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NY and fathered five daughters and three sons prior to dying there at the age of 80. Several records I have seen
show his youngest son’s name to be Wright. Based on the 1850 U.S. Census and other information, I believe his
son’s first name was actually Silas and that his middle name was Wright.

References of interest for Chauncey:
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Carrie Armstrong Chermak package – see the page 5 insert believed to have been prepared by Jerome B.
Armstrong – Chauncey’s death date is show as being 1873 instead of 1870 as shown in other records
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Armstrong Summary by Wilma DeCourcey – includes paragraph concerning Chauncey and his family
54, pages 104 – 106
History of the Town of Shoreham, Vermont, 1761 to 1861; Rev. Josiah F. Goodhue; Published by
the Town, Middlebury; A. H. Copeland; 1861; Elliot and son Chauncey mentioned as town volunteers in
the War of 1812, (Personal Library)
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The Armstrong Family - Location of Graves compiled by Virginia Armstrong
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A Genealogical Register of the Early Families of Shoreham, Vermont; Susan H. McIntire and Sanford S.
Witherell, Volume 2; 1992; Academy Books, Rutland, Vermont, pages 278 & 279 (Elliot, Chauncey &
Chester)
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Chauncey Armstrong and family with notes and references by Virginia Armstrong
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Chauncey Armstrong and Family, The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors
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Chauncey Armstrong and Family, Church of the Latter Day Saints, LDS Archive Record
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Chauncey Armstrong - US Census for Lisbon, NY – 1850
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August 1996 email concerning Chauncey’s daughter Eleanor (Armstrong) Pennock

2. William Armstrong

Elliott's second son, William, died as a baby.

3. Chester Armstrong

As mentioned above, Elliott's third son, Chester, also participated in the foray to protect the building of
American vessels at Vergennes. He also served in the infantry for a time in Colonel William Williams' Regiment
under Captain John Robbins (who was a third lieutenant during the Plattsburgh initiative). After he and his wife
Eunice were married in Shoreham in 1820, they followed Chester's Grand Aunt Lois and brother Chauncey to St.
Lawrence County, NY where they began their family. Their first three children were born in small towns located
a bit inland and east of Lisbon named Hopkinton, Parishville, and Chesterfield. In February 1833, Chester's fourth
and last child, Charles Truman was born in Peru, Clinton County, NY (just north of Au Sable Forks where his
younger brother, David, first began his medical practice). He probably lived here at the same time as his younger
brother David, whose first child, Jerome, was also born there about seven months earlier in the summer of
1832. Apparently northern New York state did not offer whatever Chester was looking for and his next move
was the one that pioneered the Armstrong's permanent westward migration.

It is not known exactly what route he took, but in 1839 he, his wife, and their four children settled on a farm
near the town of Sandstone, Jackson County, Michigan. By mid-1852 he and his wife Eunice are believed to have
moved to the nearby town of Parma where his younger brother David lived. In his brother’s medical account
book, from 1852 to 1861, his name appears approximately two dozen times. His sons Solon, George, and Charles
are also referenced a half dozen times during this timeframe. In a Parma business directory published in that
timeframe, he was shown as a “shoe and leather dealer.”

Chester died in Lansing, MI between 1873 and 1879 (three sources shown below show different death dates).

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