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6701 St. Mark's, Church of Ireland Family F5531
 
6702 St. Martin's Church Family F8989
 
6703 St. Pancras Hayward, Julia (I25704)
 
6704 St. Paul's Church Family F5860
 
6705 St. Paul's Presbyterian Cemetery Harvey, Jessie (I26659)
 
6706 St. Stephen's Church Family F4334
 
6707 St. Werburghis Parish Church Family F5569
 
6708 St.Joseph's Hospital Hewitson, Robert John (I7467)
 
6709 Stacy and Frances met as patients in a Sanitorium in El Paso, TX. Frances recovered, Stacy did not. Rosser, Frances (I13413)
 
6710 State Historical Society of North Dakota and State Archives. Bismarck, North Dakota. Source (S179)
 
6711 State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. Source (S198)
 
6712 State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. Source (S581)
 
6713 State of Florida. Florida Death Index, 1877-1998. Florida: Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, 1998. Source (S652)
 
6714 State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, State of Georgia, Georgia, USA, 1998. Source (S245)
 
6715 State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998. Georgia, USA: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, State of Georgia, Georgia, USA, 1998. Source (S634)
 
6716 State of Illinois, Depart. of Public Health, Div. of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death of George Henry Brown (Name: Rockford, Winnebago Co., Illinois;), 2026, Source Medium: Official Document
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Source (S222)
 
6717 State of Illinois, Kane County., Birth Certificate of Leroy Sebastian (Name: Reported 2/9/1913, Book 14, Pg. 32 #21 538;), Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: Fair
Copied Nov. 21, 2003 of Certified Copy dated July 25, 1966 by Wm. A. Vollrath, Kane County Clerk, Geneva, IL. with uncertified copy of Certificate Of Correction dated July 21, 1966 by Martha Babel, elder sister, stating Sebastian was consistantly misspelled Sabastian on Birth Certificate.
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Source (S469)
 
6718 State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Source (S651)
 
6719 State of Minnesota. Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2017. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Minnesota Department of Health. Source (S349)
 
6720 State of Montana, Montana State Deaths, 1868-2018, State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Office of Vital Statistics, Helena, Montana. Source (S417)
 
6721 State of Montana, Montana State Deaths, 1868-2018, State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Office of Vital Statistics, Helena, Montana. Source (S584)
 
6722 State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC, USA: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977. Source (S351)
 
6723 State of Wisconsin, Dept. of Health - Bureau of Vital Statistics, Marriage Certificate of Marion Brown and Leroy Sebastian (Name: CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE;), License No. 230, Source Medium: Official Document
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Source (S468)
 
6724 Stephen lived in Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA until at least 1863. Sometime between 1863-1870 he moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, where he worked as a boat builder. Census records indicate that he could not read or write.

In 1860, Stephen was residing in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA with this wife, Mary, and children, Emma, Mary, Amanda, Annice, and Jane. He was employed as a boat builder.

In 1870, Stephen was residing in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA. He was employed as a boat wright and residing with his wife and all his children. His married daughter, Emma, was residing next door with her husband and children.

In 1880, Stephen was residing on River Road in Hanover, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA, with his wife and children, Emma, Amanda, Jane, Charles, and his grandchildren, Edith Shaffer, Hattie, Shaffer and Harry Shaffer. He was employed as a carpenter. 
Brown, Stephen (I1880)
 
6725 Steuart Family Cemetery at Dodon Estate Steuart, Dr. Richard Sprigg MD of Dodon (I14328)
 
6726 Stew Clark grew up in Guelph and became a close friend of his cousin Gerald Rutherford, who lived there for a period. He played the piano and was active in theatre. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1912, whereupon he entered Osgoode Hall, graduating in 1915. He then enlisted with the 64th Guelph Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery but an injury suffered during training prevented him from serving overseas. Upon discharge, he obtained a position as purchasing agent with the Partridge Rubber Co. Stew joined the staff of barrister Nicol Jeffrey, appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1928, at which time Stew opened his own law practice and later associated with J.K. Blair, QC. He acted for 13 years as Guelph city solicitor and 10 years as a member of the Ontario Parole Board. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1934. He served as a Judge of Wellington County Court for 18 years. Stew was actively involved at one time or another in the Liberal party, the Masonic Lodge, and various other clubs as well as being an elder of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. After a period of poor health, he was reconsidering a decision to retire when he died of a heart seizure.

