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| 4401 | John, 5 (Charles, 4 John, 3 Robert, 2 Walter, 1 ) b. in Londonderry, N. H., not earlier than 1734, came to Colrain probably with his father in 1748. Here his youthful days were cast in those critical times when the white settlers must be cautious, guarded and fully alive to any signs of Indian craft and cunning intended to lure the white man on to death. His every sense had become so vigilant for the lurking foe that he had grown to be equal to any of their tactics, making him one of the bravest and most daring Indian fighters of his day. His love for Indian conquest was strengthened by adventures like the following, in which he came out victor. Taking his gun, a precautionary necessity, when a mere youth he started out one day to hunt for a stray cow. As he proceeded in his search he heard the cowbell, but imagined it did not ring just as it would if worn by the cow. So secreting himself in the thicket he soon discovered an Indian who had found the cow or the bell she had worn, and was sitting near a spring (afterwards called, from this incident, " Indian Spring "), busily engaged in alternately ringing the bell and picking his flint, apparently thinking the sound of the bell would lure the owner of the cow within range of his musket. But Haman-like he was preparing the gallows for his own neck. Making an excellent target for young Stewards marksmanship the latter shot the Indian before he was aware that the white man was near. Young Stewart gave the alarm and a reconnoissance was made from the fort, but the body of the Indian had been removed by his savage comrades. Upon another occasion when in the fort at Charlemont some of the garrison, or inmates, were sick with the measles and young Stewart was sent out to get slippery elm. Sheldon's "History of Deerfield," in relating the incident under the date of 1756 says, "July 9th. Othnell Taylor reports that this day at 4 o'clock John Stewart went out about 40 rods from the fort to get some bark, heard a noise 5 or 6 rods from him and saw an Indian making towards him. He shot at him and made for the fort. A party went out and saw the blood where he fell and a bullet which he dropped out of his mouth." March 25, 1756, he enlisted under Capt. Israel Williams, served at Charlemont until October 18th; enlisted again Oct. 19, 1756, and served until Jan. 20, 1757, at same place ; entered the service Nov. 3, 1758, under Capt. John Burk, served four weeks at Morrison's Fort, Colrain ; enlisted again Dec. 1, 1758, served until Sept. 24, 1759. Tradition claims him as a Revolutionary soldier, but no enlistments to that effect have been found. He was Lieutenant which title he doubtless acquired in the militia. He m. Ann, b. 1736, dau. of Michael McClellan of Colrain, and about 1 760 he located and reared himself a home amid Colrain's most beautiful and picturesque scenery situated at the foothills of a chain of bold heights from whose summits a panorama of rare beauty is spread out to view, while the old road that leads to this warm and sheltered abode parallels a charming little romantic stream that comes rushing and tumbling down its precipitous and rocky bed, forming now and then a miniature Niagara, and singing its happy song : " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles ; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. I steal by lawns and grassy plots ; I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers." Surrounded by this sublimity he settled down to a peaceful domestic life, fond of thinking and talking of the past glories of his race. February 14, 1 801, his wife passed on to the better life, and the following year he sold his homestead and resided with his son, Enos, until about 1807 or 1808, when he joined his children at Truxton, N. Y., where he died August 28, 1818. (Severence) Severence records that the information on john's family comes "from a record written by himself in a most beautiful hand." | Stewart, Lt. John (I24466)
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| 4402 | John, 5 (John, 4 John, 3 Robert, 2 Walter, 1 ) b. Sept. 22, 1743, in Windham, N. H., m. in Windham, Dec. 3 1, 1765, Rebecca, dau. of Charles Stewart of Colrain. Tradition says he took his bride home horseback, but our Rebecca could hardly have been bedecked with jewels of silver and jewels of gold and with fine raiment, mounted with her servants on gaily caparisoned camels, to journey to her future home like the Rebecca of old. Neither was she showered with rice and old shoes like the modern Rebeccas ; those were too valuable commodities to be wasted in such follies. But she prepared her wedding outfit with her own hands from the raw material, received the parental blessing, sprang lightly to the pillion behind her future husband and they were off for their New Hampshire home over ninety miles away, where we find him actively engaged in farming and other pursuits of that time. The items entered in his memoranda give such a vivid glimpse of his life and activities, and the primitive methods and rude implements then in use, that I am led to deviate from the prevailing custom and form of arrangement in works of this kind, by weaving in a few of his running accounts. Windham, May 6, 1768, David Hopkins debtor to me John Stewart £ s Dr. for one days plowing of myself oxen and plow 4 Jan. 1769 Dr. for two days hailing wood 6 June " your horse pasturing 16 " to one and one half days moing £ S d Nov. ye 1 3, Dr. for beef 115 4 " " forty-one pounds of green leather at 2 pence a pound 6 10 " " fifteen tallow 2 6 May 1770 Dr. for one days plowing 3 June " " pasturing your calf 6 July " " two pigs 6 Feb. 1 77 1 Dr. one days work for myself 1 6 April, bringing your hay from widow Eastmans 3 6 April, my oxen and cart one day 2 Oct. ye 16, hailing one load of boards 3 " " barrel of lime 1 " " hay from Mr. Browns 1 6 " " one day hailing wood 3 3 " " myself and oxen harrowing one day 4 May ye 8, 1772 Doctor Thorn Dr. to John Stewart for hailing one barrel of molasses from Haverhill 1 3 Sept. ye 7, Dr for your plank from Drakett 9 4 " ye 23, five pounds and three quarters of lamb 1 2 " 23, 14 bushels of ashes 9 4 May 8, 1770, Jonathan Tenney Dr to John Stewart for two calf skins 9 9 July ye 1 8, Dr half a cord of bark 6 Oct. ye 24, hefers hide 611 Feb. 1 77 1, one coalt skin 2 May 1 771, calf skin 2 Oct. 1 77 1, heifers hide 2 3 June 1772, calf skin 6 5 Windham, Dec. ye 20, 1770, Samuel Merill Debtor to me John Stewart for 165 feet of timber 1 Windham, Feb. ye 6, n 73, Joseph