John Armstrong (1757-1792)

He was the son of "a gentleman of large estate" In Ireland's Co Clare - most likely either a son or nephew of Edmund Armstrong (b.c.1735) of Buncraggy, Co. Clare, by his wife Hannah Westropp. He sailed for India but was shipwrecked and brought to America where he was sometime Private Secretary to Governor John Graves Simcoe. He married Mary, daughter of Lt.-Colonel James Rogers who forfeited 50,000-acres in America on fighting for the Crown. They were the parents of 3-children (listed).