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7. 
 
 GENEALOGY 
 
 AND BIOGRAPHY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF ^ 
 
 WALTER STEWART OF SCOTLAND 
 
 AND OF JOHN STEWART 
 
 WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 17 18, 
 
 AND -f" 
 
 SETTLED IN LONDONDERRY, N. H. 
 
 BY 
 
 B. FRANK SEVERANCE 
 
 -" The men of yore, 
 
 Who danced our infancy upon their knee, 
 Hotv are they blotted from the things that he." 
 
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 THIS IS NO. 
 
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 ^» WHO HAS AIDED AND ENCOURAGED ME 
 
 § IN THIS UNDERTAKING, THIS BOOK IS 
 
 AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 
 
" The profit of my living long ago 
 I dedicated to the unloving dead, 
 Though all my service they shall never know 
 Whose world is vanished and their name unsaid. 
 
 For none remembers now the good, the ill 
 
 They did, the deeds they thought should last for aye ; 
 
 But in the Httle room my voice can fill 
 
 They shall not be forgotten till I die. 
 
 So, in a lonely churchyard by the shore, 
 The sea winds sift the sand across the mounds 
 And those forgotten graves are found no more. 
 And no man knows the churchyard's holy bounds ; 
 
 Till one comes by and stoops with reverent hands 
 To clear the graves of their encumbering sands." 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A late writer says, " They who appear utterly 
 indifferent to their lineage and term all interest 
 in such matters a foolish weakness, are acting 
 contrary to a strong principle of nature, and lay 
 themselves open to the assumption, that they have 
 a pedigree of which they are not proud." 
 
 What led to this work was a desire to know 
 more about my Stewart ancestors, their descent 
 and their descendants. I had heard many tradi- 
 tions among which was that of our Royal descent 
 and the great fortune across the water that awaited 
 the Stewart heirs in America. Efforts have been 
 made to trace the line in Scotland and Ireland 
 with no definite results. All evidence we have 
 been able to procure in reference to the tradi- 
 tional " Royal blood " has been laid before the 
 reader, and I leave it to him to form his own opin- 
 ion as I have done. 
 
 Not until the thorough work done by the late 
 Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, in his " History of 
 Windham, N. H.," was my interest in our Stewart 
 lineage fully aroused, yet not satisfied. My in- 
 terest was again forcibly stirred, when some years 
 
 (vii) 
 
Vlll INTRODUCTION 
 
 ago the " Biographical Review of Franklin County, 
 Mass.," appeared. From this I referred to Mc- 
 Clellan's " Early Settlers of Colrain," which, with 
 a correspondence with Mr. McClellan, gave me 
 many helpful and interesting points, and the 
 more I learned, the deeper I resolved to plunge 
 into this sea of mystery, without a thought of its 
 ever reaching the printer's hands. Another cor- 
 respondence followed with Mr. Morrison, giving 
 me encouragement to follow up the Stewart re- 
 search and bring it to completion. It was here 
 I confided my desire for a future prospect of a 
 Stewart History to my esteemed friend, the late 
 James W. Sweely, publisher of the " Williamsport, 
 Fa., Sun," whose wife is a descendant of the Stew- 
 arts. In him I found an interested helper, even 
 proposing to arrange and publish in book form 
 any Stewart material I might be able to collect. 
 From this time my correspondence widened and 
 my task expanded. Many refused to respond to 
 my appeal for records and information, and many 
 gaps will appear in consequence, while many have 
 rendered valuable assistance for which due ac- 
 knowledgment is made. 
 
 The Stewarts have been a race of pioneers from 
 the time of their first settlement upon American 
 soil, and some of them have disappeared leaving 
 no vestige by which they could be identified, but 
 
INTRODUCTION IX 
 
 those we have been able to trace have been brave 
 and steadfast defenders of Freedom, in nearly all 
 the conflicts in which the Country has been in- 
 volved, from the Colonial strife to the late war 
 with Spain. 
 
 Through the kindness of the Librarian of the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Li- 
 brary, Boston, Mass., I came in contact with Mr. 
 Joseph A. Stuart's " Duncan Stuart Family," 
 which opened a broad and interesting field for 
 search, in which I eventually received inestimable 
 assistance and encouragement from Mr. Inglis 
 Stuart of New York City, to whom I acknowl- 
 edge my indebtedness and render most hearty 
 thanks. Acknowledgment and thanks are also 
 due to Capt. James Thompson for much valuable 
 material relating to the Stewarts of his town, 
 Salem, N. Y., taken from the " History of 
 Washington County " and from personal knowl- 
 edge. 
 
 The " Salem Book," the " Old White Church," 
 and the " History of Cortland County" have 
 yielded up their store, and been of assistance. 
 The " History of the Connecticut Valley," " Life 
 of Ethan Allen," " Dr. Holland's Western Massa- 
 chusetts," and " Willey's Book of Nutfield " have 
 been examined and material gleaned therefrom. 
 Hemenway's " Historical Gazetteer," Mr. Shel- 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 don's " History of Deerfield " and Mrs. Kellogg's 
 " History of Bernardston," have contributed lib- 
 erally from their interesting pages, while the 
 " Peck Genealogy," "Clark Genealogy," "Haven 
 Genealogy" and the " Trowbridge Genealogy" 
 have greatly aided this work, and interesting ma- 
 terial has been copied from " Among the Scotch- 
 Irish," by L. A. Morrison. Town and probate 
 records, land transfers, and old tombstones have 
 been looked over. Old church records have been 
 searched as far as possible, many of the latter hav- 
 ing long ago disappeared. Many early town and 
 family records were in most cases imperfectly 
 kept, and all that remains of scores of our ances- 
 tors repose in unmarked graves. 
 
 My thanks are due to Mr. Charles B. Stewart 
 of Glens Falls, N. Y., for the loan of old letters, 
 and to all who have furnished items of history, 
 and copies of old letters and papers I render 
 grateful acknowledgment. 
 
 Just as my manuscript was ready for his hand, 
 Mr. Sweely, the expected printer, passed suddenly 
 away, and the publication of our little History 
 seemed uncertain. Friends remained hopeful and 
 here again Mr. Inglis Stuart came to the rescue 
 and gave a tremendous impetus to the work with 
 a liberal cash subscription, and now the task is 
 finished. 
 
INTRODUCTION XI 
 
 To one who lays no claim to literary talent it 
 has been a difficult but instructive work, it having 
 been necessary to make general history a con- 
 stant source of reference. I have been vigilant 
 for errors, both for my own and those of others, 
 yet errors will appear, but dear reader, be sparing 
 of your criticism, take up a similar work and do 
 it to perfection, then "cast the first stone.'* 
 
STEWART GENEALOGY 
 
 Origin of the Name of Stewart. 
 
 The derivation and meaning of any family 
 name is a center of interest, and from the fol- 
 lowing we get the clearest idea of the origin of 
 the name of Stewart. (|:^^<;j:i-cv'\ y-c^V^^" / 
 
 " The Stewarts are of NormanAblood. A gen- 
 tleman by the name of Alan, a Norman, accom- 
 panied William the Conqueror into England and 
 obtained by his gift the lands and castle of Os- 
 westry in Shropshire with the title of Lord Os- 
 westry. His eldest son, William, became the 
 ancestor of the Earls of Arundel. His second 
 son, Walter, went to Scotland and became promi- 
 nent in the service of David 1st, and had large 
 territorial possessions conferred on him by that 
 monarch, including the Barony of Renfrew, to- 
 gether with the office of Lord High Steward of 
 Scotland. The Stewardship became hereditary, in 
 his family and was assumed by his descendants as 
 a surname with the single change of the final let- 
 
 I 
 
GENEALOGY OF 
 
 ter ' d ' to *t,' so that the proper orthography is 
 not Stuart but Stewart. Mary, Queen of Scots, is 
 responsible for the change of the original name. 
 She was educated in France and wrote her name 
 in the French language, in the alphabet of which 
 there is no ' w '. Stuart is the French orthography 
 of the name. Thus originated the name of Stew- 
 art. 
 
 First Generation. 
 
 Comparatively little information can be found 
 concerning Walter Stewart 1st, but it is said that 
 he belonged to the " House of White Rose," 
 and that his estate lay in Perthshire, Scotland. 
 A letter from Walter MacLeod, 112 Thirlestone 
 Road, Edinburgh, tells us nothing of his ante- 
 cedents, and here we are compelled to let the 
 matter rest and turn our attention to his descend- 
 ants. / 
 
 Second Generation. 
 
 Robert,^ (Walter,^) b. 1655, m. Jannette For- 
 sythe, probably daughter of James or William For- 
 sythe. From History of Windham, N. H. : " He 
 is said to have been one of the Covenanters who 
 took part in Battle of Bothwel] Bridge in 1679, be- 
 tween troops of Charles 1 1, and the Covenanters led 
 by their ministers, in which the Covenanters were 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 
 
 defeated with great loss. In 1685 Charles II. hav- 
 ing died, he was immediately succeeded by his 
 brother James II., the cruel and unrelenting foe 
 of Scotch Presbyterians. The Covenanters were 
 hunted like beasts of prey, and in the very heart 
 of the mountain solitudes they were traced and 
 slain. It was during these fierce persecutions 
 that Robert Stewart sundered the ties of kindred 
 and association and became an unwilling exile. 
 Crossing the North Channel in an open boat he 
 fled to Ireland where many of his clan seemed to 
 have preceded him. He settled at Londonderry, 
 where he was soon joined by his family, but even 
 here they were not safe from tyranny and perse- 
 cution ; the Papists were there. King James's 
 officers in Ireland were mostly of the Catholic 
 faith and determined to advance that cause. The 
 Protestants were disarmed and placed in a de- 
 fenseless condition. Being surrounded by Cath- 
 olics they were not safe in life or property, their 
 houses were burned, their cattle stolen and the 
 Catholic soldiers roamed the country, pillaging, 
 maiming and committing all kinds of outrages. 
 Such tyranny of the king awakened fierce alarm 
 in the three kingdoms, and the leading men of 
 England invited William, Prince of Orange, who 
 had married the eldest daughter of James II., to 
 come over from Holland and assume the govern- 
 
GENEALOGY OF 
 
 ment. He arrived in England November 5, 
 1688, and the army, the clergy and the people 
 going over to William, James fied to France, but 
 he resolved not to give up his kingdom without 
 a struggle, and his greatest strength being in his 
 Irish-Catholic adherents, he landed in Ireland 
 March 12, 1689. Here the Protestant commu- 
 nities of the North of Ireland stood in his way. 
 The strongest of these towns was Londonderry, 
 and the now powerful army of King James was 
 bent upon the capture of the city, the siege of 
 which, with its horrors and heroism, is familiar 
 history with the descendants of those sturdy 
 Scotch ancestors who made such a heroic de- 
 fense and saved Protestantism in the United 
 Kingdom. Peace having been restored and tol- 
 erance of religious sentiments allowed, we find 
 our Robert returning to the land he loved, but 
 never having recovered his estate." He died 
 in Edinburgh in 1714. His widow came to 
 America, and is supposed to have died at Colrain, 
 Mass., at an advanced age. She was wont to re- 
 late to her descendants the thrilling incidents of 
 her life in connection with the cruel persecutions 
 of the Covenanters in Scotland by James II. 
 
 Children. 
 John,^ Robert,^ Julia Ann,^ Samuel.^ 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 
 
 Third Generation. 
 
 John,^ (Robert/ Walter/) b. in Edinburg, 
 Scotland, 1682. Seems to have returned in early 
 life to seek his fortune amid the scenes of his 
 boyhood in Ireland, where he m. Elizabeth, 
 daughter of John Clark. The Clarks were a 
 Scotch-Irish family. He m. 2d, Elizabeth For- 
 sythe. 
 
 Although the Revolution had subjugated the 
 Papist party, still our Scotch-Irish ancestors ex- 
 perienced many embarrassments. A tenth of 
 their increase was rigorously exacted to aid in 
 supporting a minister of the established religion. 
 They also held their lands and tenements by lease 
 and not as proprietors of the soil. Morrison's 
 " Among the Scotch-Irish " quotes from an in- 
 teresting sketch from which we glean the follow- 
 ing, " On a certain September morning, in the 
 year 171 8, a cavalcade, in which were women and 
 children, whose dress and bearing bespoke the 
 farming class, might have been seen leaving Ag- 
 hadowey, by the Derry road. In the cavalcade 
 were a number of old-fashioned wheel cars, with 
 low, solid wheels and broad bottoms, upon which 
 were piled provisions, wearing apparel and house- 
 hold efi-ects. Accompanying the procession, and 
 acting as guide, philosopher, and friend, was a 
 clergyman in the prime of life, and dressed in the 
 
GENEALOGY OF 
 
 simple garb of the Presbyterian ministers of that 
 period. As the cavalcade wends its way along 
 the road, the people are ever and anon casting 
 regretful looks at the waving fields of golden 
 corn, the green valleys and the wooded hills, now 
 assuming an autumnal brown of their native par- 
 ish. The cavalcade is a band of emigrants of 
 about lOO families on their way to Londonderry, 
 there to embark for the Western world. Their 
 clergyman is Rev. James McGregor, minister of 
 the Presbyterian congregation of Aghadowey to 
 which all the families belonged, and who accom- 
 panied them to America. 
 
 The reasons which induced this people to leave 
 their native land and undertake a voyage across 
 the Atlantic, which in those days was tedious and 
 full of hardships, and to face the uncertain pros- 
 pects of new settlers, was partly religious and 
 partly agrarian. Being Presbyterians they were 
 subjected to the unjust and insulting provisions 
 of the Test Act, under which it was penal for a 
 person of their persuasion to teach a school or 
 hold the humblest office in the State. Then 
 again, at the time of the Revolution, when a con- 
 siderable part of the country lay waste, and when 
 the whole framework of society was shattered, 
 land had been let out on lease at very low rents 
 to Presbyterian tenants. About 1 7 1 7-1 7 1 8 these 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 
 
 leases began to fall in, and the rents were usually 
 doubled and frequently tripled. Hence farmers 
 became discouraged, and a number of them be- 
 longing to Aghadowey formed the design of emi- 
 grating to America, where they would be able to 
 reap the fruits of their own industry. They 
 landed at Boston on the 14th of October, 171 8. 
 In the spring of 1719, sixteen families proceeded 
 to the state of New Hampshire, where they 
 founded a town, which they called Londonderry, 
 in patriotic recollection of the county they had 
 left. Here, too, they organized the first Presby- 
 terian church in New England, of which Mr. 
 McGregor assumed the pastoral charge without 
 ordination." 
 
 Among these emigrants, and one of the sixteen 
 settlers, we find our John Stewart with his own 
 and his mother's family, who have left their homes 
 again, this time to better their fortunes in the 
 Western world. 
 
 John Stewart was a prominent man in the 
 Londonderry settlement. We find from Mor- 
 rison's " History of Windham, N. H.," that he 
 was one of the grantees of the town. 
 
 His farm was known as the Precept Farm or 
 Lot and was of sixty acres. He became dissatis- 
 fied and complained of wrong done to him in lay- 
 ing out his land by unjust methods, and in 1728 
 
8 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 petitioned to the General Assembly for redress as 
 follows. From History of Windham, N. H. 
 
 " To the Honourable John Wentworth, Esq., 
 Leutt Governor commander in chieffof Hampshr, 
 and to the Generall Assembly of both houses. 
 
 *^ The humble petition of the subscribers to this 
 Honourable Assembly, wee complean of wrong 
 don to us and grivoos injustice in laying outt our 
 land by unjust methods viz. that a part of our 
 proprietors have taken their chois of all our cum- 
 mons and we are nott allowed neither lott or chois 
 and rendered unsheur of having our hom lotts 
 made Equal with others, one method Dos not 
 prevail hear to do as they would be done by. 
 Wee the Complanentt Desire and make requeast 
 -for a practicable reull that may yealld saiftly to 
 every party and thatt a magor vote may not cutte 
 any propriator outt of his right by design or con- 
 ning which shall further appear by a paper an- 
 nexed here unto, which will make it appear mor 
 fully to have ben practised hear on propertie 
 hurttofore another the complanentt seke for re- 
 dress from this Honorable house and your peti- 
 tioners shall ever pray. 
 
