831, Robert Beatty, who died April 18/1850. In 1840 they lived in New York City. He left her $40,000 in securities to provide for her. Issue: - 4/1. Margaret Beatty, born about 1832, died December 25/1901. She married, 1st, about 1851, Mr. Whittaker: 2nd, Mr, Timpson, Issue:- (by her first husband) 5/1. Louisa Whittaker, born 1852. 4/2. Ann Catherine Beaty, born September 12/1833, died April 19/l85O. She married on April 13/1852, Reverend Thomas Strafford Drowne, born July 9/1823, son of Henry B. and Julia (Strafford) Drowne. Issue;- 5/1. Thomas Strafford Drowne. 4/3. Robert Beatty, died July 3/1901. He married Sarah Moore, who died March 9/1880, daughter of John T. Moore, 4/4. Jane Almira Beatty, born December 8/1836, died April 11/1918. She married Arthur Benson, born July 20/1836, died October 23/1911, (See Riker's History of Harlem for Benson ancestors). Issue:- 5/1. Gertrude Benson. 5/2. Josephine Benson. She married on April 15/1896, James Napper Jaffares. 5/3. Robert Beatty Benson, born April 6/1868, died Oct 21/1904. 5/4. Arthur Benson. 5/5. Walter Benson, 5/6. Emma Hutchinson Benson, born September 30/1875. She married on April 5/1899, Russell Johnson Perrine, born October 20/1876, son of Duncan Kendig and Mary Emma (Johnson Perrine. See Genealogy of Daniel Perrin, Huguenot, by Howland Delano Perrine Issue:- 6/1. Josephine Keziah Perrine, born April 17/1903. 6/2. Arthur Johnson Perrine, born January 19/1909. 5/7. Jane Benson, No data. 4/5. John Cumming Beatty, born at St, Croix, B.W.I,, January 8/1838, died March 10/1922. He married on January 28/1868, Hettie Bull, born June 26/1846, died August 9/1906, only daughter of William Gedney and Maria Matilda (Chetwood) Bull, Subject 24 P8 (130) Issue:- (from the Barber Genealogy: N.Y. Gen & Biog Rec Vol 62), 5/1. William Gedney Beatty, born June 27/1869. He was not married and was an architect in New York City, in 1930. 5/2. Robert Chetwood Beatty, born May 18/1872. He graduated from Columbia University in 1894. He married, 1st, on January 30/1901, Jean Burlingame, daughter of Edward Liver-more and Ella Frances (Badger) Burlingame: they were divorced and he married, 2nd, at Portland, Conn., on November 11/1911, Dee Burke, still living in 1923. Issue:- (by his first wife Jean Burlingame) 6/1. Ann Burlingame Beatty, born in New York City, March 15/l9O2, living in 1927. 6/2. Hettie Burlingame Beatty, born in New Canaan, Conn., October 8/1906: living in 1923. Issue:- (by his second wife Dee Burke) 6/3. James Chetwood Beatty, born at Allenhurst, N.J. July 15/1920. 5/3. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, February 7/1875. He graduated from Columbia University in 1898, and became a mining engineer at Denver. In 1930 he lived in London and became a British subject. He married, 1st, on April 18/1900, Ninette Grace Madelin Rickard: 2nd, at London, England, on June 21/1913, Edith Dunn, widow of a Mr. Stone: no children by her. Issue:- (by his first wife Ninette Rickard) 6/1. Ninette Beatty, born at Denver, Colo, June 1/1901. 6/2. Alfred Chester Beatty, born in New York City, October 17/1907. 4/6. Elizabeth Beatty, born at St. Croix, B.W.I, May 19/1939. She married Richard Jones Timpson, born 1841, died December 15/1900. He was a salesman for many years with Tiffany & Co., Union Square, New York City. They had several children: one daughter married and lived for a while in South Africa, and may possibly live in Ireland now. 4/7. Frances Beatty. She, too, married a Timpson: three sisters married three brothers. Frances and her husband lived in Ireland: was it Woxford? No children. 4/8. Catherine Beatty, born October 7/1841, died December 14/1848. 4/9. Emma Beatty, died May 24/1900. She married, 1st, a Mr. Hutchinson, son of Samuel Hutchinson: 2nd, on April 24/1877, William Johnson Hutchinson, brother of her first husband. Issue: - 5/1. Clara Elizabeth Hutchinson, born February 8/1865. She married on October 22/1889, Thomas Ormiston Callander, born September 14/1862, died February 26/1919, son of James and Agnes (Hodge) Callander. Issue:- 6/1. Ruth Callander, born December 18/1892. She married on April 10/1917, Le Roy Martin, born March 29/1890, died February 28/1919. She married, 2nd, on November 8/1929, Julian Percy Fairchild, born August 15/1881, died June 15 1934, son of Julian D. and Florence (Bradley) Fairchild. Issue:- (by her first husband Le Roy Martin) 7/1. Le Roy Callander Martin, born November 13/1918. 