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John Armfield was born in North Carolina in 1797. He married Martha Franklin (niece of Isaac Franklin) in 1831. The marriage produced no children.

[edit] Armfield and Franklin

John Armfield and his uncle Isaac Franklin formed the partnership of Armfield and Franklin in 1828 to buy African-Americans enslaved in the mid-atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware) and sell them in the newly opened territories of the deep south. They dissolved the partnership in 1835 and sold the business to one of their agents, George Kephart.

[edit] Retirement

John Armfield retired to Central Tennessee in 1835. In 1850 he purchased the resort of Beersheba Springs in Grundy County, Tennessee. He died at Beersheba Springs in 1871, aged 73 or 74.