Smith Debtor to me John Stewart for hailing 825 brick from Plastor to his home 9 shillings. Windham Dec. ye 29, 1772. The selectmen of Windham indebted to me John Stewart constable for warning James Gillespey an indignant person out of town, seven and one pence. His arithmetic which he used when teaching " the rule of three direct " was of his own compiling. It was written with a quill pen, and bound by sewing blank leaves together, and throughout its pages examples are wrought where he asserts " done by me John Stewart it is wrong." Again " done by me John Stewart it is right. ,, It contains multiplication table, table of time and the tables for weight and measure, and short copies for pen practice like " John Stewart my hand of right" " Go to school and learn to spel, and do it well." His books are well sprinkled with odd bits of poetry, showing his love for that form of composition of which the following is a sample : " John Stewart is my name An for to write I am not ashamed.'' At the top of one page in his memoranda, is written, in a beautiful hand the words : " A new song wrote by me John Stewart." The page is so defaced and mutilated, the writing cannot be deciphered. In his mother's old Bible, printed by Richard Watkins, His Majesty's Printer, Edinburgh, 1 747, is written : " Rebecca Stewart is my name, Scotland is my nation, Windham is my dwelling place And Christ is my salvation." " Written by John Stewart in the year of our Lord Christ 1765, in the 2 2d year of his age April 20, 1765." Let us imagine for a moment his wonder and surprise, if he could be placed amid the scenes of to-day, with our mowing machines, horse rakes, tedders and reapers; could he behold our mammoth engines ; flash the electric light upon his vision, or let him listen to the voice in the tele-phone, could we wonder if he should declare that we were in league with the infernal regions ? Upon the settlement of his father's estate he received a double share of the property and a share of his father's land in Halifax, Cumberland County, west of the Connecticut River (old Cumberland County included what is now Windham and Windsor Counties, Vermont). What disposal was made of this land does not appear. It probably came under the controversy between New York and New Hampshire but no evidence has been found to show that he fought for his claim. He retained the old home at Windham, where he continued to reside until the fall of 1773, when he removed to Shelburne, Mass., with his family. The following account of his journey is a verbatim copy from his old memoranda. " Shilburn, October 20th 1773 I John Stewart Left windham the 13 th Day of this month with my Team and harf of my family and the other Part of my family Left it the Day before the first night I crossed merimack River and Lodged at herods in Dunstable 12 miles from thence to wilton at blunts 1 7 miles from thence to petersborough willsons 1 1 miles from thence to Dubline Saturday night mories 11 miles from thence to Swansay grahams 16 miles from thence to falltown Sheldins from thence Shelbure to my home i j miles 10 miles 94 "A true account of my journey Tohn Stewart." wrote by me An old bottle which they brought in saddlebags is a choice relic of that journey. It has been painted by a great-granddaughter, with a bit of history on one side and upon the opposite side a bunch of cherries, emblematical of that essential beverage, cherry rum, which had been poured from its spacious mouth. This journey was made with an ox team and tradition says the wife brought her babe of a few month's old in her arms on horseback. He settled upon the farm which he bought of his cousin, Samuel Stewart. Here again we must consult his memoranda to appreciate the busy life he was leading. "Shelburn, Oct. 22, 1773, Abraham Peck debtor to me, John Stewart s d to one day of myself and oxen hailing corn 4 6 to one day of " '" " " " wood 1 6 Feb. ye 15, 1774, Dr. for making your barn doors I o March ye 1 1 for myself and oxen after a load of shingle 3 6 June ye 29, half a day shearing your sheep 2 o Oct. Dr. to three days hailing timber for your house 5 3 Nov. Dr. framing your house 5 3 A part of this old house is still standing and the hewed rafters measure 6 by 6 inches in thickness. " Shelburne March ye 12, 1774 Alexander Clark Dr. to me John Stewart for seven bushels of ashes Dr. for half a days work of myself « « « « « of my plow April ye 23 one day " " oxen 1 June 8 " " " " " June 15 to one day mowing of myself 2 Oct 24 Dr. for one day of myself chopping coal wood 1 July 1 5, 1 775 Dr. for three days of my steers 3 Shelburne Feb ye 25, 1774 Dr. to Alexander Clark for pig 3 March ye 2, for one day of William making sugar troughs 2 April ye 21, making a plow 5 for one bushel of corn 1 1 half a bushel of oats His farm was located on a little meandering stream which wound its silver thread in and out among the little wooded bluffs, on the summits of which often gathered in bold defiance the wild beasts of the forest, of which the wolves were the most troublesome, often collecting at his door on cold winter nights and howling for prey, when he would open his door and send his dog after them. They would retreat a dozen rods, or to rising ground, form into line, and with glaring eyes, challenge the canine to battle, when suddenly a two ounce bullet from the old flintlock gun would put them to flight for the time, while he retired, literally the victor in " keeping the wolf from the door." Upon another occasion while returning from his labors as a carpenter, a pack of wolves persistently insisted upon being his close and unwelcome traveling companions ; removing his leather apron which he had worn while at work, he suddenly wheeled about and shook it at them with such a loud crackling noise that their animal instinct taking this to be a new and deadly mode of warfare, they broke ranks and fled. But they seemed to owe this old combatant a special grudge as the following incident seems to show. One intensely dark night he had missed his bridle path and became lost in the forest, and being superstitious to the last degree, suddenly there confronted him eyeballs of fire. Thinking it was Satan that had led him into the wilderness to tempt him, he addressed him thus : " Thou goest about like a roaring lion seeking whom you may devour/ ' The eyes vanished and he soon found his way home, never doubting that he had met the arch enemy of mankind and had vanquished him with a passage from Scripture. Doubtless, too, the wolves could not brook such indignity of being classed with that