Hugh Stewart

Hugh Stewart, of Paxton

• BIRTH 11 Jun 1719 Scotland
• DEATH 8 Oct 1798 (aged 79) Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
• BURIAL New Side Churchyard Cemetery Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Brother of Samuel Stewart, Sr.

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Disputed relationship

Samuel Stewart, Sr. was not the not the brother of Lazarus Stewart, Sr.. YDNA test results do not match.

See discussion, https://www.geni.com/discussions/263898?msg=1626192.

Samuel Stewart (supposedly) emigrated to Pennsylvania with his younger brother, Hugh Stewart. If so, then Hugh was not the brother of Lazarus, either. However, as of April 2023, there are no Y DNA test results from Hugh’s line to validate, one way or another.

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Family

“Pennsylvania genealogies; chiefly Scotch-Irish and German.” Author Egle,, William Henry, 1830-1901. Page 647 - 648. Archive.Org

Robert Stewart had a large family, of whom we have record only of
3. i. Samuel, b. 1698 ; m. Mary McClay.
4. it. Hugh, b. June 11, 1719 ; m. first, Hannah Dallas ; secondly, Nancy Moore

Hugh Stewart (son of Robert) was twice married; m., first, in 1750-1, Hannah Dallas, b 1727 in Ireland; d. 1760, and buried with her husband. They had issue, all born in Paxtang:

1. Jean-Jane/1 Nov 1751 m John Robinson
2. May/1752 - 2 Sep 1752
3. Elizabeth/1752 - 2 Sep 1752
4. John/2 Jul 1753 m a sister of John Robinson
5. William/21 Oct 1757 m Martha Walker
6. Hugh, Jr/1 Oct 1759 m Mary Wilson

Hugh Stewart, Sr., m., secondly, in 1764, Nancy Moore, b. 1735; d March 22, 1790. They had issue:

1. Robert, b March 8, 1765; m Sarah Finney
2. Samuel, b March 5, 1767; m Jane Patterson
3. Joseph, b July 10, 1769; m Sarah Stewart
4. James, b February 28, 1774; m 1) Mary Sherer 2) Mary Maclay Stewart 3) Margaret Reed
5. Mary, b November 27, 1778; m Charles Stewart

Biography

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15047719/hugh-stewart

Hugh's middle name is not "immigrant" so that word as a middle name was removed after someone put 'immigrant' as his middle name.

Besides Hugh was not even an immigrant, he was a colonist and subject of the crown. He sailed to America before the revolution making him a colonist. The distinction is that an immigrant is someone who seeks to integrate into another existing culture and nation, while a colonist takes his own culture with him to establish it in a new land. An emigrant (with an E) is someone who leaves his own nation. For example, Australian British remained British when they moved to Australia. They were colonists and emigrants but not immigrants. The Founding Fathers of America were colonists, not immigrants, They did not integrate into American Indian culture, they transported European culture to the American wilderness. Benjamin Franklin and George Washington considered themselves British colonists in America, but not immigrants. Nor were they migrants because they were not a nomadic people. They were settlers who built sustainable settled communities in keeping with European methods, laws and culture.

I John Stewart moved from Scotland to the North of Ireland, locating in Drumore Township, county Down, twelve miles from Belfast, during the reign of Charles II of England, shortly after the commencement thereof (his reign extending from 1660-1685.)

II Robert Stewart was the son of John who was born in 1665, near Glasgow, Scotland, but who also went to the North of Ireland.

III Samuel Stewart was the son of Robert, who was born in 1698 near Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to the North of ireland, and died in 1770 in Lancaster county Pennsylvania. In 1735, accompanied by his younger brother HUGH STEWART, he crossed the ocean, landing in Philadelphia, and settled in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania, near Chestnut Level, A Scotch-Irish settlement, where had been established a Presbyterian meeting-house. In person, Samuel Stewart was large and well-proportioned, six feet in height, Roman nose, blueish-grey eyes, brown hair and ruddy complexion.

SOURCE: Stewart Family Tree, as found on page 561 of the "20th Century History of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio" Edited by William Mahlon Rockel. Published 1908.

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Hugh Stewart (b.1719) became a widower when his first wife Hannah Dallas died at age 35 in 1760 shortly after giving birth to twin boys, William and Hugh Jr. (born OCT 1759)

His second wife was Nancy.

PLEASE NOTE: Like Hugh Jr. (born OCT 1759) there was another Hugh Stewart (born DEC 1759) in Pennsylvania, who lived at the same time in Philadephia during the American Revolutionary War.

The two boys, both called Hugh Stewart and both born in 1759, even knew each other! However, the son of this Hugh Sr. was Hugh Jr. who had a foot deformity. He thus became a teacher and moved to Indiana, while the other Hugh of different parentage owned a quarry outside of Philadelphia, and later moved to Ohio.

Careful. DO NOT merge the two Revolutionary era men called Hugh Stewart of Pennsylvania, both born 1759. One moved to Indiana, the other to Ohio.

They have totally different wives and children and many descendants. Do not merge!

Hugh Stewart Jr. youngest son of Hugh and Hannah Dallas Stewart, was born in Pashon [Paxton] Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., Oct. 21, 1759.

In consequence of a deformity in his feet, unfitting him for active life, he became a teacher, and was a rigid disciplinarian; he settled in Red Stone County [Fayette], Pa., thence removed to Rush Co., Indiana., near Flat Rock Creek. He married Mrs. Mary Wilson in 1795 and had two sons; Wilson and another Hugh.

1. Wilson [Stewart], married Jane Robeson [No. 16], his cousin, and had one daughter, Martha; married second time, Anna Johns and died in 1865, Milroy, Rush Co., Ind.

2. Hugh Stewart, married Miss Seabright. He and his brother moved to Milroy, Rush Co., Ind., 1824. They were among the earliest settlers of Indiana.

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FULL FAMILY DETAILS BELOW, PUBLISHED 1876 by a descendant:

http://maley.net/transcription/Stewart/Stewart1-5.htm

The History of the Stewart Family

By Bucher Ayres of Philadelphia, Penn., in 1876.

(Transcription, by Vincent Edward Summers of a copy of a 3rd copy by Minnehaha Finney, from a copy loaned to her by Prof. James Barnette of Eugene, Oregon University. His copy was made from an earlier copy.)

It is the desire of the writer and the recommendation of this book that it shall be kept and preserved and handed down from generation to generation by the eldest male descendant of HUGH STEWART, who shall bear the Stewart Family name of Stewart and continue to reside in Dauphin County, Penn. The hope is also likewise expressed that this Family record shall continue in the manner and form as begun; then it will become a matter of just and exceptional Family pride, esteemed and valued the more by each succeeding generation, as the years roll on.

No one can be indifferent as to the origin and descent of his family, and no one can be insensible to the beneficent influence descending from the virtues and homes of his forefathers.

Pride of ancestry seems to be innate and therefore does it become an endearing pleasure to perpetuate the names and deeds of those who have gone before. The Laws of Primo-Geniture as they exist in Europe require the establishment of a Herald’s College, in which the descent of families is enrolled as a matter of State and Public necessity, but in America, where every family makes for itself a station among men, where birthright does not imply the right of inheritance, the Family Record becomes a matter of personal interest and care, and is too often treated with shameful indifference or total neglect.

Fortunately this Centennial Year of 1876 makes an era when there is a disposition to accord the consideration which the importance of the subject deserves, and fortunate are those who can trace to Revolutionary times their family history. Pre-eminently fortunate therefore is it to be regarded this family which has a History, not presumptive or traditional, but founded on indestructible facts, dating from the eventful days of the Scottish Covenanters.

Identified with the earliest settlements of Pennsylvania and Ohio, these families withstood the dangers and privations of a frontier life, living in peaceful and friendly proximity with the Aborigines, vying with them in the chase and sportive contests, ere he lost his rights to the soil,-- then the victims of his barbarity, and undergoing all the terror entailed by the French and Indian War.

Then down through the dark days of the Revolution, offering its best blood for the cause of liberty, fighting on even through the Great Rebellion for the perpetuation of the Government, inaugurated and established in 1776.

In the annals of Scotland, Stewart is an honored name; we find it woven into her history throughout the ages, borne by Kings and Lords and Yeomen, by Philosophers and Heroines; from Robert Stewart, nephew and successor to Bruce of Bannock-burn in the 14th Century, to the present time.

The name is strictly and purely Scottish; Stewart is the alternate in English and was originally derived from the office or occupation of the men who bore it.

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It is now the Title of one of the largest Clans in the Highlands of Scotland, "Clan Stewart." It is also the sixth most common name in Scotland, and was developed by the Census of 1861, the actual count at that date being 31,896.

Names are perpetuated in families as well as personal characteristics, and we shall find the six most common names in the Stewart families run in the following order: --

John Mary

James Ann or Nancy

Samuel Sarah

William Margaret

Robert Jane

David Elizabeth

The six most common names in Scotland, as elicited in the census referred to above, run in the following order; --

John Margaret

James Mary

William Elizabeth

Alexander Ann

Robert Jane

David Isabel

The reader will perceive on comparison the predilection of the Stewarts for the familiar Scottish names.

We have no hesitation in asserting that the Stewarts of these pages unquestionably flourished as agriculturists, farmers, and freeholders in Scotland and in Ireland and in America, while some have branched out into the learned professions, the great majority continue in the honorable occupation of cultivation of the soil, a thrifty race and Lords of the Broad Acres which receive their care.

1st. Robert Stewart

The first on record was born near Glasgow, Scotland, A. D. 1665, when Charles II was King. Some time-worn manuscripts in the family indicate that he was the son of John Stewart; it is tradition that John Stewart, being a Covenanter, would not comply with the Royal Edict enforcing attendance at the Parish Church, and consequently incurred heavy penalties which impelled him to emigrate to Ireland. At that period the north of Ireland was a refuge for proscribed Presbyterians and condemned Covenanters of Scotland, and thither he directed his steps, a refugee for conscience sake, preferring to abandon his native hills rather than go back on the Solemn League and Covenant.

