Mary Anner Armstrong

1784 - 1856  (71 years)

• Name	Mary Anner Armstrong
  Birth	22 Sep 1784	Dutchess, New York   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Mar 1856	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah   [1, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I9025	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Asahel Armstrong,   b. 24 Jun 1742, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 3 Apr 1825, Hyde Park, Dutchess, New York (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Nelson,   b. Jan 1747, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York d. 2 Oct 1787 (Age ~ 40 years)
  Marriage	1765  [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Family ID	F1889	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard Thorn,   b. 23 Feb 1786, Flushing, Queens, New York d. 20 Jun 1883, Santa Barbara, California (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	6 Sep 1806	Clinton, Dutchess, New York   [5, 6, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Ashal Enoch Thorne,   b. 6 Sep 1808, Clinton, Dutchess, New York d. 10 Feb 1897, Three Mile Creek, Box Elder, Utah (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2014

  
  

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• Notes

  Mary Anner Armstrong is currently the earliest-born direct ancestor of TNH for whom we have a photograph, albeit an obviously-retouched one. Family records say she was born in "Philipstown, New York." Which is currently adjacent to Dutchess county, but in Putnam county. Was it in Dutchess county in 1784? The metadata attached to her portrait in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers database at the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU says: "Mary Ann Armstrong Thorn was born 22 Sept 1785 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York. She married Richard Thorn 6 Sept 1806 at Clinton, Dutchess, New York and was the mother of ten children. They came to Utah 9 Sept 1853 with the Captain John Bigler Company. She died 7 Mar 1856 at Salt Lake City, Utah."

  
  

• Sources

  [S191] Findagrave.com page for Mary Anner Armstrong. [S193] Long Island Surname Research Database., says "Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY". [S205] The Nelson Family by Cortez Nelson. New York, 1906., says "23 Sep 1784". [S13] Jerre Chumley, "Descendants of John Nelson and Hendrickje Van Der Vliet". 12 Oct 2005., says "Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co, NY". [S193] Long Island Surname Research Database. [S13] Jerre Chumley, "Descendants of John Nelson and Hendrickje Van Der Vliet". 12 Oct 2005. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com. [S205] The Nelson Family by Cortez Nelson. New York, 1906. [S761] "Notes on the Nelson Family". Appendix to The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York by Emily Warren Roebling, edited by Josiah Granville Leach. Philidelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1903. [S1338] Brenda Moody, note in "Genealogical Exchange," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 121:47, January 1990. [S205] The Nelson Family by Cortez Nelson. New York, 1906., says "1806, and removed to western New York.".