race, gave up the struggle and troubled him no more. His farm was the favorite grazing place for deer. Flocks of that gentle game were a common sight upon the brow of the high round hill near his house, and venison was no uncommon luxury on his table, while Bruin often came in for his share upon the sacrificial altar, while with the small game and the large speckled beauties with which Stewart brook was well stocked, kept his larder furnished with an abundant variety of nutritious food, for which he had special need with his rapidly increasing family. Yet with his own large family he kept an apprentice boy whom he agreed to instruct as follows. " Know all men by these Presents that I William Clark of Shelburn in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in the County of Hampshire the contents of this obligation is this that I the said Clark do bind myself unto John Stewart in the Province and County aforesaid to be his true and faithfull apprentice and to Serve him for the space of Seven years and to be obedient and at his Lawful call at all times and not to be absent from his masters house or Service without his masters Liberty and he is not to Squander away his masters goods nor See them wasted without taking care of them and giving his master Notice of the Same and I the said Stewart do bind myself unto the Said Clark to Learn him my cast of reading writing and figuring and my art of Husbandry and to give him two Suits of Cloaths when his time is ended in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twelvth day of february one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five and in the fourteenth year of his majesties Reighn. " Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of " Daniel Clark, William Clark, " Matthew Clark, John Stewart." But soon the wilderness was made to blossom as the roses that lined the mossy green slope in front of the house, while within, the old open fireplace glowed the brighter, and the pine knots gave forth a more cheery light, when an occasional festive event occurred as the following recorded by his own hand. " Shelburne Feb. ye. 23, 1775 this day was married at my house Joseph Mc-Known to my sister Lydia Stewart. Witness our hands John Stewart, Daniel Clark." From another entry in his memoranda it appears that the children of the neighborhood assembled at his house, where they received at his hand the rudiments of the meagre education of that age. " Shelburne Jan. ye 24, 1775 this day took up school and hath three of Alexander Clarks children and three of my own and one of Abraham Pecks." " March 1775 a Debtor account is entered against Abraham Peck for schooling his son five weeks 3 shillings and 6 pence." The following account it will be seen, has an interest in various ways. " Shelburne March ye 8, 1775 John Clark Dr. to me John Stewart for my mare to Boston 13 shillings 4 pence." Here his accounts show an interruption in his busy life among his neighbors. The war cloud which had so slowly and surely been gathering burst with all its fury upon the land, and his name appears upon a muster roll with the rank of sergeant on the Lexington Alarm in Capt. Hugh McClellan's Co., Col. Samuel Williams' Regt, which marched for Lexington April 20, 1775, but being too late to participate in the battle, they returned after 1 5 J days' service. During this interval of absence, his accounts show his neighbors' boys are doing his plowing. In June his account with John Clark is continued. " June ye 3 John Clark Dr. to me for three days weeding corn 6 shillings." "July ye 4 John Clark Dr, one day howing 1 shilling 9 pence." January 27, 1776, he takes up school to keep for 8 pounds per month old tenor " exclusive of my own children." The spring of this year finds him with his company preparing for war again. April 2 2d his name appears among a list of officers in the Massachusetts Militia chosen by the company as 2d Lieutenant in the 2d company, 5th Hampshire County Regt., Hugh McClellan Capt., Col. David Field commander, May 3, 1776. During this service his neighbors are supplying his family with flour and other necessaries for which a long account is rendered October 3, 1776. October 15, 1776, John Clark is again debtor to him for two days' gathering corn 4 shillings. " Oct. ye 19 Dr. for my mare to Worcester, 9 shillings 8 pence." "November ye 16, 1776, account of expenses with Alxr Clark from Haverhill. Clark paid 4 pounds 12 shillings and 1 pence I paid 2 pounds 11 shillings and 3 pence." February 23, 1777, he inlisted with the rank of Lieutenant in Capt. Lawrence Kemp's Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for service at Ticonderoga; discharged April 10, 1777. In the summer of 1777, a terrible and malignant disease swept over the town and two of his children were its victims. This sickness and death in his family seems to account for the vacancy in his company which marched to Bennington August 16, 1777, without a Lieutenant. In the midst of this calamity the battle of Bennington was fought and the roar of the cannon was heard here in these distressing days of sickness and death. Burgoyne was marching down from the North with his army and horde of Indians. This agonizing cloud of grief and alarm which brooded over this defenseless community seems to have paralyzed his pen with utter despair, and the year 1777 is passed over as if to erase the scenes of those terrible months from his memory ; not an entry was made in his book during that year. His name again appears with rank of Lieutenant on Muster and Pay Roll of Capt. Hugh McClellan's Co., Col. David Wells* Regt. Enlisted Sept. 22, 1777, Discharged Oct. 18, 1777. Again his name appears in Capt. John Wells' Co. dated Shelburne Nov. 21, 1777. The first entry made in his memoranda after this year of fatality is Dec. 8, 1778, when he seems to resume his old activities. " Robert Watson Dr. myself and oxen one day hailing wood and building your hovel, 8 shillings." to hailing you hay 1 2 shillings two bushel of potatoes 1 pound, 10 shillings, 1 pence hailing wood 1 5 shillings your loom 18 shillings moving your goods 10 shillings He held his prominenee as an officer in the militia as two of his old Lieutenant's commission papers are still in existence ; one bears the date of 1781, the other 1783. Thus, though he has refrained from alluding to his military service, or the stirring events enacted during the struggle for National Independence, yet the sudden cessation of his industries and the gaps in his debtor accounts against his neighbors during the three years following