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- In 1763, Charles' father Patrick Stewart, 5th of Ledcreich, dictated a detailed family tree to Charles, subsequently added to by Dr. James Caraway in 1789, in which Charles is described as:
"Charles, the youngest and the favorite son of Patrick Stewart, died a young and single man at Wilmington, in North Carolina, in the year 1765. In his last letter to his parents, No. 2, with his father’s directions concerning it. Compare this letter with the genealogy No. 1, and the handwriting of both will be recognized."
Stewart Clan Magazine says, "Charles Stewart, born about 1736 in Scotland, never married, it is said. He was perhaps a seafaring man, or a soldier. In 1763 his father, irritated by a delay in receiving an acknowledgment from the author of a Stewart genealogy in Scotland that certain errors in the laird of Ledcreich's pedigree were to be corrected in the manuscript, got out his family papers and had Charles write down a true record, ending: "This is the ingenuous history of my pedigree by uncontroverted history. PAT. STEWART." Charles died in 1765 in Wilmington." (Edson, George. Stewart Clan Magazine, Vol. 34, Tome G, No. 8, Feb. 1957.)
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