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The story of the moving trees in Shakespeares Macbeth was actually an account of the battle in which the
Armstrongs defeated the Normans. Siward was given the title of Duke of Northumberland.

The Armstrongs became Christian early in the history of English Christianity. The apron worn by one of our
ancestors on the crusade to the Holy Land is in the Masonic Museum in Ann Arbor, Mich.
After the family turned Christian, the Coat of Arms was changed with only the arm upon it.

The arm on the Arm and Hammer Soda box is the Armstrong Arm.

The family names were Wat, Rolla for Rolland, Edmund, Walter, Hubert, Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, and
Martin.

There is a room in West Minister Abbey where our ancestors are buried. The generation, children of David Wing
Armstrong is buried there.

William, the son of Christopher, fled to Ireland and built a large house with walls, dykes, and byres.
William had three sons - John of Gilnockie, Christopher of Langholm, and William of Gilnockie.
We are descended from William of Gilnockie. Edward (1650) the son of William of Gilnockie married a gypsie
princess with black hair and snapping black eyes. Edward moved to Brookbora Ireland and built a beautiful
home. It is still a grand old place now used as a hotel.

Over the door is the Arm and Sword of the Armstrong clan.

Martin, the son of Edward, came to Pennsylvania where a number of the clan had established a settlement.
They joined with a group of Dutch Puritans.

Martin married the Lady Elizabeth Elliot. There were two sons. Our family descended from Martin's son Elliot.
[sp] Eliot [sp] married Elinor [sp] Phelps. For some time they lived on Long Island. At the time of the
revolutionary war, they moved to Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain for protection. Later Eliot moved to East
Shoreham, Vermont. He is buried there in a little yard walled in with a rough stone wall.”

This is the longest of the narratives we have seen so far and although it flies pretty far afield in some areas, it
still repeats and expands some events that we have seen before. For example, the story of Siward who fights
on the side of the King of England against William the Conqueror and the Normans is clearly taken from the
story I summarized in Chapter 1. We hear again about the Masonic Apron also referred to by Henry Armstrong,
although the story concerning its being worn by an ancestor during the Crusades stretches the imagination a
bit further. It might be interesting to follow-up and see what might be found in the Masonic Museum in Ann
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Arbor, MI… Also, we see Martin’s father’s name identified as Edward, and the reference to Dutch Puritans,
although this version specifically mentions Pennsylvania rather than the much vaguer “mainland” seen
previously. Further, reference is made to Martin’s wife, although her first name is given this time (we have
other sources that also indicate her name was Elizabeth Elliot), the family’s flight to Fort Ticonderoga, and
Elliot’s burial at Shoreham, VT.
A couple of statements border on the ridiculous. For example, there definitely
were pious Armstrong ancestors that championed Christianity and were great
supporters of England, but it is much more plausible to imagine them being hung
in Edinburgh than enshrined in Westminster Abbey. The reference to David
Wing’s children also being buried there is so far out in the blue I am at a loss to
explain how anyone in our bloodline could possibly conceive of such a thing.

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