Robert Stewart Clark of Guelph had an “In Memoriam” card as follows: “In affectionate memory of John Stewart, son of Alexander Stewart of Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, great-grandson of Donald Stuart (sic) of Ballochallan, Perthshire, Governor of Doune Castle for Prince Charles Edward 1745….” 
Clark, Justice Robert Stewart K.C. (I2531)
 
6727 Stewart 3 Cemetery Stewart, Col. Charles Sr. in Woodville (Planter) (I15200)
 
6728 Stewart 3 Cemetery De Graffenried, A. M. (I24286)
 
6729 Stewart 3 Cemetery De Graffenried, N. E. (I24287)
 
6730 Stewart Cemetery Stewart, James in Red River (Planter) (I15988)
 
6731 Stewart Clan Magazine refers to James Stewart and his wife, Elizabeth Stewart, as cousins. DNA evidence shows that James Stewart was not paternally related to the Stewarts of Ledcreich.

Stewart Clan Magazine in contradictory articles, indicates that this James was the brother of Thomas Stewart and that both James and Thomas were sons of William Stewart, younger brother of Patrick Stewart, 5th of Ledcreich. However, elsewhere, SCM claims that James was the son of Dugald Stewart of unknown origin, believed to be related to the Ledcreich family.

In yet another article, Stewart Clan Magazine claims that James was the brother or cousin of Thomas Stewart, son of Dougal Stewart, and that they were descended from the Stewarts of Achnacone.

James brother (or cousin; their exact relationship is not known) Thomas Stewart, married Elizabeth's sister, Margaret. After Thomas' death, she married John Carraway. Thus, it is possible that the reference to James and Elizabeth being cousins could refer to them being cousins by marriage only and not blood cousins. Or they could be cousins by marriage through an as-yet undetermined connection through the Carraway family. As both sisters named their first sons James Carraway (or James Carraway Stuart) then John Carraway could be the son of James Carraway who may have been related to the unknown mother of this James Stuart.

James left his wife at some point.

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Stewart Clan Magazine in 1935 says, "James Stewart... married his cousin (sic), Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He perhaps lived for a time in that part of Bladen county which was set off as Robeson county [cf. Charles, B:171]. Children: Catherine: m. Thomas Caraway; James Caraway: lived in Mississippi; Elizabeth: m. William Gordon; Margaret: m. _____ Pope : lived in South Carolina; Charles: joined the patriots in Mexico [1810] and was never heard from." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126.)

In a later 1957 article, Stewart Clan Magazine says:
Elizabeth Stewart, born about 1744, married James Stewart, her cousin. (sic) The biographical sketch written presumably by Morgan Brown spoke of Elizabeth as "youngest daughter of Patrick Stewart" and gave the names of her five children, with a bit about them, such as "James Carraway Stewart, living in Mississippi,"* but said no more about Elizabeth or her husband, except to state that they were cousins.

As this James was not the son of William, brother of Patrick, he may have been a brother -- or even cousin -- of Thomas Stewart, who married Elizabeth's sister Margaret, for their mutual affiliation with the Carraway family is indicative of that. The earliest trace of this James Stewart+ in the land records was when he bought Dec. 19, 1766, of Joseph Clarke, for 220 pounds, 292 acres of land along the banks of Cape Fear River, on the southwest side, in Bladen County, and Pat. Stuart and Peter Broades signed as witnesses. The purchase money may have been supplied by Elizabeth's father as a dowry, for that was about the time she was married to James Stewart. Old Patrick Stewart stuck to the spelling Stewart, and it may have been William's son Patrick, of Tory leanings, who signed as a witness. Young Patrick and James may have been hobnobbing together, since the arrival of a considerable number of Highlanders who had been in the fighting of 1745-6 had stirred up a political commotion in the localities where they settled. Liberal grants of land were made to the erstwhile 'rebels', and each grant was so worded as to impress upon the recipient that it was bestowed directly by the gracious hand of his majesty, the King of Great Britain. It irked the old-timers, as if they were looked upon as the tagrag and bobtail of the population.

James Stewart sold July 22, 1775, to John Slingsby of Wilmington, New Hanover County, for 268 pounds, the 292 acres on the Cape Fear River, which he had bought Dec. 19. 1766, of Joseph Clarke.

