Local figure
John Armstrong of Orange County made a contract in 1764 with Henry McCulloh of Halifax County about the operation of a mill on the Haw River. The small collection of his papers at UNC also holds a copy of an extract of a deed for land.
Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: John Armstrong Papers, 1764 and undated
Also found in catalogs as John Armstrong.
On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as John Armstrong → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by John Armstrong (active 1764).
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Governor William Hawkins's correspondence for April 1813, 59 images, with Secretary of War John Armstrong among the writers. Matters include the militia, state boundaries, steamboats, horse stealing, fugitives and judges, and Chapel Hill appears alongside Haywood, Stokes and Wilkes counties and the name of Henry Seawell.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Two items from John Armstrong, who lived from 1725 to 1795, one dated 1764 and one undated, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 23-z. The papers concern eighteenth century real property, mills and mill work in North Carolina, with references to Henry Eustace McCulloh and to Orange and Halifax counties.
Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 2 dated events in the chronology →
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Picture: John Armstrong (active 1764), 1873. Public domain. Photograph by By Daniel Huntington (1816–1906) after John Vanderlyn (1775–1852); www.army.mil; via Wikimedia Commons
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