Well! Well! Cousins! The old List still has some life in it yet! The Armstrong Reveres will airways come out of the woods for a party! One thing the party will need for music is a band. Well, I'm bringing my bass. I know there are some more musicians out there to sit in with me and play some good ole country and some of the good old songs. Ya'll get ready because I'll be there with my bass, my crawfish and bbq. I'll also have a sufficient supply of Canadian Club and a jug of moonshine that came from the Smoky Mountains that has been aged in plums for the past year and is mighty smooth, if I do say so myself! Lets make this cyber party one to remember! Cousin Fount Armstrong, researching descendants of Samuel Armstrong, who came to Abbyville, SC from Ballimena, Ireland in 1767.

Not meaning to be rude Fount, but did Samuel come under the Governors Pleasure or as a free person. 68,000 plus convicts arrived in Australia over a period of years. It started here about 1790 when American wouldn't take anymore. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fount Armstrong" <farmstrong3@cfl.rr.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > Well! Well! Cousins! > The old List still has some life in it yet! > The Armstrong Reveres will airways come out of the woods for a party! > > One thing the party will need for music is a band. Well, I'm bringing my bass. I know there are some more musicians out there to sit in with me and play some good ole country and some of the good old songs. > > Ya'll get ready because I'll be there with my bass, my crawfish and bbq. > I'll also have a sufficient supply of Canadian Club and a jug of moonshine that came from the Smoky Mountains that has been aged in plums for the past year and is mighty smooth, if I do say so myself! > > Lets make this cyber party one to remember! > > Cousin Fount Armstrong, researching descendants of Samuel Armstrong, who came to Abbyville, SC from Ballimena, Ireland in 1767. >

Cousin Edie, No, best I can figure, some of Samuel's siblings first crossed over to PA and then moved down to SC. Samuel and his young wife, her parents and Samuel's widowed mother and their first child, crossed over to SC to obtain some of the free land offered to immigrants at the time. They were just poor farmers of the Presbyterian faith, as were many of the Armstrongs at the time. Fount ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob and Edie McArthur" <robmc@our.net.au> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > Not meaning to be rude Fount, but did Samuel come under the Governors > Pleasure or as a free person. 68,000 plus convicts arrived in Australia > over a period of years. It started here about 1790 when American wouldn't > take anymore. > > Edie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fount Armstrong" <farmstrong3@cfl.rr.com> > To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:36 PM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > > > > Well! Well! Cousins! > > The old List still has some life in it yet! > > The Armstrong Reveres will airways come out of the woods for a party! > > > > One thing the party will need for music is a band. Well, I'm bringing my > bass. I know there are some more musicians out there to sit in with me and > play some good ole country and some of the good old songs. > > > > Ya'll get ready because I'll be there with my bass, my crawfish and bbq. > > I'll also have a sufficient supply of Canadian Club and a jug of moonshine > that came from the Smoky Mountains that has been aged in plums for the past > year and is mighty smooth, if I do say so myself! > > > > Lets make this cyber party one to remember! > > > > Cousin Fount Armstrong, researching descendants of Samuel Armstrong, who > came to Abbyville, SC from Ballimena, Ireland in 1767. > > >

As you may remember Fount a couple of years ago Joyce Armstrong and I sat for hours recording all of the Tasmania Convicts named Armsrong and some of those had first been convicts that had been sent to the mainland australia and when free had reoffended and were set to Tasmania. there were quite a lot of them, that is why I wondered if they had gone to America as Convicts. Of course they were not criminals in the true sense, a good many were sent to work to build up the colony as not many would have come voluntarily to nothing much in those days. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fount Armstrong" <farmstrong3@cfl.rr.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > Cousin Edie, > No, best I can figure, some of Samuel's siblings first crossed over to PA > and then moved down to SC. Samuel and his young wife, her parents and > Samuel's widowed mother and their first child, crossed over to SC to obtain > some of the free land offered to immigrants at the time. They were just poor > farmers of the Presbyterian faith, as were many of the Armstrongs at the > time. > Fount > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob and Edie McArthur" <robmc@our.net.au> > To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:31 AM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > > > > Not meaning to be rude Fount, but did Samuel come under the Governors > > Pleasure or as a free person. 68,000 plus convicts arrived in Australia > > over a period of years. It started here about 1790 when American wouldn't > > take anymore. > > > > Edie > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Fount Armstrong" <farmstrong3@cfl.rr.com> > > To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:36 PM > > Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Party! Party! Party! > > > > > > > Well! Well! Cousins! > > > The old List still has some life in it yet! > > > The Armstrong Reveres will airways come out of the woods for a party! > > > > > > One thing the party will need for music is a band. Well, I'm bringing my > > bass. I know there are some more musicians out there to sit in with me and > > play some good ole country and some of the good old songs. > > > > > > Ya'll get ready because I'll be there with my bass, my crawfish and bbq. > > > I'll also have a sufficient supply of Canadian Club and a jug of > moonshine > > that came from the Smoky Mountains that has been aged in plums for the > past > > year and is mighty smooth, if I do say so myself! > > > > > > Lets make this cyber party one to remember! > > > > > > Cousin Fount Armstrong, researching descendants of Samuel Armstrong, who > > came to Abbyville, SC from Ballimena, Ireland in 1767. > > > > > > >