... John Armistead, whose inventory of estate was recorded in Essex County in 1703 with Francis Moore as executor. He is supposed to have been the John Armistead who was married in Essex County (at that time old Rappahannock) in 1688-89 to Mary Brown. This John Armistead was probably a son of a Ralph Armistead, who patented land in Gloucester County in 1678 ...