Sarah Stuart

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fenwick-982

Sarah, born June 1726 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina, was the daughter of John Fenwick and Elizabeth Gibbes.[1]

Her father returned to England in 1744, and when he wrote his Will in February 1746, Sarah was unmarried.[2]She married John Stuart about 1749 or earlier, for on 28 April 1750, her father-in-law Bailie John Stuart wrote his son in England suggesting that his son and his wife visit Scotland. They were still in England on 23 June 1750 when Bailie John Stuart congratulated his son on the birth of a daughter.[3]The couple returned to South Carolina in late 1750. In addition to the oldest daughter Sarah (m. James Graham, d. 1774),[4] they had another daughter Christiana (m. Edward Fenwick), and a son John Joseph (b. 1757).[5]

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, John Stuart, a Loyalist, was ordered to be arrested in June 1775, but he fled Charlestown for Florida. His estates in South Carolina were confiscated, and Sarah and her daughter Christiana Fenwick were confined in Charlestown as hostages. After two years, Sarah was able to escape, supposedly with the assistance of her son-in-law Edward Fenwick, and she joined her husband in Florida.[6] Stuart died in 1779 in Florida, and Sarah may have returned to Charlestown after the British took control of the city in May 1780. She left sometime in late 1782 when the British began evacuating Loyalists from Charlestown.[7]

Sarah settled in England with her family, where she filed claims for loss of her property in America and requesting a pension for her husband's military service. Her son John, who was serving in the 3d Regiment of Foot, joined her in her claims, as did her daughter Christiana Fenwick. Christiana died sometime before March 1786, leaving her two daughters, Sarah and Mary Fenwick, in the care of her mother. (Edward Fenwick seems to have been alive in 1785 but may have predeceased his wife). Sarah also had a grandson Joseph Graham living in 1786, who was the son of her daughter Sarah (d. 1774) and her husband James Graham (d. abt 1785). The final outcome of her claims is unknown.[7]

Family

Sarah Fenwick married about 1749 to John Stuart. Their children were:

1. Sarah (m. James Graham, d. 1774)
2. Christiana (m. Edward Fenwick)
3. John Joseph (b. 1757) (no known wife)

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Charles Town was established in April 1670 by approximately 200 Europeans who settled at Albemarle Point, on the west bank of the Ashley River. This was the first settlement and the seat of government for the nascent colony of South Carolina. Ten years later, in 1680, the government and the name “Charles Town” moved to the opposite side of the Ashley River, to the peninsula formerly known as Oyster Point. Throughout the rest of our colonial period and the American Revolution, Charles Town remained South Carolina’s principal town and seaport, its seat of commerce and government, and its most densely populated community.

Charles Town, South Carolina

The so-called Crisp Map of 1771

A view of Charles-Town, the capital of South Carolina / painted by Thos. Leitch ; engraved by Saml. Smith.

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/charles-towns-growing-...
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John Stuart married Sarah c.1748 and had four children by her: the first was Sarah Christiana (b.1749), then came two other daughters, then John Joseph Stuart who became a distinguished British officer, a general, knighted after Napoleons defeat in 18 .

[Nichols, John Stuart, Beloved Father of the Cherokee, online]

• On 23 December 1752 William and Mary Jones of Craven County released title to John Stuart of Berkeley County.
• On 6 November 1755 John Stuart witnessed a deed in Charleston.
• On 14 January 1762 John Stuart witnessed a lease in Charleston.
• On 20 April 1764 John Stuart witnessed a lease in Charleston.
• On 22 December 1767 John Stuart, Esq. and wife Sarah acquired some land in Charleston.
• On 5 February 1768 John Stuart, Esq. and wife Sarah released by mortgage to Alex Petrie, gentleman, the above land in Charleston.

[all from Langley, SC Deed Abstracts, III, 3,170, 213, 327,372]
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnpolk2/stuart.htm

References

• Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country By James Swisher. By his English wife John Stuart had three daugthers, including Mary Fewick, and a son ....
• link from John Stuart and the Southern colonial frontier: a study of Indian relations, war, trade, and land problems in the Southern wilderness, 1754-1775 John Richard Alden Gordian Press, 1966 - History - 384 pages
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=syf&id=I...
• GEDCOM Source From SC Low Country to Merritt Island FL. Mosquitoes_2009-12-19_2010-03-02 .N.p.: n.p., n.d..
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fenwick-982 cites

1. Salley, A. S.. ed. Register of St. Philip's Parish Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758 (1904), p. 64 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067450395&view=1up&seq=...
2. Withington, Lothrop. “South Carolina Gleanings in England (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 7, no. 1 (1906): 28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575121
3. Letter-Book of Bailie John Steuart (Publications of the Scottish History Society. Second Series. Vol. IX (1915), pp. 469, 470 https://archive.org/details/letterbookofbail92steu/page/n9/mode/2up
4. Webber, Mabel L. “Death Notices from the South Carolina and American General Gazette, and Its Continuation the Royal Gazette: May 1766-June 1782 (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 17, no. 2 (1916): 89-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569392.
5. “St. Helena’s Parish Register (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 23, no. 4 (1922): 185 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569595
6. McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780 (1901), p.187 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5gb2rd5m&vie...
7. Claim of Sarah Stuart, American Loyalist Claims, Series II; Class: AO 13; Piece: 135, UK, American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. includes lists of property and abstract of Will of John Stuart