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| 1. | Armstead Stewart was born 1783, Virginia, USA (son of Thomas Stewart and Mildred Stewart); died , USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 2512
- Residence: 1810, Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA
- Residence: 1830, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1850, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 55
Notes:
Armstead, born say 1783, over sixteen years old when he was listed in John Day's Dinwiddie County household in 1800 (with his brother Henry Stewart). He was taxable in the household of his father in 1807 and taxable in his own household with a slave in 1809 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-99; 1800-9; 1810-14]. He was head of a Dinwiddie County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [VA:161]. He was called Armstead Stewart of Dinwiddie County when he married Flora Crook, 10 October 1806 Brunswick County bond, Robert Crook security. Robert Crook was a "free negro" head of a Brunswick County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:708]. Armstead was taxable in Dinwiddie County on 3 slaves in 1811, 2 in 1812 and his estate was taxable on 2 slaves and 3 horses in 1813. (His widow) Flora Stewart was taxable on 2 slaves from 1815 to 1819 [Personal Property Tax List 1810-14; 1815-19]. His heirs Theophilus H., Edward R., Henry A., Julian, and Robert (still an infant) were named in a chancery suit in Dinwiddie County on 4 September 1832 [Chancery Orders 1832-52, 13].
SOURCE Paul Heinegg http://freeafricanamericans.com
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Armstead was kidnapped and enslaved by Daniel Durham. Daniel Durham's bio in the book Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County reads:
Daniel Durham, born in Virginia in 1801, came to Vigo County with his brother William in 1822. In emigrating westward, he had first located in Tennessee and then in Kentucky. He had brought with him forty or fifty slaves, but conversion to Quakerism caused him to free them all. Not only that, but he bought a large tract of land in Kentucky, raised on it a big crop, and then turned it all over to the freed slaves to enable them to live until able to become self-supporting. When he came to Vigo County he was accompanied by a few of his former slaves. One of them, a girl, died and was buried in the family plot on the Lyman Durham farm. One was Si Lewis, who settled in Knox County and became the owner of 1,300 to 1,400 acres of land near Carlisle. The name of another was Armistead Stewart. Daniel Durham settled about a mile and a half south of the village, but he owned land from near Honey Creek up to Hulman street and from the river to Seventh Street. He owned the Chestnut property and nearly all the land down that way. Daniel was the
father of John, Thomas, William, Daniel Robert, and David, and their generations are still represented in the county.
SOURCE: excerpt from GREATER TERRE HAUTE AND VIGO COUNTY. http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/archives/genhistories/oakey/Volume1/Part1/pt014.pdf
Armstead married Pheobe Ede Embrey 26 Feb 1830, Knox, Indiana, USA. Pheobe died , USA. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Elizabeth Stewart was born 20 Dec 1830, Indiana, USA; died 21 Apr 1907, Honey Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Nancy Jane Stewart was born Abt 1832, Indiana, USA.
Armstead married Flora Crook 10 Oct 1806, Brunswick, Virginia, USA. Flora died , USA. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Armstead Stewart was born Abt 1805, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA.
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| 4. | Patriarch Stewart died , USA. Other Events:
Notes:
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].
Died:
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Patriarch married Matriarch Stewart. Matriarch died , USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 5. | Matriarch Stewart died , USA. Other Events:
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Died:
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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.
- Rebecca Stewart was born 1717, Virginia, USA.
- 2. Thomas Stewart was born 1727, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.
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