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An Armstrong & A Heffernan
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 Abt 1744 - 1814 (~ 70 years)
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| Name |
Richard ARMSTRONG |
| Born |
Abt 1744 |
, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1814 |
, Mercer, Kentucky, USA |
| Person ID |
I3348 |
An Armstrong & A Heffernan |
| Last Modified |
6 Dec 2008 |
| Father |
John ARMSTRONG, b. 1718, Brookeborough, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom , d. Bef 1758, , Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 39 years) |
| Mother |
Mary GRAHAM, b. Abt 1718, d. 1793, , Mercer, Kentucky, USA (Age ~ 75 years) |
| Married |
1733 |
, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Family ID |
F1617 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- On 6/12/1770, Richard purchased 201 acres of land in the south fork of the Yadkin River from Joseph and Elizabeth Johnston (Deed Book 12/183). He sold this land to William Law in 1787. At the same time he appointed his brother, Abel, to act as his attorney and shortly thereafter, he removed his family to Mercer Co, KY where he purchased a tract of land in 1782.
Beginning in the early 1790's he owned and operated a ferry across the Kentucky River between Mercer and Woodford Counties, about three miles from the town of Ebenezer. After Richard's death in 1814, his sons, Abel and James, continued the manageent and operation of the ferry. They sold it to Charles McBride in 1823, but the road to and from the ferry continued to be known as Armstrong's Ferry Road as late as 1841. Mercer Co Records, Francis Dittmann.
Richard was a patriot in the Revolutionary War - vouchers # 1902 and 4822
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