The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...

Many historians have associated the surname Armistead with James Lafayette, but scholars today indicate that he preferred and used the surname he shared with the marquis. James Lafayette ...

Lafayette — sometimes referred to as James Armistead Lafayette — was born enslaved in New Kent County in 1748. He spied for the American military during the Siege of Yorktown, infiltrating ...