 " May the 15th 1728. 
 
 "John Stewart & OTHERS.' 
 
 )) 
 
 The petition was granted and additional land 
 was laid out to him on that part of Londonderry 
 which is now Windham — a long narrow strip of 
 land between Cobbet's Pond and Policy Pond 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 
 
 (now called Canobie Lake), a description of which 
 we get from " Willey's Book of Nutfield." 
 
 " Londondery 9ber nth 1728. Then laid out 
 to John Stewart thirty-four acres of land which is 
 full for his satisfaction of his amendment and 
 twenty acres addition. Said land lies southerly 
 of Cobbet's Pond (sometimes called Cubages 
 Pond) and is bounded on the west by a maple 
 tree marked, from thence running southeast and 
 bounding on John Barr's land to Policy Pond 
 and bounding northeasterly on said pond to a 
 stake and stones from thence running northwest 
 and bounding on Samuel Allisan's land to a 
 swamp to a dry oak tree marked, from thence 
 running southwesterly to the bounds first men- 
 tioned, there being land allowed within said 
 bounds for two cross roads not exceeding six rods 
 wide. Recorded this fourth day Jan^^ 1728-29. 
 Pr. John Mc Murphy, Town Clerk, John 
 Wallace, John Archibald, John Mitchell, Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 "At a proprietor's meeting held at Londonderry 
 
 Nov"" 10*^ 1728 the return of the aforesaid record 
 
 was read and approved of by the town for the 
 
 said John Stewart's use, benefit, and behoof in fee. 
 
 " Attest Pr. 
 
 " John Mc Murphy, 
 
 " Town Clerk." 
 
 This land was afterward inherited and occupied 
 by his son John, and here his grandson John 
 
10 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 was born and resided till he removed to Shelburne, 
 Mass., in 1773. 
 
 It seems it was not always smooth sailing in 
 this little Londonderry settlement. Some of the 
 inhabitants were desirous of forming a new parish 
 in another part of the town a good distance away. 
 To this John Stewart and others were most 
 bitterly opposed as the following petition shows, 
 
 " We the under Subscribers being Inhab- 
 itants of L : Derry and province of New Hamp- 
 shire (viz) living in the Southerly part of sd town, 
 we are informed that there are Sundry of our 
 Neighbors Petitioners your Excelly and Hon^^for 
 a new parish in sd Town, therefore we wod sig- 
 nify to your Excell and Hon'"^ that we hope by 
 the blessing of God in a fue years to be ft to be 
 Erected into a parish or precinct by ourselves 
 therefore we pray your Excell and Hon''^ not to 
 hurt our yong beginnings in setting off a new 
 parish in said town of Londonderry, as witness 
 our hands. Dated at Londonderry aforesaid 
 Feby the 9th 1739-40. 
 
 "John Stewart and others." 
 
 It seems that this petition was not successful 
 and a new parish was soon after incorporated. 
 
 These old Scotch ancestors generally got about 
 all they asked for. " Stubborn as a Scotchman " 
 was a trite saying, and to illustrate the character 
 and fixedness of purpose of these peculiar people, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS TI 
 
 I pen the following authentic anecdote, " Two 
 church members, one a Scotchman and the other 
 a Scotch-Irishman, had quarreled about some 
 simple matter, and the feeling had become deep 
 and bitter. Their minister labored long and 
 earnestly to reconcile them, but neither would 
 yield. At last after a long and serious talk the 
 Scotch-Irishman consented to meet his Scotch 
 fellow-member in a friendly manner and let the 
 past be forgotten. The minister then went to 
 the Scotchman, but he was as firm as ever, and, as 
 he expressed it, he ' would have nothing to do 
 with the other man.' Finally the minister bore 
 down on him rather hard, urging upon him his 
 Christian duty and asking him: 'How can you 
 expect to be forgiven if you will not forgive ? ' 
 When at last the Scotchman with great emotion, 
 while trying to suppress his tears, exclaimed : 
 ' Yes, yes, I'll forgive him, but I want to get one 
 good crack at him first.' " 
 
 John Stewart, 3d, was a carpenter by trade. 
 He made his will April 3, 1741, and died three 
 days later and is buried in the ancient cemetery at 
 Derry, N. H. The following inscription is 
 copied from his tombstone, a large horizontal 
 slab. 
 
t1 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Memento Mori 
 
 Nam sito lahitur hora. 
 
 Here lyes the intered body of 
 
 Mary Stuard, the daughter of 
 
 John Stuard and Ehz his wife, 
 
 who departed this Hfe November 
 
 the 7, 1738 and in the 11 
 
 year of her age. 
 
 Here lyeth also the body of 
 
 John Stuart father of the 
 
 aforesaid Mary who departed this 
 
 mortal life about the 60 year of 
 
 his age and on the 6 day of 
 
 April Anno Domini 1741. 
 
 His wife died in Colrain, Mass., and was buried 
 in the old cemetery on the hill. The date of her 
 death is unknown, with nothing to mark the spot 
 where her dust reposes. 
 
 The inventory of the estate of John Stewart is 
 so quaint and suggestive of the old relics that it 
 is given here verbatim : 
 
 " Londonderry July the 14th 1741. 
 
 "We have taken a true Inventory of the Estate 
 of John Stewart Late Deceased of Londonderry 
 according to the best of our judgment Pursuant 
 to a Warrant from the Tudge of the Probate. 
 
 " The Real Estate X730 the Cattle Belonging 
 to the Estate £\^i To Notes of hand ^£^196 to 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I3 
 
 Beding ^40 a Chest of Draws ^8 — ^i 186 11 2 
 Waring Apparel £^10 Tand Leather ^2 to Saws 
 251 Spinning Wlieels and Reel 801 to Pots 551 
 to Butter 351 to Chest and Table 401 33 15 one 
 old gun loi to Books 401 to Chairs 301 to a 
 Saddle 401 to Flax 451 to Bags 301 Peuter 651 
 Iron Toals ^6-10 to Barrels and Wooden Ves- 
 sels ^4.10-24 a Cart ^7 one Iron Harrow ^2.10 
 a pair of old Butts loi Hogs ^5 15." 
 
 This sketch would hardly seem complete with- 
 out a copy of his will which is here given, 
 
 "In the Name of God Amen I John Stuart of 
 Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire 
 Yeoman Being very Sick and weak of Body 
 But of a perfect mind and memory thanks be 
 Given to God therefore Calling to mind the 
 Mortality of my Body and knowing it is ap- 
 pointed for all Men once to Dye do make and 
 Ordain this to be my last Will and Testament 
 Principally and first I give and Recommend my 
 Soul into the hands of God who gave it me and 
 as for my Body I Recommend to the Dust to be 
 Buried in a Christian Manner at the discretion 
 of my Executors Doubting nothing But at the 
 Resurrection I shall Receive the Same by the 
 Almighty power of God and as for what it hath 
 pleased God to Bless me with in this world I 
 Give and Bequeath in manner as follows : Imp^ I 
 give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved wife 
 Elizabeth Stuart one hundred and fifty Pounds 
 
14 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Bills of Credits to be paid out of my Personal 
 Estate Besides the one third of my house and 
 Dwelling Lands and Improvement During her 
 natural Life. 
 
 Imp"" I Give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
 loved Son Charles Stuart ten Pounds to be paid 
 to him out of my Estate. 
 
 Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my Gran- 
 Daughter Mary Stuart ten Pounds to be paid out 
 of my Estate. 
 
 Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my Son Rob- 
 ert Stuart ten Pounds to be paid out of my Estate. 
 
 Imp'' I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
 loved Son James Stuart the sum of ten Pounds 
 to be paid out of my Estate. 
 
 Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
 loved Son John Stuart ten Pounds to be paid 
 out of my Estate. 
 
 Imp'" I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
 loved Son Samuel Stuart the one half of all the 
 Remaining part of my Estate excepting what is 
 Before Bequeathed. 
 
 Imp"" I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
 loved Son Joseph Stuart and Margaret Stuart 
 my well Beloved Daughter the other half of my 
 Remaining Estate equally to be Divided Between 
 them ; and I appoint my Son Charles Stuart 
 aforesaid and Samuel Stuart of Andover to be 
 my Executors of this my Will and Testament 
 Rattifying and Confirming this and no other to 
 be my Last Will and Testament Revoking all 
 others Whatsoever. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 5 
 
 Dated at Londonderry this third day of April 
 and in the Year of our Lord God one thousand 
 seven hundred and forty one. 
 
 Signed Sealed Published 
 
 pronouced and Declared 
 
 to be my Last Will Testa- John Stuart [Seal] 
 
 ment in Presents of 
 
 John Wiear Jonathan Morison 
 
 Samuel Alison Junr." 
 
 Children of John Stewart, mostly Born in 
 
 Ireland. 
 
 I. Charles 4, b. 1705 (?) d. 1777- 
 
 1. Robert 4, b. ? d .^ 
 
 3. James 4, b. ? d. ? 
 
 4. John 4, b. 1711, d. March 29, 1761. 
 
 5. Mary 4, b. 171 6, d. Nov. 7, 1738. 
 
 6. Samuel 4, b. ? d. ? 
 
 7. Joseph 4, b. Londonderry, N. H., 1721, d. 
 
 1821. 
 
 8. Margaret 4, b. ? m. William Aken. All 
 
 trace of her lost. 
 
 Fourth Generation. 
 
 Charles,* (John,^ Robert," Walter,^) b. in Ireland 
 about 1705, came to America with his father in 
 171 8 ; m. 1st, Mary , 2d, Martha, daughter 
 
l6 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 of Samuel Ayers of Colrain, Mass., 3d, Jennet 
 Linley, April 24, 1759, of Pelham, Mass. 
 
 He lived at Londonderry, N. H., and in 1744 
 he bought of Margaret Aken (probably his sister) 
 her right in her father's estate. February 27, 1 748, 
 he bought two lots of land in Colrain, of Samuel 
 Rankin of Londonderry. August 26, 1748, he 
 seems to have sold his homestead at Londonderry 
 to his brother, John Stewart of Windham, N. H., 
 and about that time removed to Colrain. June 19, 
 1749, he bought a house and home lot of Joseph 
 Rankin of Pelham upon which he settled the same 
 year. He was chosen tithingman in 1754. Again 
 he was chosen tithingman and one of the commit- 
 tee to manage the affairs of the town in 1759; 
 was also surveyor and hog constable. His will, 
 dated April i, 1776, and probated May 6, 1777, 
 may prove interesting to his descendants, and 
 abstracts of the same are copied. 
 
 " I will and bequeath unto my Dear and Lov- 
 ing Wife the dwelling house where I do now 
 dwell, together with one bed and all the other 
 household furniture to the house belonging and a 
 certain chest now in said house with all every 
 appurtence and privilege to the house belonging 
 or any ways appurtaining thereto during her life 
 or as long as she shall remain my widow, and at 
 her decease, or at contracting matrimony, then the 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 7 
 
 before given and bequeathed premises to be and 
 become my dear and beloved son William Stewart 
 and his heirs forever. 
 
 Item. I also give and bequeath unto my said 
 wife one Cow to her during her life. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath and do order that 
 my executor hereafter named do provide and give 
 to my said wife exclusive of all the before be- 
 queathed effects a good sufficient and comfortable 
 coat. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my well be- 
 loved daughter Jennet Bell to the full and just 
 value of a good cow to be raised and paid for by 
 executor hereafter named. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto every and 
 each of my children hereafter named. Viz. to my 
 son John Stewart and allso to my son Samuel 
 Stewart the sum of five Shillings Sterling money, 
 also to my daughters Elizabeth Clark, Mary Peck, 
 Margaret Anderson, Jennet Bell, Rebecca Stewart 
 and Lydia McKown, each and every of them the 
 sum of five shillings Sterling money. To be paid 
 to them by my executor hereafter named. 
 
 Item, all other of my Personal estate I do 
 hereby will give and bequeath the same to my 
 eldest son William Stewart his heirs and assigns 
 forever and I do hereby constitute make appoint 
 and ordain the said William Stewart my sole ex- 
 ecutor to this my last will and testament. I do 
 hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all 
 and every other former testament Wills Legacies 
 and bequests and executors be me in any wise 
 
I 8 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 made or named before willed and bequeathed 
 Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be 
 my last will and testament. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my 
 hand and seal the day and year above written. 
 
 his 
 
 Charles+Stewart. [Seal] 
 
 mark 
 
 Signed sealed published and pronounced and 
 declared by the said Charles Stewart as his last 
 will and testament in the presence of us, the sub- 
 scribers. 
 
 Thomas Bell. 
 
 William Clark. 
 
 Thomas Bell, Junr." 
 
 His farm was located in a wild and romantic 
 little valley made still more weird by the frequent 
 Indian raids and depredations committed here 
 during the French and Indian war of that period. 
 It was lot 22 and he was the fifth owner and the 
 third or fourth occupant. It was bounded south 
 by Matthew Clark, west by the highway, north 
 by land of John Anderson, and east by the town 
 line. He died about 1777, and the old house is 
 removed, but the little green plot is there, and a 
 phantom presence hovers around the spot and 
 guards its sacredness, while like a beautiful mi- 
 rage, there is flashed upon the vision an humble 
 abode with its huge chimney sending forth a slow 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I9 
 
 flowing Stream of curling, white smoke, while 
 busy feet flit lightly about bent upon the various 
 duties assigned them to keep the wolf and the 
 enemy from the door, for " eternal vigilance is 
 again the price of safety," the savage foe lurks in 
 ambush, the danger signal is wafted loud and deep 
 through the air, anxious faces peer around cor- 
 ners, and soon the members of this busy family 
 are on the way up the rugged hillside to the 
 nearest fort for protection. The curtain falls ; 
 wild nature is subdued, the corner stones of our 
 quiet, comfortable homes are laid. He was a 
 soldier in the French and Indian war. The old 
 pewter cup, with which he served out rations of 
 rum to the soldiers in Fort Lucas, has long been 
 an heirloom in the family, and is now in the pos- 
 session of one of his descendants in Pennsylvania. 
 He was buried in the old hillside cemetery at 
 Colrain. 
 
 " E'en to this day a rude enclosure pressed 
 On flank and rear by tangl'd thickets deep ; 
 Rank grasses, by the gentle winds caressed, 
 Crown the rough sod neath which the fathers sleep. 
 
 That spot is hallowed by the honored dust 
 Of those who sowed that other hands might reap. 
 What garnered treasure held in sacred trust 
 Is half so precious as the one we keep ? " 
 
20 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Elizabeth 5, b. Jan. 11, 1729,111. John Clark 
 
 of Colrain, Mass. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Matthew 6 6. Mary 6 
 
 2. Agnes 6 7. Jennet 6 
 
 3. Charles 6 8. John 6 
 
 4. Rebecca 6 ^9. Ichabod 6 
 
 5. Daniel 6 10. Elizabeth 6 
 
 2. Mary 5, b. May 5, 1730, m. Abraham Peck 
 
 of Colrain. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Samuel 6 5. Rachel 6 
 
 2. Sarah 6 6. Abraham 6 
 
 3. Mary 6 7. Lydia 6 
 
 4. John 6 8. Margaret 6 
 
 3. Margaret 5, b. Oct. 4, 1731, ni. ist, John 
 
 Kately of Colrain. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Hannah 6, b. April 22, 1752. 
 
 2. John 6,b. 1753- 
 
 His widow m. 2d, John Anderson of Colrain, 
 son of John and Mary Anderson, and grandson 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 21 
 
 of John Anderson who came from the north of 
 Ireland and settled in Londonderry, N. H., as 
 early as 1725. John and Margaret Anderson re- 
 moved to Shelburne, Mass., about 1771. 
 
