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| 1. | Rebecca Stewart was born 1717, Virginia, USA (daughter of Patriarch Stewart and Matriarch Stewart). Other Events:
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Rebecca1 Stewart, born say 1717, sued Charles Hix in Brunswick County, Virginia court in September 1738 for her freedom and a certificate for the same, but the court dismissed the case in February 1738/9 when she failed to appear. Hix was ordered to pay Douglas Irby as an evidence for one day and for coming and going fifty miles [Orders 1732-41, 203, 223]. She was living in Surry County, Virginia, on 17 July 1750 when the court ordered the churchwardens of Albemarle Parish to bind out her children: Moggy, Tom, Jack, Nan, Peter, and James [Orders 1749-51, 110]. Joseph Walker sued her in Brunswick County court on 22 June 1756. The jury found her not guilty on 23 February 1757 and ordered Walker to pay costs. She sued Daniel Clarke and Sylvanus Stanton for trespass, but both suits were dismissed by agreement of the parties on 28 February 1759. And her suit against William Evans was dismissed on 28 May 1760 by agreement of the parties [Orders 1756-7, 65, 128, 201-2; 1757-9, 300; 1760-84, 65]. She purchased 50 acres in Brunswick County on the south side of the Meherrin River and the north side of the Great Road from John Parham for 25 pounds on 26 September 1763, and she purchased 70 acres on Fox Branch from Kirby Moody on 16 April 1764 and sold this 70 acres to Moody on 6 June 1766. She purchased 200 acres near the Rocky Run in Meherrin Parish, Brunswick County, on 23 September 1776. Her land adjoined Drury Going and the Pompey family according to Going's deed of sale for land on the south side of the Meherrin River in Brunswick County on 10 October 1787 [DB 4:215; 7:384; 8:311; 12:84-5; 14:366]. She was called the executrix of Peter Moggy on 23 January 1783 when the Greensville County court dismissed a suit against her for debt brought by Batt Peterson, assignee of Ephraim Peebles, because she was not residing in the county [Orders 1781-9, 56]. She was called administratrix of the estate of Peter Moggy, deceased, on 27 March 1787 when Peterson sued her in Brunswick County court [Orders 1784-8, 463]. She was probably the unnamed mother of Thomas Stewart who provided for her maintenance by his 24 February 1791 Greensville County will [WB 1:181-3]. Rebecca was the mother of
i. Moggy, born say 1740.
ii. Thomas, born say 1743.
iii. John/ Jack, born say 1745.
iv. Ann, born say 1746, perhaps the Nanny Pompey who, with husband Littleberry Pompey and (brother?) James Stewart, sold 135 acres adjoining Steward's Branch in Meherrin Parish, Brunswick County, on 26 January 1778 [DB 13:45].
Peter, born say 1748.
vi. James, born say 1750.
vii. Barnett, born say 1760.
viii.William, born say 1761.
Rebecca married . [Group Sheet]
Children:
- James Stewart was born Abt 1750, Virginia, USA; died 1815, Craven, North Carolina, USA.
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| 2. | Patriarch Stewart died , USA. Other Events:
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STEWART FAMILY
The birth dates of this Stewart's children, coincide with the arrival of the Scottish slaves, shipped to the American colonies by the British, after the first Jacobite Rebellion.
The Stewart family probably originated near present-day Dinwiddie County since there were at least a dozen members of the family in that general area by 1730. No evidence has yet been located to indicate whether or not they were all related. There were several Stewart to Stewart marriages. William ("Sonkey") Stewart married Nancy, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Stewart of Dinwiddie County, about 1770, Doctor Stewart's brother James married Priscilla Stewart in Mecklenburg County in 1791, and a Thomas Stewart married the daughter of Peter Stewart before 1801 when he named her in his Chesterfield County will.
Dinwiddie was formed in 1752 from Prince George County which was formed in 1702 from Charles City County. All three are burned-record counties. However, the register of Bristol Parish from 1720-1789 contains records for Dinwiddie and Prince George counties, and the Prince George County court order books for the years 1710-1714 and 1737-1740 as well as wills and inventories for the years 1713-1728 have survived. These contain a number of references to mixed-race members of the Stewart family, but they also contain over thirty references to free, mixed-race people whose full names are not provided. One mixed-race child was called "a Moll. Boy named Wm" in 1725 when William Eaton petitioned the churchwardens of Bristol Parish to bind the child to him. He may have been identical to the "Mulatto Boy" William Stewart who was bound to Eaton by the churchwardens of Bristol Parish in 1739 [Chamberlayne, Bristol Parish Register, 24; Prince George County Orders 1737-40, 241].
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Patriarch married Matriarch Stewart. Matriarch died , USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Matriarch Stewart died , USA. Other Events:
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Children:
- Elizabeth Stewart was born 1695, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.
- John Stewart was born 1715, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA; died 14 Feb 1765.
- 1. Rebecca Stewart was born 1717, Virginia, USA.
- Thomas Stewart was born 1727, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.
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