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On September 3, 1791, he purchased 100 acres of land from Joseph Ames for 25 pounds (lot 70, 1st.
Division). 49a & 71 His daughter Lois is believed to have married Joseph Ames' son William in 1789, and the
meager amount charged for a land purchase of this size, makes for some interesting speculation. For example,
on January 1, 1788, this same Joseph Ames sold 50 acres of land to another of his sons (Elijah) for a total of 30
pounds. Why this obvious favoritism in the price of land shown to Martin? One family researcher 9, CR-8
speculates that this could have been a payment-in-kind for a marriage arrangement between William Ames
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and Lois Armstrong in order to provide a home for William's young bastard son Barnabus born in 1788.

Martin appears on the Shoreham voter and tax lists from 1790 through 1794 and is absent until he reappears
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in 1802 and again from 1804 – 1806, and it is unclear where he resided in the intervening years. He and his
second wife, Abigail, are believed to have resided with his son Elliot some years thereafter. The land that he
purchased from Joseph Ames he sold to his son Elliot on October 22, 1793, and signed the deed in Orwell, Vt.
on March 24, 1794. 49a & 71 His son-in-law, William Ames, witnessed the transaction. Martin sold his final four
acres of land at Shoreham (lot #58) in 1814. One family researcher 9, CR-8 believes that Martin may have moved
with his son Jewett to Crown Point, NY where he died between 1815 and 1820. She makes this assumption
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based on the fact that she believes his wife, Abigail, died in Shoreham in 1811 and that Martin sold his last
piece of land there in Oct. 1814. 49a, 71, 73 & 88

Other reference of interest for Martin
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Famly Group Sheet for Martin Armstrong

Martin Armstrong's Offspring

1. Lois (Armstrong) Ames

Lois married William Augustus Ames in Shoreham in approximately 1789 and in 1803 moved with her husband
and family to Canton, St. Lawrence, NY, where she died in 1849. In addition to her husband's oldest son,
Barnabus, who was born to another woman before he married Lois, they had their own family of at least seven
children.

References of interest for Lois

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Church of the Latter Day Saints Family Group Record received from Virginia Armstrong
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Family Group Sheet believed prepared by Virginia Armstrong
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Undated typed Family Group Sheet prepared by Virginia Armstrong with attached references
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Kansas Heritage web site genealogy sheet for Lois Armstrong
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The Armstrong Family, Location of Graves compiled by Virginia Armstrong
2. Jewett Armstrong

Shortly after the war of 1812, Jewett moved north to Crown Point, Essex County, NY, where he is cited as being
one of the founding fathers of that town in 1813. He is also shown on the assessor's roles for that village in
1818. Little else is known of Jewett other than he married and had as many as five sons and two or three
daughters. One son was named Martin, and he and his wife Lucy Ann Crumb, are known to have owned
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property in Ticonderoga, NY in the 1860s. Two other sons are believed to have been named Josiah and John.
Jewett's son Josiah was born in 1806 in Vermont, and is believed to have married a woman by the name of
Jerusha. They have three sons and three daughters, the first five of whom were born in Canada. There last
child, named Charles, was born in Hannover, Chataqua County, NY about 1849/1850.

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