 Children, b. in Colrain. 
 
 I. Mary 6, b. Oct. 20, 1755. 
 
 —2. James 6, b. Oct. 3, 1757. 
 
 3. Rebecca 6, b. Sept. 3, 1759. 
 
 4. David 6, b. April 10, 1761. 
 
 5. Lydia 6, b. May 15, 1763. 
 
 6. Elizabeth 6, b. Jan. 15, 1765. 
 
 7. Jonathan 6, b. March 17, 1767. 
 
 8. Margaret 6, b. May 16, 1769. 
 
 9. Martha 6, b. ? 
 
 10. Sarah 6, b. ? 
 
 The last two were born in Shelburne. 
 
 Mr. Anderson d. in Shelburne, Dec. 22, 1780. 
 His widow m. 3d, Lieut. James Stewart of Colrain. 
 He was one of Colrain's most prominent men. 
 
 It was his brother Alexander who carried away 
 the " Catalogue of the Stewart Family " to Penn-^* 
 sylvania. They were sons of James Stewart, Sr., 
 of Colrain who came from Concord in 1743 and 
 settled in Colrain. James Stewart, Sr., was a de- 
 scendant of John Stewart, natural son of King 
 Robert III. of Scotland. 
 
11 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 4. William 5, b. Feb. 12, 1733. 
 
 5. John 5, b. about 1735. 
 
 6. Jennet 5, b. ? m. Joseph Bell of Halifax, 
 
 Vt. 
 
 Children. 
 I. Catherine 6 5. Joseph 6 
 
 1. Susannah 6 6. Polly 6 
 
 3. James 6 7. David 6 
 
 4. John 6 
 
 7. Samuel 5, mentioned in his father's will and 
 
 no further trace. 
 
 8. Rebecca 5, b. 1742, m. her cousin, John 
 
 Stewart. 
 
 9. Lydia 5, m. Joseph McKown of Colrain. 
 
 McKown was an Indian fighter and did val- 
 uable service in the Colonial Wars. He 
 died in 1791. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Hannah 6, b. 1776, m. Thomas Rogers and 
 
 went to Ohio in 18 12, Mrs. McKown going 
 
 with them. 
 
 Robert,^ (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) m. in 
 
 Andover, 1735, Lydia Blair (?). He was a 
 
 soldier in the French and Indian War ; was at 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 23 
 
 No. 4 (Charlestown, N. H.), in 1747 ; enlisted at 
 Windham, N. H., April 7, 1760, in Capt. Alex- 
 ander Todd's Co., John Goffe, Col. Was he the 
 settler on Borden's tract mentioned in the " Gen- 
 ealogical History of the Descendants of John 
 Walker," compiled by Mrs. E. S. White ? 
 
 James,^ (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) no record. 
 
 John,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Ire- 
 land, 171 1, and came to America with his 
 father in 171 8 ; m. Rebecca (Costa) Patten. She 
 was born in Edinburgh and married there Robert 
 Patten, who died on the passage to America and 
 was buried in the sea. John Stewart removed to 
 Windham, N. H., and was the first occupant upon 
 the land of his father. He was invoice taker in 
 Windham in 1743, selectman in 1745, surveyor 
 in 1748, tithingman in 1749, 1758 and 1759. He 
 was innkeeper in 1755, and February 17th of that 
 year the town voted to pay him fifty shillings, old 
 tenor (413 cents), per week for entertaining the 
 ministers. January 10, 1758, the town voted to 
 allow him four pounds, old tenor (66f cents), per 
 week. He remonstrated against this small allow- 
 ance and March 27, 1759, in answer to his de- 
 mands, it was voted to pay him six pounds (one 
 dollar) per week. He was a soldier in the French 
 and I ndian War, and was one of the garrison who so 
 
24 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 gallantly defended No. 4 (Charlestown, N. H.). 
 He again entered the service March 26, 1760, 
 under Col. John Goffe, Alexander Todd, Capt., 
 for the invasion of Canada. The regiment went 
 to Crown Point. They were forty- four days in 
 cutting their way to the foot of the Green Moun- 
 tains which they crossed by packing and hauling 
 their stores over the mountains on horse harrows. 
 He died from the effects of hard service in this 
 expedition, March 29, 1761, and the following 
 is a copy of his inventory, 
 
 An inventory of the Estate of John Stewart, 
 Dec"^., taken by us. 
 
 To the Real Estate that belonged to said 
 
 Deceased to the home lot with the 
 
 eleven acres Called the little lot £, 4000 00 
 
 To a lot of Land Lying at West end 
 
 of Cobbet's pond so Called 2500 00 
 
 An acre of Medow in flat To a lot of 
 
 Land lying in a Town Called Hales- 
 
 aches, No. 21, by Reporte to 21, 
 
 Valued at 181 00 
 
 To one yoke of oxen and live Stock 729 00 
 
 To one old Carte, old plows and other 
 
 farming utensils 161 00 
 
 To two old Sithes and one harrow, old 
 
 Iron bar, two old axes and other old 
 
 utensils belonging to farming 60 00 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 2^ 
 
 To one old gun one pair of old Pistols, 
 
 old but lash 30 00 
 
 Carried forward £ 7661 00 
 
 To an Old Saddle and old bridle, old 
 
 Cloath housand and old Pannell and 
 
 old Pillon 
 To the wearing Apparels of the De- 
 ceased 
 To the Household furniture, to three 
 
 beds 
 To Tables and old Desk, old Chest 
 
 with Draws 
 To table Linen with other old articles 
 To old Puter Knives and forks with 
 
 other articles 
 To an old Lucking Glass, two old flax 
 
 Combs, other articles 
 To four old Iron Pots and one Box 
 
 Iron and other articles 
 To twelve Chairs and other Great 
 
 Chair and other articles 
 To Syder Barrels, other articles 
 To Linning yarn, three small house 
 
 bibles with old Sarmon books 
 To striped Linnen Cloath with flax 
 To ten yards of Woolen Cloath and 
 
 thirteen pounds of tobacco 
 
 30 
 
 00 
 
 128 
 
 GO 
 
 312 
 
 GO 
 
 55 
 
 00 
 
 18 
 
 GO 
 
 66 
 
 GO 
 
 31 
 
 GO 
 
 73 
 
 GO 
 
 40 
 
 GO 
 
 30 
 
 GO 
 
 58 
 
 GO 
 
 39 
 
 GO 
 
 66 
 
 GO 
 
 Sum Total in old Ten^ 8607 go 
 
26 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Province of ) Augt. the 13th, 176 1 
 
 New Hampshire. S James Paul and Gain 
 Armour Respectively made Solemn 
 Oath that they had apprized the Par- 
 ticulars Contained in the above Inven- 
 tory at the True Value according to 
 the best of their Judgment 
 
 Sworn Before, 
 
 Matthew Thornton, 
 
 Just, of Peace. 
 
 His estate remained undivided until 1770. His 
 widow married 3d, David Hopkins and removed 
 with her husband to Shelburne, Mass., where she 
 died Feb. 6, 1802, a. 90. 
 
 Morrison's " History of Windham, N. H.," 
 pays the following tribute to the old Stewart 
 homestead at Windham : " The farm is now a 
 pasture, and covered with wood ; ministers are en- 
 tertained there no more ; the Stewarts are gone ; 
 the buildings disappeared nearly one hundred 
 years ago ; the cellar is still there, and from its 
 crumbling and tumble-down walls has grown a 
 birch tree, on which a grapevine has thrown its 
 clinging tendrils. These, with a black currant 
 bush which yearly blossoms and yields its fruit, 
 are all that remains to mark the home of one of 
 the earliest settlers of Windham." 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 27 
 
 Children b. in Windham. 
 
 1. John 5, b. Sept. 22, 1743. 
 
 2. Robert 5, b. Sept. 15, 1748. 
 
 3. Rebecca 5, b. Dec. 20, 1750, d. Feb. 26, 
 
 1757- 
 
 4. Mary 5, b. May 2, 1753, d. March 8, 1757. 
 
 5. Hannah 5, b. Nov. 1755, d. March 15, 
 
 1757- 
 
 6. Adam 5, b. 1758, d. April 24, 1777. 
 
 Adam ^ is spoken of as one of the " trainable 
 soldiers" of Windham belonging to Capt. James 
 Gilmore's Co. 
 
 Samuel,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter/) b. ?, 
 
 m. Alice Atchinson (?) who is thought to 
 have been the widow of his brother James. 
 Came to Colrain, Mass., prior to 1751 ; owned 
 and occupied the east half of lot No. 6, which 
 was located about forty rods north of Fort Mor- 
 ris. The changes which a hundred and twenty- 
 five years have wrought have nearly obliterated 
 the site of another old Stewart homestead, yet 
 enough remains to hallow the spot, which re- 
 mained in possession of the Stewarts for upwards 
 of twenty years. It has been a pasture for many 
 years, but could the old turf speak and tell the 
 tale of pioneer life there, more facts would be 
 known and more history written. August 24, 
 
28 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 1770, when Samuel and his wife AHce sold the 
 home lot, they were of Shelburne, Mass. 
 April 20, 1780, when they sold land in the second 
 division, they were of Colrain. This is the last 
 mention we find of him. Samuel probably died at 
 or near Salem, N. Y., previous to 1 800, when we 
 catch the last glimpse of Alice, apparently then a 
 widow " living at Merrimans " (probably the 
 family of a daughter) and evidently soon to move 
 with that family still westward " to the Ohio." 
 It is supposed that she died in or near Beaver, 
 Pa. She is said to have been called a " whole 
 divine," good Scotch doubtless in theology. 
 A Spartan mother who gave to her offspring 
 their full share of the ancestral love for emigra- 
 tion, and to her sons that stanch and fearless 
 patriotism that flowed so naturally in her veins. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John 5, b. in Londonderry, N. H., Sept. 12, 
 
 1745. (See Memoir of Capt. John Stew- 
 art, page 165.) 
 
 2. William 5, b. not later than 1746, m. Mary 
 
 Harris. Served in Capt. Burk's Co. at 
 Fort Edward as drummer from March 21 
 to Oct. 20, 1757; was also in the Revolu- 
 tionary War. He is believed to have been 
 one of the six men who started to explore 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 29 
 
 the wilds of Kentucky with Daniel Boone, 
 May I, 1769, and who set out again for 
 Kentucky with their families in 1773, and 
 was killed in the battle of Blue Licks, 
 Aug. 19, 1782. 
 
 Children b. at Colrain. 
 
 1. Eunice 6, b. April 4, 1769. 
 
 2. Samuel 6, b. June 28, 1772. 
 
 3. Isabel 5, b. m. Moore, and lived in 
 
 Pennsylvania. Had children, Jesse, who 
 was captain of a steamboat on the Ohio 
 River for several years ; Rachel, and proba- 
 bly others. 
 
 4. Samuel 5, b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 23, 
 
 1749. 
 
 5. Mary 5, b. in Colrain, Mass., May 18, 1753, 
 
 m. Robert Archibald ; lived at Salem, N. Y. 
 
 Children. 
 
 Thomas 6, James 6, Robert 6, and proba- 
 bly others. 
 
 6. Alice 5 (twin sister to Mary), b. May 18, 
 
 1753, m. Wilham Smith; settled at Put- 
 nam, N. Y. 
 
30 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 ■ John 6, who Hved at Joliet, 111., William 6, 
 who d. in Washington Co., N. Y., Dar- 
 win 6, who lived at Bolton, N. Y., and 
 perhaps others. 
 
 7. Rebecca 5, b. at Colrain, Mass., July 26, 
 
 1756, m. Merriman ; lived at Salem, 
 
 N. Y., in 1800 ; removed to " the Ohio." 
 
 Children. 
 
 Lavinia 6, who m. Ray, another daugh- 
 ter who m. Emmons, and perhaps 
 
 others. 
 
 8. James 5, b. at Colrain, Jan. 5, 1759. He was 
 
 one of the Minute-men who marched at the 
 alarm of Lexington, 1775 ; served at Ticon- 
 deroga, 1777, and was one of the soldiers 
 who set out for Bennington on August, 
 1777. He next appears as a soldier at Sa- 
 lem, N. Y. About 1784, swept on by the 
 tide of emigration we find him next in Ken- 
 tucky, where he bought a large tract of land, 
 said to be the site of the present city of Lex- 
 ington, paying for it with Continental money ; 
 erected a distillery and was doing business 
 at good advantage when he was again called 
 out in defense of his country during the 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 3 I 
 
 Indian trouble of that region, and was killed 
 in Harmer's defeat by the Indians near Fort 
 Wayne, Indiana, 1791. Unmarried. 
 
 9. Sarah 5, b. m. Robert Gillis of Salem, 
 
 N. Y. (his 2d wife). 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Enos 6, b. Jan. 17, 1778. 
 
 2. Samuel 6, b. July 21, 1789. 
 
 3. Betsey 6, b. March 26, 1791. 
 
 4. James 6, b. Oct. 2, 1792. 
 
 5. Thomas 6, b. June 10, 1794. 
 
 6. Hugh 6, b. March 26, 1796. 
 
 10. Robert 5, b. at Colrain 1766. 
 
 Joseph,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in 
 Londonderry, N. H., Jan. 17, 1721 ; m. June 
 I, 1747, Margaret Thompson who d. subsequent 
 to 1770 ; he m. 2d, Hannah Hescock who d. in 
 1824 (?). Prior to 1752 he removed from Lon- 
 donderry, N. H., to Colrain, Mass., and came 
 into possession of lot No. 43, upon which he 
 lived. It was located well under the protection 
 of Fort Morrison, to which the family resorted in 
 time of danger from Indian raids, and where he, 
 doubtless, served as defender under Capt. Israel 
 
32 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Williams in 1756, and again under Capt. Samuel 
 Wells in 1759. He was chosen one of the fence 
 viewers in 1756; chosen fence viewer and col- 
 lector in 1757 ; in 1760 he was chosen to manage 
 the affairs of the town; March, 1768, he was 
 chosen assessor but refused to take the oath ; in 
 1757 he sold the south half of lot No. 44, to 
 Alexander Thompson bounded north by land of 
 John Thompson and south by his own land ; in 
 1762 he sold land in the second division to 
 James Anderson Thompson; March 15, 1770, 
 he sold his homestead but the family seem to 
 have been living in the vicinity of Colrain until 
 
 1773- 
 
 After this date they seem to be pioneering 
 
 through the southern towns of Vermont and we 
 find them at Halifax and Bennington. He served 
 in the Revolution vmder Col. Blair, Albany 
 County, N. Y. In 1800 they appear in Wash- 
 ington County, N. Y. In 1719 Joseph and 
 Hannah Stewart deed land to Joseph, 3d. 
 
 The following interesting letters, written by him 
 in the 97th and 98th years of his age, have un- 
 veiled so much of the Stewart history, the com- 
 piler could not refrain from the impulse to append 
 them as a fitting memoir of this grand old patri- 
 arch, who d. at White Creek, N. Y., Feb. 22, 
 1 82 1, a. 100 years, i month and 5 days. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS ^^ 
 
 "White Creek, Aug. the 28, 1818. 
 
 " I have received your letter and I am sorry to 
 hear of your sickness. 
 
