This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson, McNary, Mitchell, Hartley, Purcell, Slemaker, Smith, Jacobs, Fisher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3cDBAIB/8059.1 Message Board Post: Hector, My G.G.Grandfather John Armistead Robinson was born in 1830 Pruntytown Va.(WV) son of Joshua Owen Robinson. Joshua served in the war of 1812 and as you may know the comanding officer of Fort McHenry, was a Armistead. I have often wondered if Armistead was a family name of the name of leader thought highly of . The spelling is not the same but close and at that time spelling depended on the person spelling. You don't say anything about other Robinson family other than a father that may have served in the Civil War, do you know of uncles or aunts that help to find the family in a more round about way?