Samuel Stewart, Sr.

Disproved 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.

Biography

“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

From https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/u/g/Susan-K-Muglich-Cleveland/GENE1...

Stewart Migrations from Scotland to America
Source: " The History of The Stewart Family", by Bucher Ayers (1876)
Transcribed by Vincent Summers

Samuel, eldest son of Robert., migrated from Ireland to America in 1735 accompanied by his wife, two sons, and younger brother, Hugh Stewart

Why Samuel emigrated to America is unsure. It could have possibly been because the landlords were unwilling to renew leases on old terms. Or, maybe it was just a desire for religious liberty and material interest. The voyage across the ocean in 1735 was perilous and inconvenient. Vessels were small and over crowded, ill ventilated, slow, poorly equipped, and ill fitted for the voyage.

The emigrant Stewarts landed at Philadelphia and settled at Chestnut Level, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the spring of 1735. The family had one dollar and twenty five cents in their pockets. Samuel spent the money for a jack knife to cut threads necessary to the business of weaving. This occupation he previously learned in Ireland.

The journey from Philadelphia to Lancaster County was done by pack horse. The road to Lancaster County (King's Highway) was a winding road through forest, marshes, and unbridged streams. The progress was slow and difficult. They stopped and remained at Chestnut Level, Octoraro Region, Lancaster County which was the metropolis of a Scotch-Irish settlement and the seat of the Presbyterian Church.

Samuel Stewart was tall in person, large and well made. He had a large Roman nose, eyes of blueish-grey, and lively deep brown hair, with a Scotch complexion. Samuel married in Ireland to Mary McClay who was remarkable for her dark complexion and large size weighing 200 pounds. Samuel and Mary had twelve sons and one daughter. Two were born in Ireland and the rest in Lancaster County.

Settled in Drumor townshiwp Lancaster co.

In person Sammuel Stewart was large, well propotioned, six feethigh, roman nose, gray eyes, brown hair and ruddy complexin.Drumore Township, a Scotch-Irish settlement; where aPresbytarian meeting house had been established by Rev. JohnThomson, of Donegal Presbytery.

Emigrated to the North of Ireland with his father's family in 1720. In 1735, occopanied by his younges brother, Hugh, he crossed the ocean. He settled in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, near Chestnut Level. About 1750 he moved to Hanover Township, now in Dauphin County. In person, Samuel Stewart was large and well proportioned, six feet in height,
with a roman nose, bluish-grey eyes, brown hair, and a ruddy complexion.

More About SAMUEL STEWART:
Date born 2: 1698, Glasgow, Scotland
Immigration: 1735, Philadelphia PA
Occupation: Farmer
Record Change: Dec 06, 2002
Religion: Covenanter

Notes for MARY MCCLAY:
Mary McClay was noted for her very dark complexion adn large person

More About MARY MCCLAY:
Date born 2: Abt. 1706
Record Change: Oct 11, 2002

More About SAMUEL STEWART and MARY MCCLAY:
Marriage: Abt. 1727, County Down, Ireland

Children of SAMUEL STEWART and MARY MCCLAY are:

• i. JOHN6 STEWART, b. Abt. 1728; d. Oct 04, 1777, Germantown, PA. Notes for JOHN STEWART: battle of Germantown John , b. in Ireland ; removed to the Marsh Creek settlement, now Adams county, Pa. ; killed in the battle of Germantown , in 1777 . More About JOHN STEWART: Record Change: Nov 10, 2002
• 17. ii. ROBERT STEWART, b. 1732, Ireland; d. Nov 01, 1811, Liberty Township, Now Adams Co., PA.
• 18. iii. SAMUEL STEWART, b. Abt. 1734, County Down, Ireland; d. Sep 16, 1803, Lancaster, Hanover Co., PA.
• 19. iv. ANDREW STEWART, b. Abt. 1736, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Dec 26, 1804, Chester, PA.
• 20. v. ELIJAH STEWART, b. 1738, Lancaster Co., PA; d. 1807, Dauphin, PA.
• vi. MARY B. STEWART, b. Abt. 1740, Lancaster Co., PA; m. ROBERT PATTERSON, 1764, Newton, Westmoreland, Penn. Notes for MARY B. STEWART: Mary , b. in Lancaster county, Pa. ; m., 1764 , Robert Patterson ; in 1792 removed to Westmoreland county, Pa. , and had seven sons and two daughters. More About MARY B. STEWART: Record Change: Nov 10, 2002 More About ROBERT PATTERSON: Record Change: Oct 09, 2002 More About ROBERT PATTERSON and MARY STEWART: Marriage: 1764, Newton, Westmoreland, Penn
• vii. JAMES STEWART, b. Abt. 1742, Lancaster Co., PA. Notes for JAMES STEWART:
• James , b. in Lancaster county , and finally settled in Allegheny county, Pa. More About JAMES STEWART: Record Change: Nov 10, 2002
• 21. viii. HUGH STEWART, b. Abt. 1750, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Abt. 1822, Boone, KY.
• ix. JOSEPH STEWART, b. Abt. 1752, Lancaster Co., PA. More About JOSEPH STEWART: Record Change: Oct 09, 2002
• x. ANTHONY STEWART, b. Abt. 1754, Lancaster Co., PA. More About ANTHONY STEWART: Record Change: Oct 09, 2002

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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. He married in Ireland Mary McClay, who was noted for her dark complexion and large person. She weighed 200 pounds. There were born to them ten children.