After the defeat of the Tory militia at Moore's Creek Bridge on Feb. 27, 1776, James appeared as a land-owner in Robeson County, between Sept. 17, 1777, and Oct. 10, 1787, by purchase or patent under the state government, until he owned six or seven tracts of land, mostly on Drowning Creek and Ashpole Swamp. He died or disappeared before 1790, for the census of that year showed Elizabeth Stewart, 0-3-1 [0m>16, 3m<16, 1f]; that is, no man over 16 years of age, three boys under 16, and one woman, including the head of the family.

In 1795 Elizabeth brought a suit of attachment against James' property, and as a result the sheriff sold July 18, 1795, 200 acres of his land on Drowning creek to Thomas Carraway, who conveyed it to Elizabeth on Nov. 16, 1795. Thereupon Elizabeth -- signing her name Stuart -- sold the place Nov. 23, 1795, for 60 pounds, to John Davis, who was living on the place at the time. On Aug. 20, 1800, James Stuart of Adams county, Mississippi Territory, deeded to Thomas Carraway of Cumberland county and Charles Stuart of Robeson county, for $2000, his interest in the six tracts of land in Robeson county, totaling 960 acres, which had belonged to his father, James Stewart. Witnesses to this deed were James Carraway, Hugh McLachlan and C. S. Carraway. Thomas Carraway++ and Charles G. Stuart of Cumberland County sold three of the tracts May 2, 1801, to Giles Williams, for $1000, and the other three to Absalom Williams for $1000, the witnesses to both deeds being George Moore and Benjamin Lee. Children of James and Elizabeth: [continued below footnotes]
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* As the James Stuart referred to was dead by Sep. 28, 1824, this was written before that date.
+ Still, this James Stewart may have been Patrick's son instead of his new son-in-law.
++ Thomas Carraway and William Jordan were administrators of the estate of Charles Stewart in Montgomery county, Tennessee, in 1817, =E:237.
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[Children of James and Elizabeth continued from above]
Catherine : m. Thomas Carraway
James*, Sep. 23, 1767 : m. May 25, 1796, Lucretia Calvert, Natchez, Mississippi
Elizabeth : m. William Jordan
Margaret+ : m. _____ Pope : lived in South Carolina
Charles : "joined the patriots in Mexico and was never heard from"
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* It was James Carraway Stewart, "living in Mississippi," in Morgan Brown's sketch.
+ Margaret's date of birth was probably in the late 1760s or early 1770s, and she must have been married before the census of 1790 was taken. She had some brothers who are unaccounted for.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)
 
Stuart, James (I15952)
 
6732 Stewart Clan Magazine says, "Catherine Stewart, born about 1742, married (1) Dec. 25, 1764, William Little, Jr., of Edenton, N.C. Sometime after their marriage Catherine and her husband moved from Bladen County to Cheraws District, South Carolina, in company with her parents. Mr. Little died in the latter part of 1766. When Catherine's father made his will in 1772 he appointed her and Alexander Gordon executors. She married (2) July --, 1774, John Speed. These data are from a sketch written by Morgan Brown, who was born in 1758 and married in 1784, as his second wife, Elizabeth Little, daughter of William and Catherine. From this Elizabeth (Little) Brown, through her three daughters -- Elizabeth, Sarah and Catherine Stewart Brown -- are descended several families of prominence in the South. The time and place of Catherine's death were not noted. Children:
Elizabeth Little, Nov. 24, 1765 : m. 1784, Morgan Brown
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James Speed
Sarah Speed : m. William Pigues : had children
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.) 
Little, Elizabeth (I9010)
 
6733 Stewart Clan Magazine says, "Charles (son of James Stuart and Elizabeth Stewart) joined the patriots in Mexico [1810] and was never heard from." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126.)

In a later 1957 article, Stewart Clan Magazine says:
Charles Stuart, born about 1775 in Cumberland or Robeson County, North Carolina, apparently was living with his mother in Robeson County when the census of 1790 was taken.

He and Thomas Carraway of Cumberland county bought Aug, 20, 1800, of James Stuart of Adams County, Mississippi Territory, for $2000, 960 acres of land in Robeson County in various tracts -- 300 acres on the upper or south side of Drowning Creek which John Cole had conveyed Jan. 9, 1779, "to James Stuart, Senr., father of the above-named James"; 300 acres on the north side of Ashpole Swamp at a branch called the Mill Branch which John Cole had conveyed Jan. 9, 1779, to James Stuart, Sr.; 160 acres on the north side of Ashpole swamp which Jesse Boward had sold Sep. 17, 1777, to James Stuart, Sr.; 100 acres on the west side of Drowning Creek* and on the north side of Ashpole Swamp, granted Nov. 12, 1779, to James Stuart, Sr., and adjoining the other tract; 100 acres on the east side of Ashpole swamp on the Bane Island, granted Nov. 11, 1779, to James Stuart, Sr., adjoining his other tract; and 100 acres on the east side of Ashpole Swamp granted Oct. 10, 1787,+ to James Stuart, Sr. The witnesses to the deed were James Carraway, Hugh McLachlan and C. S. Carraway, the last evidently being Charles Stewart Carraway, protégé of his grandfather, Patrick Stewart.

