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| Name |
William Stewart |
| Born |
1723 |
Virginia, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
2450 |
| Person ID |
I2450 |
Families |
| Family |
Mary Harris, b. 1738 |
| Children |
| | 1. Benjamin Stewart, b. 1769, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA , d. Yes, date unknown [natural] |
| | 2. John Stewart, b. 1761, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA , d. 1809 (Age 48 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F1783 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 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].
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