IV The second son was Samuel, who was born in County Down and was brought to Pennsylvania in the emigration of his father's family in 1735, and, on coming of age, settled as a farmer in Hanover Township, Lancaster County, now West Hanover, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about 1750. In the book by William H. Egle, State Librarian of Pennsylvania, entitled, "Pennsylvania Genealogies" in referring to Samuel Stewart, among other things the author uses the following language: "A public meeting of the citizens of Hanover Township, June 4, 1774has gone into history, showing the earliest recorded movement toward independence, and, when the Revolutionary War began the liberty loving and patriotic Scotch-Irish of Hanover were found faithful and active participants. Samuel Stewart entered as a private, serving in Colonel Timothy Green's battalion for the defense of the frontier, and on June 6, 1776, in Captain James Rodger's Lancaster County Associators, 'destined for the camp in the Jerseys'. His first WIFE was NANCY TEMPLETON and his second WIFE was AGNES CALHOUN.

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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John Stewart was a Scottish Presbyterian Covenanter of the seventeenth century. He abandoned his native hills on account of the persecution of the Covenanters by King Charles II, and fled to County Down, Ireland, which was then a refuge for the early Protestant Presbyterian Covenanters of Scotland.

England had begun the process of introducing Protestants into Ulster (Northern Ireland) in the hope of making Ireland more Protestant. The Scottish Covenanters were given many business opportunities in Ulster. However, the Irish Catholic vehemently objected to the intrusion of both Protestants and Scottish. The Protestant Scotsmen who moved to Uslter at that time were called Scots-Irish because they were Scottish people colonizing Ireland.

When James II, a Roman Catholic, succeeded Charles II in 1685, Covenanting was declared to be treason and punishable by death. Persecution of Protestant Covenanters increased. These were the so-called 'killing times' when some have said as many as 18,000 died. Many Covenanters fled quickly to ireland first and then some travelled to America to settle. The persecution ended with the accession to the throne of William III, and since 1790 the Presbyterian Church of Scotland has been the official church in that country. By that time, many Presbyterian Covenanters had been killed or long fled to America.

John Stewart died in County Down Ireland in 1720, and left one son, Robert Stewart, who was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1665. Robert accompanied with his father John to County Down, and after the death of his father he settled near the city of Belfast, but shortly returned to Scotland, where he died near the city of Glasgow, in 1730. The lives of John and Robert Stewart embraced one of the most remarkable periods of English history, beginning in the reign of Charles I, and extending into that of George II.

Robert Stewart reared a large family, and one of his sons, Samuel Stewart, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1698, who went with his father and grandfather to Ireland, in 1720. In 1735 he and his youngest brother, Hugh, set sail for America, and landed at Philadelphia, where they remained but a short time before settling in Drumore township, Lancaster county.

Samuel Stewart married Mary McClay, and died in 1750, leaving a large family.

Their eight children include:

• 1. John Stewart 1728 – 1777
• 2. Robert Stewart 1732 – 1811
• 3. Samuel Templeton Stewart 1734 – 1803 (served in the Revolutionary War) Married Nancy Templeton and Agnes Calhoun.
• 4. Andrew Stewart 1736 – 1763
• 5. Elijah Stewart 1738 – 1807
• 6. James STEWART 1739 –
• 7. Mary STEWART 1740 –
• 8. Hugh Stewart 1757 – 1824 (Hugh was named after his uncle Hugh) Married Margaret Roxburgh-Smith.

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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. He married in Ireland Mary McClay, who was noted for her dark complexion and large person. there were born to them ten children.

IV The second son was Samuel, who was born in County Down and was brought to Pennsylvania in the emigration of his father's family in 1735, and, on coming of age, settled as a farmer in Hanover Township, Lancaster County, now West Hanover, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, about 1750. In the book by William H. Egle, State Librarian of Pennsylvania, entitled, "Pennsylvania Genealogies" in referring to Samuel Stewart, among other things the author uses the following language: "A public meeting of the citizens of Hanover Township, June 4, 1774has gone into history, showing the earliest recorded movement toward independence, and, when the Revolutionary War began the liberty loving and patriotic Scotch-Irish of Hanover were found faithful and active participants. Samuel Stewart entered as a private, serving in Colonel Timothy Green's battalion for the defense of the frontier, and on June 6, 1776, in Captain James Rodger's Lancaster County Associators, 'destined for the camp in the Jerseys'. His first WIFE was NANCY TEMPLETON and his second WIFE was AGNES CALHOUN.

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.

Samuel Stewart was the son of Robert, and was born in 1687-1698 near Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to the North of Ireland, and died in 1770 in Lancaster county Pennsylvania. In 1735, accompanied by his son [sic: brother] HUGH STEWART, he crossed the ocean, landing in Philadelphia, and settled in Drumore Township, near Chestnut Level(on the Susquehanna River), Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania, It was 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.

Samuel's brother [sic: not his brother, y DNA does not match] Lazarus had earlier, by 1729, settled in S. Hanover TWP., (then) Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Lazarus established a similar Presbyterian meeting-house there in what are now the northeastern suburbs of Harrisburg. The first church they established in those townships in Pennsylvania 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 open 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 Samuel and his son Hugh also moved up to homestead in Paxtang/Hanover townships, PA

Y DNA testing

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Stuart?iframe=ycolorized

Terminal SNP’s R-BY118188 and R-FGC4077, propagated to the profile for Samuel Stewart, are not related to Lazarus Stewart, Sr.. Specifically, to Lazarus, FTDNA kits 14486, 993678, 977797, B886018, and 971822 show that descendants of Lazarus carry the [R-FT74278] SNP. This determination was acquired through testing descendants of David Stewart 1722-1798 and James Stewart 1723-1817.

References

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