the opening of hostilities, together with the intersecting records of his military service, from the archives at Boston, prove conclusively that he was serving his country, and that he was the only one of the name who served from this vicinity during the Revolution. One more glance at his memoranda before closing its sacred and time-worn pages which has afforded me so much fascination and instruction. tc March ye 7, 1780. Alexander Clark debtor to me for serving as constable in his stead for the north part of the town of Shelburne, 28 bushels of wheat." From an old district book we find him active to the last in promoting the advance of education. He served as highway surveyor and the town "voted to allow him two shillings per day in summer and one shilling in the faul." The town records show that he was selectman in 1 806 and 1807, also tax collector, while his judgment was considered sound and trustworthy by his townsmen, and we find him serving as committee upon questions of moment and interest to the town. He was sought to write wills and draw up other legal papers. He was remembered by a granddaughter as kind and indulgent but a rigid Presbyterian and very strict in matters pertaining to religion and the observance of the Sabbath, which began with him at sunset Saturday eve and lasted till Monday morning. He, attended church at Colrain, and the children soon learned it was not safe for them to be caught out at play when they saw him returning from church. She speaks of him as wearing a queue and cocked hat and that he spoke with that broad accent and rich toned brogue, which many of the children and grandchildren of those early Scotch settlers are known to have retained through life. A daughterin-law, who lived to an advanced age, was wont to speak of him in terms of highest praise. The following is a copy of a letter written by him to his brother Robert, in 1817, two years before his death. " Shelburne, August ye 4th, 18 17. " Dear Brother " I received a line from you leting me know that you and yours was well I and mine are well through the goodness of almighty God in hope they will find you enjoying the like blessing. I have no news to write you it is a general time of health in these parts. I would gladly come and see you but I am Destitute of a horse, my old mare died last winter and her left colt three years old broke her leg in the pasture playing and obliged to kill her. Chester is in the state of Maryland at the head of the Chesepeake. Clerk to a man building a bridge over the Susqehanna he hant been home but once this four years I had a letter from him Dated last month he was not well and thought he should come home if he did not get better my kind respects to my old friend John Morrison and let him know that if we should not see each other in this world I hope we shall meet in another and better world where sin and sorrow shall be done away, my respects to your wife, Abraham and wife and all inquiring friends " farewell " John Stewart." Their pioneer life is ended, their trials have ceased and their joys are transmitted to the eternal realm, while their dust reposes side by side in the old Shelburne cemetery, unforgotten by the humble servants of Nature - a wild columbine having sprung up and thrives as it bows its modest head in reverent adoration and keeps its silent vigil in the shadow of the ancient headstone, on which is the following inscription. " In memory of Mrs. Rebecca, wife of Lt. John Stewart, who departed this life 23 July, 1815, in the 73d year of her age. " Stop passer as you go by As you are now so once was I, As I am now you soon must be Prepare for death and follow me." He died January 19,1819, and a nameless grave beside his wife points out the resting place of Lieut. John Stewart. " Though no shaft of pallid marble rears its white and ghastly head, Telling wanderers on the hilltop of the virtues of the dead, Yet a lily is his tombstone and a dewdrop pure and bright, Is the epitaph an angel writes in the stillness of the night." The old house, too, long years ago yielded to the hand of time, the old well with its long sweep and " moss covered bucket/' the old orchard, the seeds of which were brought from Windham, have disappeared. The old maples that yielded up their sweets and have withstood the storms of nearly two centuries have nearly all been felled by the woodman's axe. But the furrowed fields, the old road leading to the south, the high rock that stood in front of the house are still there ; the rosy-tinted arbutus, too, still inhabits its native hillsides and mossy knolls, and lends its sweetness and greets us every springtime as it did our forefathers and foremothers of yore. And the stately lilies clinging so tenaciously to life, after resisting the warfare of years to exterminate them, raise their pleading heads every season and seem to beg for mercy and the care our predecessors were wont to give them. But the little clump of large crimson peonies, the first of which came, with other valuables from New Hampshire soil, have received more favor and attention, and still send forth their tender shoots with the first smile of spring and thrive unmolested ; and Stewart brook continues its gentle and melodious ripple as it wends its way on its winding and sequestered course, but the big speckled beauties no longer inhabit its waters - and the Stewarts, where are they ? The broad prairies of the West have many of them, but the grassy turf of New England has its share. Among the relics and souvenirs of these old people and their pioneer home are an old desk which dates back to its removal from Ireland in 1 71 8; the old flintlock gun carried by Lieutenant Stewart in the Revolutionary War and by his father in the French and Indian War, and by old papers it appears to be the same old gun owned, and probably brought, from Ireland by " Proprietor John " Stewart. Another choice and highly prized memento of cc ye olden time " is a cane made and labeled as follows : " This cane was made from an old apple tree planted by Lieut. John Stewart of Shelburne, Mass., in 1773 » tne nea d was made from one of his old sugar maples ; the ferrule from one his old pewter plates ; the old handmade spike in the small end came from an old Colonial building erected by the above John Stewart." His " ink well " which bears an ancient look ; his pewter plate and bread and milk bowl ; an ancient work basket, containing steel thimble, steel bowed spectacles, and handmade shears of rude pattern, all bear 'marks of ancient usefulness and are silent reminders of this old couple. FACSIMILE OF HIS AUTOGRAPH. Windham John Stewart (Severence, pp. 44-63) | Stewart, Lt. John "Windham John" (I24482)
