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- 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.)
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Abt 1740 - UNKNOWN