(John Stewart fled to Ireland, 1665, returned to Scotland 1685, died in 1720 in Scotland.)

Robert remained in Scotland till the death of his father in 1720, when he removed to Ireland, and where he died in 1730, aged 65 years, leaving three sons, Viz.;---

2nd. Samuel

3rd. Robert

4th. Hugh

Robert Stewart’s family is said to have been large, but we have knowledge of only those three here named. The lives of father and son, John Stewart and son, Robert, therefore embrace the most interesting period in English History, commencing in the reign of Charles I through the Common-Wealth and Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, the restoration, and the reign of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, Queen Anne, George I, and into George II, whose reign commenced in 1727. The Stewarts were Covenanters, and here let me pause to make a brief reference to contemporaneous history which seems to be essential at this period to enable us to get at the root of the religion of our ancestors upon which they staked their lives.

Charles I, son of James VI of Scotland, and first of England, and grandson of that unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in the year 1600 and commenced his reign in 1625. At this time, the Church of Scotland, (which had its remote origin in the first introduction of the principles of the Reformation about 1527, and which was the mother of the Presbyterian Church,) was dominant.

When Charles I, weak and obstinate, thoroughly inoculated with the Divine Right of Kings, with the view of assimilating the two Churches of England and Scotland, determined to introduce a liturgy and a set of Canons abolishing control over ecclesiastical measures, he was met with prompt opposition by the people of Scotland, who in 1643 entered into the Solemn League and Covenant, binding themselves to maintain their religious principles and to abolish Episcopacy, which had been established in Scotland by James I in 1606, and were forced to revolt and threw all their influence toward carrying out those measures which resulted finally in bringing his head to the block in 1649.

Thus did the Stewarts become covenanters, and as a consequence the Westminster Confession of Faith which was ratified by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1647 became their only recognized standard.

Charles I who was beheaded was succeeded by Oliver Cromwell, as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, who was professedly a Puritan, and established the dominance of his Independence over the Presbyterians. Cromwell dies Sept. 3, 1658 in the 60th year of his age, in Huntingdon, England.

Then succeeded in 1660 the Restoration of Charles II and the re-establishment of the Episcopacy in Scotland by act of Parliament in May, 1661; Charles, although at first well disposed toward the Covenant, turned against it as a religion, for Presbyterian morality and (conduct) strictness did not accord with the laxity of his conduct; wherefore he refused the religion which he knew would hold him to account for his misdeeds.

His portrait from life in the State House collection at Philadelphia indicates licentious character. With the re-establishment of Bishops in Scotland, commences measures for harassing the Presbyterian Clergy and the extirpation of the present religion, and from 1665 to 1666 Military oppression and persecution at last drove the people into insurrection.

That celebrated historical character, "Graham of Claverhouse," the terror of the Covenanters, "Bloody Claverhouse," as they called him, came upon the scene in 1679, leading an attack upon a Coventicle at Drumelog.

All who refused to abjure the Covenant were regarded as Rebels and obliged to betake themselves to the Desert Moore and Mountains of their native hills, where they were hunted like wild beasts till the establishment of freedom of conscience by the Revolution of 1688.

On the death of Charles II in 1685, his brother, James, Duke of York, succeeded under the Title of James II. Having imbibed Popery in his youth, his zeal for his religion led him into measures arbitrary and subversive of the Constitution and of the established religion of the Kingdom, which induced a powerful Nobility in 1688 to invite his nephew, William, Prince of Orange, who was the husband of his daughter, Mary Stewart, to take Possession of the Crown; he embraced the occasion and landed in England without opposition, James escaping to France; having secured an army by the assistance of the French, he was utterly routed by William at the famous battle of the Boyne, July 12th, 1690 in Ireland.

Though William III was bent on preserving the same form of ecclesiastical government both in England and Scotland, the Bishops refused to transfer their allegiance to him, and by this means, the way was opened for the establishment of the Presbyteries, which was ratified by act of Parliament in 1690.

At the union of England and Scotland in 1707 in the reign of Queen Anne, the last of the Royal Stewarts, it was agreed that Presbyterianism should be the only religion recognized by the State of Scotland.

4th. Hugh Stewart (see page 2)

Hugh Stewart, youngest son of Robert Stewart, No. 1, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, June 11, 1719, and was in his infancy when his father emigrated to County Down, Ireland; he accompanied his older brother, Samuel, who was 21 years his senior and his guardian, (his father, Robert Stewart, having died five years previously, in 1730 in Ireland,) in his emigration to America in 1735.

They settled at Chestnut Level in Lancaster Co., Pa., in the spring of 1735; he landed with a capital in coin equivalent to one dollar and twenty-five cents, which he spent for a jack knife to cut threads, considering it the most necessary tool in his business of weaving, an occupation he had learned in Ireland and which he followed here for many years.

[Note: Minnehaha Finney descends from Samuel Stewart, Sr., through his son, Elijah. Maude G. Stewart descends from Hugh Stewart, a young brother of Samuel Stewart, Sr. These two brothers emigrated to America in 1735.]

Samuel Stewart, the brother of Hugh Stewart, had married early in Ireland, so that his oldest sons were nearly of the same age as their Uncle Hugh. His entire family consisted of 12 sons and 1 daughter, the eldest of whom was Samuel Templeton Stewart, three of whose children married with three of Hugh Stewart’s children, as will hereafter appear.

It will be instructive and interesting to follow the emigrants to their home in the strange land, and accompany with some historical memoranda appertaining to this period. A charter for the Province of Pennsylvania now to be seen in the State Department in Harrisburg, had been granted to William Penn by Charles II, King of England, March 4th, 1681. Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester Counties were the three original Counties; Lancaster Co. was laid out in 1730. The City of Philadelphia laid out in 1682 by Penn’s directions, was chartered in 1701 and in 1735 had a population of 7,000, showing remarkably rapid growth. The city which in 1876 covers 129 square miles, with a population of over 800,000, was then mostly encompassed by Vine and South, the Delaware River and Fourth Streets; all else principally forest and marsh, infested with Indians, except the Germantown Settlement, and an occasional cabin and clearing. George II was King; John, Thomas and Richard, sons of William Penn, who had died in 1718, scarcely having seen his grand domain were proprietaries of the Province, and Patrick Gordon, their Lieut. Governor, resided in Philadelphia.

The voyage across the ocean in 1735 was attended by perils and inconveniences not now understood. Vessels were small and overcrowded, ill ventilated, slow in speed, poorly equipped, and ill fitted to withstand the forces of the elements; as illustration of the force of these remarks, we will make record here that after the two brothers, Samuel and Hugh, had successfully crossed, Robert with his family sailed from Belfast, but were driven back by stress of weather; after three different attempts, and each un-successful from the same cause, he abandoned his design to emigrate for the time; we have no further account of this brother, Robert.

[But I, Minnehaha Finney, make the guess, with reason, that some of his children emigrated to America.]

The journey from Philadelphia to Lancaster by land was little less perilous than by sea; there were no roads inland to admit of traveling by wagon and consequently locomotion and transportation was done by pack-horse.

The road from Philadelphia to Lancaster Co., Pa., had only been laid out and confirmed as the King’s Highway in Oct., 1735; winding through the forests and marshes across unbridged streams, the progress was slow and difficult; and very different was its condition from what it became in 1792, when it was changed to a turnpike.

Over the new road, then, we see in our mind’s eye the elder brother with his wife and those children born in Ireland and the youngest brother, Hugh, exuberant with youth and excited by the novelty of the situation, wending their way, the objective point being a Scotch-Irish settlement, on the Octoraro in Dromore Township, Lancaster Co., Penn.

They found their stopping place near Chestnut Level. This place was the metropolis of that Scotch-Irish settlement, and the seat of the church. Scully, in his semi-official map of the Province published in 1759 lays down at the intersection of a road from Lancaster and the site of the village, not its name, but "Presbyterian Meeting House."

The church had been organized several years previously, and was ministered to/by Rev. John Thomson who had been installed in 1732, a very prominent man in the Donegal Presbytery who took conspicuous part in the Grand Rupture of 1740, between the Old Side and the New Side which divided the Congregations and the Presbyteries, and was not healed for many years.

The following map of Lancaster Co., was copied from an original Map of 1730 of Scully after its organization and was as it was found by the emigrants on their arrival in the Spring of 1735, no changes having occurred in the mean time.

[The Map is Omitted]

The earliest settlement was made in the county by the Germans in the Pequea Valley, Lampeter, and Conestoga Townships in 1709-10, and by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in 1717-1719.

The German element was composed of Mennonites or Baptists and Palatinates from the Rhine. The former came to secure that religious liberty and toleration which was denied them at home, the latter because their country and homes had been devastated by the armies of Louis XIV of France.

The Ferreas and Lefevers, -- French Huguenots driven from their native Strassbourg, finally found here on the Pequea in 1712 a rest where their descendants today till the same soil, conquered from the wilderness by their ancestors.

The Scotch-Irish commenced to settle on the Octoraro and in Derry and Donegal Twps. It seems a singular fact that while the Germans sought out the rich limestone land, on the Conestoga and Pequea creeks, the Irish generally preferred the rolling slate lands on account of the springs of pure water flowing from the hills.

After 1719 there seems to have been a stream of Irish emigrating into the Province.

In 1729, Secretary Logan, writing to the Proprietors, says "It looks as if Ireland is to send all her inhabitants hither, every day two or three ships arrive." Again he remarks, "In my experience in the Land Office, the settlement of the families from Ireland gives me more trouble than fifty of any other people." That last remark is an acknowledgment and an involuntary compliment to the empire, and to the bold and dark characteristics of the Scotch-Irish Race. Why Samuel Stewart emigrated to the

Province of Pennsylvania is a question we will hardly discuss; when the Scotch-Irish emigration began in 1717-19, the immediate cause is supposed to have been the refusal of landlords to renew leases on old terms, or on any reasonable terms.

The same cause might have operated upon him though we think that the force of example, the desire for liberty of person, for toleration in religion and advancement in material interests, were ruling motives. Nor can we assign any special reason why he should select the Octoraro region in preference to Deep Run in Bucks County, or Donegal and Derry in Lancaster Co.