 " By all accounts of our descent, we are of the 
 royal house of the Stewarts. My Father was 
 John the eldest son of Robert my Grandfather, 
 who was obliged to fly to Ireland when they were 
 newly married. My Granny was sent to Edin- 
 burgh and he was born there. As far as I can 
 learn they belong to the House of White Rose 
 and not altogether separated from the House of 
 Black Hall. My Grandfather's family's names 
 was John and Robert and their sister's name was 
 Juleyan, Samuel, the youngest. My Grandfather 
 had a good estate in Scotland when he fled from 
 it. King William would do nothing about it, nei- 
 ther would Queen Anne, but when King George 
 came to the crown their Uncle Samuel Stewart, 
 by the help of the Duke of Argyle, recovered it. 
 That must be the estate you mention. I was 
 informed that Uncle Samuel died without issue, 
 left no heirs. The way that I came to know of 
 our descent was by old Father James Stewart of 
 Colrain. You may remember young James, who 
 married at last Margaret Anderson your cousin. 
 That descent was from White Rose, for he him- 
 self belonged to Black Hall. He had a catalogue 
 of the house of Stewarts for many hundred years, 
 but son Alx carried it away with him to Pennsyl- 
 vania. I did not know all this until after my 
 father's death. This I knew they belonged to 
 the Rose party, by reason of the high esteem they 
 
 3 
 
34 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 had for Charles the ist who had many good prop- 
 erties. 
 
 " My father's eldest son Charles who is your 
 uncle, and my Father and your grand Uncle 
 Robert would never own the last pretender or 
 any of the race by reason of his spurious birth. 
 No man dare assail the name of Stewart that was 
 if he would not forfeit his life. It gives you the 
 reach, James the ist had two sons James and 
 Robert, James the 3d had two sons James and 
 Robert. This is the whole 1 can give you at 
 present. I am afraid you can't read for since I 
 got that fall at your house I could never hold a 
 pen to write straight. I would beg you would 
 acquaint me of your proceedings therefore I rest 
 
 " Your Father 
 
 "To John Stewart. Joseph Stewart." 
 
 The following letter was addressed to a person, 
 name unknown, who evidently had written him a 
 letter of inquiry. 
 
 "White Creek, March 15, 18 19. 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 "I received yours of the i6th February last, 
 informing me that the heirs of Elizabeth Forsyth 
 that she married a Stewart. My Father's name 
 was John Stewart, the eldest son of Robert Stew- 
 art. My mother's name was Elizabeth Forsyth. 
 My grandmother's name was Forsyth, her Chris- 
 tian name forgot. My great-grandfather's name 
 was, as I believe, Walter. My grandfather's name 
 by my mother's side was either WiUiam or James, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 35 
 
 which I cannot tell." The above letter seems to 
 have been closed abruptly and never received by 
 the person addressed, it being a choice relic now 
 in the possession of Joseph's descendants. 
 
 Children. . 
 
 1. Susan 5, b. May i8, 17 — d. 1750. 
 
 2. Mary 5, b. July 13, 1750, d. 28th of the 
 
 same month. 
 
 3. Joseph 5, b. at Colrain, Mass., April 6, 1752. 
 
 4. John 5, b. Feb. 14, 1755. 
 
 5. Alexander 5, b. April 10, 1757. 
 
 6. Mary 5, b. June 27, 1759. 
 
 7. Ann 5, b. Sept. 24, 1761. 
 
 8. Jonathan 5, b. May 3, 1765. 
 
 9. Solomon 5, b. 
 
 (C cc 
 
 Fifth Generation. 
 
 William,^ (Charles,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
 b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 12, 1733; 
 came to Colrain with his father and resided 
 on the old homestead, and was prominent and 
 active in the affairs of the town, both in peace 
 and war, serving as a soldier in the last struggle 
 with the French and Indians, in 1755, ^7S^ ^^d 
 1757, under Capt. Israel Williams at Colrain and 
 Charlemont. He was one of the Minute-men 
 who marched on the Lexington Alarm in April, 
 
^6 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 1 775, under Capt. Hugh McClellan; later served 
 as Lieutenant in the militia. He was chosen se- 
 lectman in 1769, 1779, 1 78 1, 1783, 1 784 and 1786, 
 m. Elizabeth, b. 1738, dau. of Matthew Clark of 
 Colrain who was killed by the Indians in 1746. 
 In 1770 he with three others bought land lying in 
 Bernardston Gore " on a river called Green 
 River," and in 1771 was one of the signers of a 
 petition to have the Gore annexed to Colrain. 
 He sold his old homestead to William Nelson, 
 and went to live with his son in the Gore. He 
 died about 1804 and like his predecessor " rank 
 growth and tangled grass alone crown the rough 
 sod beneath which he sleeps," but Nature for- 
 gets not his resting place and scatters her spark- 
 ling jewels upon the spot, " and no more brilliant 
 victories could be achieved than those which 
 speak from those old graves, unmarked by human 
 hands." 
 
 From the following inventory of his estate we 
 catch an imaginary portrait of this brave and 
 stately Colonial forefather in his velvet breeches 
 and silver knee buckles : 
 
 An Inventory of the Lt. William Stewart, late 
 of Colrain, deceased, taken Nov. 19, 1804: 
 
 I Pr tongs and shovel i : SO 
 
 I Pr of And Irons 2:50 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS ^1 
 
 I Trammel 
 
 
 I : 
 
 Pr of Steelyards 
 
 
 I : 
 
 I Table 
 
 
 2 : 
 
 3 Pewter Platters Plates Bason 
 
 
 3:50 
 
 I Looking glass 
 
 
 I :50 
 
 4 Reeds 
 
 
 3: 
 
 I Strait bodied coat 
 
 
 7:50 
 
 I Pr of Velvet Breeches 
 
 
 2 : 
 
 I Pr Silver knee buckles 
 
 
 50 
 
 One Jacket 
 
 
 I : 
 
 One coper Tea Kettle 
 
 
 1 : 50 
 
 Two Iron Pots 
 
 
 3: 
 
 One loom 
 
 
 3: 
 
 One warming pan 
 
 
 3: 
 
 3 chairs 
 
 
 I : 50 
 
 One log chain 
 
 
 2:50 
 
 
 $41 :5o 
 
 her 
 
 
 
 Eliz X Stewart Admrx. 
 
 
 
 mark. 
 
 
 
 Clark Chan 
 
 DLER 
 
 
 Appraisers. 
 
 Jon 
 
 Lyons 
 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Thankful 6, b. Dec. 24, 1758. 
 
 2. David 6, b. Feb. 24, 1761. 
 
 3. Sarah 6, b. July 26, 1763. 
 
3 8 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 4. Jonathan 6, b. Nov, 30, 1765, d. Sept. 10, 
 
 1767. 
 
 5. Mary 6, b. Nov. 5, 1768. 
 
 6. Jonathan 6, b. April 10, 1771. 
 
 7. Ann 6, b. 1781. 
 
 John,^ (Charles,* John/ Robert,^ Walter/) b. 
 in Londonderry, N. H., not earlier than 1734, 
 came to Colrain probably with his father in 
 1748. Here his youthful days were cast in 
 those critical times when the white settlers must 
 be cautious, guarded and fully alive to any signs 
 of Indian craft and cunning intended to lure the 
 white man on to death. His every sense had 
 become so vigilant for the lurking foe that he 
 had grown to be equal to any of their tactics, 
 making him one of the bravest and most daring 
 Indian fighters of his day. His love for Indian 
 conquest was strengthened by adventures like the 
 following, in which he came out victor. Taking 
 his gun, a precautionary necessity, when a mere 
 youth he started out one day to hunt for a 
 stray cow. As he proceeded in his search he 
 heard the cowbell, but imagined it did not ring 
 just as it would if worn by the cow. So se- 
 creting himself in the thicket he soon discov- 
 ered an Indian who had found the cow or the 
 bell she had worn, and was sitting near a spring 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 39 
 
 (afterwards called, from this incident, " Indian 
 Spring "), busily engaged in alternately ringing the 
 bell and picking his flint, apparently thinking the 
 sound of the bell would lure the owner of the cow 
 within range of his musket. But Haman-like he 
 was preparing the gallows for his own neck. Mak- 
 ing an excellent target for young Stewart's marks- 
 manship the latter shot the Indian before he was 
 aware that the white man was near. Young 
 Stewart gave the alarm and a reconnoissance was 
 made from the fort, but the body of the Indian 
 had been removed by his savage comrades. 
 
 Upon another occasion when in the fort at 
 Charlemont some of the garrison, or inmates, 
 were sick with the measles and young Stewart was 
 sent out to get slippery elm. Sheldon's "His- 
 tory of Deerfield," in relating the incident under 
 the date of 1756 says, "July 9th. Othnell Taylor 
 reports that this day at 4 o'clock John Stewart 
 went out about 40 rods from the fort to get some 
 bark, heard a noise 5 or 6 rods from him and saw 
 an Indian making towards him. He shot at him 
 and made for the fort. A party went out and saw 
 the blood where he fell and a bullet which he 
 dropped out of his mouth." March 25, 1756, he 
 enlisted under Capt. Israel Williams, served at 
 Charlemont until October i8th; enlisted again 
 Oct. 19, 1756, and served until Jan. 20, 1757, at 
 
40 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 same place ; entered the service Nov. 3, 1758, 
 under Capt. John Burk, served four weeks at 
 Morrison's Fort, Colrain ; enHsted again Dec. i, 
 1758, served until Sept. 24, 1759. Tradition 
 claims him as a Revolutionary soldier, but no en- 
 listments to that effect have been found. He was 
 Lieutenant which title he doubtless acquired in the 
 mihtia. He m. Ann, b. 1736, dau. of Michael 
 McClellan of Colrain, and about 1760 he located 
 and reared himself a home amid Colrain's most 
 beautiful and picturesque scenery situated at the 
 foothills of a chain of bold heights from whose 
 summits a panorama of rare beauty is spread out 
 to view, while the old road that leads to this warm 
 and sheltered abode parallels a charming little 
 romantic stream that comes rushing and tumbling 
 down its precipitous and rocky bed, forming now 
 and then a miniature Niagara, and singing its 
 happy song : 
 
 " I chatter over stony ways, 
 In little sharps and trebles ; 
 I bubble into eddying bays, 
 I babble on the pebbles. , 
 
 I steal by lawns and grassy plots ; 
 
 I slide by hazel covers ; 
 I move the sweet forget-me-nots 
 
 That grow for happy lovers. 
 
 >> 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 4I 
 
 Surrounded by this sublimity he settled down 
 to a peaceful domestic life, fond of thinking and 
 talking of the past glories of his race. February 
 14, 1 801, his wife passed on to the better life, and 
 the following year he sold his homestead and 
 resided with his son, Enos, until about 1807 or 
 1808, when he joined his children at Truxton, 
 N. Y., where he died August 28, 181 8. 
 
 Children. 
 
 (From a record written by himself in a most 
 beautiful hand.) 
 
 1. Robert 6, b. Sept. 29, i76i,d. March i, 1776. 
 
 2. Charles 6, b. July 5, 1763. 
 
 3. Enos 6, b. July 15, 1766. 
 
 4. Mary 6, b. April 13, 1769, d. Jan. 14, 1773. 
 
 5. John 6, b. Sept. 20, 1771, d. June 22, 1772. 
 
 6. Hugh 6, b. June 16, 1773, m. settled in 
 
 Truxton, N. Y., in 1803, ^- ^^ Truxton in 
 1857. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Matilda 7, b. ? m. James Taggart, d. in 
 
 Alleghany, N. Y. 
 
 2. Hugh 7, b. ? settled in Illinois. 
 
 3. John 7, b. ? d. in Truxton, N. Y. 
 
 4. Anna 7, b. ? d. in Homer, N. Y. 
 
42 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 5. Lucy 7, b. ? d. in Truxton, N. Y. 
 
 6. Polly 7, b. ? m. James Taggart after the 
 
 death of her sister, Matilda. 
 
 7. Deborah 7, b. ? m. Benjamin Hitchcock. 
 
 7. William 6, b. Feb. 23, 1776, settled in Trux- 
 ton in 1803, was living there in 1815; a 
 prominent man, d. in Madison Co., Ohio. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John 7, b. lived in Milton, Wayne Co., 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 2. Hiram 7, b. lived in Pennsylvania; had 
 
 four sons in the Union Army. 
 
 3. Mary Ann 7, d. young. 
 
 4. Lewis 7, b. physician, m. Melinda b. 
 
 Sept. 25, 1794, dau. of Aaron and Mary 
 (Miller) Long of Shelburne, Mass ; she 
 m. 2d Orin Long and her son's name was 
 changed to Long ; she d. in Pembroke, 
 N. Y. 
 
 5. William 7. 
 
 6. Harriet 7. 
 
 7. Caroline 7. 
 
 8. Betsey 7. 
 
 9. Matilda 7. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 43 
 
 8. Anna 6, b. Oct. 15, 1778, m. John Wilson 
 
 of Colrain. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Robert 7. 
 
 2. John 7. 
 
 3. Lewis 7, Hved in Madison Co., Ohio. 
 
 4. Mary 7, m. Dr. Grover Gage. 
 
 5. Maria 7, m. Dexter Baldwin, lived in Buf- 
 
 falo, N. Y. 
 
 6. Arad 7. 
 
 7. Jane 7. 
 
 8. Jonathan 7. 
 
 9. Sally Ann 7, m. Daniel R. Carpenter, lived in 
 
 Mich. 
 
 9. Polly 6, b. March 16, 1782, m. in 1802, Dea. 
 
 Billy Trowbridge, b. March 26, 1782. He 
 d. in Syracuse, N. Y., May 8, 1855. She 
 d. in 1857 or 1858. They resided in Trux- 
 ton, N. Y., for many years, where he was a 
 prominent man ; served his district in the 
 Legislature. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Alvah 7, b. Feb. 7, 1803, d. Feb. 1843 > ^^" 
 married. 
 
44 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 2. John 7, b. April 22, 1805, m. Jane Myrick, 
 
 2d Mary T. Butler. He d. in Detroit, 
 April 9, 1893. 
 
 3. Levi 7, b. May 8, 1807, m. Sophia E. Hast- 
 
 ings, 2d Sarah L. F. Fisher. He d. at 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 28, 1883. 
 
 4. Samuel 7, b. Sept. 4, 1809, m. Julia Wilson, 
 
 2d Margaret Cunningham. He d. at 
 Charleston, S. C. 
 
 5. Hubbard 7, b. Jan. 17, 18 13, m. Sarah H. 
 
 Stiles, 2d Edna T. West. He d. in De- 
 troit Feb. 16, 1869. 
 
 6. Smith 7, b. May 12, 18 19, m. Jane F. James, 
 
 2d, Tempe H. Green. He d. in Chicago, 
 111. March 30, 1884. 
 
 7. Rhoda Ann 7, b. March 3, 1822, m. Edwin 
 
 H. Babcock. 
 
 8. William L. 7, b. May 3, 1825, d. Sept. 2, 
 
 1883. 
 
 The above taken from Trowbridge Genealogy. 
 
 John,^ (John,^ John,-^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
 b. Sept. 22, 1743, in Windham, N. H., m. in 
 Windham, Dec. 3 1 , 1 765, Rebecca, dau. of Charles 
 Stewart of Colrain. Tradition says he took his 
 bride home horseback, but our Rebecca could 
 hardly have been bedecked with jewels of silver 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 45 
 
 and jewels of gold and with fine raiment, mounted 
 with her servants on gaily caparisoned camels, to 
 journey to her future home like the Rebecca of 
 old. Neither was she showered with rice and old 
 shoes like the modern Rebeccas ; those were too 
 valuable commodities to be wasted in such follies. 
 But she prepared her wedding outfit with her own 
 hands from the raw material, received the parental 
 blessing, sprang lightly to the pillion behind her 
 future husband and they were off for their New 
 Hampshire home over ninety miles away, where 
 we find him actively engaged in farming and other 
 pursuits of that time. The items entered in his 
 memoranda give such a vivid glimpse of his life 
 and activities, and the primitive methods and 
 rude implements then in use, that I am led to de- 
 viate from the prevailing custom and form of 
 arrangement in works of this kind, by weaving 
 in a few of his running accounts. 
 
