Rebecca Stewart

Rebecca emigrated to America about 1745 following the death of her husband. With her were her sons William, Robert, Charles and other children. Her father had come to the Colonies about 1718 with his brother and their families and had settled in Lancaster County, PA.

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"In the Name of God, amen! I Rebekah Steuart of Donegall, in the county of Lancaster, Province of Pensilvania, being very sick and low in bodey, but of a perfect mind and mory, praise to God. First of all I comit my soul into the handnds of God that gave it; and my bodey to be buried in the earth in a cristian and desent leak maner at the discretion of my executors.
I apoint and costitute my loving brother John Galbraith, and my son James Karr, executors to his my last will and testment. As for what wordly substence it hath pleased God to poses me with, I give, devise and dispose of, in the following maner. Imprimis, viz, I give and bequeath to my son Charles Stuart, the . I know onley it is to be valued by tow indefrent men when the prehes is firs lad off, then one third is for Charity, and the other tow parts is to be equley divided between Robert & William Stuart, my tow sons. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Frances Stuart - red cowes, also one rid young cow. This bed I lay on with close fiting fout. I alow the tow juler dishes to Frances when carelf is maid. Aso I give & bequeath to my daughter Margret, five shillings; also all my other moveables I alow to be equal to my three sons after all debts is discharged. As witness my had & seal this 28 day of December, An: dobe 1748. Rebakah (X her mark) Stuart." Witnesses were Janet Galbraith and Janet Kerr.(Janet nee Kerr) wife of John Galbraith, brother of Rebecca, and Janet Kerr, relationship to the Kerr's is unknows. (Source - Examination of original will and phococopy of will in archives, Archives Division, Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Will Book J, Volume 1, page 234)

Janet Galbraith is Janet nee Kerr, the wife of John Galbraith, the brother of Rebecca. John Galbraith is deceased at the time of Rebecca's will. Janet Kerr's relationship to the Kerr family is not known.

"The inventory of Rebecca's estate was taken January 2, 1749 by William Mitchell and John Byrne and returned May 15, 1749, showing a valuation of 79 pounds, 15,6. John Byrne was born about 1715 in Ireland and settled in Donegal Township in 1749." (Stewart Clan Magazine, Tomb C, page 220)

"In addition to the errors in Miller's work with respect to Alexander Stewart, he is incorrect in his assertion that Rebecca's father was John Galbraith of Newton Cunningham that appears in The Stewart Genealogy on page 21. On page 19 Miller states "...that according to tradition Rebecca was the daughter of John Galbraith." Well documented research by members of Clan Galbraith Association states that Rebecca was the daughter of James Galbraith, who came to Colonial America in 1718."

Newton cunningham is a townland situated in the civil parish of All Saints, located within the barony of Raphoe North. (Source - Donegal Ancestry, Old Meeting House, Back Lane, Ramelton, Letterkenny, County Donegal)

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