6/2. Louise Hutchinson Callander, born February 2O/1901. She married on April 25/1928, Ramon Ormiston Williams, born July 12/1899. Subject 24 P 9 (131) 4/10. George Beatty, born February 10/1844, died March 10/1882. He never married. 3/4. Margaret Elinor Armstrong. The Underwood Genealogy spells her middle name Eleanora. Born at Mountrath, Ireland, July 27/l8l4, died at Syracuse, N.Y., May 31/1897, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. Margaret cane to Middletown in 1830 to visit the Alsops there. Joseph Alsop was much attracted to her and wanted to marry her, but she fell in love with his brother Charles, and was married to him on December 30/1833, by the Rev. Smith Pyne, Rector of Christ Church, Middletown. She made one voyage to the islands to visit her sister Ellen Raupach in 1869: she returned to Middletown and lived in the house afterwards owned by Governor Weeks, now the property of the Weslyan University, 202 Washington St., until 1883 when circumstances forced her to sell the old house. She went to live in Troy, finally removing to Syracuse, living with her son Frank Alsop, where she died in 1897. She married Charles Richard Alsop, born December 25/1802 died March 5/1865, son of Joseph Wright and Lucy (Whittlesey) Alsop. Charles Alsop was president of the Middletown-Boston Railway. Issue:- (from the Underwood Genealogy) 4/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born November 12/1834', died June 1922. She never married: she was engaged to her cousin Theodore William Riley whose life was out short on March 31/1839 by tuberculosis. 4/2. Catherine Beatty Alsop, born November 7/1835, died April 27/1908. She married, on October 7/1857, Christopher Starr Leffingwell, born December 15/1827, died April 11/1902. son of Lucius Wooster and Olive Douglas (Starr) Leffingwell. Christopher was a minister at Bar Harbor, Maine, for 25 years. Issue:- 5/1. Alsop Leffingwell, born July 23/1858. 5/2. Mary Mutter Leffingwell, born August 6/1859. 5/3. Infant, (twin), born and died May 21/1800. 5/4. Infant, (twin), born May 21/1860, died September 7/1860. 5/5. Douglas Leffingwell, born March 4/1863, died at New Haven, Conn., November 23/1942. He lived at Bar Harbor, Maine. He was the one who gave me the information about the Beatty and Alsop families. 5/5. Charles Richard Alsop Leffingwell, born May 3/1865, died August 25/1865. 5/7. Christopher Leffingwell, born December 21/1867. 5/8. Aimee Gilbert Leffingwell, born December 25/1873. She married on July 30/1908, Kenneth McKenzie, born July 24/1870, son of the Rev. Alexander and Ellen (Eveleth) McKenzie. 5/9. Alice Glencairn Leffingwell, born June 2/1875. 4/3. Richard Alsop, born February 11/1838, died at Valparaiso, Chile, May 17/1860, buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, New London. He never married. 4/4. Charles Henry Alsop, (name changed to Charles Richard), born October 22/1840, died October 22/1922. He married on May 15/1862, Elizabeth Gould Beers, who died March 25/1924, daughter of Henry Judd and Driscilla (Thorp) Beers. Issue:. 5/1. Margaret Elinor Alsop, born March 7/1863, died December 1/1898. She married in 1878, Dr. Webster C. Langdon. Subject 24 P10 (132) Issue:- 6/1. Jesse Dyson Langdon, born May 11/1881. He married on May 1/1903, Marie Violet Burbank. 6/2. Margaret Adelaide Langdon, born January 21/1887. She married on May 6/1905, George Davis Harlan. Issue:- 7/1. Davis Langdon Harlan, born January 11/1911. 5/2. Adelaide Beers Alsop, born April 9/1865, died February 18/1929 She married on March 4/1899, Samuel Edouard Robineau, born December 20/1856, died 1936, son of Pierre and Marcellin (Stapfer) Robineau. Issue:- 6/1. Henry Maurice Robineau, born July 28/1900. He married on July 21/1922, Gladys Blanch Hood: they were divorced. He married, 2nd, Fanny Bell Zike, Issue:- 7/1. Germaine Robineau, born October 1931. 