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| 4403 | John, b. on the homestead, worked there with David until 1900, when he bought 180 acres, front lots 31, 32, con. 7. He has never held office of any kind, carries on mixed farming; is a Presbyterian, and a Liberal. He m. Jane Reid, Issue: Eva (d. in infancy); Mabel, Lyla, and Malcolm G. David, unm. , works the homestead. (Wellington County Historical Atlas, 1906) | McNaughton, John (I10880)
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| 4404 | John, who bought 100 acres, front lot 24, con. 7. None of his family are in the country. (Wellington County Historical Atlas, 1906) | McNaughton, John (I10879)
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| 4405 | John,5 (Joseph,4 John,3 Robert,2 Walter,1) b. in Colrain, Mass., Feb. 14, 1755 ; went to Vermont with his parents ; m. Feb. 22, 1777, Susan Smith, b. March 14, 1758. He was a Revolutionary soldier, serving for two years as corporal with the Vermont troops, part of the time under Capt. Hopkins and Col. Seth Warner. He served in the War of 1 8 1 2 and was promoted from the various degrees of rank to that of colonel. He settled in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. ; d. Aug. 1 83 1. His wife received a pension until her death in 1841. | Stewart, Col. John (I24524)
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| 4406 | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Steuart, Dr. Charles Calvert MD (I22324)
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| 4407 | Jonas Larroway, United Empire Loyalist, was born 1731 Schoharie Co. NY, was descended from the LeRoy dit Audy family who settled in New France (now Quebec) from France in 1668. The LeRoy surname underwent great changes, becoming LeRoy dit Audy or Ody in New France, and Laraway or LeRoy in the United States. Jonas Larraway married in 1754 in Schoharie NY to Elizabeth (Betsy) Muller, daughter of Johannes Nicholas Muller and Maria Dorothea Wuest, a Palatine line. Jonas fought in Butler's Rangers during the American Revolution and settled at Niagara, Ontario in 1783. (© by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, OliveTree Genealogy, edited) | Larraway, Private Jonas (I8725)
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| 4408 | Jonas may have lived in Garafraxa township, Wellington County for a time. There is something amiss with Jonas Furler. His gravestone in Delhi Cemetery clearly shows "Jonas Furler, 1837 - 1905, his wife Martha Wintermute, 1872 - 1958." Buried with them are their children Iva May, 1898-1912, Cecil Roy, 1899 - 1982. Nearby is Corporal Eli Jonas Furler, 38th Batt'n, CEF, 13 AUG 1964, Age 74. The inscriptions have been double checked for accuracy. According to his gravestone, Jonas was 35 years older than his wife! However, Jonas Furler is recorded in the 1901 census as being born 10 JUL 1869. His age at time of marriage is recorded as 27 in 1897, making him only 1 year older than his wife. The Ontario death registration for Jonas reads: Jonas Furler, 37, died 20 Jul 1905 in Windham [SR19050728] The census, marriage, and death records are all in agreement with each other, but in significant conflict with the gravestone. At present it must be presumed that the gravestone is in error. But such a significant error would certainly have been noticed by the family and corrected. | Furler, Jonas (I6408)
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| 4409 | Joram 7, b. March 3, 1800, m. in Rutland, Vt., d. in Edinburg, N. Y., 1839, leaving a son Charles. | Stewart, Joram (I24762)
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| 4410 | Jordan was the third son of Alan Fitz-Flaad. He inherited the office of Seneschal of Dol from his uncle, Alan of Dol. | Fitz-Alan, Jordan Seneschal of Dol (I6069)
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| 4411 | Joseph and his family were living at Cross Dyke until 1843 when they moved to Whitely Shield. Cross Dyke has not been found on any maps but is presumed to be near Whitely Shield. | Dawson, Joseph (I3934)
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| 4412 | Joseph and Margaret moved to Toronto, then to Brantford and then Galt. | Stewart, Joseph Moffat (I17350)
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| 4413 | Joseph Angus, was born in 1857 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, as the youngest of nine children. He went on to have a large family of twelve children himself. In 1861, at age 3, Joseph Angus was residing at Back Cable Street in Castle Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England with his parents and siblings. In 1871, at age 14, Joseph Angus was residing at 94 St. Leonard's Gate in St. Ann's Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his parents and siblings. He was employed as a cotton creeler. In 1873, when Joseph was only 15-years-old, his mother died. On Dec 27 1879, at age 23, Joseph Angus, a cotton spinner, son of Thomas Angus, a labourer, residing at Grasmere Road in Lancaster, Lancashire, England married in Lancaster to 23-year-old Elizabeth Cowell, a cotton weaver, daughter of James Cowell, a blacksmith, residing at Bulk Road in Lancaster. In 1880, when Joseph was 23-years-old, his father died. In 1881, at age 24, Joseph Angus was residing at 48 Grasmere Road in St. Ann's Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his new wife and their two young children. He was employed as a cotton spinner. In 1891, at age 32, Joseph Angus was residing at 63 Grasmere Road in Park Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and their children. He was employed as a cotton spinner. A few months later, in Oct 1891, Joseph's wife Elizabeth died. They had six children together. About Mar 1893, at age 35, Joseph remarried in Lancaster, Lancashire, England to 27-year-old widow, Mary Ann Rigg (nee Woodburn). She was the sister-in-law of John Rigg. In 1901, at age 43, Joseph Angus was residing at 8 Mill Street in Park Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and children. He was employed as a cotton spinner. His wife, Mary Ann's name is mistakenly recorded in the census as "Rachel" which is the name of their newborn daughter. In 1905, after having six children together, Joseph's second wife, Mary Ann, died at the age of 45. In 1911, at age 52, widowed Joseph Angus was residing at 8 Mill Street in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his children. He was employed as a cotton spinner. Joseph died in 1925 at the age of 67. | Angus, Joseph (I398)
