Gen. John Armstrong, Jr. and Alida Livingston

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Husband Gen. John Armstrong, Jr. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Nov 1758 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 1 Apr 1843 - Red Bank, Monmouth Co, NJ 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: Gen. John Armstrong (1720-1795) 5 6
         Mother: Rebecca Lyon (      -      ) 7

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       Marriage: 1789 3

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Wife Alida Livingston

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           Born: 1761
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           Died: 1822
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. John Armstrong, Jr.

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He was the younger of two sons; his brother Dr. James being several years older. He was educated at Newburg Academy, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and at Nassau Hall partly under Dr. Witherspoon. While a student at the college and only eighteen years of age he enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment for service in the Revolutionary War. He became an aid-de-camp to General Mercer, whom he bore fatally wounded from the field at Stoney Brook, New Jersey. General Gates invited him to become a member of his staff, on which he continued with the rank of Major until the close of the war. On the return of peace, he became, unlike his father, a warm partisan of the Democratic party, was Secretary of State under Governor Franklin, and served at least one term as a member of the old Congress. In 1789 he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston and took up his residence at Red Hook on the North river. In 1800 he represented New York in the Senate of the United States, but in 1804 he was appointed by pesident Jefferson, Minister to France. He remained in this office six years, acting also much of the time as minister to Spain. On the opening of the war with England, he was made a Brigadier General in command of New York. In 1813 he reluctantly became Secretary of War, for he was not in accord with most of his brother officers as to the military policy, and the opposition to him became so decided that rather hastily he resigned and gave his enemies an advantage over him. After his retirement he occupied himself in literary pursuits, wrote on Farming and Gardening, a Review of Wilkinson's Memoirs, some biographical papers, and a history of the war with Great Britain. He died at Red Bank. in his 85th year, leaving a daughter, the wife of Wm B. Astor, of New York.

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General Notes: Wife - Alida Livingston

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She was a sister of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York.

1 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 99, 186.

2 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 19.

3 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 99.

4 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 186.

5 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 760.

6 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 75.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 383.