After having been seized with the epidemic of emigration, we incline to the opinion that ties of consanguinity decided the question of locality; of course, nationality and religion would not have admitted of his settling elsewhere than among Scotch-Irish.

In the annals of Lancaster Co., we find that George Stewart settled on the Conestoga near the Susquehanna in 1719, Robert Stewart was coroner in 1759-60 and Sheriff in 1757.

A stone in Chestnut Level Graveyard tells the story that James Stewart died 1756 aged 54 years. Henry Stewart lived near Chestnut Level at a very early date, was buried in the Presbyterian Church yard in Little Briton; his children were Adam, who lived and died near Chestnut Level, and Alexander, born in 1768 who went to Shippensburg in 1797 to practice medicine and died in 1830. His daughter, Mrs. Jos. Mifflin, is the authority for these memoranda.

Robert, James and Andrew lived at Chestnut Level and died there in 1865, aged 80 years. Jane married a Long and Nancy married; the inference therefore is that among all these Stewarts there were relatives, but of what degree, there is neither record nor tradition.

[I, Minnehaha Finney, know nothing of the Stewarts mentioned on this page.]

The southern boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland remained indefinite until Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, finally ran it in 1767 and set up prepared stones at intervals of five miles. The early Provincial records contain evidence of the continental strife which existed previously, not only between the authorities of the Province but the citizens thereof, which manifested itself not only in acrimonious correspondence, but resort to arms and uprisal, always causing great alarm among the settlers near the border, and especially exciting them with regard to their land title.

Samuel Stewart held his title from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania whilst some of his neighbors not so fortunate held Maryland titles, which subjected them to re-payment; it is said to be the fact that some Maryland titles for land in that part of Pennsylvania have come down regularly to this day.

In 1735 the aborigines divided into sundry tribes within the border of the County were more numerous than the whites and remained in undisturbed possession of their wigwams, although they looked with alarm at the rapid influx of the paleface they could not anticipate the few years which would elapse ere their extermination; they therefore cultivated the amity and friendship of their white neighbors and were ever ready to enter with them into friendly contests of feats of agility and strength and the sports of the chase.

The titles to Lands within the Province of Pennsylvania were acquired at various times by six different treaties.

The one celebrated under the Elm Tree, Dec. 14th, 1682 was the only treaty of importance held by William Penn, personally, and was merely a conference of amity and friendship.

The first deed to William Penn, dated July 15, 1682, was for lands on the Delaware and was called the "Walking Purchase." In our day it would have been pronounced a swindle. The second treaty embraced the entire county lying in the south-west corner of the State, extending from the Delaware to the Maryland line on the Hibochinny Hills, but was not fully and satisfactorily confirmed by the tribes and nations interested and claiming ownership until Oct. 1736. Thus was the territory secured, which was embraced in Lancaster County. Although the Provincial authorities had been for eighteen years before acquiring undisputed ownership, pushing the enterprising Scotch-Irish Presbyterians out in the Wilderness.

By a third treaty dated Aug. 22, 1749, and for a consideration of 500 lbs. all the territory between the Hibochinny Hills and the Magoney Mountains and the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers was conveyed to the Proprietaries.

The Indian Tribe in the entire remainder of the State of Pennsylvania was in 1758-68-85 wholly extinguished by three other treaties, except a body of 640 acres on the Allegheny River and State line is held at this day (1876) by a remnant of the Seneca Nation. We can imagine the amusement and interest with which our emigrant ancestors regarded the Redman; a people so different in habit and appearance to themselves was calculated to excite intense interest and curiosity.

Opportunities for observation were of constant occurrence, but a Grand Council was so extraordinary and so rare as to become an event in their quiet lives; consequently the Grand Council held at Lancaster in June, 1744, between Lieut. Gov. Thomas of Penna., the Commissioners from Maryland and Virginia, and the Indians of the Six Nations, which drew together the people of the country from far and near, to listen to their eloquence of Conashtego and Tachanncontia, Native orators, was a memorable incident. The second Grand Council held in the Court House at Lancaster, July, 1748, between Commissioners of the Province and the Indians of the Six Nations, Delawares and other tribes, excited interest in the community. The celebrated interpreters, Conrad Weiser and Andrew Montour were present; Searrorryety was the principal chief.

Michael Hully, the grandfather of Mrs. John Lyon, (whose former wife was Margaret Elizabeth Stewart) was one of the signers of the treaty.

We are left to depict in our imagination the early life of Hugh Stewart, as he passed year by year under the guardianship and in the association of his elder brother and family, until his final settlement upon his Plantation in Peshtouk Township.

Although not in direct genealogical line, we will here make record of the Samuel Stewart Family, as they were then and afterwards so intimately associated with Hugh and his descendants, as far as their history has been secured from oblivion.

Samuel Stewart, son of Robert Stewart, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1698, and accompanied his father to Ireland in 1720. He married in Ireland Mary McClay, who was remarkable for her dark complexion and large size, weighing 200 lbs.

Samuel Stewart was tall in person, large and well made, large Roman nose, eyes blueish-grey, and lively, hair deep brown, Scotch complexion. Samuel and Mary McClay had 12 sons and one daughter, as follows:-

1st. John, born in Ireland, moved to Marsh Creek Settlement, [Scotch-Irish] Adams Co., Penna. He was killed in the battle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777.

2nd. Samuel. His family and that of Hugh Stewart, his uncle, became so closely allied by three inter-marriages between their children as to require a special record hereafter.

3rd. Elijah, born in Lancaster County, Penna. in 1738 [(Rev. War ancestor of Minnehaha Finney, Sterling, Kansas.), settled in Hanover Twp. in 1780. After his death in 1807, his widow (Mary Patterson Stewart) in Paxtang township, Dauphin Co., Penna., moved to Ohio with her children,

Sarah Stewart and her husband, James Finney, and her three sons and four other daughters, all settled in Butler, Clark and Trumbull Counties in south-western Ohio. (A few additions made by copyist, Minnehaha Finney, 1950.)]

4th. Mary, born in Lancaster Co., in 1740, in 1764 married Robert Patterson, moved to West Newton, Westmoreland Co., Pa. In 1792 had seven sons and two daughters.

5th. Andrew, born in Lancaster Co., moved to Hanover Twp. at an early day where he was killed by Indians in one of their raids.

6th. James, born in Lancaster Co., and finally settled in Allegheny Co., Pa. [Note by Mr. Barnett – Ancestor of Mrs. Jane Stewart Rankin, (Mrs. W. O.), 44 Parkside Ave., Lancaster, Pa. 1946.]

7th. Hugh, settled in Lexington, Ky., at a very early day and his descendants settled in Indiana. He was born in Lancaster Co., Pa.

8th. Joseph.

9th. Robert [I, Minnehaha Finney, have a record which makes what I think is this Robert, as being born in 1732 in Ireland, so would be only three years of age on arriving in America in 1735. He married Sarah Stewart and I have her dates and list of their children and it is my guess that this Sarah and Suzanna (Stewart) Finney, my great great grandmother, would be sisters, of which I think I can give proof. Also, I think that Sarah and Suzanna Stewart were sisters and daughters of Robert Stewart, who was a brother of Samuel Stewart, see page 2). (Added in ink by Maude Stewart – "Pages 1 and 4 and Hugh." On the side of the page written in ink is the following: "M. Finney. ‘The proof I refer to is that Sarah Stewart was a witness together with Samuel Stewart of the will made by young Elijah Finney, son of Suzanna Stewart Finney, (see will) Elijah died in his youth.’)."]

[This last paragraph concerning the descendants of Robert Stewart, number 9 has been added to the Bucher Ayers record by Miss Minnehaha Finney, of Sterling, Kansas, while copying the Ayres record and with an apology, but with a desire to clear up the Robert Stewart Record. So she desires to add further remarks at the end of this wonderful record given by Bucher Ayers of Philadelphia. I am underlining the names of the children of Hugh Stewart, since this is Hugh’s genealogical record.]

10th. Anthony. Died young. Of the 3 remaining sons there is no record. [(Note by copyist) Samuel Stewart, elder brother of 4th Hugh (to whom we now return.)] The exact date of Hugh Stewart’s settlement in Peshtaup (Paxtang) Township is unknown; that it was before 1750 is certain. The historian Rupp gives a list of taxables and early settlers prior to 1750, among whom are the McClures, Carsons, Baskins, Clarks (of Clark’s Ferry, and Clark’s Valley and Clark’s Creek), Cochrans, Gilbreths, Armstrongs, Fosters, Reeds, Williams, Calhouns, McKees, Elders, Harrisses, Andrew Stewart and Hugh Stewart are to be found.

Here he [Hugh Stewart] married in 1750-51 Mrs. [?] Hannah Dallas who was born in Ireland in 1727. [Hugh was born in Ireland in 1719.]

There were very few citizens of Paxtang Township of full age at that time 1750-51. Hugh and Hannah had 4 children: -

5th. Jane, born Nov. 1, 1751 in what was then Lancaster County, Pa.

6th. John, born July 2nd, 1753 in Pashon Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa.

7th. William, born in Pashon Twp. Oct. 21, 1757.

8th. Hugh, born Oct. 21, 1757. [This date should be Oct. 1, 1759. M.G.S.][Omit "Evidently Wm. and Hugh were twins." M.G.S.]

In 1760 Hannah Dallas [Stewart] died and was laid to rest in the old Seceder Graveyard, but new at the time of her death. We have no further record of this estimable lady.

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Hugh Stewart married his second wife in 1764, Mrs. Nancy Moore, [M. Finney, "Her maiden name seems to have been Crane."] whose family name was Crain. Mrs. Moore had two children by her first husband who were named William and Nancy. William moved to Green Brier, Virginia, about 1778; Nancy married David Davidson and moved to Red Stone County, now Fayette Co. [, Pa.]

Hugh and Nancy [M.] Stewart had 5 children, namely:--

9th. Robert born Mar. 8, 1765, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart,

10th. Samuel, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart, Mar. 5, 1767,

11th. Joseph, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart, born July 10, 1769,

12th. James, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart, born Feb. 29, 1774,

13th. Mary, daughter of Hugh and Nancy Stewart, born Nov. 27, 1778.

