When Margaret Armstrong was born on 2 July 1786, in Frankford Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States, her father, Major Thomas Armstrong, was 35 and her mother, Martha Brittin, was 27. She married Theophilus Hunt Sr. on 7 February 1811, in Sussex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Stillwater, Stillwater Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States in 1850. She died on 2 July 1857, at the age of 71.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Historical Boundaries: 1797: Frankford Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States of America
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English and Scottish (mainly Northumberland and the Scottish Borders): nickname from Middle English arm + strang, for someone who was ‘strong in the arm’.
Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Labhradha Tréan ‘strong O'Lavery’ or Mac Thréinfhir, literally ‘son of the strong man’.
History: This surname was brought to PA, NJ, and NH in the 18th century by several different families of northern Irish and northern English Protestants. One such was James Armstrong, who emigrated from Fermanagh to Cumberland County, PA, in 1745; another was John Armstrong (1720–95), who settled in Carlisle, PA, c. 1748.
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