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- In 1763, Margaret's father, Patrick Stewart, 5th of Ledcreich, dictated a detailed family tree, subsequently added to by Dr. James Caraway in 1789, in which Margaret is described as:
"Margaret was first married to Thomas Stewart and had one daughter, Elizabeth, who never married, but died an old maid at her own plantation on Cape Fear River about the year Margaret married a second husband, John Caraway, by whom she had four sons, James, Charles, Thomas and Robert; this last died young without issue. James Caraway married Ann Stewart, daughter of William Stewart, the brother of Patrick, by whom he had two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth.
"Charles Caraway married and is now living in North Carolina, perhaps on Cape Fear River, but whom he married and how many children he has had is now not known.
"Thomas Caraway married Catherine, his cousin, the daughter of his aunt Elizabeth, the wife of James Stewart, of North Carolina, by whom he had children: Margaret, married to, of Todd County, Ky.; Dr. James Caraway, who now lives in the Mississippi State."
Stewart Clan Magazine says:
"Margaret Stewart, born about 1730, married (1) Thomas Stewart. He was the eldest son of Dugald Stewart, who received a grant June 4, 1740, of 640 acres of land along the south bank of Cape Fear River in Cumberland [at that time part of Bladen] County. 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 -- and gave her slaves to her nieces, Eliza and Janet Carraway, daughters of James Carraway. Elizabeth's cousins -- Robert, Hector and Dugald Stewart -- almost had to be grandsons of Dugald through a younger brother of Thomas. After Thomas Stewart's death, the widow Margaret married John Carraway, by whom she had four sons. Her father gave one of her sons, Charles Stewart Carraway, a negro servant named Sambo, in 1767, which shows that Margaret, by that time, had children by her second marriage. Her father furthermore remembered this boy in his will in 1772. It is probable that the Carraways went into South Carolina with Margaret's parents, and eventually went to West Tennessee. However, Thomas Carraway, Margaret's third son, was in Cumberland County, N.C., in 1801. Children of Margaret:
Elizabeth, c.1760 : died about 1812, unmarried
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James Carraway : evidently went to Montgomery county, Tenn.
Charles Stewart Carraway : named in grandfather's will, 1772
Thomas Carraway : m. Catherine Stewart, a cousin
Robert Carraway : died as a youth
(Edson, George, Stewart Clan Magazine, Tome G, February 1957, vol. 34, no. 8, pp.185-188.)
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1734 - 1808 (73 years)