Hugh, Sr., accumulated considerable estate and after the Revolutionary War lost much money in the depreciation of the Continental currency.

He assisted his first set of children in the purchase of farms in what was called Red Stone [Fayette] County, Pa.

He devised by will a certain farm to his son, Robert, he paying Mary, his sister, 200 lbs.; Mary, in addition received by bequest 350 lbs.

The homestead farm and residue of the estate he bequeathed to Samuel, Joseph, and James, appointing the last two his Executors.

The homestead was originally in Pashtauk or Paschen township, but on subdivision, which took place in the erection of the county of Dauphin in 1785, it fell within the border of Swatara near Harrisburg and Dowington Turnpike. Here Hugh died in 1798 at the advanced age of nearly 80 years. [Note by M.F., "I have visited this old homestead, a brick house which evidently had been a grand place. Also, I visited the graveyard located on the public road leading from Jonestown Road to the Harrisburg and Hummelstown turnpike, situated in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin Co., Pa., five miles east of Harrisburg. I had looked forward to seeing the little spot where I had always believed that different ones of my own ancestors were buried, -- Elijah Stewart and Thomas Finney, my great great grand parents, but all I saw was a good looking granite monument, located in a small plot on the corner of an old farm, with names inscribed on it of quite a few pioneers whose broken-down head-stones had been scattered all about and the legible names collected and inscribed on the nice granite monument erected by the Harrisburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, desiring to honor many old Revolutionary War Heroes who had been buried there. But I did not find either name of my great-great-grand fathers who both had served his country long ago.

Among the long list of names, however was that of Hugh Stewart, which on his original head-stone read as follows, as given by Bucher Ayers of Philadelphia:-

It reads:- Here lies the body of Hugh Stewart

Who departed this life 8th of October, 1798.

Aged 80 years

Also, his wife Hannah, aged 35 years.

Hugh Stewart’s ancestors having been Covenanters naturally assisted in (the) organizing a congregation of Seceders and establishing a church in which the family worshiped many years, which church and congregation have long since passed away, with nothing left but the little graveyard and since it has fallen into ruins there is nothing left but the D.A.R. monument, enscribed with the names of all that could be found on the scattered pieces of tombstones lying about. Personally, I am most grateful to these patriotic women." Minnehaha Finney, Sterling, Kansas.]

Hugh Stewart is represented to have been a very handsome man, above the ordinary height, complexion light, eyes light blue, features small and spare, but well formed, wearing a thoughtful aspect in repose, but animated in conversation. He retained through life his Scotch accent.

Note:- Peshtauk Township derives its name from the tribe of Indians who were found settled at the mouth of the creek of the same name, now within the limits of the City of Harrisburg.

In 1729 the name was written on all the maps and records Pashtauk; in 1750 Peisctang; in 1780 Paxtang; and Paxton, since 1780, the date of the organization of and erection of Dauphin County.

Hanover Twp. Was named from Hanover in Prussia, the Hereditary domain of George 1st, King of England, which gave the title of "House of Hanover" to the present ruling family of Great Britain; this township was cut off Peshtauk in 1737.

We find it necessary to break the thread of our record in order to introduce a brief narrative of Samuel Stewart, Jr., a nephew of Hugh Stewart, Sr.

Samuel Stewart, Jr., son of Samuel, Sr., [No. 2, See pg. 2] was but in his infancy on leaving County Down, Ireland, where he was born in 1834 when his father emigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania and settled at Chestnut Level in 1735.

After coming of age he settled on land purchased for him in Hanover Twp. Lancaster Co., [now South Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co.,] about the year 1756. This Twp. was established in 1737, was the frontier and subject to Indian raids and depredations until the year 1763 when the indignant and long suffering citizens of Hanover and Paxton Twps. led by Captain Lazarus Stewart (who is not known to be connected with the family) put a stoppage to them by slaying the Conestoga Indians at Lancaster.

In early life Samuel Stewart made a profession of faith in the Presbyterian Church, and was for many years a member and supporter of the Old Hanover Church, one of the historical churches of Dauphin Co., founded in 1719, located eleven miles east of Harrisburg.

Samuel Stewart Jr., performed Revolutionary War service; we find his name on the roster of Col. Timothy Green’s Battalion for defense of the frontier.

We also find his name among those who after the erection and organization of the County of Dauphin in 1785 served on the Grand Jury composed of prominent citizens. We recognize among others these names, the ancestors of well-known families of today:-

James Cowden Robert Mongomery**

John Gilchrist B. Brunson

John Carson Roan McClure

William Craine John Wilson

Richard Dixon Archibald McAlister

James Crouch John Pattimore

William Brown Jacob Awl

James Rogers Andrew Stewart

John Cooper Samuel Stewart

John Clark Alex Berryhill

Samuel Templeton Stewart, born 1734, died 1803, aged 69 years and was laid to rest by the side of his first wife, Nancy Templeton Stewart, in the old graveyard at Hanover Church, graves unknown and unmarked. He was said to have been a large man, over six feet in height, weighing 250 lbs. His face was large and fleshy, his complexion fair, and his nose was his least prominent feature, but his whole appearance gave the impress of intelligence, earnestness, and determination.

In 1769 he married Nancy Templeton, who we suppose was his cousin from the similitude of names. She was the mother of three daughters and five sons:-

1st. Robert Templeton Stewart, born 1770, died 18583, settled in Bellefont, Pa., and had 9 children [Center Co., Pa.].

2nd. Sarah Stewart, born 1772, died 1835, moved to Clark Co., Ohio, in 1806, married Joseph Stewart [Hugh] and had 5 sons and 5 daughters.

• * Likely Montgomery, a name well-known.- V. E. S.

[Venna and Grace Finney’s Stewart line. M. F.]

3rd. Samuel Elder Stewart, born 1775, died 1857, moved to Clark Co., Ohio, had three sons and five daughters.

4th. James B. Stewart, born 1777, settled in Clark Co., Ohio, in 1806, had 2 sons and four daughters. Married.

5th. Charles Stewart, born 1778, died 1846; in 1802 he settled near Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio. Married Mary Stewart [No. 13, Hugh].

6th. John Templeton Stewart, born 1781, died 1850. In 1806 settled in Clark Co., Ohio, had 8 sons and 1 daughter.

7th. Mary McClay Stewart, born 1784, died in 1816. Became the second wife of James Stewart [No. 12, Hugh].

8th. Nancy [Agnes] Stewart, born in 1786, died in 1827, married John R. Beaty of Butler Co., Ohio, had three sons and seven daughters.

[After the death of his wife, Nancy Templeton in 1789, Samuel Stewart married Agnes Calhoun, daughter of William and Hannah Calhoun of Paxton Twp. Dauphin Co., Pa. She was born in 1765, married at the age of 26 and died in Center Co., Pa., in 1823, whither she had moved with her young children in 1813, as their father, Samuel Stewart, had died Sept. 6, 1803 and was buried in Hanover Church yard. Before the widow and her young children moved to Center Co., _____ that she purchased a farm in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., adjoining the farm of Robert Stewart (her step-son, possibly), ten miles east of Harrisburg on the Jonesboro road. She then moved in 1813 to _____ Spruce Creek, Center Co., where the records show Robert Stewart, son of Samuel by his first wife had gone, so possibly the widow with her young children went with them. Robert being the eldest son by his father’s first wife would have an interest in the second wife’s young children. No particulars are known more than that the two families moved to Center County which was quite a distance north of Dauphin Co.]

Nancy Calhoun, 2nd wife of Samuel Stewart, died in 1823. She left 3 sons and one daughter, namely:-

1st. William Calhoun Stewart, born 1790, died 1852, left 6 children.

2nd. David Stewart, born 1792, died in Colerain Forge, Huntington Co., Pa., in 1869; [From the birth of his brother, Robert, till the time of his own death covered a period of 99 years.] he became, no doubt, the wealthiest man of the entire family. Had 8 children.

3rd. Thomas Finney Stewart, 3rd son of Samuel T. Stewart and Nancy Calhoun, was born in Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1794. He became a Methodist [No disgrace in that. M. F.] and was the only _____ one of his family who forsook the faith of his fathers and the Presbyterian Kirk. He had 15 children. [M. F. "My imagination has played around this Thomas Finney Stewart. My great, great grand-father, Thomas Finney married Susanna Stewart and they lived in Dauphin Co., Pa., where the Stewarts lived. Samuel Stewart and Thomas Finney were near of an age, but Thos. Died young in 1770 or 71, while Samuel Stewart lived to a good old age, till 1803. It would seem also that Susanna, wife of Thos. Finney, might have been related to Samuel, but we have never discovered just how. We know she was not a sister for records give it that the Stewart brothers – said to be 12, had only one sister, by name of Mary. My only idea is that my Susanna Stewart would be a daughter of the Robert, the one who made three starts to come to America and always was hindered by bad seas. He may have finally made it, -- see pg. 2."" Note- These lines are not in the Ayers manuscript. M. Finney].

• [Several intermarriages between children of Hugh Stewart Sr., and children of Samuel Stewart, Jr., nephew of Hugh, Sr.

nection, it is interesting to me [M. F.] that Sarah, the daughter of John Stewart and Mary Robeson, married the brother of my great grandfather, James Patterson, whose name was William Patterson and a goodly number of their descendants live in Sterling, Kansas, and are reliable members of our United Presbyterian Church of Sterling. Miss Maude G. Stewart, mentioned above has given me the information that John Stewart and wife, Mary Robeson Stewart moved from Fayette Co., to Crawford Co., Pa., in 1829 and both are buried there. Mary Robeson was born on the Atlantic Ocean, 1850. Their son, William married Mary Holmes moved to Bellbrook, Ohio. Their daughter Hannah, married William Willson, their son, John married Sarah Willson and the Willson descendants, generally speaking live in Crawford Co., Pa. This information is given by Miss Maude G. Stewart and is not to be found in the Bucher Ayres Stewart records, but it is given here for interested readers. Ayres does mention that Mary, unmarried [incorrect, see page 14 A], died in East Liberty Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1868, aged 69. Nos. 22-28 belong to these seven children of John and Mary Stewart in order of age as given above.

