Jonathan Armstrong

• Name	Jonathan Armstrong
  Birth	of Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I957	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Martha   d. 15 Dec 1709, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1669	Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Armstrong,   b. of Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. Between 5 Nov 1717 and 10 Jan 1718
  Family ID	F144	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Westerly is only the first possible place Torrey lists for his marriage; the others are Stonington (next door to Westerly), Norwich CT, and Roxbury CT. Torrey doesn't name the wife. "JONATHAN, Westerly, or Pawcatuck, settled in the debatable part of the Narragansett territory called in the native speech Mesquamicuck, by the English Squamicuck, claimed by Connecticut jurisdiction as belonging to their plantation of Stonington, 1670, removed to Norwich 1678, perhaps, for then land was granted to him. He probably removed afterward to Roxbury, where his daughter Mercy died, 2 Oct., 1694, and Martha died 15 Dec., 1709." [James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England] That he and his wife Martha were the parents of TNH ancestor Benjamin Armstrong has been widely supposed but not proved. We show him because TNH is descended from a remarkably large number of the other early settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island, and we have some sense of how kinship networks work.

  
  

• Sources

  [S194] Bingham & Phelps Family Ancestors, record held in the family of TNH, compiled by Barbara Allen and Maxine Phelps Lines. [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64. [S1402] J. D. Champlin, Jr., "Early Settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 14:23, January 1860. [S765] Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America by Henry Whittemore. New York: 1898. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., no name given for Jonathan Armstrong's wife.