6/2. Priscilla Madeline Robineau, born March 5/1902. She married on September 17/1925, Dana Arthur Kelley, born March 15/1902, son of Alfred Merrill and Mabelle Enid (Call) Kelley. Issue:- 7/1. Dana Robineau Kelley, born November 14/1927. 6/3. Elizabeth Helene Robineau, born April 10/1906. 5/3. Charles Richard Alsop, born August 1/1866, died September 3/1867. 5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born November 5/1869, died February 19/1872. 5/5. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born March 23/1873, died March 28/1873. 5/6. Aimee Armistead Alsop, born May 31/1876, died February 2/1934. She married on January 10/1901, William Cryer Parsons, an Englishman. Issue:- 6/1. Margaret Elizabeth Parsons, born August 18/1904. 5/7. Priscilla Alsop, born September 20/1879, died April l2/l883. 5/8. Clara Mutter Alsop, born November 20/1882. She married on July 15/1903, Walter Stewart Stillman. Issue:- 6/1 Donald Edward Stillman, born April 3/1912. 6/2. Barbara Stillman, born October 25/1920. 5/9. Armistead Thorpe Alsop, born August 12/1885, died Spt 11/l886 4/5. Aimee Elizabeth Alsop, born May 15/1843, died January 19/1932. She married on June 16/1864, William Eaton Gilbert, born 1839 died September 29/1898, son of Uri and Frances Harriet (Granger) Gilbert. Issue: - 5/1. William Alsop Gilbert, born March 15/1868. 5/2. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born April 16/1882. He married on August 23/1910, Frances Marguerite Young, daughter of Henry A. Young. Issue:- 6/1. Chauncey Mclean Gilbert, born May 18/1911. 6/2. Charles Richard Alsop Gilbert, born May 26/1916. 4/6. Thomas Mutter Alsop, born March 11/1845, died November 27/1848 Subject 24 P11 (133) 4/7. Henry White Alsop, born May 7/1849, died December 18/1936. He married at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, on June 7/1871, Elizabeth Elliman Benbow, born June 7/1847, died. January 18/1898, daughter of Charles and Jessie (Elliman) Benbow. Issue: 5/1. Harry Theodore Alsop, born April 29/1872. He married on September 8/1897, Agnes Lillian Fuller, born December 22/ 1877, daughter of George Franklin and Agnes McKenzie (Bell) Fuller. Issue: - 6/1. Elizabeth Alsop, born August 8/1904. 6/2. Margaret Alsop, born November 16/l9O7. She married at Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo, N.D., on September 14/ 1929, Clarence Oliver Wheeler, born May 16/1903, son of Henry Oliver Wheeler of Hammondsport, N.Y. Issue: 7/1. Donald Alsop Wheeler, born August 16/1931. 7/2. Elizabeth Wheeler, born October 20/1934. 6/3. John Fuller Alsop, born June 11/1912. 5/2. Infant, born August 1/1874, died next day. 5/3. Jessie Margaret Alsop, born September 27/1875. 5/4. Clara Pomeroy Alsop, born February 24/1878 died July 20/1878 5/5. Frederick Chauncey Alsop, born August 9/1879. He married on August 12/1907, Inez Clare Bentley. Issue: 6/1. Gladys Content Alsop, born August 21/1908. She married on January 29/1933, John Pope: they were divorced and she married again. 6/2. Elvie Inez Alsop, born September 20/1909. She married on August 26/1931, Keith Alton Matheny. Issue: 7/1. Kent Alton Matheny, born May 15/1933. 7/2. Allen De Wayne Matheny, born December 5/1934. 6/3. Chauncey De Wayne Alsop, born April 25/1912. 6/4. Ethel Berenice Alsop, born August 22/1917. 6/5. Faith Clare Alsop, born February 9/1922. 5/6. Ernest Benbow Alsop, born September 26/1882, died June 15/1934. He married on January 18/1912, Grace Clark, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Clark. Issue: 6/1. Lucille Alsop, born January 14/1913, died Oct 15/1921. 6/2. Clark Richard Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914, 6/3. Clinton Elliman Alsop (twin), born October 23/1914. 5/7. Charles Richard Alsop, born September 5/1883, died June 6/1910. 5/8. Archibald Stewart Alsop, born June 21/1891. He married on September 4/1935, Margaret Marion Reid. 4/8. Francis Oliver Alsop, born November 24/1853, died March 24/1929. He married on November 1/1879, Sarah Ranger Bainbridge, born November 9/1855, died December 10/1936, daughter of Robert and Charlotte (Ranger) Bainbridge. Issue;- 5/1. Lucy Chauncey Alsop, born June 17/1883. 