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| 2. | William Stewart was born 1723, Virginia, USA (son of Elizabeth Stewart). Other Events:
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William1 Stewart, born say 1723, was called the "Moll. boy named William who formerly lived with William Standback" by William Eaton in 1725 when he petitioned the churchwardens of Bristol Parish to have William bound to him [Chamberlayne, Bristol Parish Register, 24]. On 13 March 1738/9 the churchwardens of Bristol Parish in Prince George County ordered William Stewart, a "Mulatto Boy" (no parent or age indicated), bound an apprentice to William Eaton [Orders 1737-40, 241]. He was a taxable head of household in Lunenburg County, Virginia, with Ephraim Drew in 1772 [Bell, Sunlight on the Southside, 299, 351]. He purchased 200 acres on the head branches of Little Creek in Mecklenburg County from Jacob Chaves on 8 March 1779 [DB 5:399]. He was head of a Mecklenburg County household of 6 free persons and 2 slaves in 1782 [VA:33] and was taxable in Mecklenburg County on slaves Edward and Charles, 6 cattle and 4 horses in 1782; taxable on Anselm Cunningham's tithe and a slave named Ned in 1784, called "William Stewart B. Smith" (blacksmith) in 1785 when he was taxable on slaves Bob and Charles. He was taxable on slave Ned from 1786 to 1788 but not taxable thereafter in Mecklenburg County [PPTL, 1782-1805, frames 12, 27, 85, 126, 223]. William (signing) and his wife Mary sold their 200 acres on Little Creek to James Steward, Sr., of Dinwiddie County, on 11 February 1788 [DB 7:253]. Mary may have been identical to "Mary Haris now Stuart" whose son Isham Harris was ordered bound out by the churchwardens of St. James Parish in Mecklenburg County court on 8 November 1766 [Orders 1765-8, 231]. Isham was head of a Wake County household of 7 "other free" in 1800 [NC:769]. William was head of a Wake County household of 11 "other free" in 1790 [NC:105] and 11 "other free" and 2 slaves in 1800 [NC:798]. He had undertaken to pay Thomas Evans' costs on 13 February 1786 when Jacob Chavis sued Evans in Mecklenburg County court, but William left the county without paying Chavis. On 13 September 1790 Chavis obtained an attachment against William's estate and recovered part of the debt from a number of persons including Henry Chavis, Henry Chavis, Jr., and James Stewart who testified that they owed William money [Orders 1784-87, 461; 1787-92, 536, 540]. William was residing in North Carolina on 11 July 1806 when Jacob Chavis of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, gave John Chavis power of attorney to recover a debt from him [Mecklenburg DB 13:1, 2]. He tried to prove the nuncupative will of John Jackson Chaves in Wake County court in May 1808, but John Jackson's aunt Lucy Cole of Mecklenburg County contested the will, claiming she was his only heir. She won her case based on testimony from Frederick Ivey, Peter Chavis and afidavits by three of her white neighbors [Haun, Wake County Court Minutes VII:67-8, 151].
William married Mary Harris. Mary was born 1738. [Group Sheet]
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- 1. Benjamin Stewart was born 1769, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA; died Yes, date unknown.
- John Stewart was born 1761, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA; died 1809.
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| 10. | 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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Children:
- 5. Elizabeth Stewart was born 1695, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.
- John Stewart was born 1715, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA; died 14 Feb 1765.
- Rebecca Stewart was born 1717, Virginia, USA.
- Thomas Stewart was born 1727, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.
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