Rev. John Hugh Paul

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Paul-2219

British/Scottish/Irish original sources are required.

Research

According to Cole's History of Greenbrian County in the section "Biography of John Stuart", [1] John Paul was a son of Hugh Paul, Bishop of Nottingham. He was also a partisan of the House of Stuart as was his widow's second husband. He married Margaret Lynn and left five children. John was killed in the siege of Dalrymple Castle in the year 1745. John Paul's widow remarried in 1748 to David Stuart.

According to Wither's "Chronicles of Border Warfare" there were three children not five. [2]

When in 1752 Robert Dinwiddie came over as governor of Virginia, he was accompanied by many adventurers; among whom was John Stuart, (*see next paragraph citing "note 2") an intimate friend of Dinwiddie, who had married the widow of John Paul (son of Hugh, bishop of Nottingham.) John Paul, a partizan of the house of Stuart, had perished in the siege of Dalrymple castle in 1745, leaving three children––John, who became a Roman catholic priest and died on the eastern shore of Maryland––Audley, who was for ten years an officer in the British colonial forces,––and Polly, who married Geo. Matthews, afterwards governor of Georgia. Mrs. Paul (formerly Jane Lynn, of the Lynns of Loch-Lynn, a sister to the wife of John Lewis) had issue, by Stuart, John, since known as Col. Stuart of Greenbrier, and Betsy, who became the wife of Col. Richard Woods of Albemarle.

Note 2 about John Stuart (*above), by L.C.D. (Lyman Copeland Draper) who the title page of the book says made "addition of a Memoir of the Author, and several Illustrative Notes",[2] complicates matters considerably by changing the identity of Stuart's wife Margaret Margaret Lynn and her first husband this John Paul.

The late Charles A. Stuart, of Greenbrier, son of Col. John Stuart, after the appearance of Hugh Paul Taylor’s sketches over the signature of “Son of Cornstalk,” published in the Staunton Spectator of August 21, 1829, over the signature of “Son of Blue Jacket,” a brief criticism, in the nature of some corrections regarding his own family, to this effect: That Mrs. Jane Paul was no relative of Mrs. Margaret Lewis, wife of Col. John Lewis; that her first husband, Mr. Paul––not John, but probably Hugh Paul––was apparently from the north of Ireland––their son Audley Paul was born before the migration of the family to Pennsylvania; Mr. Paul, Sr., it is said, became the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of Chester, in that province; but as Chester was a Quaker settlement, it is more likely that he located in some Presbyterian community in that region, and there must have died. Mrs. Paul, for her second husband, married Col. David Stuart, also from Ireland, by whom she had John Stuart and two daughters. Mrs. Stuart’s grandchild, Charles A. Stuart, resided many years in Augusta, representing that county in the State senate, subsequently removed back to Greenbrier county, where he died about 1850, at the age of about sixty-five years. He was a man of sterling qualities.––L. C. D.

The information is said to be from a son of John Stuart. He changes the names of the parents of Audley, to Mrs. Jane Paul and Hugh Paul, saying they were from Ireland and that Audley was born in Ireland and and Mr. Paul Sn. was a Prebyterian pastor. He is talking about his half-siblings and his step-mother, so we might imagine that he knows factual information about his step-mother, but perhaps not,

Note 12 is not in the Gutenburg transcribed copy of the 1971 reprint edition of the 1895 edition of “Chronicles of Border Warfare.” It is in the downloadable scanned copy of the ninth impression of 1920.

Notes

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CAUTION: PLEASE HELP US PRESERVE ACCURACY AND GIVE SEPARATE FAMILIES EACH A CHANCE TO BE REPRESENTED.

Please do not confuse this Col. David Stuart who married Margaret Lynn, widow of Reverend John Paul. Col. David Stuart died at Augusta County, Virginia in 1767 with a DIFFERENT David Stuart of Augusta County, who married Margaret McKinney whose will was proved in 1762. Please see Memories for the page from "Stewart Clan Magazine," Tome D: 131 that warns that it is easy to get the two different men, unrelated, who shared the same and both married women named Margaret. Please read the page before doing any merging. Also please be cautious because this page tries to throw in yet another Stewart family that was unrelated by an insinuation "perhaps."

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