 Windham, May 6, 1768, David Hopkins 
 
 debtor to me John Stewart £ s d 
 Dr. for one days plowing of myself 
 
 oxen and plow o 4 
 Jan. 1769 Dr. for two days hailing 
 
 wood o 6 
 
 June " your horse pasturing o 16 
 ^' to one and one half days 
 
 moing 036 
 
46 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 £ S d 
 
 Nov. ye 1 3, Dr. for beef 115 4 
 
 " " forty-one pounds of green 
 
 leather at 2 pence a pound 6 10 
 
 " " fifteen tallow 2 6 
 
 May 1770 Dr. for one days plowing 3 
 
 June " " pasturing your calf 6 
 
 July " " two pigs 6 
 
 Feb. 1 771 Dr. one days work for myself i 6 
 April, bringing your hay from widow 
 
 Eastmans 3 6 
 
 April, my oxen and cart one day 2 
 
 Oct. ye 16, hailing one load of boards 3 
 
 " " barrel of lime I 
 
 hay from Mr. Browns i 6 
 
 " one day hailing wood 3 3 
 myself and oxen harrowing 
 
 one day 4 
 May ye 8, 1772 Doctor Thom Dr. to 
 John Stewart for hailing 
 one barrel of molasses 
 
 from Haverhill i 3 
 Sept. ye 7, Dr for your plank from 
 
 Drakett 9 4 
 " ye 23, five pounds and three 
 
 quarters of lamb i 2 
 
 " 23, 14 bushels of ashes 9 4 
 May 8, 1770, Jonathan Tenney Dr to 
 John Stewart for two calf 
 
 skins 9 9 
 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 47 
 
 S d 
 July ye i8, Dr half a cord of bark 6 
 
 Oct. ye 24, hefers hide 611 
 
 Feb. 1 77 1, one coalt skin 2 
 
 May 1 77 1, calf skin 2 
 
 Oct. 1771, heifers hide 2 3 
 
 June 1772, calf skin 6 5 
 
 Windham, Dec. ye 20, 1770, Samuel 
 Merill Debtor to me John Stewart for 
 165 feet of timber i 
 
 Windham, Feb. ye 6, 11 73, Joseph Smith Debtor 
 
 to me John Stewart for hailing 825 brick from Plastor 
 
 to his home 9 shillings. 
 
 Windham Dec. ye 29, 1772. The selectmen of 
 
 Windham indebted to me John Stewart constable for 
 
 warning James Gillespey an indignant person out of 
 
 town, seven and one pence. 
 
 His arithmetic which he used when teaching 
 " the rule of three direct " was of his own com- 
 piling. It was written with a quill pen, and bound 
 by sewing blank leaves together, and throughout 
 its pages examples are wrought where he asserts 
 " done by me John Stewart it is wrong." Again 
 " done by me John Stewart it is right." It con- 
 tains multiplication table, table of time and the 
 tables for weight and measure, and short copies 
 for pen practice like " John Stewart my hand of 
 right'' " Go to school and learn to spel^ and do 
 
48 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 it well." His books are well sprinkled with odd 
 bits of poetry, showing his love for that form of 
 composition of which the following is a sample : 
 
 " John Stewart is my name 
 An for to write I am not ashamed." 
 
 At the top of one page in his memoranda, is 
 written, in a beautiful hand the words : " A new 
 song wrote by me John Stewart." The page is 
 so defaced and mutilated, the writing cannot be 
 deciphered. In his mother's old Bible, printed 
 by Richard Watkins, His Majesty's Printer, 
 Edinburgh, 1747, is written: 
 
 " Rebecca Stewart is my name, 
 Scotland is my nation, 
 Windham is my dwelling place 
 And Christ is my salvation." 
 
 " Written by John Stewart in the year of our 
 Lord Christ 1765, in the 22d year of his age 
 April 20, 1765." 
 
 Let us imagine for a moment his wonder and 
 surprise, if he could be placed amid the scenes of 
 to-day, with our mowing machines, horse rakes, 
 tedders and reapers; could he behold our mam- 
 moth engines ; flash the electric Hght upon his 
 vision, or let him listen to the voice in the tele- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 49 
 
 phone, could we wonder if he should declare that 
 we were in league with the infernal regions ? 
 
 Upon the settlement of his father's estate he 
 received a double share of the property and a 
 share of his father's land in Halifax, Cumberland 
 County, west of the Connecticut River (old Cum- 
 berland County included what is now Windham 
 and Windsor Counties, Vermont). What disposal 
 was made of this land does not appear. It prob- 
 ably came under the controversy between New 
 York and New Hampshire but no evidence has 
 been found to show that he fought for his claim. 
 
 He retained the old home at Windham, where 
 he continued to reside until the fall of 1773, when 
 he removed to Shelburne, Mass., with his family. 
 The following account of his journey is a verba- 
 tim copy from his old memoranda. 
 
 " Shilburn, October 20th 1773 I John Stew- 
 art Left windham the 13th Day of this month 
 with my Team and harf of my family and the 
 other Part of my family Left it the Day before 
 the first night I crossed merimack River and 
 
 Lodged at herods in Dunstable 12 miles 
 
 from thence to wilton at blunts 17 miles 
 
 from thence to petersborough willsons 1 1 miles 
 from thence to Dubline Saturday night 
 
 mories 1 1 miles 
 
 from thence to Swansay grahams 16 miles 
 
 4 
 
50 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 from thence to falltown Sheldins 1 7 miles 
 
 from thence Shelbure to my home 10 miles 
 
 94 
 
 "A true account of my journey wrote by me 
 John Stewart." 
 
 An old bottle which they brought in saddle- 
 bags is a choice relic of that journey. It has 
 been painted by a great-granddaughter, with a 
 bit of history on one side and upon the opposite 
 side a bunch of cherries, emblematical of that es- 
 sential beverage, cherry rum, which had been 
 poured from its spacious mouth. 
 
 This journey was made with an ox team and 
 tradition says the wife brought her babe of a few 
 month's old in her arms on horseback. 
 
 He settled upon the farm which he bought of 
 his cousin, Samuel Stewart. 
 
 Here again we must consult his memoranda to 
 appreciate the busy life he was leading. 
 
 "Shelburn, Oct. 22, 1773, Abraham Peck debtor 
 to me, John Stewart 
 
 s d 
 
 to one day of myself and oxen hailing corn 4 6 
 
 to one day of " " " " wood i 6 
 Feb. ye 15, 1774, Dr. for making your barn 
 
 doors I O 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 5I 
 
 S d 
 
 March ye 1 1 for myself and oxen after a 
 
 load of shingle 3 6 
 
 June ye 29, half a day shearing your sheep 2 o 
 
 Oct. Dr. to three days hailing timber for 
 
 your house 5 3 
 
 Nov. Dr. framing your house 5 3 
 
 A part of this old house is still standing and the 
 hewed rafters measure 6 by 6 inches in thickness. 
 
 " Shelburne March ye 1 2, 1 774 Alexander Clark 
 
 Dr. to me John Stewart 
 
 s d 
 
 for seven bushels of ashes 3 I 
 
 Dr. for half a days work of myself i 
 
 " " " " " of my plow 6 
 
 April ye 23 one day " " oxen i 4 
 
 June 8 " " " " " 
 
 June 15 to one day mowing of myself 2 
 
 Oct 24 Dr. for one day of myself chopping 
 
 coal wood I 
 
 July 15, 1775 Dr. for three days of my steers 3 
 
 Shelburne Feb ye 25, 1774 Dr. to Alexan- 
 der Clark for pig 3 6 
 
 March ye 2, for one day of William mak- 
 ing sugar troughs 2 
 
 April ye 21, making a plow 5 
 
 for one bushel of corn 11 i 
 
 half a bushel of oats 8 
 
52 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 His farm was located on a little meandering 
 stream which wound its silver thread in and out 
 among the little wooded bluffs, on the summits 
 of which often gathered in bold defiance the wild 
 beasts of the forest, of which the wolves were the 
 most troublesome, often collecting at his door on 
 cold winter nights and howling for prey, when he 
 would open his door and send his dog after them. 
 They would retreat a dozen rods, or to rising 
 ground, form into line, and with glaring eyes, 
 challenge the canine to battle, when suddenly a 
 two ounce bullet from the old flintlock gun would 
 put them to flight for the time, while he retired, 
 literally the victor in " keeping the wolf from the 
 door." Upon another occasion while returning 
 from his labors as a carpenter, a pack of wolves 
 persistently insisted upon being his close and un- 
 welcome traveling companions ; removing his 
 leather apron which he had worn while at work, 
 he suddenly wheeled about and shook it at them 
 with such a loud crackling noise that their animal 
 instinct taking this to be a new and deadly mode 
 of warfare, they broke ranks and fled. But they 
 seemed to owe this old combatant a special grudge 
 as the following incident seems to show. One 
 intensely dark night he had missed his bridle path 
 and became lost in the forest, and being supersti- 
 tious to the last degree, suddenly there confronted 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 53 
 
 him eyeballs of fire. Thinking it was Satan that 
 had led him into the wilderness to tempt him, he 
 addressed him thus : " Thou goest about like a 
 roaring lion seeking whom you may devour." 
 The eyes vanished and he soon found his way 
 home, never doubting that he had met the arch 
 enemy of mankind and had vanquished him with 
 a passage from Scripture. Doubtless, too, the 
 wolves could not brook such indignity of being 
 classed with that race, gave up the struggle and 
 troubled him no more. 
 
 His farm was the favorite grazing place for 
 deer. Flocks of that gentle game were a common 
 sight upon the brow of the high round hill near 
 his house, and venison was no uncommon luxury 
 on his table, while Bruin often came in for his 
 share upon the sacrificial altar, while with the 
 small game and the large speckled beauties with 
 which Stewart brook was well stocked, kept his 
 larder furnished with an abundant variety of nu- 
 tritious food, for which he had special need with 
 his rapidly increasing family. Yet with his own 
 large family he kept an apprentice boy whom he 
 agreed to instruct as follows. 
 
 " Know all men" by these Presents that I Wil- 
 liam Clark of Shelburn in the Province of the 
 Massachusetts Bay in the County of Hampshire 
 the contents of this obligation is this that I the 
 
54 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 said Clark do bind myself unto John Stewart in 
 the Province and County aforesaid to be his true 
 and faithful! apprentice and to Serve him for the 
 space of Seven years and to be obedient and at 
 his Lawful call at all times and not to be absent 
 from his masters house or Service without his 
 masters Liberty and he is not to Squander away 
 his masters goods nor See them wasted without 
 taking care of them and giving his master Notice 
 of the Same and I the said Stewart do bind my- 
 self unto the Said Clark to Learn him my cast of 
 reading writing and figuring and my art of Hus- 
 bandry and to give him two Suits of Cloaths when 
 his time is ended in witness whereof we have here- 
 unto set our hands and seals this twelvth day of 
 february one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy 
 five and in the fourteenth year of his majesties 
 Reighn. 
 
 " Signed Sealed and Delivered 
 
 in presence of 
 
 " Daniel Clark, William Clark, 
 
 " Matthew Clark, John Stewart.' 
 
 >> 
 
 But soon the wilderness was made to blossom 
 as the roses that lined the mossy green slope in 
 front of the house, while within, the old open fire- 
 place glowed the brighter, and the pine knots gave 
 forth a more cheery light, when an occasional 
 festive event occurred as the following recorded 
 by his own hand. '' Shelburne Feb. ye. 23, 1775 
 this day was married at my house Joseph Mc- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 55 
 
 Known to my sister Lydia Stewart. Witness our 
 hands John Stewart, Daniel Clark." 
 
 From another entry in his memoranda it ap- 
 pears that the children of the neighborhood as- 
 sembled at his house, where they received at his 
 hand the rudiments of the meagre education of 
 that age. " Shelburne Jan. ye 24, 1775 this day 
 took up school and hath three of Alexander Clarks 
 children and three of my own and one of Abra- 
 ham Pecks." " March 1775 a Debtor account is 
 entered against Abraham Peck for schooling his 
 son five weeks 3 shillings and 6 pence." 
 
 The following account it will be seen, has an 
 interest in various ways. " Shelburne March ye 8, 
 1775 John Clark Dr. to me John Stewart for my 
 mare to Boston 13 shillings 4 pence." Here his 
 accounts show an interruption in his busy life 
 among his neighbors. The war cloud which had 
 so slowly and surely been gathering burst with 
 all its fury upon the land, and his name appears 
 upon a muster roll with the rank of sergeant on 
 the Lexington Alarm in Capt. Hugh McClellan's 
 Co., Col. Samuel Williams' Regt., which marched 
 for Lexington April 20, 1775, but being too late 
 to participate in the battle, they returned after 
 15 J days' service. During this interval of absence, 
 his accounts show his neighbors' boys ar6 doing 
 his plowing. 
 
^6 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 In June his account with John Clark is con- 
 tinued. " June ye 3 John Clark Dr. to me for 
 three days weeding corn 6 shillings." 
 
 "July ye 4 John Clark Dr, one day howing i 
 shilling 9 pence." January 27, 1776, he takes up 
 school to keep for 8 pounds per month old tenor 
 " exclusive of my own children." The spring of 
 this year finds him with his company preparing 
 for war again. April 22d his name appears 
 among a list of officers in the Massachusetts 
 Militia chosen by the company as 2d Lieutenant 
 in the 2d company, 5th Hampshire County Regt., 
 Hugh McClellan Capt., Col. David Field com- 
 mander, May 3, 1776. During this service his 
 neighbors are supplying his family with flour 
 and other necessaries for which a long account is 
 rendered October 3, 1776. 
 
 October 15, 1776, John Clark is again debtor 
 to him for two days' gathering corn 4 shillings. 
 "Oct. ye 19 Dr., for my mare to Worcester, 
 9 shillings 8 pence." 
 
 "November ye 16, 1776, account of expenses 
 with Alxr Clark from Haverhill. Clark paid 
 4 pounds 12 shillings and i pence I paid 2 pounds 
 II shillings and 3 pence." February 23, 1777, 
 he inlisted with the rank of Lieutenant in Capt. 
 Lawrence Kemp's Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for 
 service at Ticonderoga; discharged April 10, 1777. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 57 
 
 In the summer of 1777, a terrible and malig- 
 nant disease swept over the town and two of his 
 children were its victims. This sickness and 
 death in his family seems to account for the va- 
 cancy in his company which marched to Ben- 
 nington August 16, 1777, without a Lieutenant. 
 In the midst of this calamity the battle of Benning- 
 ton was fought and the roar of the cannon was 
 heard here in these distressing days of sickness and 
 death. Burgoyne was marching down from the 
 North with his army and horde of Indians. This 
 agonizing cloud of grief and alarm which brooded 
 over this defenseless community seems to have 
 paralyzed his pen with utter despair, and the 
 year 1777 is passed over as if to erase the scenes of 
 those terrible months from his memory ; not an 
 entry was made in his book during that year. His 
 name again appears with rank of Lieutenant on 
 Muster and Pay Roll of Capt. Hugh McClel- 
 lan's Co., Col. David Wells' Regt. Enlisted 
 Sept. 22, 1777, Discharged Oct. 18, 1777. Again 
 his name appears in Capt. John Wells' Co. 
 dated Shelburne Nov. 21, 1777. The first entry 
 made in his memoranda after this year of fatal- 
 ity is Dec. 8, 1778, when he seems to resume 
 his old activities. '^ Robert Watson Dr. myself 
 and oxen one day hailing wood and building 
 your hovel, 8 shillings." 
 
5.8 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 to hailing you hay 1 2 shillings 
 
 two bushel of potatoes i pound, lo shillings, i pence 
 
 hailing wood 15 shillings 
 
 your loom 1 8 shillings 
 
 moving your goods 10 shillings 
 
 He held his prominence as an officer in the 
 militia as two of his old Lieutenant's commission 
 papers are still in existence ; one bears the date of 
 178 1, the other 1783. Thus, though he has re- 
 frained from alluding to his military service, or 
 the stirring events enacted during the struggle for 
 National Independence, yet the sudden cessation 
 of his industries and the gaps in his debtor ac- 
 counts against his neighbors during the three 
 years following the opening of hostilities, together 
 with the intersecting records of his military service, 
 from the archives at Boston, prove conclusively 
 that he was serving his country, and that he was 
 the only one of the name who served from this 
 vicinity during the Revolution. One more glance 
 at his memoranda before closing its sacred and 
 time-worn pages which has afforded me so much 
 fascination and instruction. 
 