5/2. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born March 6/1887. He married Subject 24 P12 (134) on January 19/1911, Susan Merle Gleason, who died October 30/1927. He married, 2nd, on March 3/1928, Lavaun Kimball. Issue:- (by his first wife Susan Marie Gleason) 6/1. Robert Bainbridge Alsop, born December 3/1912. 6/2. Sarah Berenice Alsop, born July 10/1916. Issue:- (by his second wife Lavaun Kimball) 6/3. Bainbridge Kimball Alsop, born August 18/1933. 3/5. Mary Aletta Armstrong, born at Mount Mellick, Ireland, date unknown, died in December 1830 in Ireland. 3/6. Frances Armstrong, born at Montrath, Ireland, July 2/1816, died October 14/1907, aged 91 years. Her last years were spent with her grand niece Clara Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Callander. She lived at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847, where she was the housekeeper, and a first rate one at that. She was always called Fanny, and was a victim of Hay fever and for several years would spend a month or so at Schroon Lake, near Ticonderoga, N.Y. She never married. 3/7. Elizabeth Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, December 1/1817, died January 7/1899, aged 82 years. She was at Lebanon Hill, St. Croix in 1847 with her sister Fanny. Elizabeth, was always known by the young Alsops as Bessie, Aunt West Indies, on account of the marvellous stories she told of her life there. Elizabeth wanted to come to the States, but would have to stay with her younger sister Emma who was subject to convulsions. She kept house in New London, Conn., for her father Thomas Armstrong in the last years of his life, and after his death, spent many years in Middletown, with Mrs Richard Alsop and Mrs Joseph Alsop, the former having died in 1878. She passed the last years of her life with her niece Jane Benson: she was buried in New London, Conn., with her father and mother. 3/6. John Armstrong, born at Castletown, Ireland, November 28/1818, and died there December 1/1818. 3/9. Thomas Armstrong, born at St. Croix, B.W.I., June 14/1820, died there in March 1827. 3/10. Charlotte Cornelia Armstrong, born at St. Croix, September 16/1821 died in New York City, May 30/1907, aged 86 years, buried in Ceder Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn. The married at Middletown Conn., on March 18/1847, John W. Culbert. In 1844 she was at St. Thomas, B.W.I., with her younger sister Ellen who had married Otto Raupach, a Dane, making a prudent and industrious wife. Issue:- 4/1. John Culbert, born January 12/1848. 4/2. Robert Culbert, born May 1850, 4/3. Augustine Culbert. 4/4. Mary Culbert. She married Mr. McCormack. Issue:- 5/1. Mildred McCormack. 5/2. Lucy Bell McCormack, died January 1930, 4/5. Aimee Culbert. She married Herbert Brunswick Harding, who died January 4/1930. Issue: - 5/1. Ethel Harding, born 1881, died June 6/1924. She married on June 14/1900, Charles Stewart Mott. Issue:- 6/1. Aimee Mott. She married Patrick Butler, son of Emmet Butler. Subject 24 P13 (135) 6/2. ---- Mott. She married Hamish Mitchell, 6/3. Charles Mott. 5/2. Matilda Harding. She married on March 22/1901, name not known. 4/6. Margaret Elinor Culbert, born June 17/1859. She married Samuel Barton Hazzard, who died December 6/1893. Issue : - 5/1. Margaret Elinor Hazzard, died December 24/1918. 5/2. Perle Hazzard. She married Robert M. Vanderbilt, son of Jacob R. and Annie (Hazzard) Vanderbilt. 5/3. Samuel Barton Hazzard, Name of wife unknown. Issue:- 6/1. Eleanor Hazzard. She married in 1936, Dewitt Mirick Foster. 4/7. Lucy Alsop Culbert, died January 23/1923. She married Charles Zippel, who died July 13/1906, buried at New Haven, Issue 5/1. Lucy Zippel. She married in 1929, Pierre Grenier of Havana, 3/11. Anna Maria Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 3/1823, died December 23/1832. 