7th. William Stewart, son of Hugh Stewart [No. 4], and his wife, Hannah Dallas Stewart, was born Oct. 21, 1757, in Pashon Twp. He married Martha Walker (?), 1780 and settled in Allegheny Co., Pa. They had seven children as follows:---

29th. Margaret, who married in 1808 James B. Robeson [No. 20] her cousin, had one son, William and one daughter, Jane. Margaret died in 1811 at Piqua, Ohio.

30th. Hannah, married George Duncan, had seven sons and 2 daughters, New Castle, Pa.

31st. Jane, married Samuel Glass, had 4 sons and 6 daughters. [Mary (Polly) Stewart, youngest child, daughter of John Stewart, 1753-1837, and Mary Robeson Stewart, 1750-1832. Born in Fayette Co., Pa., March 17, 1794. Died May 13, 1859. Bible. If she was 76 years of age the date should be 1869. She did not marry. She was very deaf in her later years. Her father, John Stewart, had served in the Revolutionary War. Her sister, Hannah Stewart, had married William Willson in Fayette Co., Pa., who was working for her father. They came up from Fayette County, with their eight children, to attend the wedding of John Stewart, 1788-1857, and Sarah Willson, 1811-1885. The wedding was Feb. 11, 1830 in North Shenango Twp., Crawford Co., Pa. John Stewart, 1753-1837, and his wife, Mary Robeson Stewart, 1750-1832 and their son, John Stewart, 1788-1857, had moved to Crawford Co., Pa., 1829 and had built their home in North Shenango Twp., later called Stewartville Post Office.

When William Wilson and his wife, Hannah Stewart Wilson, moved to Crawford County, they settled on a farm in South Shenango Twp., that Mary (Polly) Stewart and maybe her father, John Stewart, 1753-1837, had received as Revolutionary War Soldier and Daughter.

John Stewart, 1753-1837, gave his daughter, Mary (Polly) Stewart, a small Bible, 1806 edition, and in it are recorded the Stewart Family Vital Statistics. Mary (Polly) Stewart, must have moved with her sister, Hannah Stewart Wilson from Fayette Co., Pa., to the South Shenango farm. Mary Robeson Stewart died April 13, 1832. John Stewart died Aug. 10, 1837 in the Hannah Stewart Wilson farm home. They are buried in the Hartstown Cemetery, Fallowfield Twp., Crawford Co., Pa., with one gravestone.

When my uncle, Andrew T. Stewart, 1848-1927, had just about finished schooling, he wrote to my father, John Stewart, 1836-1894, in Wabasha Co., Minnesota, that Aunt Polly Stewart had died, May 13. No year date is stamped on the envelope, but Uncle Andrew must have been past 20 years old at that time. So it seems she must have died in 1869.]

32nd. Rebecca, married Thomas Glass, had 8 children.

33rd. Elizabeth, married Parker Lorraine, had 5 sons and 5 daughters, Allegheny Co., Pa.

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34th. Martha, married Alexander Philips, had 7 sons and 4 daughters, Allegheny Co., Pa.

35th. James, married Jane McCregor [McGregor?] and had 4 sons and 8 daughters; subsequently married Miss Ross and had two children, Allegheny Co., Pa. [No. 7 was William Stewart third child; second son of Hugh Stewart, No. 4. See page 2 and also page 4.]

Martha Walker Stewart, first wife of William Stewart, No. 7, died in 1818 and was buried in the Union Cemetery, Allegheny Co., Pa., a United Presbyterian Cem. I [M. F.] have always been interested in Martha Walker Stewart because of an incident in her life. She was captured by Indians, who after burning the house, killed two children and took Martha and her sister captives; also a brother captive to Detroit and held them many months. Their father was Gabriel Walker who settled in Collier Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1772. No date of Martha’s death found.

William Stewart married a second wife, Mary ?. He had 10 children by both wives. William Stewart was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, applied for a pension. He died Mar. 29, 1829, Robinson Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa. Note: I seem to have missed recording the records of three members of Wm. Stewarts family, so they are as follows:--

36th. William, who married Elizabeth Cuthrel, had 4 sons and 3 daughters, Xenia Ohio.

37th. John of Guernsey Co., Ohio.

38th. Samuel, married Miss Wiley, had 4 children, Allegheny Co., Pa.

8th. Hugh Stewart, youngest son of Hugh and Hannah Dallas Stewart, was born in Pashon [Paxton] Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., Oct. 21, 1759; in consequence of a deformity in his feet, unfitting him for active life, he became a teacher, and was a rigid disciplinarian; he settled in Red Stone County [Fayette], Pa., thence removed to Rush Co., Ind., near Flat Rock Creek. He married Mrs. Mary Wilson in 1795 and had two sons;

39th. Wilson [Stewart], married Jane Robeson [No. 16], his cousin, and had one daughter, Martha; married second time, Anna Johns and died in 1865, Milroy, Rush Co., Ind.

40th. Hugh Stewart, married Miss Seabright. He and his brother moved to Milroy, Rush Co., Ind., 1824. They were among the earliest settlers.

9th. Robert Stewart, son of Hugh Stewart [No. 4] and Nancy Moore Stewart, his second wife, was born in Pashon [Paxton] Twp., Mar., 8, 1765, was the only one who did not turn his footsteps westward, but passed his life in his native township on a patrimonial estate, bequeathed to him by his father. Married Mar. 10, 1789, Sarah Finney who was born Aug. 10, 1768 [Baptismal date which Rev. John Cuthbertson’s Diary is given as Oct. 9, 1768; were members of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. James Snodgrass performed their marriage ceremony. See Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Church by Rev. Thos. H. Robinson, D. D., page 24.]

[Sarah Finney was a daughter of Thomas Finney and Susanna Stewart Finney, my great, great, grandparents; M. Finney.] Sarah Finney Stewart died in 1811 and Robert Stewart died at the age of 80 yrs. and was buried in the Paxton graveyard. They had a family of 8 sons and 6 daughters, as follows:--

41st. Nancy Crace, born Jan. 19, 1790.

42nd. Susanna, born Nov. 5, 1791.

43rd. Thomas

44th. Robert, born Sept. 17, 1795

45th. Sarah

46th. Mary

47th. Jane, born Apr. 7, 1800

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48th. Samuel, born April 22, 1802

49th. John

50th. Margaret

51st. William Crawford, born Aug. 22, 1810.

[Note by M. Finney- The mother of the above 11 children, was a sister of William Finney, my great-grand-father.]

10th. Samuel Stewart, son Hugh Stewart [No. 4], and second wife, Nancy Moore Stewart, was born in Paschon Twp., Mar. 5, 1767; about the year 1796 married Jane Patterson; and had a family, 8 sons and 4 daughters, as follows:--

52nd. James, born 1797

53rd. Robert, born 1798

54th. Hugh, born 1800

55th. Nancy, born 1802

56th. Flora, born 1804

57th. John W., born 1806

58th. Margaret, born 1808

59th. Samuel, born 1809

60th. Jane, born ?

61st. William, born 1813

62nd. Joseph, born 1816

63rd. Uriah P., born 1819

Samuel Stewart settled in Allegheny Co., 14 miles N. W. of Pittsburgh. He died in 1854, aged 70 years, was buried in Union Cemetery. Jane died in 1864, aged 95.

11th. Joseph Stewart, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart, was born in Paxton Twp., July 10, 1769; in 1792 he married Sarah Stewart, eldest daughter of Samuel Stewart, [nephew of Hugh, No. 4] known as Samuel Stewart of Hanover Twp. Their children, as follows:--

[Note by M. F. in explanation of why the list of these children is slightly changed. I have before me a list prepared by Miss Grace Edna Finney who is a direct descendant of Joseph and Sarah Stewart, which is slightly different from the Bucher Ayres list and I imagine her list is correct, so I am giving it, as follows:-- Her great grand father, James Finney, was a brother of my great great grand grand** father, William (Finney) and these two brothers married sisters, Sarah Stewart and Margaret Stewart, the latter, my great grand mother.

Children of Joseph Stewart and his wife, Sarah Stewart:--

64th. James Stewart, b. Dec. 17, 1793, married Susan Finney

65th. Samuel Stewart, b. Feb. 7, 1795, m. Sarah Barnett

66th. Nancy Crane Stewart, b. July 9, 1799, m. Elijah Finney, son of James Finney

67th. Joseph T. Stewart, b. Jan. 19, 1801, m. Prudence Ammon

68th. Sarah Stewart, b. Aug. 26, 1803, m. David Reynolds

69th. Charles Stewart, b. Sept. 5, 1807, m. Mary Duncan

70th. Mary Stewart, b. June 22, 1808, m. Samuel Holmes

71st. Jane Stewart, b. Dec. 15, 18__, m. Robert Stewart

72nd. Eliza Stewart

73rd. John Stewart

The Joseph Stewart family moved to Ohio in 1805, it seems.

12th. James Stewart [son of Hugh Stewart (No. 4), and his wife, Nancy Moore Stewart], was born in Paxton Twp. Feb. 29, 1774, married Nov. 17, 1803,

• * This is the way it appears in the copy I have.- V.E.S.

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Mary Sherer, daughter of Samuel and his wife, Elizabeth Barnett of Swatara Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., and in 1805 moved to Ohio, as described under No. 11, Joseph. They had 3 sons;--

74th. Joseph Crane Stewart

75th. Samuel Sherer Stewart

76th. James Barnett Stewart

[The name Crane seems to be used frequently as a middle name and I have wondered why, but I have understood that it was Nancy Moore’s maiden name and that she was a widow when she married Hugh Stewart.] Mary Sherer Stewart died Oct. 21, 1807, one day after the birth of her second and third sons [twins], and she was the first adult buried in the Monroe Cemetery, then an open woods there in Ohio. Her grave was enclosed in a log pen.