 *' March ye 7, 1780. Alexander Clarlc debtor 
 to me for serving as constable in his stead for the 
 north part of the town of Shelburne, 28 bushels 
 of wheat." 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 59 
 
 From an old district book we find him active 
 to the last in promoting the advance of education. 
 
 He served as highway surveyor and the town 
 " voted to allow him two shillings per day in 
 summer and one shilling in the faulT The 
 town records show that he was selectman in 1806 
 and 1807, also tax collector, while his judgment 
 was considered sound and trustworthy by his 
 townsmen, and we find him serving as committee 
 upon questions of moment and interest to the 
 town. He was sought to write wills and draw up 
 other legal papers. He was remembered by a 
 granddaughter as kind and indulgent but a rigid 
 Presbyterian and very strict in matters pertaining 
 to religion and the observance of the Sabbath, 
 which began with him at sunset Saturday eve and 
 lasted till Monday morning. He attended 
 church at Colrain, and the children soon learned 
 it was not safe for them to be caught out at play 
 when they saw him returning from church. She 
 speaks of him as wearing a queue and cocked hat 
 and that he spoke with that broad accent and rich 
 toned brogue, which many of the children and 
 grandchildren of those early Scotch settlers are 
 known to have retained through life. A daughter- 
 in-law, who lived to an advanced age, was wont 
 to speak of him in terms of highest praise. 
 
 The following is a copy of a letter written by 
 
6o GENEALOGY OF 
 
 him to his brother Robert, in 1817, two years 
 before his death. 
 
 " Shelburne, August ye 4th, 18 17. 
 
 " Dear Brother 
 
 " I received a line from you leting me know 
 that you and yours was well I and mine are well 
 through the goodness of almighty God in hope 
 they will find you enjoying the like blessing. I 
 have no news to write you it is a general time of 
 health in these parts. I would gladly come and 
 see you but I am Destitute of a horse, my old 
 mare died last winter and her left colt three years 
 old broke her leg in the pasture playing and 
 obliged to kill her. Chester is in the state of 
 Maryland at the head of the Chesepeake. Clerk 
 to a man building a bridge over the Susqehanna he 
 hant been home but once this four years I had a 
 letter from him Dated last month he was not well 
 and thought he should come home if he did not 
 get better my kind respects to my old friend John 
 Morrison and let him know that if we should not 
 see each other in this world I hope we shall meet 
 in another and better world where sin and sorrow 
 shall be done away, my respects to your wife, 
 Abraham and wife and all inquiring friends 
 
 " farewell 
 
 " John Stewart.' 
 
 I) 
 
 Their pioneer life is ended, their trials have 
 ceased and their joys are transmitted to the eter- 
 nal realm, while their dust reposes side by side 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 6l 
 
 in the old Shelburne cemetery, unforgotten by 
 the humble servants of Nature — a wild columbine 
 having sprung up and thrives as it bows its mod- 
 est head in reverent adoration and keeps its silent 
 vigil in the shadow of the ancient headstone, on 
 which is the following inscription. 
 
 " In memory of Mrs. Rebecca, wife of Lt. John 
 Stewart, who departed this life 23 July, 1815, in 
 the 73 d year of her age. 
 
 " Stop passer as you go by 
 As you are now so once was I, 
 As I am now you soon must be 
 Prepare for death and follow me." 
 
 He died January 19,1819, and a nameless grave 
 beside his wife points out the resting place of 
 Lieut. John Stewart. 
 
 " Though no shaft of pallid marble rears its white and 
 
 ghastly head, 
 Telling wanderers on the hilltop of the virtues of 
 
 the dead, 
 Yet a lily is his tombstone and a dewdrop pure and 
 
 bright. 
 Is the epitaph an angel writes in the stillness of the 
 
 night." 
 
 The old house, too, long years ago yielded to the 
 hand of time, the old well with its long sweep and 
 
62 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 " moss covered bucket," the old orchard, the seeds 
 of which were brought from Windham, have dis- 
 appeared. The old maples that yielded up their 
 sweets and have withstood the storms of nearly 
 two centuries have nearly all been felled by the 
 woodman's axe. But the furrowed fields, the old 
 road leading to the south, the high rock that stood 
 in front of the house are still there; the rosy-tinted 
 arbutus, too, still inhabits its native hillsides and 
 mossy knolls, and lends its sweetness and greets 
 us every springtime as it did our forefathers and 
 foremothers of yore. And the stately lilies cling- 
 ing so tenaciously to life, after resisting the war- 
 fare of years to exterminate them, raise their plead- 
 ing heads every season and seem to beg for mercy 
 and the care our predecessors were wont to give 
 them. But the little clump of large crimson peo- 
 nies, the first of which came, with other valuables 
 from New Hampshire soil, have received more 
 favor and attention, and still send forth their ten- 
 der shoots with the first smile of spring and thrive 
 unmolested ; and Stewart brook continues its 
 gentle and melodious ripple as it wends its way 
 on its winding and sequestered course, but the big 
 speckled beauties no longer inhabit its waters — 
 and the Stewarts, where are they ? The broad 
 prairies of the West have many of them, but the 
 grassy turf of New England has its share. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 6^ 
 
 Among the relics and souvenirs of these old 
 people and their pioneer home are an old desk 
 which dates back to its removal from Ireland in 
 1 71 8; the old flintlock gun carried by Lieutenant 
 Stewart in the Revolutionary War and by his father 
 in the French and Indian War, and by old papers 
 it appears to be the same old gun owned, and 
 probably brought, from Ireland by " Proprietor 
 John " Stewart. Another choice and highly prized 
 memento of " ye olden time " is a cane made and 
 labeled as follows : " This cane was made from an 
 old apple tree planted by Lieut. John Stewart of 
 Shelburne, Mass., in 1773; ^^^ head was made 
 from one of his old sugar maples ; the ferrule from 
 one his old pewter plates ; the old handmade 
 spike in the small end came from an old Colonial 
 building erected by the above John Stewart." 
 His " ink well " which bears an ancient look ; his 
 pewter plate and bread and milk bowl ; an ancient 
 work basket, containing steel thimble, steel bowed 
 spectacles, and handmade shears of rude pattern, 
 all bear marks of ancient usefulness and are 
 silent reminders of this old couple. 
 
 FACSIMILE OF HIS AUTOGRAPH. 
 
64 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Mary 6, b. in Windham, N. H., Oct. 7, 1766, 
 
 m. in Shelburne, Oct. 19, 1794, Ephraim 
 Cady. She d. in Colrain 18 13. 
 
 Children. 
 
 Jessie 7, who died in Northfield, Mass. ; one 
 child d. in Shelburne, Aug. 26, 1802; one 
 d. Aug. 29, 1802 ; one d. Sept. 2, 1802. 
 
 These children died from the epidemic that 
 swept through Shelburne at that time. 
 
 2. Rebecca 6, b. in Windham, Dec. 8, 1767, 
 
 unmarried — d. Dec. 25, i860. 
 
 She was known for her eccentricities and her 
 piety, the children's saint, and familiarly known 
 to the whole town as " Aunt Becky." She was 
 efficient at the loom, and sought for far and near 
 to do the family weaving, and when she started 
 out with her basket on her arm, fine work was sure 
 to be the result. Her nimble fingers and the 
 swift flying shuttle keeping time to the old Scotch 
 airs alternating with exciting stories of her early 
 childhood, keeping her audience of children spell- 
 bound with wonder and delight. She always wore 
 a man's hat ; only once was she ever known to 
 wear a bonnet, and then she declared she was 
 never so ashamed in her life. She could ride a 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 65 
 
 frisky horse like a trooper, and it was no uncom- 
 mon sight to see her ride up to church, crowned 
 with her beaver and one of her nieces seated on 
 the pilHon behind her. She was an ardent stu- 
 dent of the Bible, and always ready to make an 
 apt quotation from its sacred pages, her favorite 
 passage being, " Though I walk through the valley 
 of the shadow of death I will fear no evil." Sons 
 were not plentiful in her father's family and among 
 her duties at an early age was that of an errand 
 boy, and one day her father bade her go to a dis- 
 tant pasture and catch a horse. Obediently she 
 took the halter and started. She had nearly reached 
 her destination, when she caught sight of a huge 
 bear sitting on its haunches and curiously watch- 
 ing her ; with the sudden fright of the moment 
 she screamed, dropped the halter and started for 
 home with all possible speed. The bear equally 
 alarmed started as rapidly in an opposite direction. 
 Another boyish duty, and delight of her life was 
 that of fishing, and many a lone ramble did she 
 take beside the sparkling waters of Stewart brook 
 and bring home a long string of large plump trout. 
 Such duties became native and congenial to her 
 and through her long, useful life she delighted to 
 labor in the field with the husbandmen. She 
 would handle the scythe, pitchfork and rake with 
 ease, and her old sickle with her initial R. cut in 
 
66 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 the handle bears marks of great use. It was a 
 familiar sight to her neighbors to see her driving 
 two yoke of oxen with a load of potatoes for 
 Greenfield market. When past eighty and in- 
 firmity had laid a heavy hand upon her, she 
 would hobble to the woodpile and wield the axe 
 with the dexterity of a backwoodsman. Her 
 Bible was her constant companion, and fortified 
 by its divine promises, death was to her but the 
 lifting of the veil and a flight through the pearly 
 gates. 
 
 *' Many a dear one's blessing went 
 With her beneath the low green tent, 
 Whose curtain never outward swings." 
 
 3. Lydia 6, b. in Windham, Dec. 16, 1768, d. 
 Dec. 29, 18 18, unmarried. 
 
 She was somewhat eccentric and was a lady of 
 considerable means. She was noted for her in- 
 dustrious habits and for fine work at the wheel 
 and loom. She lived and died at Northfield. 
 
 It may be interesting to later generations to know 
 of what a lady's wardrobe consisted 85 years ago, 
 and the following is the inventory of her estate. 
 
 I silk bunnit & two caps at 2.00, i black silk 
 
 gound at 4.00 6 00 
 
 I Light Coulored Calico Gound at 1.67, i Blue 
 Print Calico at 2.00 3 6y 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 67 
 
 Amount brought forward 9 6^ 
 I Black Printed Calico Gound 1.25, i bed flan- 
 nel at 3.50 4 75 
 I Striped cotton Gound at 1.25, i Linen Do at 
 
 50c I 75 
 
 I Scarlet Cloak 1.67, i Dimity Peticoat 1.25, 
 
 I Do at 70c 3 62 
 
 I Linen Peticoat at 70c, i White Woolen Do 
 
 at 1.25 I 95 
 
 I Black Woolen Shawl 95 c, Checkered Cotton- 
 tine 90c I 85 
 I Linentine i.oo, four linen and cotton shirts 
 
 3.72, 3 Do at 75c 5 47 
 
 I Red Bandaner Handkerchief at 75 c, i Striped 
 
 Do at 35c I 10 
 
 7 Linen Handkerchiefs at i . 1 7, i blue stamped 
 
 Do at 55c I 72 
 
 I White Spoted cotton Handkerchief 20c, i 
 
 Cambrick Do at i.oo i 20 
 
 I Cotton Shawl at 1.34, Six Pr of Cotton 
 
 Stockings at 4.25 5 59 
 
 I Pr of old Stockings at 33c, i Woolen Great 
 
 Coat at 2.83 3 16 
 
 I Pr of Woolen Stockings at 67c, i Pr of Mo- 
 
 raro Shoes 34c i 01 
 
 I String of Gold Beads at 5.00, i Gold Ring 
 
 at 1.25 6 25 
 
 I gold ear ring at 12c, i silver thimble at 
 
 50c 62 
 
 I Feather bed, Bedding, Bedstead and cord 23 00 
 
68 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Amount brought forward 72 71 
 I Bedquilt at 2.50, i Do at 2.25, one woolen 
 
 rug 2.00 6 75 
 
 I Pr linen sheets at 3.50, i Do 1.75, i Do at i.oo 6 25 
 
 1 Pr Piller caps 3.00, i table cloth at 1.50 4 50 
 
 2 Towels at 75 c, 2 Do at 50c, two and one 
 
 half yards of Linen cloth 2 17 
 Spinning foot wheel at 1.50, one chest of draws 
 
 at 3.00 4 50 
 Small chest at 50c, one chair at 34c, one wash 
 
 tub at I2c 96 
 
 I pair of cotton cards, 50 
 
 98 34 
 
 4. Elizabeth 6, b. in Windham, June 6, 1770, 
 m. Feb. 23, 1792, Thomas Fowler. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John 7, b. Aug. 27, 1793, lived at Brattle- 
 
 boro, Vt., d. a. 82. 
 
 2. Ambrose 7, b. June 7, 1795, drowned in 
 
 Green River April 30, 1807. 
 
 3. Betsey 7, b. Feb. i 2, 1 797, m. Nathan Prindle 
 
 and lived at Northfield ; had seven chil- 
 dren. A son was living at South Royalton, 
 Vt.j in 1899, and two daughters were living 
 at Portland, Oregon. 
 
 4. Elias 7, b. Sept. 26, 1798, went West. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 69 
 
 5. Lewis 7, b. Nov. 20, 1800, m. Climena New- 
 
 ton, seven children. 
 
 6. Oraseville 7, b. Dec. 14, 1806, d. Nov. 10, 
 
 1808. 
 
 7. Thomas 7, b. Sept. 23, i8ii,d. in Missouri. 
 Thomas Fowler, the father, d. Oct. 10, 1821. 
 
 She m. 2d James Salsbury, lived at Guilford, Vt., 
 and d. Aug. 15, 1827. 
 
 5. Agnes 6, b. in Windham Aug. 4, 1771, m. 
 
 1793, Dr. Daniel Allen of Colrain, and went 
 West. The old people say that they had a 
 large family of children but no trace of them 
 can now be found. 
 
 6. John 6, b. in Windham April 27, 1773, 
 
 brought from Windham in his mother's arms 
 on horseback, when he was five months old. 
 He succeeded his father on the homestead ; 
 m. Charlotte Flagg. 
 
 7. Catherine 6, b. in Shelburne, July 27, 1775, 
 
 m. William Anderson of Colrain, and re- 
 moved to Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. 
 
 Children. 
 
 Rebecca,^ Betsey,^ William,^ (who was captain 
 of a steamer on Lake Champlain for many years) 
 Harvey,^ Catherine,^ Orilla,^ Octavia,^ Eliza*^. 
 
70 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 8. Margaret 6, b. Oct. i, 1776, d. July 26, 1777. 
 
 9. Clark 6, b. 1777, d. July 31, 1777. 
 
 10. Jane 6, b. Nov. 29, 1778, m. Dec. 31, 1805 
 
 Clark Fowler, removed from Shelburne to 
 Halifax, Vt. between 1806 and 1807, and 
 were living at Northfield, Mass., in 1809. 
 He was a soldier in an artillery Co. from 
 Northfield, under Capt. Elijah Mattoon, Jr., 
 that started for Boston in Sept. 18 14. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Electa 7, b. Nov. 2, 1806. 
 
 2. Julia 7, b. May 3, 1808, m. Roswell Hough- 
 
 ton, d. at N. Adams. 
 
 3. Rebecca 7, b. March 18, 181 1. 
 
 4. Charles 7, b. Nov. 26, 18 13. 
 
 5. William 7, b. Nov. 29, 18 16. 
 
 11. Martha 6, b. May 30, 1780, m. Match i, 
 
 1 803, John Fowler. He was a soldier in an 
 artillery Co. from Northfield, with his 
 brother Clark in 18 14. She d. in Shel- 
 burne Jan. 7, 1836. He is supposed to 
 have died in Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Children. 
 Lucinda and Martha ; lived in Nashua, N. H. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS "Jl 
 
 12. Infant 6, b. April 22, 1782, d. May 3, 
 
 1782. 
 
