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STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE

Genealogical Records of Stewart-Stuart Families

Editor - George T. Edson, 817 Elk St., Beatrice, NE

Associate - Horace Dickerman, New Haven, CT

TOME B March, 1933 Volume X - No. 9

ADJT. WALTER STEWART OF VIRGINIA –278

Adjt . Walter⁴ Stewart, born about 1730, perhaps in Scotland, was in Augusta County, VA, as early as 1754.₈ He was commissioned ensign July 25, 1754, in Col. George Washington’s Virginia regiment, and on Aug. 31, 1754, he was made lieutenant. He went with Braddock on the expedition against the French and Indians at Fort du Quesne in 1755, and was wounded in the defeat on the Monongahela. He was captain in command of a company of regulars in 1758.₈ He maried, about 1765, Catherine —, and settled on a farm in Augusta County, in that part which in 1769 was set off as Botetourt County, and later his home was in Montgomery County which was set off from Botetourt County. March 15, 1771, he was appointed surveyor of Catawba district. Nov. 8, 1771, Walter Stewart and wife Catherine deeded 75 acres at Small Spring of the Catawba in Botetourt County to John McKinzie.₇ Nov. 2, 1773, he purchased 96 acres of land on North fork of the Roanoke River from Daniel and Ann McCarmack. He was appointed adjutant to the Botetourt and Fincastle troops in the expedition against the Indians on the Ohio and was in the battle of Point Pleasant, Oct. 10, 1774. For his services “in the last war” as sergeant and quartermaster sergeant in the military forces comprising the First and Second Virginia regiments until such regiments were disbanded [1778]. Hon. Walter Stewart was issued a certificate in 1780 by the Botetourt County court for a grant of land. He received 200 acres in Kentucky County (Kentucky), on a branch of Licking River, which was surveyed July 10, 1776. Soon after 1780 he is said to have removed to Fayette County, KY, in the vicinity of Lexington. He died before Mar. 12, 1798. Children:₇

John                                   m. Catherine Patterson

Margaret                            m. Joseph Rayburn

Elizabeth                            m. James Mulligan

William b. 1770                 m. Sarah Rayburn; d. Oct. 19, 1843, Cedar Mills, OH

John⁵ Stewart (Walter⁴) was born about 1766 in Botetourt County, VA, and removed to Fayette County, KY, with his father’s family soon after the Revolutionary War. He married about 1792 Catherine Patterson, sister of John Patterson. Feb. 3, 1802, Margaret (Stewart) Rayburn and Joseph Rayburn, and Elizabeth (Stewart) Mulligan, heirs of Walter Stewart, deeded land in Fayette County, KY, to John Stewart [District court, C:616]. They belonged to a sect known as “Kentucky Presbyterians,” with John and Robert Patterson, brothers, John Huston, a brother of Judge David Huston of Greene County, O, John Buchanan and family, James and Betsy Mulligan, and William and Sally Stewart.₁₂ They removed in a colony about 1802 to Montgomery County, OH, settling in the Beaver Creek neighborhood and organizing a church which they called Beulah. Pioneer Life of Dayton and Vicinity by John F. Edgar, relates that in 1803 these settlers formed the “Society of Shakers” and John was elected first in care, or elder, and served two years and about four months. In March, 1806, two elders came to the Dayton settlement from Lebanon (Warren County), OH, the village of the Shakers, and completed the organization and named the society Watervliet.

William⁵ Stewart (Walter⁴) was born in 1770 in Botetourt County, VA, “the only son of an adjutant general in Braddock’s army” according to the History of Jackson, Jefferson and Pottawattomie Counties, Kansas, 1889. He removed with his father’s family to Fayette County, KY, soon after the Revolutionary War, settling near Lexington. He married about 1795 Sarah Rayburn of Kentucky. She was the widow of – McClain, if information obtained by Mrs. W.W. (Nellie Stewart) Scott of Mount Vernon, MO, is correct. Mar. 12, 1798, Margaret (Stewart) Rayburn and Joseph Rayburn, Elizabeth (Stewart) Mulligan and James Mulligan, heirs of Walter Stewart, deeded land to William Stewart [Fayette Co., KY, district court, B:50]. William and his wife Sarah sold Dec. –, 1801, to Anthony Stout of Fayette County, land in that county. They removed, perhaps early in 1802, to Montgomery County, OH, settling “on the Little [Great?] Miami River.” Later William donated his property to the Shakers, became one of their preachers and lived at Shakerville for seven years. Finally becoming dissatisfied he bought a farm near Dayton, upon which he lived until 1818. He was a soldier in the War of 1818.₁₄ He removed in 1818 to Jefferson County, IN, but returned to Ohio, settling in Adams County, where he died. Sarah died in 1838, and Willaim died Oct. 19, 1843, aged 73, and is buried at Cedar Mills, OH.₄ Children, the eldest three being born in Kentucky, the others in Montgomery County, OH:

STEWARTS OF TOLLAND, CT.

