William Blanton Stewart

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of SERGEANT. DAR Ancestor # A109746

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Birth: Nov. 8, 1762 Hanover County Virginia, USA Death: Jun. 17, 1848 Schley County Georgia, USA

William Stewart was the son of John Stewart, who was born October 16, 1734, in Prince George County, Virginia, and Ann Haw. He was born in Hanover County, Virginia, on November 8, 1762.

He married Mary Penn November 8, 1783, in Amherst County, Virginia. She died in Georgia. She was the mother of all of his children. He then married Martha B. Wilson on December 17, 1837, in Monroe County, Georgia. He died in the family home in Schley County, Georgia, on June 17, 1848.

The following information was obtained from papers on file with the War Department for his claim for a pension #W. 11555 for his military service during the Revolutionary War:

While a resident of Amherst County, Virginia, he enlisted in the fall of 1778, serving six months as sergeant and issuing commissary in Captain Pamplin's company in Colonel Daniel Gaines' Virginia Regiment. He served a short tour in 1779 or 1780. Early in 1781, he served six months as sergeant in Captain John Christian's company, Colonel Vance's Virginia regiment. From sometime in September 1781, he served about two months as sergeant in (his brother) Captain John Stewart's company, Colonel Tucker's Virginia regiment, and was in the Siege of Yorktown. He served in both the Virginia Continental Line and in the Virginia Militia.

After the war, he moved from Amherst County, Virginia, to Oglethorpe County, Georgia, and lived there 30 or 40 years. He then moved to Monroe County, Georgia. While living in Monroe County, he applied for a pension on October 23, 1832. His address in 1837 was Forsyth, Georgia. His widow at the time of his death in 1848 was Martha B. Stewart, who was allowed a widow's pension based on her application executed March 3, 1855, (certificate #5203) while she was living in Monroe County. She was also allowed 160 acres of bounty land (Warrant #38559-160) based on her application executed December 5, 1855.

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Children:

 Nancy Stewart Ravens (1800 - 1859)*

 Richard M Stewart (1808 - 1850)*

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Burial: Stewart-Ravens Cemetery Ellaville Schley County Georgia, USA

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"Stewart Clan Magazine"

B-154

William Stewart was born in 1760 in Amherst county (which adjoins Rockbridge), Virginia and served as a sergeant in the Virginia continental line, according to D.A.R. lineage, 66:272. He married Mary Penn. He died in 1848 in Macon county, GA Another lineage says he resided in Monroe county, GA, in 1832, and died there. *Revolutionary Pension Rolls, 1835", lists a Willaim Stewart in Franklin county ( adjoining Henry county), Virginia, aged 73, private in the Virginia militia (also in "Census of Pensionser, 1840", as William Stuart, aged 80. head of family), and Willaim Stewart, Monroe county, GA, aged 71, sergeant in the Virginia militia, pensioned April 10, 1834.

   Children:

Thomas 1786; m 1812, Nancy Russell: died in 1871

William Blanton m (1) __________ (2) Regina Maria Dyson

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   "Stewart Clan Magazine"

   B-182

William Stewart was born Nov 8, 1762 in Amherst Co., VA, served as a sergeant in the Virginia continental line (see p. 154, November 1929). He married Martha ______. He removed to Georgia, and some of his children settled in Ohio.

Received a pension for service as a private (Sgt. per Margaret Gunn Bagley's DAR Lineage Vol 114 pp 116) under Captains Pamplin, John Christain, John Stewart and Colonels Daniel Gaines, Vance and Tucker, Virginia Line.

Placed on the pension rolls of Monroe Co., GA in 1832 where he died. Per Ethel Bell Smith's DAR Lineage Vol 102 pp 210.

Born Hanover Co., VA per Brenda Morris

I had 1 reference that he died in Sumter Co., GA. See 1796 Oglethorpe Co., tax list pp 3

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