John Armstrong (1757-1792)

Private Secretary to Governor Simcoe of Upper Canada

Family
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He was the son of "a gentleman of large estate" In Ireland's Co Clare - most likely either a son or nephew of Edmund Armstrong (b.c.1735) of Buncraggy, Co. Clare, by his wife Hannah Westropp. He sailed for India but was shipwrecked and brought to America where he was sometime Private Secretary to Governor John Graves Simcoe. He married Mary, daughter of Lt.-Colonel James Rogers who forfeited 50,000-acres in America on fighting for the Crown. They were the parents of 3-children (listed).

Spouse (1)

Mary (Rogers) Armstrong

Mrs Mary Ann Elinor (Rogers) Armstrong

1763-1793

Children (3)

Margaret (Armstrong) Larkin

Mrs Margaret (Armstrong) Larkin

1783-1861

James Rogers Armstrong

The Hon. J.R. Armstrong, J.P., Merchant & Politician of Whitby, Ontario

1787-1873

Edmund Westropp Armstrong

M.D., of Rochester, New York

1798-1877

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