Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
Whaley, the sum of four hundred and fifty-nine dollars in full for a negro woman by the name of Amy about eighteen or nineteen years old, and her child about four months old; the title of said negro I will forever warrant and defend against all and every person or persons whatsoever, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-seventh of December eighteen hundred and fourteen.
Signed Dolly Armstrong, for my husband
James W. Armstrong. (Bk L. p. 942)
Test. John Raines John Turner.
At the time these slaves were sold, Jas. W. Armstrong was serving, during the War of 1812, in the Georgia Militia, under Gen. Mcintosh, as an Assistant Wagon Master. He resigned March 18, 1815, as the war had ended. (Dept. of Archives, Wash. D. C.) He was married in 1813, to Dorothy Tucker, Daughter of Joseph Tucker, of Dinwiddie Co. Virginia.
Evidence of relationship of Dorothy (Dolly) and Joseph Tucker is found in Montgomery, Ala. in the following: "On the application of Jas. W. Armstrong for letters of guardianship on the persons and property of his two children, Permelia Ann Armstrong and Joseph T. Armstrong, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that one Joseph Tucker, deceased, of the County of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, did in his life time will and bequeath unto Permelia Ann Armstrong a certain negro man slave by the name of Ephriam and to Joseph Armstrong, a negro boy called Billy; it is there-fore ordered by the Court that letters of guardianship issue to the said Jas. W. Armstrong on the property of the said two children, Permelia Ann Armstrong and Joseph Armstrong, he first giving bond, and approved security." The records further state, "This day came James W. Armstrong and entered unto bond in the sum of sixteen hundred dollars with Gaines Brack and Green B. Pinkston, Security. Ordered by the Court that they be received as Securities. Ordered by the Court that the Guardian as aforesaid make a true and just inventory of all the singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said Pamelia Ann Armstrong and Joseph T. Armstrong, as soon as he may become possessed of said estate." The above record was found in the Nov. term of Court in 1826. (Orp. Ct. Min. Bk 2 p 215).
Three and one half years later, April 26, 1830, the Court approved the inventory, as presented by Jas. W. Armstrong,
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