3/12. Henry Cornelius Armstrong, born at St. Croix, March 21/1824, died there August 5/1834, 3/13. Ellen Augustine Armstrong, born at St. Croix. July 16/1825, died March 1897. She married in 1844, Otto Raupach, a Danish gentleman who was a planter at St. Thomas, B.W.I., and who later lost 20 of his 40 negroes, by cholera. In 1847 Raupach wanted to sell his estate in St. Thomas, and had no employment: his family were living at Bassin, St. Thomas. They were still there in 1851. The Raupachs must have visited the Beattys in Newark in 1848, for Robert Beatty thought his children who were ill, had caught measles from the Raupach children. Issue: - 4/1. Thomas Ford Raupach, born June 1848. 4/2. Otto Armstrong Raupach, born September 1854, 4/3. Carl H Raupach. 3/14. Daughter, stillborn October 6/1826 at St. Croix. 3/15. William Armstrong, born at St. Croix, June 2/1828, died November 20/1845. In 1842 he was at school in the States, living with the Beattys. At 16 he returned to St. Croix and became an over-seer of a plantation: his employer said he was the best he had had, and that in two years he would be able to take the position of manager of an estate. But, alas, a year later he caught fever, and died in his seventeenth year. 3/16. Emma Armstrong, born at St. Croix, November 2/1829, died June 18/1860. She was in the States in 1844 and wanted to get back to St. Croix. She was not strong and subject to convulsions. 3/17. Louisa Armstrong, born at St. Croix, July 16/1834. No data, 3/18. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born at St. Croix, December 12 or 31/1836, died December 1878. He married at New London, Conn., on September 1/1857, Eliza Ann Nevins. (Her middle name is given by Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan as Jane). Thomas was a fine lad and employed as head clerk by John W. Culbert in his New York office, and he paid him #100 a year beside board and lodging, Issue:- 4/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born May 27/1858. He married in Subject 24 P14 (136) August 1890, Charlotte Moulton. 4/2. Catherine Louisa Armstrong, born June 22/1863: never married. 4/3. John Nevins Armstrong, born August l4/l865. He married on July 30/1890, Elizabeth Mary Lance. Issue: 5/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born June 20/1891. He married on August 12/1914, May McMahon. Issue:- 6/1. Thomas Henry Armstrong, born July 3/1915. 5/2. Aimee Louise Armstrong, born October 1/1893. She married on March 31/1921, Orlin Lewis Oatman. Issue 6/1. Amee Elizabeth Oatman, born October 4/1922, 6/2. Orlin Lewis Oatman, 5/3. Elizabeth Nevins Armstrong, born March 11/1896, 5/4. Grace Augusta Armstrong, born December 10/1898, 5/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong, born April 10/1901. She married on May 23/1923, Arthur Wallace Leslie. Issue: 6/1. Barbara Jean Leslie, born March 14/1924. 6/2. Virginia Louise Leslie, born November 20/1927. 5/6. Virginia Amelia Armstrong, born April 10/1907, died April 12/1927. 4/4. Aimee Armstrong, born March 8/1868. She married on June 7/1892, Charles Brinkerhoff, 4/5. Lillian Cornelius Armstrong, She married on April 6/1891, Frank Victor Van de Myer. Issue: 5/1. Howard Cargill Van de Myer, born December 29/1891. he married on May 19/1910, Naomi Elizabeth Hogle. Issue:- 6/1. Catherine Louisa Van de Myer, born August 15/1920. 1/5. John Armstrong. Born at Killashandra, County Cavan, Ireland, in 1762, died at Portland St,, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, England, August 8/1830. He married, 1st, on March 12/1801, Macrae Dalrymple, date of birth unknown, died at Prestwick, Scotland, in 1818, eldest daughter of General Stair Park Dalrymple of Langlands, Scotland. She was buried in Governor Macrae's private burial ground in Orangefield, Scotland. He married, 2nd, in 1818, Miss Ellen Kirk, who died in 1820, shortly after giving birth to her only son: her parents lived in Scotland, but their names are not known, See subject 12 for issue and further particulars. 