Samuel⁴ Stewart was born about 1744. He married Patience Hungerford and lived in Tolland, CT, according to Genealogy and Biography of Cook County (Illinois) Families. She died many years before her husband. He died in 1816 at the age of 82. He had nine children, of whom William was the second.₁₄ Now, we presume that Samuel had a second wife - Mary. In the settlement of the estate of Samuel Stewart, late of Tolland, in 1817, the widow Mary was mentioned, as were the following children:

William⁵ Stewart (Samuel⁴), born in 1772 in Connecticut, married in 1795, in Mansfield, Validia Turner, eighth of the ten children of Timothy and Rachel (Carpenter) Turner. William was a soldier in the War of 1812. In 1815 he removed with his family to Batavia, NY, purchasing land in Genesee County from the Holland Land company. Later he became a pioneer in the territory of Michigan, At the age of 60 he was a soldier in the Black Hawk War, serving in a militia regiment commanded by his son, Col. Hart Stewart, which went from Michigan in 1832 to aid in suppressing the Indians. Among his children were:

George

Alanson C.

Hart LeLac, b. Aug. 29, 1803, Bridgewater, NY; m. Feb. 5, 1829, Hannah Blair McKibbin

Samuel M.

WILLIAM STEWARD OF STONINGTON, CT. –A:200

William⁷ Stewart (William⁶, William⁵, William⁴), born May 10, 1775, in Stonington, CT, went to the Mohawk Valley, NY, when young, locating first at Bennett’s Corners, later at Kingsboro and finally in Oppenheim, Fulton County, where he farmed. He married Feb. 12, 1801, Abigail Sheldon, born Dec. 25, 1781. Mar. 28, 1813, he was a witness to the will of Henry Selter of Oppenheim, then in Montgomery County. He died Mar. 10, 1857, in Oppenheim, and Abigail died Dec. 29, 1873. In his will, dated Feb. 14, 1857, probated Mar. 16, 1857, William mentioned his wife Abigail and children Alanson, Anna, Harriet, Sophronia, Mary Ann, Cordelia Eliza, Julia Ann, Frances, Margaret Maria, and William S. Children:

LEWIS STEWART OF HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ

Lewis⁵ Stewart was born Nov. 29, 1751, in Aberdeen, Scotland, says Snell's History of Hunterdon & Somerset Counties, New Jersey, page 455. He married Lavina Hoff, born Oct. 16, 1769, in Kingwood, Hunterdon County, NJ. Nothing is said of his father nor when Lewis came to America. He died May 20, 1821 -- his gravestone in the Kingwood cemetery says 1825 -- and Lavina died Dec. 9, 1853. Their children were:

JAMES STEWART, WHO SAILED WITH JOHN PAUL JONES

John⁴ Stewart was born aobut 1750 in Scotland. With his three sons, John, Mitchell, and James, and two daughters, he emigrated to America in 1773 or 1774, and landed in Boston, where he settled. This was narrated by the son James, in his application Oct. 5, 1833, for a pension [R-10,155]. John Stewart and his sons, John and Mitchell, were killed at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. The son James was thus left an orphan, 12 years old. And too young, no doubt, to have got his history straight. But he knew a good line when he saw one.

James⁵ Stewart (John⁴) was born Mar. –, 1763, in Scotland and came to American in 1773 or 1774 with his father and two brothers and two sisters.₉ He was left an orphan after the death of his father at the battle of Bunker Hill [June, 1775, when 12 years old]. He went aboard a brig, a merchant vessel, at Boston, as cabin boy, the latter part of 1777, and went to Providence, according to his statement 56 years subsequently. [The Massachusetts archives show that a James Stewart enlisted Mar. 10, 1777, for three years, and was a gunner under Capt. William Pierce, Col. John Crane, as shown by a muster roll for February, 1779, dated at Providence.] At Providence he left the brig and volunteered aboard the ship Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. He served on the Ranger as cabin boy and sailed to the coast of France, etc, etc. He served on this ship a year and two months and in one engagement he was wounded. James remained, it seems, in the naval service. He was in the Battle of New Orleans, he said, although at that time he would have been close to 52 years of age. About 1828 he left the sea and made his home in Darlington district, South Carolina, where he resided a year and then moved to Marlborough district. He had lived four years in Marlborough district when he applied Oct. 8, 1833, for a pension. His claim was rejected.