Charles, signing his name Charles G. Stuart, and Thomas Carraway of Cumberland County deeded May 2, 1801, three of these tracts -- 300 acres -- to Giles Williams for $1000, and deeded the other three tracts -- 360 acres -- to Absalom Williams for $1000, the witnesses to both deeds being George Moore and Benjamin Lee. It is highly probable that Charles Stuart, Thomas Carraway and William Jordan, accompanied by the aging Elizabeth Stuart, then moved to Montgomery County, Tennessee. Elizabeth Stewart, whose identity is uncertain, signed a bill of sale, or receipt, dated July 24, 1801, to James Stewart for $600 "in full satisfaction for a negro woman called Dinah, about 16 years old, and a negro boy."++ Her signature was witnessed by John Stewart and Penny Stewart -- evidently Penelope, wife of Duncan -- and the document was recorded in will book A, page 166, Montgomery County.

On Jan. 24, 1803, Charles Stewart, Sr., deeded to Charles Stewart, Jr., for $154, 62 acres of land on the north side of the West Fork of Red River. Charles, brother of Duncan, was hardly old enough to be the father of Charles, Jr., and other deeds of land in the neighborhood, a little way north of Clarksville, indicate that this 62-acre tract belonged to Charles G. Stewart, thus making him the same man as Charles, Junior. Now, Charles may have gone to Mississippi that summer to be with his older brother James, for on June 23, 1803, Charles Stuart of Adams County, Mississippi, signed a letter-of-attorney empowering Samuel Neely of Davidson County to sell his land. The land in question may have been the 640 acres in Davidson County on the southwest side of Big Harpeth River on the waters of the Sulphur Fork of Jones Creek (in Dickson County after 1803), adjoining the lands of Benjamin Thompson and Duncan Stewart, which Charles had been granted May 6, 1797, as assignee of Richard Lewis, one of the guard to the commissioners for laying off land allotted the officers and soldiers of the North Carolina Continental Line, the grant being recorded in Montgomery County (deed book A, page 541).

Presumably Charles Stuart remained in Mississippi. The tradition that he joined the patriots in Mexico does not tell what time. The rebellion there against the rule of Spain commenced in 1810 and dragged on for ten or twelve years. Texas belonged to the United States as part of the Louisiana purchase from France, 1803, until 1819, when it was ceded to Spain, so if our wandering boy went to fight the Spaniards he must have gone deeper than Texas. He was perhaps influenced in childhood by the example of his father, and he never came home. It was his property, no doubt, in Montgomery County, Tennessee, for which Thomas Carraway and William Jordan were appointed administrators in 1817, for a man is pronounced legally dead if not seen or heard from in seven years. At a sale of "the property belonging to the estate of Charles Stewart, deceased," Christopher Stump bought three bales of cotton, Charles Meriwether and Richard Overton bought quite a few items, and Thomas Carraway bought nearly everything else. If Charles had a wife or child their identification is lacking.
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* Little Peedee River was sometimes called Drowning Creek. In later years, after maps were revised, the name seemed to apply only to the upper course of Lumber (Indian, Lumbee) River.
+ The dates of these state grants prove that James Stuart, the elder, had not fled the state because of any antipathy for the Revolution or, if he had, somebody was acting in his behalf in the interest of his wife and children. Considering the clan spirit of the Scottish Highlanders, it is easy to conjecture that Duncan Stewart, or one of his brothers, attended to business matters affecting the security and comfort of Elizabeth, who was his cousin. James Stuart, husband of Elizabeth and said to have been her cousin through some link of consanguinity, may have left his wife for reasons more intimate than difference of opinion of the character of King George III. Elizabeth's father may have disliked him.
++ In the census of 1790, Robeson County, N.C., Elizabeth Stewart did have one negro slave.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, April 1957, vol. 34, no. 10, pp.194-196.)
 