1/6. Mary Armstrong, Date of birth unknown, but about 1764, died 1808. Dr. William Armstrong of Rathangan wrote about her as follows:- She made an unfortunate marriage when she wed John Goodfellow, an Officer in the British Army, who deserted her and her two sons at Cork, Ireland, and left her penniless. John Goodfellow went to Nova Scotia, and soon after his arrival there, married, but he and his wife, if she could be called so, his real wife being alive, were burned to death in the conflagration which destroyed the town of Annapolis, N.S. his real wife, Mary Armstrong, was a woman of nerve and talent, and rather than accept assistance from her brothers, contrived to support her children by becoming a mid-wife at the Lying-in hospital of Dublin, where she was considered a most respectable person in her situation. The last time I saw her, was soon Subject 24 P15 (137) after the death of Princess Charlotte on November 6/1817, and when I next called to see her, she had left the hospital and I have never seen her since, She had one son named John Goodfellow, who married Jane Dickson, the grand daughter of William Haughton, subject 62. This John Goodfellow and his wife were those who looked after John Armstrong, subject 6, while he was being educated in Ireland, and who later came to the United States and lived their later years with John Armstrong at Chicago and Arcola, Illinois. They had no children and are both buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, in the Armstrong plot. End of the Reverend William Armstrong Genealogy, In November 1938, I, (Herbert Armstrong Poole) made a trip to St. Croix, to see if I could find any of our relatives living there still & sailed from New York on the Porto Rico line "Borinquen" to San Juan, Porto Rico, and thence per "Catharine", via St. Thomas to St. Croix. On arriving at Christiansted, I put up at the Pentheney Boarding House, and met there a Dr. Knott, the port doctor, sent down by the U.S. Government to look after the inhabitants. I asked him if he knew of an old sugar estate named Lebanon, which had belonged to my Armstrong ancestors about the year 1800. Certainly, he replied, it now belongs to a Mr. Douglas Francis Armstrong, Chief Marshall and Chief of Police at St. Croix, and Chief Magistrate under the Governor of the three Virgin Islands, whose headquarters are at St. Thomas. Dr. Knott said that the names of the estates never change, no matter who owns them. He took me to call on "Captain" Armstrong. who disclaims any right to this title, I found him a fine big man about 40 years of age, over 6 feet tall and weighing 200 lbs, leathery of face from the tropical sun, and a suspicion of red hair, now much thinned. A pleasant man, to whom I showed my Armstrong History. He became much interested, and motored me out to his estate called Beeston Hill, about five miles west of Christiansted. I met his wife Rachel born at Bitter Root, Montana, whom he had met at Washington, D.C. They have two children, a boy and a girl about 5 or 6 years old. He has a fine big house with spacious rooms, his own electric light plant, cisterns and water pumping installation and plumbing, for there are no waterworks at St. Croix - they have to depend on rain water - no wells or springs. He motored me to his mother's house (she was a Miss Skeoch) at her estate "The Grange", almost adjoining his. She was pleasant lady over 70 years of age, and has Douglas' two younger twin brothers living with her. She glanced through the History and remembered a lot of the names mentioned therein. She said the name Heyleger, the Danish wife of Dr. Biggs, should be spelled Heiliger, and that there were still some of this clan owning estates on the island. However, Douglas Leffingwell of Bar Harbor, Maine, tells me that he has an old account book of his ancestor Thomas Armstrong when he owned Lebanon Hill in the 1840s, in which occurs the name of W.H. Heyleger & Co. Mrs. Armstrong showed me with pride, the grave of Alexander Hamilton's mother in her garden; namely, Mrs. Fawcett (also spelled Faucette), who married a Dane named Levine, but didn't live with him long, for he treated her badly. Mrs. Fawcett was born on the island of St. Kitts, B.W.I., and after her separation, went back there to her father Dr. Fawcett, and eventually went to live with a Mr. Hamilton, whom she could not marry, as Levine had arranged the divorce so she was forbidden to marry again. She lived with