STUARTS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA.

Mrs. Margaret Scruggs Carruth, 3715 Turtle Creek Blvd, Dallas, TX, B:200, has pursued an extensive research of records of the Stuarts of Augusta County, VA, and ahs perhaps the most nearly complete and authoritative collection of data on these families of any person. She finds that some persons, with conclusions unsupported by proof, have put forward genealogies of these families which she regards as very misleading and harmful. Mrs. Carruth has prepared the following sketch, based on the histories of Waddell, Egle, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Rev. Robert Stuart, White Peyton, Chalkley, and others.

Archibald Stuart, who married Janet Brown, –B:137; Andrew Stuart, who married Mary Dinwiddie, --B:77; John Stuart, who married Elizabeth Archer, –B:139; and David Stuart, who married Margaret Jane Lynn, widow of John Paul (or Pall), –B:138, were brothers and came to Pennsulvania from the north of Ireland.

Archibald preceded his brothers by some 6 or 7 years, fleeing from religious persecution, with a price on his head. Andrew and Mary (Dinwiddie) Stuart settled in old Paxtang, PA. Archibald and Janet (Brown) Stuart went down into the valley of Virginia and settled in Augusta County. There they were joined by John and Elizabeth (Archer) Stuart, who settled on Borden’s Tract. Elizabeth (Archer) Stuart was a sister to John and Sampson Archer. Later came David Stuart with his brother-in-law, Gov. Robert Dinwiddie [1690-1770], Mary’s brother, and settled in that part of Augusta County which became Greenbrier, and David’s only son was styled John Stuart of Greenbrier.

John and Elizabeth (Archer) Stuart also had an only son John, who was brought to Virginia “an infant in arms in 1740.” He married Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Capt. James and Mary (Guffey or McGuffey) Walker. John and his son John were always styled “of Borden’s Tract” in the Augusta court records.

Anyone who is interested in these families and would like to have Mrs. Carruth’s material published, in this magazine or separately, might write the editor about it.

GAMALIEL STEWART MARRIED ELIZABETH ST. JOHN

Gamaliel⁴ Stewart (Lemuel³, Gamaliel², James¹ of Sandwich, MA, A:166) was born about 1752 in Wilton, CT. He married Elizabeth S.t John. He was doubtless the Gamaliel Stewart who was among the enlisted men, as was Thomas Steward, in the Fourth regiment of Dutchess County, NY, militia in 1781 and was entitled to land bounty. He was living in Ballston, Saratoga County, NY, in 1790, with a son under 16 years of age and four females.₁₀ His daughter Catherine married Henry Dimond. Catherine’s great-granddaughter, Mrs. Maud Kennan, 1 Newport Rd., Cambridge, MA, would like to get more data about Gamaliel and especially to learn the parentage of his wife, Elizabeth St. John.

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In reference to the Miss Stuart who married Joseph Charles of Philadelphia (query 50 , in the November number), Mrs. Hobson further says that Joseph Charles and his father Joseph, were astronomers and were friends of Washington, who sometimes visited in their home. Joseph and — (Stuart) Charles had several children, among whom were: Abraham; Mary, who married a Mr. Harvey; Martha R., who married Mar. 29, 1836. Norris Dilsworth; Joseph and another son. Joseph Charles II died when his daughter Martha was young.

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In query 51, January number, there was an error in the querist’s box number. The correct address is: H.E, Melzar, PO Box 5179, Boston, MA.

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Symbols and references: a number preceded by a dash, as --90, means refer to that page; m. means married; m.int. means marriage intention; m. lic. means marriage license; b. = born; bp = baptized; d. = died; bur. = buried. (₁) = Bible record; (₂) church; (₃) town; (₄) gravestone; (₅) probate; (₆) court; (₇) land; (₈) military; (₉) pension; (₁₀) census; (₁₁) tradition; (₁₂) local history; (₁₃) patriotic society; (₁₄) biography or genealogy; (₁₅) deduction of the editor.