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| 4414 | Joseph Dawson attended university, but later drowned during a fishing trip off Whitley Bay. (Walsh) | Dawson, Joseph (I3936)
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| 4415 | Joseph died due to "inflammation of the bowels, occasioned by a stone falling upon his body." | Dawson, Joseph (I3935)
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| 4416 | Joseph is found in the 1871 census living with his birth family at Whitely Shield, Northumberland, but he is not found with his family in 1881 in Kent County, Ontario, Canada, so it is presumed that he died between 1871-1881. | Dawson, Joseph (I3938)
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| 4417 | Joseph MacIntyre (Minister in Glenorchy and Inishail), born Breadalbane 1735...married 31st Oct 1765, Christian (died 24th Dec 1797) daughter of John McVean, minister of this parish and had issue -- ...[including] Susan, born 12th June 1768 (married John Stuart, D.D. minister of Luss).... | McIntyre, Rev. Joseph (I10156)
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| 4418 | Joseph never married. He can be found living with his parents in the 1901 census in Wainfleet, Monck, Haldimand, Ontario. Lapham reports that he went by the name "Josie" and lived for a while with his brother Charles in Winona. In 1911 he is living with his widowed mother and his sister Mary in Gainsboro and working as a labourer on the family farm. Ont Death Reg. 11 FEB 1930 at Dunnville, Moulton Twp. DOB: 6 NOV 1854, Ontario. Age at death: 75 Years, 3 months, 5 days. Occupation: Farmer. Father: William Furler, b Ontario. Mother: Mary, b. Ontario. Informant: William Hiles, nephew. | Furler, Joseph Henry (I6410)
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| 4419 | Joseph Smalley does not give his father's name at his wedding. It is blank. He's found in 1871 residig with a Smalley sibling with parent Joseph and Margaret Daniels, but he is shown as their son, and the name Daniels is written over top of what looks like Smalley for Joseph Sr. Thus it is suggested that these are the correct parents. | Smalley, Joseph (I20564)
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| 4420 | Joseph Stuart, born 24th March 1798, only son of John S., DD, minister of Luss; educated at University of Glasgow; licensed by the Presbytery of Dunbarton 3rd Dec 1822; presented by John, Marquess of Bute, in January and ordained (at Scoulaig) 11th May 1825; died unmarried 1st Sept. 1826. (Fasti Ecclesia) | Stuart, Rev. Joseph (I18734)
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| 4421 | Joseph was a twin of James Furlow. In 1840 he was residing in Kleny, Chautauqua County, New York, USA with the following family: 1m -5, 1m 30-40, 1f 20-30. In 1845 a local census shows him living in Ellery, Chautauqua. In 1850 he was living in Ellery, Chautauqua with his family and his widowed mother. In 1860 he was living in Ellery, Chautauqua nearby to his brother James, and residing with a "Minerva Furlow" age 50. Minerva's identity is unknown -- she may have been a cousin, Joseph S. Furlow b. - 28 Oct 1806 in NY, m. - in NY to Matilda Hull, daughter of Daniel Hull Jr. and Jane Van Dusen, d. - 1888. Matilda Hull b. - 1815, d. - 1875 Joseph and Matilda are buried in Bemus Point Cemetary in Chautauqua Co, NY. Cemetery records indicate Joseph was 81 years, 3 months, and 6 days at time of death. In 1850 Joseph has his widowed mother living with him. In 1860, there is a 50 year old Miroslava Furlow residing with Joseph -- no specified relationship. They are living three houses away from Joseph's brother, James, and his family. | Furlow, Joseph S. (I6515)
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| 4422 | Joseph, 4 (John, 3 Robert, 2 Walter, 1 ) b. in Londonderry, N. H., Jan. 17, 1721 ; m. June 1, 1747, Margaret Thompson who d. subsequent to 1770 ; he m. 2d, Hannah Hescock who d. in 1824 (?). Prior to 1752 he removed from Londonderry, N. H., to Colrain, Mass., and came into possession of lot No. 43, upon which he lived. It was located well under the protection of Fort Morrison, to which the family resorted in time of danger from Indian raids, and where he, doubtless, served as defender under Capt. Israel Williams in 1756, and again under Capt. Samuel Wells in 1759. He was chosen one of the fence viewers in 1756; chosen fence viewer and collector in 1757 ; in 1760 he was chosen to manage the affairs of the town; March, 1768, he was chosen assessor but refused to take the oath ; in 1757 he sold the south half of lot No. 44, to Alexander Thompson bounded north by land of John Thompson and south by his own land ; in 1762 he sold land in the second division to James Anderson Thompson; March 15, 1770, he sold his homestead but the family seem to have been living in the vicinity of Colrain until 1773. After this date they seem to be pioneering through the southern towns of Vermont and we find them at Halifax and Bennington. He served in the Revolution under Col. Blair, Albany County, N. Y. In 1800 they appear in Washington County, N. Y. In 17 19 Joseph and Hannah Stewart deed land to Joseph, 3d. The following interesting letters, written by him in the 97th and 98 th years of his age, have unveiled so much of the Stewart history, the compiler could not refrain from the impulse to append them as a fitting memoir of this grand old patriarch, who d. at White Creek, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1 82 1, a. 100 years, 1 month and 5 days. "White Creek, Aug. the 28, 18 18. " I have received your letter and I am sorry to hear of your sickness. " By all accounts of our descent, we are of the royal house of the Stewarts. My Father was John the eldest son of Robert my Grandfather, who was obliged to fly to Ireland when they were newly married. My Granny was sent to Edinburgh and he was born there. As far as I can learn they belong to the House of White Rose and not altogether separated from the House of Black Hall. My Grandfather's family's names was John and Robert and their sister's name was Juleyan, Samuel, the youngest. My Grandfather had a good estate in Scotland when he fled from it. King William would do nothing about it, neither would Queen Anne, but when King George came to the crown their Uncle Samuel Stewart, by the help of the Duke of Argyle, recovered it. That must be the estate you mention. I was informed that Uncle Samuel died without issue, left no heirs. The way that I came to know