James Stewart

1759 - UNKNOWN

• Name	James Stewart
  Born	5 Jan 1759	Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Person ID	I24509	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Stewart,   b. 4 Aug 1718, At sea, crossing the Atlantic ,   d. Abt 1800  (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Alice Atchinson,   b. Abt 1720,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Aft 1753
  Family ID	F8356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was one of the Minute-men who marched at the alarm of Lexington, 1775 ; served at Ticonderoga, 1777, and was one of the soldiers who set out for Bennington on August, 1777. He next appears as a soldier at Salem, N. Y. About 1784, swept on by the tide of emigration we find him next in Kentucky, where he bought a large tract of land, said to be the site of the present city of Lexington, paying for it with Continental money ; erected a distillery and was doing business at good advantage when he was again called out in defense of his country during the Indian trouble of that region, and was killed in Harmer's defeat by the Indians near Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1791. Unmarried. (Severence)