Hamilton the rest of her life, and bore him an illegitimate son, the famous Alexander Hamilton. Miss Fawcett (or Levine) died at Subject 24 P16 (138) Mrs. Armstrong's estate, and is buried in her garden. The novelist Gertrude Atherton lived with Mrs. Armstrong when she was writing her great novel about the life of Alexander Hamilton, "The Conqueror". Douglas Armstrong then drove me to Fredericksted, some 16 miles west, the only port where large steamers can anchor, very exposed and rough except when the east trade winds are blowing. The other port, Christiansted, on the north side of the island, is approached by a narrow, twisting and shallow channel: it is used by the small steamer "Catherine" for its protection in stormy weather. At Fredericksted, we called on Douglas' aunt, Mrs. Merwin, an elderly lady who has many of the family records: Mr. Merwin was a merchant from New Hampshire, in the sugar trade. Driving back to Fredericksted, Douglas turned off the main road to the left, about half way home, to show me the Lebanon Hill estate. It is about 500 acres, stretching from the main road back to the slope of the 2000 ft high ridge along the north coast of the island: part is on the slope but most of it is level and fine arable land, suitable for cane. All the original buildings were burned in the uprising of the negroes about 1868. The ???ller and machinery remain where they fell; the 40 ft brick chimney is standing as good as new. The residence must have been of fine propor-tions, but the foundations are almost obliterated and grown up with lime, mahogany and guava trees. Some of the outhouses for slaves are still standing, one of them occupied by a negro caretaker. Douglas bought back this estate some ten years ago, is now clearing it and hopes to build later on. He grows no cane on this land himself, but leases it to a Fredericksted Sugar Central, which grows cane for its own use. The abolition of slavery made it too expensive to grow cane in competition with San Domingo, Porto Rico and Cuba. The U.S. Government is trying to find some industry to make the Virgin Islands prosperous again. The present idea is to turn the sugar into molasses, and make rum out of it at St. Thomas. Douglas is building two bungalows on his estate to rent to winter tourists, and hopes to extend this growing trade. Douglas is a director of the Virgin Islands Bank, as is also his mother's brother Robert Skeoch. Douglas told me Lebanon Hill is worth today about $30 per acre, though the original Armstrongs paid œ38,000 for it. Even at that high figure, they made much money, as they were then selling sugar in London at 75 cents a pound: today sugar is quoted between 2 and 4 cents per pound! St. Croix has about 40,000 acres of good sugar lands, but the rainfall is irregular and on the whole not enough for growing cane. At present beans, tomatoes and other vegetables are being grown for the' New York market: little tobacco is grown as the land is not high enough. Douglas' mother told me that the name of her husband was Robert, as was two of his ancestors. Their family have been British Vice Consuls for three generations, during the several hundred years the Danes owned the Islands. The United States bought the islands in 1920, and Douglas became a naturalized American citizen then. The population of St Croix is mostly negro, a rather turbulent strain, difficult to control, and not docile like those in many of the other British West Indies. Douglas' father was killed in a motor accident in 1912. He was driving his car then a new thing in the islands, and on coming around a corner, frightened a horse drawing a wagon: the horse reared, and in coming down, the shaft of the wagon struck Mr Armstrong, piercing his chest, killing him instantly. I have tried to get Douglas to dig up his family records, to find where our ancestors meet, but he is not interested, and his mother and aunt too old: I wish I could go down again and ferrit it out myself. The old English Churchyard should reveal many of our ancestors: I found the stones badly disintegrated and overgrown with lush tropical vegetation. H.A.P.