of our descent was by old Father James Stewart of Colrain. You may remember young James, who married at last Margaret Anderson your cousin. That descent was from White Rose, for he himself belonged to Black Hall. He had a catalogue of the house of Stewarts for many hundred years, but son Alx carried it away with him to Pennsylvania. I did not know all this until after my father's death. This I knew they belonged to the Rose party, by reason of the high esteem they had for Charles the ist who had many good properties. " My father's eldest son Charles who is your uncle, and my Father and your grand Uncle Robert would never own the last pretender or any of the race by reason of his spurious birth. No man dare assail the name of Stewart that was if he would not forfeit his life. It gives you the reach, James the ist had two sons James and Robert, James the 3d had two sons James and Robert. This is the whole I can give you at present. I am afraid you can't read for since I got that fall at your house I could never hold a pen to write straight. I would beg you would acquaint me of your proceedings therefore I rest "To John Stewart. Your father, Joseph Stewart." The following letter was addressed to a person, name unknown, who evidently had written him a letter of inquiry. "White Creek, March 15, 1819. " Dear Sir, "I received yours of the 16th February last, informing me that the heirs of Elizabeth Forsyth that she married a Stewart. My Father's name was John Stewart, the eldest son of Robert Stewart. My mother's name was Elizabeth Forsyth. My grandmother's name was Forsyth, her Christian name forgot. My great-grandfather's name was, as I believe, Walter. My grandfather's name by my mother's side was either William or James, which I cannot tell." The above letter seems to have been closed abruptly and never received by the person addressed, it being a choice relic now in the possession of Joseph's descendants. (Severence) | Stewart, Joseph (I22001)
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| 4423 | Joseph,5 (Joseph,4 John,3 Robert,2 Walter,1) b. in Colrain, Mass., April 6, 1752, m. Oct. 3, 1774, Rosana Harmon, b. May 17, 1754, and d. April 25, 1 8 13. He settled in Halifax, Vt., and we find him also at Bennington, Vt. He removed to the State of New York and settled on a farm, where, it is said, the apples that fell from the trees rolled down into Vermont. He was a soldier in the Revolution, serving with his father in Col. Blair's Reg't, Albany Co., State of New York troops, and was granted land bounty for his service. | Stewart, Joseph (I24523)
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| 4424 | Josephine was born and raised in a Scottish Anglican family. She was named after her mother's younger sister, Josephine Harkens. In 1901, at age 14, she was residing with her grandmother in Huntingdon, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. In 1906, when she was 19 years old, she was clandestinely re-baptised as a Roman Catholic after converting. Her mother was baptised Roman Catholic but grew up in an Anglican family. On 26 Apr 1909, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, at 22 years of age and unmarried, Josephine gave birth to an illegitimate son, Ernest McTaggart, whose father's name is not recorded. On 27 Apr 1909. the day after Ernest was born, Josephine died. | McTaggart, Mary Josephine J (I26459)
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| 4425 | Josiah is not found in any census records and is presumed to have died as a child. | Prangley, Josiah (I12896)
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| 4426 | Josiah is recorded in the 1850 census where his name appears clearly as "Jonah Pringle." Family records indicate that his name was "Josiah Proughlie". "Jonah" and "Josiah" would appear very similar when written by hand. "Proughlie" could easily be a miss-reading of "Pranghlie" or a variant of Prangley Jonah/Josiah's birth record in England has not been identified. He has not been found in any other census records. His children are all found in 1860 living separately with maternal relatives, so it is presumed that Jonah/Josiah and his wife died sometime between 1855-1860 leaving their three children orphaned. | Prangley, Jonah or Josiah (I12857)
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| 4427 | Josiah worked as a railway labourer. He married Mary Ann Harries and had several children. | Taylor, Josiah (I19158)
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| 4428 | Juniper Green | Stewart, James Raphael (I16596)
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| 4429 | Kate and Alfred have not been found in the 1911 census. It is not known if they had any children. | Bishop, Alfred Ernest (I851)
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| 4430 | Kate died in infancy. | Stewart, Kate Burruss (I23789)
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| 4431 | Katharine is shown in 1851 living in Coilantogle, unmarried. Mrs Stewart of Milton says that Katherine died in Coilantogle unmarried. | Stewart, Katharine (I17367)
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| 4432 | Katharine was the second wife of James Graham in Lenniston. James Graham married firstly to Katharine's second cousin, Janet Stewart, daughter of James Stewart in Wester Brackland, son of Walter Stewart Stewart in Wester Brackland below. | Stewart, Katharine (I17391)
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| 4433 | Katharine's mother's name is recorded only as "Mclaren" at her baptism. | Stewart, Katharine (I17370)
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| 4434 | Katherine is not mentioned in her father's 1763 genealogy but her birth is registered in the Balquhidder parish registers. She is presumed to have died young prior to emigration and prior to the birth of her same-named sister. | Stewart, Katherine (I17395)
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| 4435 | Katherine is said to have married a man named CLARK, whose first name is unknown and had a family of 8 children, including a son named Duncan, and to have immigrated as a family to Australia. Census records and IGI have a perfect match with a family of Hugh Clark and Catherine Stewart, who married in Edinburgh, had 8 children including a son named David (which is a known substitute name for Duncan) and are found in the 1841 census but no later census records. Thus it is believed that Katherine STEWART m: 26 FEB 1821 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland to Hugh CLARKE and that they had the following family before immigrating between 1841-1851 to Australia: | Stewart, Katherine (I17351)