 13. Adam 6, b. March 22, 1784, m. Feb. 2, 
 
 1809, Judith, b. May 12, 1787, dau. of 
 David and Judith (Nash) Phinney of Shel- 
 burne. 
 
 He was a fine scholar, a teacher and a beauti- 
 ful penman. The following letter was written by 
 him, in a fine hand, while at Kingsbury, N. Y., 
 to his parents in Shelburne. 
 
 "Kingsbury, February 22nd, 1808. 
 
 " Worthy Parents, 
 
 " An opportunity having presented itself, ani- 
 mated with duty and gratitude, my heart and pen 
 join their efforts in composing a few lines for 
 your perusal, trusting that you will not severely 
 censure what is well meant though its power to 
 please should fail. Duty to parents is one of the 
 divine injunctions of the Saviour of mankind in 
 whose character we see exemplified the strictest 
 duty and gratitude to parents while in the days of 
 his fiesh. Unmoved by the praise he acquired 
 among learned men he returns meekly to the sub- 
 jection of a child under those who appeared to be 
 his parents ; which indeed is an admirable lesson 
 of humility to those who have parents that have 
 watched over their helpless infancy and conducted 
 them with many a pang to an age at which their 
 mind is capable of manly improvement. Believ- 
 ing then that as parents you have performed 
 
72 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 your duty toward me as a child I feel myself 
 bound by the law of nature to return as far as in 
 me lies the vast debt of gratitude which I owe to 
 you for the unwearied pains you have bestowed 
 upon me in taking care of me when I was unable 
 to provide for myself, and instructing me in the 
 principles of virtue and religion without which no 
 person can profess happiness either in this world 
 or that which is to come, and for making out 
 to me a way wherein I might walk and shun 
 many of those vices into which children are 
 naturally led and have no parents to walk before 
 them and instruct them, or if they should have 
 they will so walk as to impart no light to 
 them and let them pursue the path that leads 
 to destruction rather than the one that leads 
 to happiness. But if I should be one of 
 those who choose the path to destruction I 
 shall be left without excuse and can never say 
 that if my parents* had performed their duty to- 
 wards me I should not have been thus miserable. 
 I can neither impute it to my parents neglect of 
 duty nor to any scantiness of the blood of a Sav- 
 iour but if I am miserable my condemnation will 
 be just. But I hope by the grace of Almighty 
 God I shall be enabled to choose the better part 
 which shall not be taken from me. Would time 
 permit, a sheet of paper would not contain all I 
 should write but I must soon draw to a close 
 after informing you of my health which is some- 
 what impaired by a pain in my right side which 
 is sometimes so severe as to deprive me of sleep. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 73 
 
 I have not seen Abraham since John Fowler left 
 this place, but I heard from him not long since 
 and he was quite lame but I did not hear the 
 cause of his lameness. Please to write to me the 
 first opportunity if no opportunity presents itself 
 write by the mail. May the God of nature, of 
 providence and of grace bestow upon you his 
 blessings in such a manner as that you may enjoy 
 happiness in this world (while you stay in it) and 
 the reward of a good life in the world to come 
 which is the sincere wish of your affectionate and 
 dutiful son 
 
 " Adam Stewart. 
 "John & Rebekah Stewart." 
 
 " N. B. Please to present my compliments to all 
 inquiries without discrimination." 
 
 One child, d. Dec. 3, 18 10. 
 
 He d. in Shelburne June 22, 1 8 1 9. His widow 
 went to Cazenovia, N. Y., the same year and m. 
 there in 1822 Lorin Loomis. She d. in Caze- 
 novia Feb. 15, 1884, nearly 97 years old. 
 
 Robert,-^ (John,* John,^ Robert,- Walter,^) b. 
 in Windham, N. H., Sept. 15, 1748. Three 
 hundred and fourteen acres of his father's land 
 was laid off to him, in Halifax, Cumberland 
 County, west of Connecticut River, now Windham 
 County, Vt. He was a soldier and an ardent 
 patriot during the Revolution. At the time of 
 
74 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 enlistment he was a resident of Cambridge, Mass. 
 Serving as first Lieutenant in Capt. John Calef's 
 Co., N. H. troops his name appearing on a re- 
 turn of the company, dated at Great Island, Pis- 
 cataqua Harbor, November 5, 1775, enlisted 
 June, 1775, l^^gth of service six months. En- 
 listed January i, 1776, private, John Wood, Capt. 
 Paul D. Sargent, Col. length of service one year. 
 Enlisted February 11, 1777, private. From the 
 History of Windham is the following : " There 
 is enlisted out of Windham on May 8, 1779, 
 Robert Stewart in the Continental Army to serve 
 for three years." In October of this year he 
 participated in the short but decisive battle of 
 Saratoga. He served as ensign in Capt. Ben- 
 jamin Whittier's Co., Col. Jacob Gale's N. Y. 
 regiment, his name appearing upon the pay roll 
 of this company, dated, Exeter, November 4, 1 778, 
 which joined the Continental Army on Rhode Is- 
 land. He served his country faithfully and was 
 one of the earliest pensioners. 
 
 He m. Sarah Woodward of Halifax, Vt. The 
 Woodwards were early settlers there, some of 
 which settled in Shelburne. He m. 2d Sarah 
 Smith of Salem, N. H. He was for a short time, 
 early in 1800, a resident of Shelburne and owned 
 land in Heath but never resided there and about 
 1805 he removed to Salem, N. H., where he spent 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 75 
 
 the remainder of his life. No one knows the date 
 of his death or where his dust reposes. 
 
 The following is a copy of Robert Stewart's bill 
 of sale : 
 
 " Know all men by these Presents that I Robart 
 Stewart of Shelburne in the County of Hampshire 
 and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, in 
 Consideration of the Sum of twenty-three Pounds, 
 three Shillings, Lawful Money, to me in hand 
 Paid by John Stewart of Shelburne in the Said 
 County, Gent, whereof I do acknowledge the 
 Rec't and myself therewith fully Satisfied, have 
 Bargained, Sold, Set over and delivered, and by 
 these Presents in plain and open Market according 
 to the Due form of Law in that case made and Pro- 
 vided, do Bargain Set over and Deliver unto the 
 said John Stewart, one Brown Mare at twelve 
 Pounds, one Cow at Six pounds together with her 
 young Calf, of which Particulars I have given him 
 the Said John Stewart an Inventory Subscribed 
 with my own Hand Bearing date with these Pres- 
 ents the Said creatures to Have and to hold to the 
 Property use and Behoof of him, the Said John 
 Stewart, his heirs and assigns forever, and I the 
 Said Robart Stewart for my Self my heirs executors 
 and administrators do grant the Said Bargained 
 Premises unto the Said John Stewart, his heirs and 
 assigns, against all and all manner of persons 
 whatsoever to warrent Secure and Defend by these 
 Presents, Provided Nevertheless that if I the Said 
 Robart Stewart my heirs Executors Administra- 
 
76 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 tors or assigns or any of them Shall well and 
 truely pay or Cause to be paid unto the Said John 
 Stewart, his heirs or assigns the sum of twenty- 
 three pounds three Shillings, with Lawful Interest 
 by the first Day of february next ensuing for the 
 Redemption of the above Bargained Premises, 
 than the present writing to be void and of none 
 effect but on failure to remain in full force and 
 virtue in witness whereof with the Delivery of the 
 above mentioned Creatures I have hereunto Set 
 m.y hand and Seal this Nineteenth day of february 
 one thousand eight hundred and two. 
 
 Signed Sealed and Delivered in presents of 
 
 Robert Wilson. 
 
 Samuel Severance. 
 
 RoBART Stewart. 
 
 Children, b. in Windham, N. H. 
 
 1. ^Rebecca 6, b. Oct. 16, 1782, d. in Shelburne, 
 )Mass., March 4, 1803. 
 
 2. j Sarah 6, b. Oct. 16, 1782, drowned in a well 
 (at Windham, July 31, 1787. 
 
 3. Abraham W. 6, b. Aug. 4, 1786. 
 
 John,^ (see Memoir of Capt. John Stewart, 
 p. 165) (Samuel,"* John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. at 
 Londonderry, N. H, Sept. 12, 1745, m. March 
 12, 1772, Huldah, dau. of Elnathan Hubbell of 
 Bennington. It is thought by some that he was 
 a son of James, whose widow is said to have 
 married Samuel the brother of James, and that at 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 77 
 
 the age of five years he came to Colrain, Mass., to 
 live with his uncle Samuel. He enlisted April 28, 
 1759 — at the age of 13 — served until Septem- 
 ber 24th as one of the garrison at Charlemont ; 
 re-enlisted for service in Canada, joining General 
 Amherst's forces at Crown Point in the fall of 
 1759, and he was present at the taking of Mon- 
 treal in 1760. No better account of his service 
 can be found than Sergeant Samuel Merriman's 
 journal kept by himself, for a part of the time, 
 from October 7, 1759, to September 8, 1760, 
 which we get from Sheldon's History of Deer- 
 field : 
 
 " Campt crown point, Oct. 26, 1759. 
 
 " friday this day we set out to clean a rode to 
 No. 4, we crost the Lake about Sun set & then 
 campt. 
 
 " Satterday the 27 we camp east side of y® Lak 
 upon Mager Hawks Rode ; this day we set out 
 to clear y® Rode and cleared as far as two mile 
 Brook and we campt. Nothing extraordinary 
 haped this Day. 
 
 " Sabath October y® 28, 1759 this day we cleared 
 4 miles and then campt. 
 
 "Monday, October 29, 1759, this day we 
 marched 2 miles further and then came to a 
 stream and made a brigue over and then marched 
 2 miles further and then came to a nother large 
 stream and there we campt &c. 
 
78 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 *' Tuesday, October ye 30, 1 759. We maid ye 
 great brigue and march 3 miles & then campt. 
 
 October ye 31, 1759, then march 2 miles & 
 then we eat dinner." 
 
 After the close of the war he removed from 
 Colrain to Bennington, Vt., and became a mem- 
 ber of the Green Mountain Corps, which de- 
 fended the Vermont people from the New York- 
 ers, who claimed that region under grants, and at 
 the time of his death, he was the last but one of 
 that little band. 
 
 The following extract from the life of Ethan 
 Allen and the Green Mountain Heroes of '76, 
 by Henry W. DePuy, evidently refers to him. 
 
 " In October, 1769 a number of the inhabitants 
 of Bennington were assembled upon the farm of 
 James Breckenridge, in the western part of the 
 town, for the purpose of assisting him in harvest- 
 ing his corn. While they were thus employed, a 
 number of surveyors came upon the farm, and ap- 
 peared to be running a line across it. Mr. Breck- 
 enridge (James Breckenridge was a former resi- 
 dent of Colrain, Mass., and lived next lot to the 
 Stewarts) and Mr. Samuel Robinson left their 
 work, and entered into conversation with them. 
 The surveyors declared they were acting under 
 the authority of the State of New York. Mr. 
 Breckenridge and Mr. Robinson forbade their 
 proceeding further, stating, at the same time, that 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 79 
 
 It was not their intention to use violence, but 
 merely to protest against the proceeding, for the 
 purpose of preserving their legal rights. Upon 
 this they petitioned the governor and council of 
 New York stating that the commissioners and sur- 
 veyors had been ' violently opposed by sundry 
 persons, and prevented by their threats from ex- 
 ecuting the trusts reposed in them.' Upon this 
 a proclamation was issued by the governor ' for 
 apprehending and securing the principals and 
 ringleaders ; ' and at the following January term 
 of court at Albany, several persons who had been 
 present were indicted as rioters, and among them 
 was John Stewart. None of them, however, were 
 arrested or brought to trial." 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Cynthia 6, b. at Bennington, Vt., Dec. 25, 
 
 1772. 
 
 From her letters to her parents and brothers 
 as well as theirs to her and each other, we get 
 glimpses of an affectionate family life, and many 
 references occur enabling us to place the relatives 
 of the father and mother. It is a matter of re- 
 gret that so few of these Stewart letters have 
 been preserved. Cynthia had a school friend, 
 Fannie Hine, who was a lifelong correspondent, 
 and it is a curious feeling one has in reading this 
 complete correspondence of a lifetime. Bright, 
 facetious letters for the greater part were these 
 
8o GENEALOGY OF 
 
 epistles of Fannie Hine, whose home seems to 
 have been at Fishkill Village, N. Y. Cynthia 
 seems to have been a lady of rare accomplish- 
 ments for those days. The following is an ex- 
 tract from a letter written by her from Salem, 
 N. Y., to her parents while they were living at 
 Burlington, N. Y. : 
 
 " Salem, N. Y., 226. June, 1800. 
 " Houn*^ Parents. ... I went this day week 
 to Uncle Rob*'^ as Noble had a special business 
 to Jos. Stewarts. I staid but half an hour there 
 and returned to Archibalds to see my Grand 
 Mother, who enjoys remarkable good health and 
 whose tender affection for me & all the family 
 merits a return of the warmest gratitude. She 
 
 indeed is a most affectionate Old Woman and ap- 
 pears to live quite happy at Merimans. . . . 
 Meriman is going to move to the Ohio next fall. 
 . . . Uncle Samuel Stewart was here last Wednes- 
 day, and he really looks like hard times and like 
 an old man. He came all the way from Bristol 
 to purchase corn & had not found a bushel. . . . 
 " Your Dutiful & Affectionate Daughter, 
 
 " Cynthia Stewart." 
 
 Cynthia never married. She was engaged to a 
 gentleman named Swift, who was drowned before 
 the day set for the marriage. She d. at Middle- 
 bury, Vt., March 17, 1857. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 8 I 
 
 2. Aaron 6, b. at Bennington, Vt., March 22, 
 
 1775. (See Memoir, p. 172). 
 
 3. Noble 6, b. at Pawlet, Vt., April 3, 1777. 
 
 He had real business ability and before his 
 untimely end had established a very exten- 
 sive business and was rapidly acquiring a 
 fortune. The property which he left re- 
 habilitated the fortunes of the family which 
 had suffered from various causes dating from 
 the destruction of Captain Stewart's Inn at 
 Ticonderoga. Noble moreover was a man 
 of high principle and from his letters one 
 can see that he always acted from high mo- 
 tives. He possessed a magnificent voice 
 and his singing made a sensation. Very old 
 men, whose memories went back to his time, 
 told his nephew, Ex-Governor Stewart, that 
 for purity and beauty they had never heard 
 a voice that approached it. He died un- 
 married at Middlebury, Vt., May 17, 18 14, 
 from an attack of typhoid fever. 
 
 4. Ira 6, b. at Pawlet, Vt., July 15, 1779. 
 
 5. John 6, b. at Ticonderoga, N. Y., March 10, 
 
 1785. From his letters we can judge that 
 he was a boy of splendid promise. He died 
 suddenly at Manchester, Vt., June 14, 
 1802. 
 6 
 
82 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Samuel/ (Samuel/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
 b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 23, 1749, came 
 to Colrain with the family when an infant. He 
 was a resident of Shelburne prior to 1773, settling 
 there not far from 1770 and was first occupant of 
 lot No. ^^, which was divided by quite a stream, 
 afterward called Stewart Brook, and the following 
 poem was written in commemoration. 
 
 Stewart Brook. 
 
 , 1770. 
 
 Upon Bel Eden's wind-kissed height. 
 
 Just over in Colrain, 
 A rather high and hilly town, 
 
 But not unknown to fame, 
 
 A little streamlet gushes forth 
 
 Fresh, pure, from crystal fountains, 
 
 And gaily gambols down the hills 
 And through the distant mountains. 
 
 The graceful deer from out the wood 
 
 Feed on its grassy brink, 
 The muskrat scampers up the bank 
 
 Pursued by gamey mink. 
 