James Stewart married again in 1808, Mary McClay Stewart, who was his second cousin; she was the daughter of Samuel Stewart of Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa.; they had one daughter.

77th. Nancy W.

Mary Stewart was born in Hanover Twp. In 1764, and was 24 years of age when she married James Stewart. She died in 1816 and was buried in the Monroe Cemetery. James Stewart married as his third wife, Margaret Reed, born Sept. 3, 1788, near Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa. They had one daughter named

78th. Mary Jane Stewart.

James Stewart was a United Presbyterian of the strictest Sect. The means of his death is thus described:-- Monday May 4, 1835, James Stewart with his wife and niece, Nancy Stewart [No. 79], oldest daughter of Charles Stewart [No. 13], was driving in a spring wagon on the public road a mile or two below Monroe; a large tree which stood by the roadside fell on them as they were passing, instantly killing the three persons; they were buried in the Monroe Cemetery.

13th. Mary Stewart, daughter of Hugh Stewart [No. 4], and Nancy Moore Stewart, his wife, was born in Paxton Twp., when in Lancaster Co., Nov. 27, 1778; she was married by Rev. James Snodgrass, Mar. 30, 1802, to Charles Stewart, one of her father’s nephews; rather the son of Hugh’s nephew, Samuel Stewart of Hanover Twp.; the same year. _____ they moved to Ohio and settled near Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio; as the state of Ohio was organized in 1802, they were among the earliest settlers. They were United Presbyterians [Strictly speaking, the United Presbyterian Church was not yet organized not till 1858, so these would have been members of the Associate or Associated Reformed which joined to form the U. P. Church.]. Mary Stewart died in 1853, aged 75 years, and is buried in the Monroe, Ohio, Cemetery. Charles Stewart, in connection with his cousin, Samuel Stewart, son of Elijah Stewart, and his brother-in-law, James Stewart, formed the United Presbyterian Church of Monroe, Ohio.

Charles and Mary Stewart had three sons and five daughters.

79th. Nancy, b. Jan. 12, 1805, accidentally killed May 4, 1835.

80th. Jane, born 1806, m. Robert Giffin in 1854 of Middle Fork, Ind. They had five children.

81st. Samuel Logan, b. 1809; in 1829 m. Elizabeth G. Bryson, who died in 1842, leaving 4 sons. Samuel married the second time in 1844 Mrs. Catherine Stryker and had one son, David Morton Stewart.

82nd. Mary, married in 1836, her cousin John W. Stewart [No. 57], son of Samuel Stewart.

83rd. Margaret, b. 1814, m. 1848 Elijah Patterson of Piqua, Ohio, a great-grand-son of Samuel, No. 2. They had three children. So he would be a grand-son of Mary Stewart who married Robert Patterson of Westmoreland Co., Pa.

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84th. Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Mary and Charles Stewart, as also the above Nos. 79-83, was born in 1815, and married Robert Stewart Robeson [son of James Stewart (No. 20) son of Hugh Stewart (No. 4) and Nancy C. Stewart, No. 41] of Piqua, Ohio, a great-grand-son of Hugh Stewart [No. 4] and his wife, Nancy Moore Stewart.

85th. John W. D. Stewart, b. 1818; in 1848 m. Martha Malory. They had 8 children.

86th. James R. Stewart, b. 1821; in 1845 m. Ann E. Cleeland [No. 110], great-grand-daughter of Hugh Stewart, No. 4. They had 5 sons and 4 daughters.

(39.) Wilson Stewart, had one daughter. See No. 9. His daughter Martha:--

87th. Martha, b. 1821, m. James P. Brown and had 7 children.

88th. Mary Jane

89th. Martha Ann

90th. Elizabeth

91st. Lucretia.

92nd. John.

(41.) Nancy Crane Stewart m. James B. Robeson [No. 29].

(42.) Susanna Stewart b. Nov. 5, 1791.

(43.) Thomas Stewart, b. May 21, 1794. In 1827 m. Martha B. Stewart, daughter of James B. Stewart of Clark Co., Ohio, son of Samuel Stewart [No. 1.]. Their children were:--

93rd. Nancy M. b. Oct. 14, 1853, m. Thomas Crane Robeson.

94th. Margaret S., b. Mar. 24, 1836, m. 1855 Jacob Pott. Died in 1862.

95th. Mary Ann, born Mar. 3, 1858; m. 1868 Martin Anderson.

96th. Martha R., b. Sept. 27, 1840; m. Michael Shocknessy.

Thomas and Martha [above] had one son, James C. Stewart b. Nov. 30, 1831 and who died Dec. 25, 1858, and one son, Benjamin, born Oct. 20, 1845.

(44.) Robert Stewart was born in Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., Sept. 17, 1795, and is now living [1876] in his 82nd year on the farm on which he was born, which is situated about ten miles from Harrisburg in West Hanover Twp., on the road leading from Jonestown to Fishing Creek Valley, a short distance from Harrisburg and Jones-town road. He is 1829, married Sarah Barnett, who was born in same Twp. in the year 1806. She was grand daughter of Joseph Barnett, referred to previously. Their children were named:--

97th. Robert Crane Stewart

98th. Sarah Jane Stewart

99th. Margaret Elizabeth Stewart

100th. Nancy Rebecca Stewart

101st. Susan Mary Stewart

102nd. Thomas Barnett Stewart

103rd. John Joseph Stewart

104th. Harriet Caroline Stewart

105th. William Calvin Stewart.

Robert Stewart, father of the above [No. 44], died June 25, 1878, and was buried in East Harrisburg Cemetery; his wife, Sarah [Burnett] Stewart, died July 12, 1878 and was buried in the same place. [M. F. See No. 9, for what I am trying to say; enough explanation is given to make it quite plain.]

(45.) Sarah Stewart was born in Hanover Twp. May 22, 1797. She married John Cleeland of Clark Co., Ohio. Their children were:--

106th. Sylvester Cleeland

107th. Frank Cleeland

108th. Robert Cleeland

109th. J. William Cleeland

110th. Ann Elizabeth Cleeland

111th. Sarah Caroline Cleeland

112th. Mary Charlotte Cleeland

113th. Margaret Cleeland

(46.) Mary Stewart, born in Hanover Twp., Nov. 30, 1798, m. John Rice of Middletown, Butler Co., Ohio. They had two daughters, named:

114th. Sarah

115th. Mary

(47.) Jane, b. April 7, 1800 [These two names are not given further;

(48.) Samuel, b. April 22, 1809 probably died in infancy.]

(49.) John Stewart was born in Hanover Twp., Sept. 20, 1803 and married his cousin, Nancy T. Beaty, July 24, 1831. She was the daughter of John and Nancy Beaty and the grand-daughter of Samuel Stewart. John Stewart died of cholera in 1849, and was buried in the Monroe Cemetery. His wife died _____. Their children:--

116th. Robert Sylvanus

117th. Sarah Agnes

118th. Margaret Angelina

119th. Mary Lavina

(50.) Margaret Stewart was born in Hanover Twp., Oct. 10, 1806 and married Henry Cramer of Wooster, Ohio. They had seven children, as follows:--

120th. Henry

121st. Michael

122nd. Margaret

123rd. Caroline

124th. Elizabeth

125th. Ann

126th. Mary

(51.) William Crawford Stewart, b. Aug. 22, 1810.

(52.) James Stewart, b. in Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1797, m. Nancy Patterson, of New Castle, Coshocton Co., Ohio, and they had 3 sons and 3 daughters, as follows;--

127th. Samuel

128th. John

129th. William

130th. Jane

131st. Margaret

132nd. Nancy

(53.) Robert Stewart, born in Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1798, married his cousin, Jane Stewart, No. 66, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Stewart, and had 2 sons and 2 daughters.:-

133rd. Samuel F.

134th. Joseph

135th. Sarah Jane, born in Rush Co., Ind.

136th. Margaret, also born in Indiana.

Jane Stewart, his wife, died in 1847 and was buried in Milroy Cemetery, Rush Co., Ind.

Robert subsequently married Margaret McCracken, who had two daughters, both of whom died young. They settled in Indiana in 1825.

(54.) Hugh Stewart was born in Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1800, married in 1831, Mary Linden. They had 12 children, all born in Allegheny Co., Pa. The survivors are named, viz.:--

137th. Samuel, b. 1836

138th. John D., b. 1848

139th. Hugh L., b. 1851

140th. Maggie A., b. 1859; m. James D. Robeson, 1865.**

141st. Nancy R., b. 1831; in 1858 m. S. N. Nealy.

• * Mistype or something here. Could not have married at age 6.- V. E. S.

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142nd. Marie, b. 1814

143rd. Harriet, b. 1842

144th. Rachael, b. 1844

Hugh Stewart, son of Hugh Stewart [No. 4], was married the second time in 1855 to Mrs. Sarah McClean.

(55.) Nancy Stewart b. in 1802, married in 1835 Henry Logan. Their children were named:--

145th. John, b. 1834

146th. Stewart, b. 1836

147th. Jane C. b. 1839

148th. William, deceased

(56.) Flora Stewart, b. 1804, m. 1833 to Robert Rayes of Allegheny Co., Pa. Had 4 children:--

149th. David, b. 1834

150th. Jane, b. 1836

151st. Samuel, b. 1837

152nd. John M., b. 1839

(57.) John W. Stewart was born in 1806; in 1836 married Mary Stewart, No. 82, his cousin, the daughter of Charles Stewart and Mary Stewart No. 13 of Butler Co., Ohio. John W. died at his home in Peoria Co., Ill., Feb. 11, 1866. Their children are as follows:--

153rd. Ulphi Ann, b. 1837

154th. Margaret Augusta, b. 1838

155th. Uriah James, b. 1840

156th. Jonah McClay, b. 1845

157th. Mary Jane

158th. Ruth

159th. Nada

160th. Edward Bruce, b. 1855

John W. and Mary Stewart had 12 children; the others all died young.

