Captain Robert Stuart, Sr.

"In his youth he was in the personal service of Gov. William Dummer, at Newbury, Mass., co-descendent with the Governor from John Dummer, of Bishopstoke, Eng., he being of the 4th and she of the th generation from John through the two brothersRichard and Stephen that came to newbury in 1638." Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America by Joseph Stuart 1894.

" From deeds on records I find that he owned land in Rowley in 1723, he selling land then; and in 1729 he sold land with buildings in Rowley." Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America by Joseph Stuart 1894.

"Not being fully satisfied with his location in Kingston [NH] Robert Stuart removed to the Newtown Woods between the years 1741, he then being 'of Kingston,' and 1745, when he is on record in a deed as of Amesbury. He probably desired to get back into Massachusetts, the King having decreed in 1740 that Kingston should be a part of New Hampshire. If that was his object his effort was futile, for the State line was at length established a few rods south of his home." Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America by Joseph Stuart 1894.

The Genealogical History also has a story of Robert killing a wildcat in his barn by jumping on it with his "whole weight of over 200 pounds."

He built the first Baptist log church in New Hampshire, organized in 1755 at Newtown. He claimed thus to have paid for support of the gosptel and by law not subject to "minister's tax". He was arrested or attempted to be arrested twice for not paying.

When asked by one of Paul Revere's riders "Are there any men here?" he responded "Only an invalid."

Died near the close of the Revolutionary War.

Robert and his wife, Anne set in Kingston, N. H., where she d., 1787. Their first home, in the woods of Kingston, afterward Newton, N.H., was a log cabin. He had been an employee of Gov. Dummer at Rowley. He was a Baptist, and helped to organize the first Baptist church in New Hampshire at Newton, in 1755. He built a church of logs called "Stuart's Church," and supported the preaching, refusing to pay the town minister's tax, for which an unsuccessful attempt was made to arrest him.

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/aBirthsS.shtml "(STEWART (Steward, Stewartt, Stuart)) Robert (Steward), s. Ebenezer and Elizabeth, Nov. 26, 1701."

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/aMarriagesS.shtml "(STEWART (Sewart, Steward, Stewartt, Stuard, Stuart)) Robert (Stuard), and Ann Adams of Newbury, at Newbury, Dec. 11, 1727. TC*"

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&p=robert&n=stuart&oc=1 has his vital info, his marriage and one of his children.

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Settled in Kingston, N. H.,. Their first home, in the woods of Kingston, afterward Newton, N. H., was a log cabin. He had been an employee of Governor Dummer at Rowley. He was a Baptist, and helped to organize the first Baptist church in New Hampshire at Newton, in 1755. He built a church of logs called " Stuart's Church," and supported the preaching, refusing to pay the town minister's tax, for which an unsuccessful attempt was made to arrest him.

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