Family Group Sheet for Col. John Stewart

 

 

Name: Col. John STEWART
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Birth: 1695 Berwickshire, Berwickshire Castle, Scottland
Death: abt 1784
Father: James Fitzjames STEWART Duke of Berwick (1670-1734)-  (This is desputed by some)
Mother: Unknown
Marriage: 1783
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Spouse: Mary PENN
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Birth: 1757
Death: 1834

Children:
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1 M: Captian John STEWART
Birth: 16 Oct 1734 Amherst, VA (Scotland?)
Death: 23 Apr 1829 Cherry Hill, Baridstown, Oglethorpe Co. GA
Spouse: Ann HAW
Marriage: 1755 Hanover, VA

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Notes for Col. John STEWART
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It has been said that John gave his sword to his son John, he gave it to
General John Stewart, he gave it to his daughter Parmelia Stewart Perkins, she is supposed to have been buried with the sword at Cherry Hill Georgia.Her grave marker is in the Steven's Family Cemetery.However,she is buried across the road two blocks south 1 block east.The location of The Stewart Family Cemetery and the Old Family Plantation,Cherry Hill is 3.3 S.of Maxey's Ga. This sword is suposedly bears the Royal lineage of the Stewart famly.
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"Beyond a reasonable doubt the first Col. John Stewart who came to Virginia
from Scotland, Mourning Floyd's husband's great-grandfather - was a younger son of the Duke of Berwick, born in Berwick Castle, and cousin of Henry Stewart, Earl of Lennox, whose son, Henry Stewart, married his cousin, Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. They were all reared in Berwickshire and were all descendants of Walter (Fitzalan) Stewart, the sixth "Grand Steward of Scotland."
pp74 Bio-Genealogies of the VA- Ky Floyd Families
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E-mail from BHester@aol.com
recieved on November 2 1999

William Richard Stewart, who has extensive information on numerous Stewarts, says: "On Sep. 20,1683, Mr.Thomas Anderson is granted 400 acres in Charles City County, Westopher Parish, south side of the James River for transporting 8 persons. The list is as follows: John Stewart, Elizabeth Kish, Valen Taylor, Thomas Barrow, William Sheffield, Thomas Barret,William Stock, and Joseph Fells. It should be pointed out that Charles City, Bristol Parish, is on the south side of the Appomattox River, now Chesterfield County. However, Bristol Parish, became part of Hanover County, on May 12,1755, Saint Paul and St. Martin were divided in Hanover County. On November 20,1683, Ann Hall, is transported by Lt. Abraham
Jones, into the Bristol Parish. A tradition preserved by Virginia and Georgia Stewarts of this particular line is that.... this John Stewart of the headright is Colonel John Stewart, of Berwickshire, Scotland, the son of the Duke of Berwick. This account is from Floyds, by N.J. Floyd, page 19.
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Henrico County reflects John Stewart buying 670 acres, in 1683, page 126."
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