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- "7. Samuel 5, mentioned in his father's will and no further trace." (Severence, p. 22)
From his father Charles Stewart's will:
"Item. I give and bequeath unto every and each of my children hereafter named. Viz. to my son John Stewart and allso to my son Samuel Stewart the sum of five Shillings Sterling money..."
However, Stewart Clan Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 8, Feb. 1951, says:
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Samuel Stewart of Colerain, Massachusetts
Samuel Stewart (Charles, John, Robert, Walter¹) was born about 1737 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, A:15, and moved with his father's family to Colerain, in the present Franklin county, Massachusetts, about 1749. He was a soldier from Colerain in the French & Indian war. He married about 1759 Rebecca ______ who was born May 28, 1758. He was living in Colerain when Rev. John Cuthbertson. a Presbyterian preacher from Pennsylvania, made a tour of the Scotch-Irish settlements in eastern New York and western Massachusetts in 1766. Cuthbertson in his diary mentioned visiting Charles Stewart in Colerain and baptising on the Sabbath, May 18, 1766, Jonathan and Solomon, sons of Joseph Stewart, David, son of Nathaniel Carswell; Sarah and Jonathan, daughter and son of William Stewart, and Martha, Benjamin and Cynthia, children of Samuel Stewart, E: 63. Early in the Revolutionary war Samuel went with a company of soldiers from Colerain under Capt. Hugh McClellan on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, and was under arms ten days. He removed in that year, or early in 1776, to Westfield [now Hartford), Charlotte (now Washington] county, New York, where he bought 262 acres of land (lot 38 in the provincial patent of 26,000 acres to Willian Cockcroft and associates, entered Mar. 8, 1760) and built a cabin on it, A:5. Samuel and John Stewart and George Patterson were soldiers in the New York Continental line which in an additional corps joined Maj. Brown's detachment of Green Mountain Boys and went with Gen. Arnold's troops to the attack on Quebec in 1776. Samuel served at various times in short tours, and his son Oliver served at one time in the same company. When the British general Burgoyne came down from Canada in 1777 to occupy the Hudson river valley one of his supply wagons broke a wheel not far from Samuel Stewart's home and was left by the roadside until a substitute wheel could be brought back. Stewart, when no one was looking, rolled a barrel of meat off the wagon and hid it in the brush. He went home and brought a yoke of oxen and dragged the barrel home on a sled made of a crotch of a tree. Samuel's father, Charles of Colerain, died in the spring of 1777, naming in his will (dated Aвг 1. 1776) his sons William John and Samuel and daughters Jennet Bell, Elizabeth Clark, Mary Peck, Margaret Anderson, Rebecca Stewart and Lydia McKown." Samuel was bequeathed five shillings, for which he signed a receipt to the executor, William Stewart, his oldest brother, who lived in Bernardston Gore (annexed to Colerain). Lydia, Samuel's sister, had married on Feb. 23, 1775, Joseph McKown of Colerain, a captain in the fighting against the Indians. Capt. McKown died in 1791, leaving a widow and an only child, Hannah, 15 years old, living in Colerain. In his will, dated in 1787, McKown said: "Item: 1 give to my nep provided he live with my wife until he is stears old.... [article is incomplete]
* From Genealogy Of Londonderry Stewarts, 1969, Face 16. by Frank Severance
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Abt 1737 - UNKNOWN