(58.) Margaret Stewart was born in 1808 and in 1833 married John Burns of Allegheny Co., Pa. Their children are:--

161st. Samuel, b. 1833 and married Rachel Foster

162nd. Mary, born in 1837, married William Howard

163rd. John Sylvester

(59.) Samuel Stewart [of St. Paul, Ind.] b. in 1809, m. Miss Archibald. Their children were named:--

164th. Harriet L., b. 1837, m. 1867 Elias Gardner

165th. Catherine A., b. 1842. [should be No. 166.]

166th. Martha, b. 1840, m. 1870. [should be No. 165]

167th. Sarah Magdalene, b. 1844

168th. Margaret C. born in 1846

169th. George C., b. 1848

170th. Irene, b. 1850

(60.) Jane

(61.) William Stewart of Milroy, Rush Co., Ind. B. 1813, m. Miss Walker. 7 children:--

171st. Samuel P.

172nd. John

173rd. James

174th. Junius

175th. Cynthia

176th. Samantha

177th. Ellen

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(62.) Joseph Stewart of Allegheny Co., Pa., b. 1816 and in 1839 m. Hannah Glass, his cousin; their children, as follows:--

178th. Samuel G., b. 1841

179th. Janet M. born 1844

180th. Mary G. born 1846

181st. William J. b. 1849

182nd. John P. born 1851

183rd. Joseph P. born 1854

184th. Andrew D. born 1859

185th. Albert E. b. 1861

186th. Sadie A. born 1863

(63.) Uriah P. Stewart, Avilla, Noble Co., Ind., b. 1819 and in 1839 m. Miss M. A. Harbison; their children:--

187th. Samuel P. b. 1840

188th. Matthew H. b. 1842

189th. John b. 1844

190th. Anna J. b. 1847

191st. Joseph A. b. 1850

192nd. Robert J. b. 1853

193rd. Margaret E. b. 1856

194th. William H. b. 1859

195th. Mary Olivia, b. 1862

(64.) James Stewart, b. in Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1795, m. in 1819 Susan Finney, daughter of James and Sarah [Stewart] Finney, and died Sept. 18, 1864 at Evanston, Ill. They had 8 children, as follows;--

196th. Joseph P. b. 1820

197th. Sarah, b. 1822

198th. Mary Jane, b. 1824

199th. David, b. 1826

200th. John T. b. 1830

201st. Robert P. b. 1830

202nd. Uriah M. b. 1832 \twins

203rd. Jeremiah M. b. 1832/twins

(65.) Samuel B. Stewart b. in Dauphin Co., PA., in 1795, m. Nov. 2, 1824, Sarah Barnett, died 1871. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters [only three names].

204th. John Barnett Stewart b. 1825

205th. Joseph b. 1827

206th. Charles b. 1832

(66.) Jane Stewart

(67.) Nancy Crane Stewart, born in Panchon Twp. 1799, m. Elijah Finney her cousin; the relationship came through Elijah Stewart [see No. 3, Samuel Stewart, the father of Elijah Stewart, was we know an older brother of Hugh Stewart, who was the grandfather of Nancy Crane Stewart. Note, M. F. ][James Finney, bro. of Wm. Finney, my great grandfather, and these two Finney men married Sarah Stewart and Margaret Stewart, both daughters of Elijah Stewart, son of Samuel Stewart, No. 2, and Mary McClay, (see pg. 2) and Elijah Finney was the son of Elijah Stewart’s daughter, Sarah (2) wife of James Finney, that is the grand-son of Elijah Stewart and also the great grand-son of Samuel Stewart No. 3 (2) so Nancy Crane Stewart married her great uncle’s (Samuel Stewart) great grand-son. Sort of round-about. M. F.].

(68.) Joseph T. Stewart, b. in Paxton Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., 1801, m. in 1832 Prudence Ammons, Butler Co., Ohio. They had three sons;--

207th. Sylvanus Dunlavy, b. 1834

208th. Erastus Spencer, b. 1837

209th. Augustus Lafayette, b. 1841

(69.) Sarah Stewart, b. in 1803; in 1824 m. David

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Reynolds, of Piqua, Ohio. Died in 1870 leaving 4 children:--

210th. James

211th. Charles

212th. Alexander

213th. Isabel

(70.) Mary Stewart, b. in Butler Co., Ohio, in 1805, the year her parents moved westward from Dauphin Co., Pa.; in 1825 she married Samuel Holmes of Bell Brook, Ohio. They had a large family of children:--

214th. Mary, b. 1825, d. 1845.

215th. Sarah, b. 1827, m. Biggers.

216th. Hannah, b. 1829, m. James W. Robeson.

217th. Elizabeth, b. 1832, d. 1851.

218th. Nancy, b. 1834, m. Rev. W. A. Pollock.

219th. Amanda, b. 1837, m. Alexander Porter.

220th. Joseph, b. 1838, m. Sarah

221st. Julia, b. 1842.

222nd. Francis, b. 1845, m. Noah Patton**

223rd. Gabriela, b. 1851, m. John Beverage.

(71.) Charles Stewart married Mary Duncan.

(72.) Eliza Stewart [These names have been supplied from Grace Finney’s

(73.) John Stewart notes. M.F.]

12th. James Stewart, son of Hugh and Nancy Moore Stewart, was born in Paxton Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., Feb. 29, 1774, m. Nov. 17, 1803, Nancy Sherer, daughter of Samuel Sherer and his wife, Elizabeth Barnett, of Swatara Co., Pa. In 1805 moved to Ohio, as described under No. 11, Joseph Stewart. Had 3 sons:--

(74.) Joseph Crane Stewart

(75.) Samuel Sherer Stewart

(76.) James Barnett Stewart

[Note: to explain that I have got off the track at this point. I turned back to supply the items for 71, 72, and 73, and so lost my place and so have wasted the lines beginning with the number 12th. This page will have to be recopied, but not at the present. M. F.)

(74.) Robert Crane Stewart [Springfield, Ohio], was born in Dauphin Co., Aug. 18, 1804, m. in 1826 Elizabeth Elder Stewart, daughter of Samuel Elder Stewart of Clark Co., Ohio, Elizabeth Elder Stewart, who was the oldest daughter of Robert Elder, merchant of Hanover, Pa. They had 5 sons and 5 daughters, as follows:--

224th. Mary Elizabeth, b. 1827; in 1846 m. Henry C. Dewitt.

225th. James Delingcourt, b. 1830

226th. Clarissa Jane, b. 1833; m. in 1854.

227th. Samuel Elder, deceased.

228th. Joseph Edwin, b. 1838

229th. Sarah Adelaide, b. 1840

230th. Juliana, b. 1842

231st. Hattie, b. 1844

232nd. Robert Elder, b. 1845

233rd. George H., b. 1848

[Note:-- To complete the record of Mary Elizabeth, above, she married Henry C. Dewitt of Clark Co., Ohio. Also to complete the record of Clarissa Jane, born in 1833, m. 1854 to Charles J. Rinehard of Springfield, Ohio.]

(75.) Samuel Sherer Stewart, son of James Stewart, No. 12, of James Station, Dearborn Co., Ind., was b. in Butler Co., Ohio, Oct. 20, 1807. Studied medicine and practiced first in Cincinnati, Ohio. Married and had one son; subsequently married in 1852, Maryann Churchill of New York; died in 1872.

• * Note: Francis should likely read Frances.- V. E. S.

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To Dr. Stewart is this family under great obligation, everlasting obligation, for the collection of data for the Stewart Family Record, from which the writer, [Bucher Ayres]has compiled the present work to in the line of Hugh Stewart and also a record of Samuel Stewart.

It was the design of Dr. Stewart eventually to prepare a record to publish for distribution among the family but death ensued in 1872, before the work could be accomplished. Having left a record of others, he failed to leave one for himself, therefore this brief notice by his son:--

234th. James Finney Stewart m. Miss Helena Jane Moore of Moore’s Hill, Dearborn Co., Ind. And they have two children:--

Wilber W. Stewart

And

Samuel Oscar Stewart

James Barnett Stewart, a physician and lives in Aurora, Dearborn Co., Ind., on the Ohio River, 24 miles below Cincinnati, Ohio.

(76.) James Barnett Stewart, son of James No. 12, was born in Butler Co., Ohio, Oct. 20, 1807, m. in 1828 Ruth Gordon of Warren Co. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Married the second time Mary Wade in 1844 and had one daughter.

Like his twin brother, he became a physician and practiced in Cincinnati, Ohio. His children:--

235th. Gordon Armstrong, b. 1832, is an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa.

237th. James Oscar, b. 1835, lives in Colorado.

238th. Anna Lucilla, b. 1840, m. W. D. Dean of Kenton, Ohio.

239th. Margaret, b. 1845; in 1867 m. Isaac Anderson of Venice, Ohio.

James Barnett Stewart died Sept. 17, 1851 and is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

(77.) Nancy M. Stewart was born near Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio, May 15, 1812. She was the grand-daughter of Samuel Stewart as well as of Hugh Stewart. In 1835 married John Patterson of Monroe, Ohio, later of Piqua, O. They had five children;--

240th. Mary Adella, b. in 1854

241st. James Stewart, b. in 1835. He was a Lieut., Co. H., 26th Iowa Regiment and was killed at Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863 in the War of Rebellion.

242nd. Rebecca Jane, b. 1840, m. John Denman.

243rd. Eudora Irene, b. 1845.

244th. Nancy Elizabeth, born 1847, married John Streat

(78.) Mary Jane Stewart was born near Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio, April 20, 1823. In 1840, in her 18th year, she married Edward Kimball of Cincinnati falling heir to the Homestead which her father settled in 1805; they moved to Monroe shortly after their marriage. They had 9 children, three of whom are dead. The following survive:--

245th. Alonzo A., b. 1842

246th. Fannie S., b. 1850

247th. Eugene Webster, b. 1855

248th. Henry Clay, b. 1857

249th. Laura Emma, b. 1859

250th. James N., b. 1867

Family Bible Entries and Notes by Minnehaha Finney

[These appear in the copy of the Bucher Brochure that I received as added pages 14 A and B.- V.E.S.]