Stuart, Charles G. (I18184)
 
6734 Stewart Clan Magazine says, "James Stewart... married his cousin, Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He perhaps lived for a time in that part of Bladen county which was set off as Robeson county [cf. Charles, B:171]. Children: Catherine: m. Thomas Caraway; James Caraway: lived in Mississippi; Elizabeth: m. William Gordon; Margaret: m. _____ Pope : lived in South Carolina; Charles: joined the patriots in Mexico [1810] and was never heard from." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126.) Stuart, Elizabeth (I18161)
 
6735 Stewart Clan Magazine says, "James Stewart... married his cousin, Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He perhaps lived for a time in that part of Bladen county which was set off as Robeson county [cf. Charles, B:171]. Children: Catherine: m. Thomas Caraway; James Caraway: lived in Mississippi; Elizabeth: m. William Gordon; Margaret: m. _____ Pope : lived in South Carolina; Charles: joined the patriots in Mexico [1810] and was never heard from." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126.) Stuart, Catherine (I18181)
 
6736 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Dugald Stewart apparently came from Scotland, with his wife and some children, in 1739 in the same influx of highland settlers as Patrick Stewart. Dugald died, intestate, prior to Apr. 13, 1756, when Thomas Stewart, his "oldest son and heir at law," sold 200 of the 640 acres to John Rea. Thomas died about 1760, leaving issue an only child, Elizabeth. This Elizabeth Stewart never married, and at her death some time after Apr. 7, 1812, she devised her plantation (apparently the remaining 440 acres of her father's estate) to her cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart... Elizabeth's cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart -- almost had to be grandsons of Dugald through a younger brother of Thomas.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)
 
Stewart, Dugald (I23055)
 
6737 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Dugald Stewart apparently came from Scotland, with his wife and some children, in 1739 in the same influx of highland settlers as Patrick Stewart. Dugald died, intestate, prior to Apr. 13, 1756, when Thomas Stewart, his "oldest son and heir at law," sold 200 of the 640 acres to John Rea. Thomas died about 1760, leaving issue an only child, Elizabeth. This Elizabeth Stewart never married, and at her death some time after Apr. 7, 1812, she devised her plantation (apparently the remaining 440 acres of her father's estate) to her cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart... Elizabeth's cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart -- almost had to be grandsons of Dugald through a younger brother of Thomas.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)

From researcher Josh Stewart, a descendant:
"John R. Stewart b. 1732 and he married Negolina McNeill, the daughter of Hector NcNeill that recieved the Royal Grants (in the prior email). John joined the Cumberland militia in 1771. I’ve only found one child for John and Negolina, so far, that being a son, Hector Stewart. Hector was named after Hector McNeill, his grandfather through his mother."

North Carolina records, supported by atDNA matches, suggest that this unknown son was probaby named John Robert Stewart and that he married Negolina McNeil, daughter of Hector McNeil, one of the leaders of the 1739 expedition to Cape Fear, North Carolina, USA. And that they were the parents of Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart named above.

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This Indenture made this 24th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred & fifty five between David Smith of Cumberland County in the province of North Carolina planter of the one part and John Stewart of the county and province aforesaid of the other part. Witnefseth that the said David Smith for & in consideration of the sum of thirty pounds proclamation money of North Carolina to him in hand paid by the said John Stewart the receipt whereof the said David Smith doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit discharge & release … [much legalese]… unto the said John Stewart his heirs & afsigns forever a tract of land containing two hundred acres situate, lying & being in Cumberland County in the Province aforesaid between the two little rivers on the So W side of the No W Branch of Cape Fear River & in the fork of a Creek [This creek is stated to be Gum branch in the land warrant for this plat] on the upper side of the lower little river called Watree Branch. Beginning on the So side of said branch at a forked maple running thence So 28 W one hundred & seventy poles to a pine thence So 72 E one hundred & eighty three poles to a pine thence No 28 E one hundred & eighty poles to a pine from thence to the first station being granted to Hector McNeal by his Majestys letter Patent bearing date the third day of Decemr 1746 then by a deed of Convey and from the said Hector McNeal to Martin Trantham duely executed bearing date the 22nd day of July 1747 together with all and & singular the buildings…[much legalese]… In Witnefs whereof the Parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day & year first above written
Signed sealed & delivered in the
Presents of Witier Preveat John Brown David Smith {Seal}
Robt Smith
(capefearclans.com) 
Stewart, John Robert (I23064)
 
