Well... I have had quite a day in the online records! Found one guy who had seem my family gravestones in Pennsylvania, and got the names to fill in and go back in several lines. Turns out I have 7 generations of Armstrongs going back before my grandmother....and SHE married into the Murrays! So I guess I can assume a couple branches were Scots border raiders... *grin*.

Still sorting it out, and since the oldest records show 2 generations of John Armstrongs back to 1640 in Anne Arundle county, Maryland, I have no idea where they were from in Scotland....but anyone named John Armstrong in 1640 probably knew the significance of his name.