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- John Stewart is recorded in the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856) as initially of Ballacuaich (Ballacaish) and later of Lendrick [Lanrick], and as brother to Alexander Stewart, 1st of Glassingall, and as father to Hugh Stewart in Carse of Cambus and Archibald Stewart in Lendrick [Lanrick].
"[Robert Stewart in Buchany in 1852] declares that he knew Janet Stewart a granddaughter of this John and a daughter of Hugh and he remembers her being a servant to Mr Jaffray at Glassingall, and that she was said to be a cousin (natural) to the Laird of Glassingall that the said John Stewart left his said son Hugh Stewart in the farm of Ballacaush aforesaid, and went to the farm of Lendrick with Archibald another son, whose descendents are still there. That the said John Stewart was married to Isobel Macfarlane a daughter of Hugh Macfarlane of Calliechra at Loch Katrine in the Parish of Callander." (Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856))
The following testimony from this Archibald's descendant, a later Archibald Stewart, in the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856) indicates that this Archibald acquired Lendrick in 1732: "Archibald Stewart in Lendrick son of the now deceased John Stewart tenant there produces a Tack dated 2 December 1732 and 9 February 1733 entered into betwixt the Trustees and Commissioners for the said James Drummond and the said deceased John Stewart of the 20 shilling land of Lendrick and 20 shilling land of Drippen."
The following is also from the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856): "Certified copy of what is written in the family bible Lendrick 1756 that I bought this [presumably referring to the bible] for 4 pounds Scots money out of Glasgow written and signed by me Archibald Stewart. On account of my age and when the year of God I was born 1712 and married in year of God 1737 and Margaret was born in the year of God 1739 and was married in February 1763. So, Isabel was born in August 1741 and Archibald was born in November 1749 and Donald was born about the 1st of August 1757. On account when my father and mother dyed [died], my father dyed the year of God 1740 and was buried in his own spulcher [sepulchre], and my mother dyed the year of God,"
"Alongside the tombstone of Archibald Stewart and Helen Law is a flat stone with the initials "JS and I.McF" and the date "1740." These are the initials of John Stewart and Isabel McFarlane, the father and mother of Archibald Stewart, and great-grandfather of the claimants, Archibald Stewart and Mrs Robertson." (Testimony of Margaret McLaren or Robertson, widow of Andrew Robertson, Merchant, Stirling, from the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856).) The stone referred to here is not listed in Mitchell's Monumental Inscriptions and is presumed to be no longer legible.
Several online trees incorrectly show this John as a Colonel marrying Mary Shaw and moving to Virginia, USA. The preceding records confirm that John did not emigrate and married Isobel McFarlane and died locally in 1740. Nowhere in the Glassingal papers is he referred to as a colonel.
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Abt 1680 - 1740 (~ 59 years)