Dates of Death, copied from Bible:

Hugh died in infancy, age five years.
James Stewart died Sept. 1826. Age 35.
Mary Robeson Stewart died April 13, 1832. Age 82, the mother.
John Stewart died Aug. 8, 1837. Age 84 years. The father.
Hannah Stewart Wilson died Oct. 8, 1851. Age 68.
Wm. Stewart died Sept. 14, 1854. Age 72.
John Stewart died July 18, 1857. Age 72.
Mary (Polly) Stewart died May 13, 1869. Age 76.

Note: "The death of Sarah Stewart (Patterson) wife of William Patterson was not recorded in the (Stewart) Bible evidently. She died 1832. Age 46." M. Finney.

John Stewart, 1753-1837, Revolutionary War Soldier.

John Stewart, 1753-1837, son of Hugh Stewart, 1719-1798, and Hannah

Dallas Stewart, 1727-1760, of Dauphin County, Pa., was born in Paxtang, Dauphin Co., Pa., on July 2, 1753.

He enlisted, as a Private in the Continental Army of Pennsylvania at Paxtang, in Lancaster (now Dauphin) County, Pa., August 1, 1776. His name is in Capt. Joseph Sherer’s Company in 1776.

Copy: "Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 21, 1904. To whom it may concern: I certify that the name of John Stewart appears on the Muster Roll, as a Private, in Capt. Joseph Sherer's Company, Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Col. James Burd, Page 309, Vol. 13, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Edition of 1896." "Luther R. Kelker, Chief of Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania State Library."

In the Company of William Bell, he marched for a six-months tour. At Amboy, N. J., he was attached to the Flying Camp and on October 18, 1776, marched under Col. Clotz to For Lee on the North River. In November, they crossed to Fort Washington. British and Hessians attacked the Fort and the Americans surrendered, as prisoners on November 16, 1776.

He was taken prisoner and held captive on a prison-ship until January 12, 1777, when he was released on parole. In 1779, he settled in Fayette Co., Pa., and remained there until 1829, when he moved to North Shenango Twp., Crawford County, Pa. He was exchanged in 1779 or 1780. He had permission to go back and forth from Paxtang to the Red Stone area, Fayette Co., Pa. In April, 1779, he received an honorable discharge and drew a Pension from the State of Pennsylvania of $40.00 a year, payable at Meadville, Pa.

John Stewart died at South Shenango Township, Crawford Co., Pa., August 10, 1837 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hannah Stewart Wilson, (Mrs. Wm.). He was buried in the Hartstown Cemetery, Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pa. His wife, Mary Robeson Stewart, 1750-1832, died at the same home April 13, 1832, and is buried in the same cemetery. (One gravestone for both together.)

John Stewart, 1753-1837, Revolutionary War Soldier, continued. He had applied for a U. S. Government Pension, August, 1776 to January 1777, five months and twelve days, but he was not entitled to a pension, which according to the Act of June 7, 1832, required a full six months service.

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John Stewart married Mary Robeson about 1779, a sister of John Robeson of Dauphin County, Pa.

Several of the older relatives told Maude G. Stewart in 1898, that they knew John Stewart and had hear him tell of being in the Revolutionary War and of the suffering he had endured of the prison-ship.

Mr. James Stewart, 1830-1915, Espyville Station, Crawford Co., Pa.

Mrs. Rebecca Willson Elliott, 1815-1902, Espyville Station, Crawford Co., Pa.

Mrs. Isabel Willson Trace, 1813-1904, Kendallville, Ind., % Mrs. Eunice Fish.

Mr. Robert Blair, 1824-1919, Espyville Station, Crawford Co., Pa.

Members of D. A. R.:

Maude Gertrude Stewart, No. 29427

Nine Clair Stewart, No. 52021

Lillian Stewart, No. 239229

[Note: The % used above is in the copy I received; the spelling Nine Clair Stewart is as received.- V. E. S.]

References

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZV3-TVF
• ”Stewart of Drumore” in Pennsylvania Genealogies : Index of Surnames. Page 647. Source Information: Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. AncestryImage

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In this record he is the son of a Robert Stewart: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/u/g/Susan-K-Muglich-Cl...

9. HUGH 5 STEWART (ROBERT4, JOHN3, JOHN2, THOMAS1) was born Jun 11, 1719 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, and died Oct 08, 1798 in Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., PA.

He married (1) HANNAH DALLAS 1750. She was born 1727 in Ireland, and died Abt. 1760 in Pennsylvania.

He married (2) NANCY MOORE Abt. 1764 in Dauphin Co., PA. She was born Abt. 1733, and died Mar 22, 1790.

Notes for HUGH STEWART:

Hugh Stewart, 3 (Robert, 2 John,1) b. near Glasgow, Scotland, June 11, 1719 ; d. October 8, 1798 ; buried in the graveyard of the old Covenanter church, three miles east of Harrisburg, Pa., of which church he was the main supporter.

At the age of sixteen years he accompanied his elder brother, Samuel , and family, in their migration to the Province of Pennsylvania, in 1735 . He landed with a capital in coin equivalent to one dollar and twenty-five cents, and having learned the trade of weaving, followed it for many years; settled finally in Paxtang township, about six miles from Harris' Ferry, where he acquired a large estate, for the times.

His name first appears on the tax list of 1750. In 1780 he was assessed for four hundred and five acres.

He was considered a very handsome man, of more than ordinary height, and retained through life his Scottish accent.

Hugh Stewart was twice married; m., first, in 1750-1, Hannah Dallas, b. 1727, in Ireland ; d. 1760 , and buried with her husband. They had issue, all born in Paxtang :

More About HUGH STEWART:

Date born 2: Jun 11, 1719, Near Glascow, Scotland

Date born 3: Jun 11, 1719, Near Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

Died 2: Oct 08, 1798, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

HANNAH DALLAS: Date born 2: Abt. 1727, Ireland

HUGH STEWART and HANNAH DALLAS: Married in 1750

Children of HUGH STEWART and HANNAH DALLAS are:

i.JANE6 STEWART, b. Nov 01, 1751, Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA; d. Abt. 1824; m. JOHN ROBESON.

Notes for JANE STEWART:
i. Jane , b. November 1, 1751 ; d. in 1824 , near Monroe, Butler county, O. , where they settled at a very early day; m., in 1772 , John Robinson ; and had issue (surname Robinson ): Sarah and Hannah (twins), Jane , William , Hugh , John-D. , James-B. , and Mary-R.

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13. ii. JOHN STEWART, b. Jul 02, 1753, Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.

	iii.	 WILLIAM STEWART, b. Oct 21, 1757, Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA; m. MARTHA WALKER, Abt. 1780.

	Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:

ii. William , b. October 21, 1757 ; m., 1780 , Martha Walker , and removed to Allegheny county, Pa. ; and had issue: Margaret , Hannah , Jane , Rebecca , Elizabeth , Martha , James , William , Samuel , and John .

	More About WILLIAM STEWART:

Date born 2: Oct 21, 1757, Paxtang Township, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania
Record Change 1: Nov 10, 2002
Record Change 2: Sep 29, 1999

	More About MARTHA WALKER:

Record Change: Jul 27, 1999

	More About WILLIAM STEWART and MARTHA WALKER:

Marriage: Abt. 1780

	iv.	 HUGH STEWART, b. Oct 01, 1759, Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA; m. MARY WILSON, Mar 21, 1793.

	Notes for HUGH STEWART:

Hugh , b. October 1, 1759 ; in consequence of a deformity in his feet, unfitting him for active life, he became a teacher; settled in the Redstone country, Fayette county, Pa. ; thence he removed to Rush county, Indiana , near Flat Rock creek ; m., in 1793 , Mary Wilson ; and had issue: Wilson , and Hugh .

	More About HUGH STEWART:

Date born 2: Oct 01, 1759, Paxtang Township, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania
Record Change 1: Nov 10, 2002
Record Change 2: Sep 29, 1999

	More About MARY WILSON:

Record Change: Jul 27, 1999

	More About HUGH STEWART and MARY WILSON:

Marriage: Mar 21, 1793

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SECOND MARRIAGE TO: NANCY MOORE:

HUGH STEWART and NANCY MOORE: Abt. 1764, Dauphin Co., PA

Children of HUGH STEWART and NANCY MOORE are:

v. ROBERT6 STEWART, b. Mar 08, 1765; m. SARAH FINNEY.

vi.	SAMUEL STEWART, b. Mar 05, 1767, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA; d. Abt. Aug 1837, Findlay twp., Allegheny Co., PA.

14. vii. JOSEPH STEWART, b. Jul 10, 1769.

	viii.	 	JAMES STEWART, b. Abt. 1774.

	ix.	 	MARY STEWART, b. Nov 27, 1778.

15. x. SAMUEL STEWART, b. Mar 05, 1767, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA; d. Abt. Aug 1837, Findley Twp., Allegheny Co., PA.

	xi.	 	JAMES STEWART, b. Abt. Feb 1774; m. (1) MARY SHERER; m. (2) MARY MCCLAY; m. (3) MARGARET REED.

16. xii. MARY STEWART, b. Nov 27, 1778; d. Abt. 1853.

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The church they established in NE Harrisburg was the Paxtang Presbyterian Church in1729 and it still exists today in the northern suburbs of Harrisburg. The Paxtang church is the second oldest continuously operating Presbyterian Church in the USA. John Knox, the founder of the Scottish Presbyterian Church was a 7th or 8th great uncle to the Paxtang boys(the Stewart brothers) led by Capt. Lazarus Stewart, grandson of Lazarus b1683 and great- nephew of Samuel. Knox married Margaret Stewart(1548-1612), the sister of Andrew of Ochiltree, Scotland born in 1535. This made this Stewart line very loyal to the Presbyterians. All this family line could call John Knox their uncle. Eventually Hugh and Samuel joined Lazarus in the nearby Paxtang/Hanover townships Community along with many of their Stewart cousins.

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jul 3 2019, 8:13:15 UTC

Hannah and Hugh were the parents of:

Jean-Jane/1 Nov 1751
May/1752 - 2 Sep 1752
Elizabeth/1752 - 2 Sep 1752
John/2 Jul 1753
William/21 Oct 1757
Hugh, Jr/1 Oct 1759

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