6738 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Dugald Stewart apparently came from Scotland, with his wife and some children, in 1739 in the same influx of highland settlers as Patrick Stewart. Dugald died, intestate, prior to Apr. 13, 1756, when Thomas Stewart, his "oldest son and heir at law," sold 200 of the 640 acres to John Rea. Thomas died about 1760, leaving issue an only child, Elizabeth. This Elizabeth Stewart never married, and at her death some time after Apr. 7, 1812, she devised her plantation (apparently the remaining 440 acres of her father's estate) to her cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart... Elizabeth's cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart -- almost had to be grandsons of Dugald through a younger brother of Thomas.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)
 
Stewart, Robert (I23071)
 
6739 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Dugald Stewart apparently came from Scotland, with his wife and some children, in 1739 in the same influx of highland settlers as Patrick Stewart. Dugald died, intestate, prior to Apr. 13, 1756, when Thomas Stewart, his "oldest son and heir at law," sold 200 of the 640 acres to John Rea. Thomas died about 1760, leaving issue an only child, Elizabeth. This Elizabeth Stewart never married, and at her death some time after Apr. 7, 1812, she devised her plantation (apparently the remaining 440 acres of her father's estate) to her cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart... Elizabeth's cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart -- almost had to be grandsons of Dugald through a younger brother of Thomas.
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)

Hector Stewart is cited in the will of John McNeill of the Bluff, 2 April 1799, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA. He interited a mill from John McNeill. The forename Hector was common in the McNeill family. Hector was also a witness to the will, along with Alexander Stewart.
 
Stewart, Hector (I23078)
 
6740 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Thomas Stewart, born about 1730, in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, came with is parents in 1739 to Bladen county, N.C. (sic) He married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He died some years before 1772, the date of Patrick Stewart's will, at which time Margaret had children by her second husband. After his death his widow married John Caraway, by whom she had four sons - James, Charles, Thomas and Robert Caraway. Only child of Thomas Stewart [was] Elizabeth: died, an old maid, on her plantation on the Cape Fear River." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126)
 
Carraway, Elizabeth (I2466)
 
6741 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Thomas Stewart, born about 1730, in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, came with is parents in 1739 to Bladen county, N.C. (sic) He married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He died some years before 1772, the date of Patrick Stewart's will, at which time Margaret had children by her second husband. After his death his widow married John Caraway, by whom she had four sons - James, Charles, Thomas and Robert Caraway. Only child of Thomas Stewart [was] Elizabeth: died, an old maid, on her plantation on the Cape Fear River." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126)
 
Carraway, Janet (I2491)
 
6742 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Thomas Stewart, born about 1730, in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, came with is parents in 1739 to Bladen county, N.C. (sic) He married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He died some years before 1772, the date of Patrick Stewart's will, at which time Margaret had children by her second husband. After his death his widow married John Caraway, by whom she had four sons - James, Charles, Thomas and Robert Caraway. Only child of Thomas Stewart [was] Elizabeth: died, an old maid, on her plantation on the Cape Fear River." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126)
 
Carraway, Thomas (I2495)
 
6743 Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Thomas Stewart, born about 1730, in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, came with is parents in 1739 to Bladen county, N.C. (sic) He married Margaret Stewart, daughter of Patrick Stewart of Brown's Marsh. He died some years before 1772, the date of Patrick Stewart's will, at which time Margaret had children by her second husband. After his death his widow married John Caraway, by whom she had four sons - James, Charles, Thomas and Robert Caraway. Only child of Thomas Stewart [was] Elizabeth: died, an old maid, on her plantation on the Cape Fear River." (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome C, June 1935, vol. xii, no. 12, pp.125-126)
 
Stewart, Elizabeth (I15435)
 
6744 Stewart Clan Magazine says: "Catherine Stewart [was] daughter of Alexander, "brother of Robert Stewart of Glenagle, predecessor to John Stewart of Hyndfield, or Stronvar."" (Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, December 1956, vol. 34, no. 6, pp.177-179)
 
Stewart, Catherine (I15188)
 
6745 Stewart Dougald - 09-Nov-1927 68 yrs Son of Charles Stewart & Catherine McKinnon. Dougald is buried at Isle of Skye cemetery, Dundee, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada. Stewart, Dugald (I24234)
 
