Lafayette, James Armistead, approximately 1760-1830

LC control no.	n 2014015449
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lafayette, James Armistead, approximately 1760-1830 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Armistead, James, approximately 1760-1830
Biography/History note	James Armistead Lafayette was born a slave.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	17601210 1748~
Death date	18300809 1830-08-09
Place of birth	New Kent County (Va.)
Place of death	New Kent County (Va.)
Affiliation	United States. Continental Army Great Britain. Army
Profession or occupation	Spies
Found in	The other double agent, 2015: ECIP t.p. (James Armistead Lafayette) galley (James, a slave in Tidewater area Virginia; took his master's last name, Armistead; Revolutionary War spy who worked for the Marquis de Lafayette, and later took his name) Wikipedia, March 25, 2014 (James Armistead Lafayette (December 10, 1760-August 9, 1830; most sources indicate that Armistead was born in 1748 in New Kent County, Virginia as a slave to William Armistead; other sources put his birth around 1760 in Elizabeth City, Virginia.) African American National Biography, accessed November 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lafayette, James Armistead; James Armistead; slave, spy, war hero, patriot (American Revolution); born c.1748 in New Kent County, Virginia, United States; slave belonging to the planter William Armistead of New Kent County, Virginia; volunteered to become a spy for the American army; volunteered to spy on the Americans for the British; his reports to General Lafayette helped to end the Revolutionary War (1781); submitted petitions to the Virginia General Assembly asking the government to grant him his freedom in return for his service during the war (1784 and 1786); the speaker of the House of Virginia signed a bill making Armistead a free man (1787); took the General's surname and became James Armistead Lafayette; achieved a measure of economic success, owning two horses and three slaves (1787); owned land in New Kent County next to the property of his former owner, William Armistead (1818); asked the General Assembly for a veteran's pension and was awarded a yearly income (1818); died 09 August 1830 in New Kent County, Virginia, United States)