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| 4436 | Katherine presumably died young before the birth of her same-named sister. | Stewart, Katharine (I17366)
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| 4437 | Katherine was one of Duncan's many natural children by unknown mistresses. | Campbell, Katherine (I2208)
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| 4438 | Katherine's baptism was witnessed by Duncan Ferguson and David STEWART both in Doun. | Stewart, Kathrine (I17371)
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| 4439 | Katherine's baptism was witnessed by James Murdoch and William Stewart both in Doune. | Stewart, Kathrine (I17374)
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| 4440 | Katherine's birth is not recorded in the Kilmadock OPR. Based on the date of her marriage contract she would be too old to be the unnamed child whose birth is recorded in 1674. MacGregor says, "Katherine Stewart, m. Andrew MacLachlan, eldest son and heir of Walter MacLachlan of Drumlean, [contracted on] 8 November 1682." | Stewart, Katharine (I22272)
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| 4441 | Katherine's mother is uncertain. MacGregor indicates that her father was married twice, first to Marion Douglas, by whom he had issue and secondly to Margaret Mercer. macGregor says, in the entry under Drummond, that Maurice Drummond and Margaret Mercer had issue, whereas the same couple are reported as having no issue in the parellel listing under the Mercer family. However the marriage date for Katherine Drummond makes it very unlikely that she was the child of Maurice Drummond's first marriage. I suspect the listing under Mercer meant "no male issue". | Drummond, Katherine (I5097)
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| 4442 | Katherine's mother's name is recorded as Katherine Cameron. | McNaughtan, Katherine (I10845)
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| 4443 | Kathleen is shown with her parents in 1921 as being ten years old and having immigrated in 1914. This is a remarkablly late birth. The death of Kathleen's mother lists the informant as Mrs. William McKinnon in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada. | Moore, Kathleen (I21838)
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| 4444 | Kathleen was a corporal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was residing in London, England at the time of her father's death. | Stewart, Corporal Kathleen Agnes (I17358)
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| 4445 | Katrine's exact place of birth is not recorded in the Balquhidder OPR. | Stewart, Katrine (I17375)
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| 4446 | Keefer McIntyre married Mildred Larson when she was only 14 years old. This is according to birth, marriage and death records for her, as well as pre-marital census records. In census records after they were married she indicates that she was several years older than her actual age. | McIntyre, Keefer (I10171)
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| 4447 | Ken was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. He spent his whole life searching. Throughout his life he was very religious. He was very active in Ryerson United Church in Hamilton (the same church that his grandfather helped build) as a boy and youth and showed a strong passion in his Christian faith. He was president of the Tower Club (Ryerson's youth group) and was a very active lay-preacher as a youth. As a boy he received a call from God to enter professional church ministry, but he was discouraged from pursuing this call by both his mother and a school teacher who regrettably and wrongly told him that he was "not smart enough" to pursue such a calling. Having the door closed to his authentic call and vocation, Ken spent the rest of his life searching for an alternative vocation. He worked most of his life unsatisfied in retail and commercial sales (primarily in medical equipment sales) while remaining very active in the church, especially working with youth. In 1989 he was ordained as an Elder of the Presbyterian Church at Chalmers church in London, Ontario. His spiritual impact on youth was evidenced at his funeral, which was standing-room-only (in a sanctuary that seats over 500), with many former church youth having travelled great distances to attend. Ken was also very active in Freemasonry; he was particularly intrigued by its quasi-religious and ancient historical aspects. One of his more proud achievements was the year he spent as Grand Junior Warden for the Grand Lodge of Canada (Ontario). He was widely respected by his "brethren" lodge members and his Masonic funeral was also largely attended. Having been raised in a home of uneven and sparing affections, Ken was very careful to be equal and generous in his affections and support of both of his son's widely different lives, careers and hobbies. Though his temper could sometimes get the better of him, Ken did break the lineage of hereditary family violence from his father's side; he disposed of the family "heirloom" disciplinary leather strap. His descendants will be forever grateful. Ken was 61 when he suffered a series of debilitating strokes, the last of which proved fatal. | Brown, Kenneth Richard (I1848)
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| 4448 | Kenneth and his brother Robert were sent back to Scotland as boys to be educated. Kenneth became a celebrated linguist. Kenneth inherited the estate of Annat in Rait from his father and passed it on to his eldest lawful daughter. He had a natural son, Robert. A member submitted IGI entry indicates that the mother of Kenneth's daughter, Mary, was Janet Robertson, thus, Kenneth may have been married twice. | Stuart, Kenneth Bruce 2nd of Annat in Rait (I18737)
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| 4449 | Kenneth married a princess from Leinster, although her exact identity is not known. | Leinster, Princess of (I8814)
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| 4450 | Kenneth was living with his sister Catherine and her husband David McNaughtan in Manitoba, Canada. He is believed to have never married nor had children. "Kenneth is a bridge builder in Manitoba." (Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario. Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906) | Stewart, Kenneth MacKenzie (I17378)
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