6746 Stewart Euphemia 01-Mar-1889 aged 24 Daughter of Charles Stewart & Catherine McKinnon

05-05-1889 Euphemia Stewart, second daughter of the late Charles Stewart, of St Anicet Quebec, died at Manchester N.H., age 24 years. The family now resides in Quebec. The body arrived at railway station in Fort Covington New York, on the seventh, for internment in Dundee. (The Gleaner newspaper, Huntingdon, Quebec, 1889)

Euphemia is buried at Isle of Skye Cemetery, Dundee, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada. 
Stewart, Euphemia (I24233)
 
6747 Stewart Family Cemetery Colvin, Catherine (I2915)
 
6748 Stewart family records indicate Elizabeth's name as Elizabeth Simmons. Her marriage record shows her as Elizabeth Simon, where she is shown as the daughter of Israel Simon and Hannah Gordon -- no such couple can be found, however there is an Israel Sammons and Hannah Gordon. However, you will shortly see why that becomes problematic.

A family legend, recorded by Alice Fluegge, records the following about this marriage:

"After Hugh Stewart's first wife died "Hugh Stewart began working for Sir John Simmons down in the corner of Lower Canada, along the St. Lawrence near the corner of Upper Canada. Hugh fell in love with one of John Simmons' daughters, Elizabeth, who was born January 2, 1843. They had come from two different worlds; he was an orphan working his way up and she was the daughter of an important landowner. She was educated by a governess and could sing in both French and English. She also had learned the fine art of doing needlepoint. Her father refused to give Hugh and Elizabeth permission to marry, so they eloped about 1872. This caused a permanent rift between the two families and they never had any contact again." Thus ends the family legend, and begins the confound.

No such person as "Sir John Simmons" has been identified. And the marriage record of the "elopement" exists and shows that Hugh Stewart married in 1874 to the daughter of Isaac Simmons (not Israel Sammons, but close) and Hannah Gordon of Nassagaweya Township. Nassagaweya is just a few miles east of Puslinch and nowhere near the St. Lawrence. However the Sammons family did come from Cobourg in easter Ontario, which would fit with the legend. And Hannah Gordon was Québecois, which would explain the comment that Elizabeth could "sing in French and English."

However, Sammons family records indicate that the Elizabeth Simmons who married Hugh Stewart could not possibly be the daughter of Israel and Hannah, as their real daughter, Elizabeth, married John Allen Evans and had children at the same time as Hugh Stewart and Elizabeth Simmons, so Elizabeth Simmons and Elizabeth Sammons cannot be the same person.

Elizabeth's sister, Euphemia Ellen Sammons married Robert Dunn in Puslinch and had children only between 1865-1870. Hugh and Elizabeth weren't married until 1874 and their first daughter was Euphemia Ellen Stewart. I had previously wondered if perhaps "Elizabeth Simmons" was really Euphemia Ellen Sammons and that she used her sister's name when she married to hide her real identity as she was already married to Robert Dunn. This would explain why her father might forbid the marriage. However, it has now been discovered that Euphemia Ellan Sammons did, in fact, remain with Robert Dunn and died in Illinois, thus she could not be Elizabeth Simmons.

In fact, Elizabeth Simmons birth date makes it virtually impossible for her to be a child of Israel and Hannah Sammons, as her birth is only 7 months after one of their other children.

So who is this mystery woman? I am now starting to wonder if she might be the NIECE of Israel and Hannah, and that perhaps her real parents had died, thus making Israel and Hannah her guardians, not her parents.

Furthermore it now appears that the Sammons family came from Schoharie, New York, USA, where they were involved with the estate of Sir John Johnson (!). Perhaps Sir John Johnson has become confused as the person of "Sir John Simmons". However, as I am not a descendant of this family, I will have to leave it to those who are to sort out the mystery of who Elizabeth Simmons/Sammons really is.

Birth registration records for Hugh and Elizabeth's Manitoba-born children show their parents' marital status as "unmarried", however their marriage record is found in Guelph. Very confusing! 
Simmons, Elizabeth E (I13842)
 
6749 Stewart Mary 13-Apr-1855 aged 3

Daughter of Charles Stewart & Catherine McKinnon
Burials in Zion Church, Dundee, Quebec, 1980 no marker
 
Stewart, Mary (I24235)
 
6750 Stewart Mary 17-Apr-1856 aged 1
Daughter of Charles Stewart & Catherine McKinnon.
Burials in Zion Church, Dundee, Quebec, 1980 no marker 
Stewart, Mary (I24236)
 

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