 Fierce panthers scream along its course, 
 
 The wolves reply with howls. 
 The bears on mischief ever bent 
 
 Re-echo back with growls. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 83 
 
 Upon a meadow near this brook, ' 
 
 Mid Nature's solitude, 
 Young Stewart built a cabin strong, 
 
 A building small and rude. 
 
 Here in the forest's deep recess. 
 
 His axe rings sharp and clear. 
 Swung by the cordy sinews of 
 
 This sturdy pioneer. 
 
 1904. 
 
 How changed the scene wild nature tamed 
 
 Along this silvery stream, 
 The forest's giant trees are gone 
 
 The past seems but a dream. 
 
 White clover blossoms on the hills, 
 
 Cows graze upon the plain 
 And on the nearby hillside slopes 
 
 Are fields of grass and grain. 
 
 The wild rose opes its petals sweet, 
 
 The last wild flower of spring. 
 The golden rod's bright yellow plume 
 
 Nods to the wild wind's wing. 
 
 The lily lifts its painted cup 
 
 Along these flower-strewn banks, 
 The gentian too of heavenly blue 
 
 Springs up in stately ranks. 
 
84 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Old maples stand on either shore, 
 
 Their branches softly meet, 
 Neath which these joyous waters flow, 
 
 With music glad and sweet. 
 
 Rush onward in thy course, sweet brook, 
 
 Swift through the tangled sod. 
 And in the sweetest melody 
 
 Sing praises to thy God. 
 
 — B. F. S. 
 
 He was a soldier in the Revolution and tradi- 
 tion says he was at one time taken prisoner in that 
 war. His name appears first on a muster roll in 
 Capt. Hugh McClellan's Co., Col. Samuel Wil- 
 liams's Regt. which marched for Boston on the Lex- 
 ington Alarm ; re-enlisted while there, May i, 
 1 775, in Capt. Robert Oliver's Co., Col. Ephraim 
 Dolittle's Regt. ; served eight months, his name 
 appearing on a company returned of the above 
 regiment dated Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775; his 
 name also appearing among the signatures to an 
 order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money 
 due for the eight months' service in 1775 in the 
 above company and regiment dated Winter Hill 
 Dec. 23, 1775. From Hemenway's Vermont 
 Historical Gazetteer we find he fought at Bunker 
 Hill, went with Arnold in his detachment that 
 penetrated the wilderness by the way of Kennebec 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 85 
 
 River. Charles Knowles Bolton in speaking of 
 that expedition in " The Private Soldier under 
 Washington " says ; " The men many a night lay 
 down without food. Several became very weak 
 from hunger, and at last a captain gave them his 
 pet dog. The soldiers carried the poor creature 
 away and ate every part of his flesh, not excepting 
 his entrails. Two other dogs were eaten the same 
 day. When exposure and hunger had prepared 
 the way, a fourth or a third of the men in some of 
 the regiments died of smallpox. A day's march 
 was frequently as little as ten miles." After the 
 assault on Quebec and the fall of Montgomery, 
 his term of service having expired, he returned 
 home. (The old tinder-box which he carried at 
 Quebec is a valued relic in the possession of his 
 descendants.) February 23, 1777, he enlisted with 
 the rank of sergeant in Capt. Lawrence Kemp's 
 Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for service at Ticonde- 
 roga ; discharged April 10, 1777. He removed 
 from Colrain to Salem, N. Y., from there to White- 
 hall, and from there to Bristol, Vt., where he 
 continued to reside until 18 16. He was one of 
 the first board of selectmen at Bristol, and was a 
 bold and resolute man. In the fall of 1816 he 
 set out to seek a better fortune in Ohio, locating 
 at Royalton in that state. He was among the 
 earliest applicants for a pension but passed away 
 
86 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 before receiving it. He m. Elizabeth Abbott of 
 Pawlet, Vt., b. in Salisbury, Conn., Oct. 21, 1759. 
 He d. at Royalton Aug. 28, 1827, and was buried 
 with military honors in recognition of his Revolu- 
 tionary service. His wife survived him nearly 
 nine years. Like her husband she was a born 
 pioneer and possessed an equal amount of daring 
 and resolution for which the following incident, 
 related by a granddaughter, gives her credit. 
 During the Revolution and at the time of the 
 battle of Bennington in 1777, her parents were 
 living near the battlefield; her father and brothers 
 had gone to the scene of action. It was in the 
 days of New England slavery, and her father 
 owned a slave. Some of the family were sick with 
 the measles, but hearing the roar of the terrible 
 conflict, they sought safety in flight. Yoking the 
 oxen hastily and putting a few valuables in the 
 cart, she bade the slave drive the oxen while she 
 harnessed the horses ; placed a bed in the wagon, 
 helped her feeble mother and sick sister in and 
 they were off. As they came in sight of the rag- 
 ing battle, their path diverged and led them down 
 into a deep, marshy gutter, which held the wheels 
 of the cart fast in the mud. The slave, angry be- 
 cause he had not been allowed to drive the horses, 
 refused to help his young mistress in this trying 
 predicament. Dauntless, she alighted, and seiz- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 87 
 
 ing some rails near by she laid them pontoon 
 fashion, hitched the horses in front of the oxen, 
 and with one long, hard pull they were extricated 
 and on their way to safety. She d. at Royalton, 
 Ohio, Feb. 4, 1836. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Chauncy 6, d. in Royalton, Ohio, leaving two 
 
 sons Daniel and Henry. 
 
 2. Phebe 6, m. Isaac Isham of Royalton, Ohio, 
 
 She d. there aged 90 ; no children. 
 
 3. Eunice 6, m. — Vaughan of Royalton, Ohio. 
 
 Children. 
 Joel 7, Betsey 7, Harriet 7, Samuel 7. 
 
 4. Polly 6, b. April 4, 1789, the first white child 
 
 born in Bristol, Vt., m. March 22, 1808, 
 Jehial Saxton. She survived her husband 
 and d. in Cleveland Ohio, July 24, 
 1873. Th^ following is from the pen 
 of a daughter. " Jehial Saxton resided 
 at Bristol until the fall of 1818, when 
 he with his family removed to Newburgh, 
 Ohio, being six weeks on the road. He 
 bought a farm five miles from Cleveland ; 
 cleared enough of it to build a log house, win- 
 dows without glass. Deer, with other wild 
 
88 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 game and cornmeal was their principal food 
 until land could be cleared and crops gotten 
 in. His family at this time consisted of five 
 children; there were no schools, but he with 
 two other neighbors built a log schoolhouse, 
 and the three hired and boarded the teacher 
 among them. Mrs. Saxton had inherited 
 her father's resolution to a marked degree 
 and it was through her hopefulness and help- 
 fulness that her husband was enabled to pass 
 through those discouraging years of pioneer 
 life. She was a born pioneer ; it was dif- 
 ferent with her husband, he had left public 
 life and probably a career behind him, to 
 battle with the isolated life in the woods of 
 what was then the western reserve. An in- 
 cident of those early days my mother has 
 told us children. It was this. She with her 
 two neighbors were spending one afternoon 
 together. Each of the three women had a 
 child in arms. Suddenly they heard the 
 squealing of the only pig in the neighbor- 
 hood. They knew that the pig's assailant 
 must be a bear, and at once all three with a 
 child in arms sallied out to the rescue. It 
 would never do to let the bear have the pig, 
 consequently they chased after his bearship 
 into the thick underbrush through which 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 89 
 
 they could not see, but led by the squealing 
 they at last came upon the dead pig which 
 the bear had dropped while fleeing from the 
 three screaming women." 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Sally 7, b. Jan. 19, 1809, d. July 22, 1831. 
 
 2. Hannah 7, b. Nov. 30, 18 10, d. April 5, 1885. 
 
 3. Clinton 7, b. July 14, i8i2,d. Jan. 30, 1895. 
 
 4. Harriet M. 7,b. March 14, i8i4,d. March 11, 
 
 1831. 
 
 5. Infant 7. 
 
 6. Anson 7, b. Oct. 26, 1817, d. July 19, 1833. 
 
 All the above children b. in Bristol, Vt. 
 
 7. Betsey 7, b. Feb. 25, 1819, d. Nov. 17, 1837. 
 
 8. Phebe 7, b. Sept. 7, 1821, d. Oct. 29, 1844. 
 
 9. Elmina 7, b. Aug. 11, 1823, d. Feb. 1900. 
 
 10. Dewitt 7, b. April 10, 1825, d. Nov. 10, 
 
 1853- 
 
 11. Cynthia 7, b. Jan. i, 1827. 
 
 12. Mary 7, b. March 30, 1828. A resident of 
 
 Cleveland in 1900. 
 
 5. John 6, b. 1791- 
 
 6. Samuel 6, b. July 6, 1796. 
 
90 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Robert/ (Samuel/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
 b. in Colrain, Mass., 1765, was an early settler of 
 Salem, N. Y. The history of Washington 
 County states that he settled three miles south of 
 Salem Centre. It seems that sometime during 
 the period of the Revolution he served as a soldier. 
 He m. Elizabeth Huggins who d. May 2, 18 19, 
 in the fiftieth year of her age. A pious woman, 
 an affectionate wife and a tender mother. Two 
 old letters, written by him, have revealed so much 
 that is sacred and interesting to this history, that 
 they claim a place here. The first to his brother 
 Samuel of Royalton, Ohio, gives evidence of his 
 excellent Christian character, and an important 
 clew relative to the family. Efforts for several 
 years had been in progress to recover the estate of 
 his brother James, who fell in battle during an 
 engagement with the Indians near Fort Wayne, 
 about 1 79 1, and it seems the following letter was 
 written in reply to one received in reference to 
 their claims. 
 
 "Salem, 27 Feb. 1821. 
 
 " Dear Brother and Sister. 
 
 " It is with great satisfaction that I have the 
 pleasure of addressing a few lines to you, to in- 
 form you of our welfare which I have longed 
 an opportunity to do through your neglect, as I 
 knew not where to find you, as you have never 
 thought worth while to write to me, to let me 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 9I 
 
 know where you was, and I thought very hard of 
 it, but it is a great satisfaction that our heavenly 
 parent will not forget or forsake us unless we 
 first forsake him, therefore I trust he will be my 
 support and guide me until death and there be 
 my everlasting portion forever. I received yours 
 of the 6th which was a great satisfaction to us all 
 to hear of your welfare but it would serve a great 
 deal more if you had given us an account of all 
 your situation and how far you are from brother 
 Moore, as you inform me you was there last week, 
 and as you have broke the ice in three or four 
 years, I and some of the family will not let it 
 freeze again, so that we may have a communication 
 by letter which is a great satisfaction to me. You 
 mentioned in your letter that you had heard of 
 the death of my dear companion ; true she de- 
 parted this life on the 2d of May 1819, with only 
 nine days sickness, she died with inflamation of 
 the head, she is gone and we must all follow sooner 
 or later the Lord only knows when. I suppose 
 I am contented to submit to his will, for blessed 
 be his will in heaven let it be done on earth. I 
 have seven children, two of them are married, the 
 others live with me and they are all well. I was 
 at brother Archibalds not long since, they were 
 all well, it is a great time of health in this coun- 
 try, though there is a vast many old people 
 about here, has just paid the debt of heaven 
 this year. Uncle Joseph Stewart died last week, 
 and was 100 years old 17th last Jan. 
 
 " I here send you a power of attorney as you re- 
 
92 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 quested me. I cant add any more on this sheet 
 without I infringe on the power. I wish you to 
 write give a full description of the country, my 
 children all join me in my love to you all, 
 " I remain your loving brother till death, 
 " Mr. Samuel Stewart Robert Stewart. 
 " Royalton, 
 
 " Ohio." 
 
 Omitting the formal part of the power of at- 
 torney, the following has been invaluable in trac- 
 ing this line. 
 
 " For me and in my name to ask, demand, sue 
 for, recover and receive of and from the legal 
 representatives of my Brother James Stewart 
 deceased, all such sums of money or other things 
 as I may be entitled to as an heir to the estate of 
 James Stewart deceased, of the state of Kentucky 
 who was killed in Harmar's Defeat by the In- 
 dians." 
 
 The power of attorney is signed Robert Stew- 
 art and sworn to before Anthony Blanchard, First 
 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
 County of Washington, State of New York, on 
 the 27th day of February, 1821. 
 
 The second letter written to his nephew, Ira 
 Stewart, of Middlebury, Vt., has also been of 
 inestimable value. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 93 
 
 " Salem, N. Y., Feby. 22d, 1837. 
 
 " Dear Sir — 
 
 " I received yours of the 8th, respecting your 
 father's services in the revolutionary war which I 
 know nothing about only by hearsay as I was 
 not in this part of the country at the time of his 
 service and after I came here I have heard people 
 say that he was a Sergeant in Capt. McCracken's 
 Company and that is all I know about it and 
 there is not one living as 1 know of that was 
 with him. 1 have tried to find out some one 
 but I cant and this is all I know of the busi- 
 ness. 
 
 " Our friends and family are all well. 1 was up 
 to see your aunt Elice (Alice ?) last week and 
 found her well, though very much bowed down. 
 I rec^ a letter last week from Ohio ; our friends 
 there are all well. Your aunt Isabel Moor is 
 well ; her husband is dead. Aunt Betty, Sam- 
 uel's widow died about a year ago. Give my 
 respects to your family and tell your mother that 
 I intended to come and see her all this winter 
 but my health is not as good as it has been there- 
 fore I think that I shall not go. I ad no more 
 but remain your affectionate unkle Till Death. 
 
 " Ira Stewart, Robert Stewart. 
 
 " Middlebury." 
 
 He d. March i, 1847, ^^ ^^^ eighty-first year 
 of his age. 
 
 The following is copied from his headstone 
 in Salem : 
 
94 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 " The Christian, patriot, and friend 
 Such was his hfe, and such his end. 
 Life's end achieved, and full of years 
 He left for heaven this vale of tears." 
 
 Children b. in Salem. 
 
 1. James 6. 
 
 2. Robert 6, a merchant in Greenwich, N. Y., d. 
 
 unmarried in Salem. 
 
 3. William 6, settled near the old homestead and 
 
 d. there. 
 
 4. Mary 6, b. March 2, 1789. 
 
 5. Elizabeth 6, m. Chester Billings ; five chil- 
 
 dren : Samuel 7, Robert 7, William 7, 
 
 Ellen 7, and Caroline 7, b. 1833, m. 
 
 Austin. 
 
 6. Samuel 6, d. in Salem. 
 
 7. Isabel 6, m. John Huggins. 
 
 It has been a matter of profound regret that a 
 more full record of his descendants at Salem were 
 not furnished as they seem to have been numer- 
 ous there. 
 
 " The Old White Church," a pamphlet pub- 
 lished in 1897, the centennial year of the United 
 Presbyterian Church of Salem, gives a list of the 
 descendants of Robert Stewart, who have wor- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 95 
 
 shiped in that church, of which the following is a 
 copy. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Billings Austin. Lucretia Bell. 
 
 George. Elizabeth. 
 
 Bert. Joseph. 
 
 (Mrs. Julia Bain Austin.) Irving, 
 
 Bessie. Henry Clark. 
 Elsie. (Mrs. Cornelia Wright Clark.) 
 
 Mrs. Ella Austin McAllister - Will. 
 
 (Robert McAllister Jr.) Mrs. Mary Clark Barnett. 
 
 Earl. Mrs. Cornelia Clark Aiken. 
 
 Mrs. Carrie Austin Closh. Alvah W. 
 
 Lewis Austin. Charles. 
 
 (Mrs. Fannie Glenholm Austin.) Mrs. C. W. Wolff. 
 
 Nettie. Mrs. Libbie Wolff Perkins. 
 
 Alfred Austin. (Robert Perkins.) 
 
 (Mrs. Nettie Glenholm Austin.) Harold. 
 
 John M. Clark, Ermine. 
 
 (Mrs. Mary Guernsey Clark.) Baby. 
 
 Joseph/ (Joseph/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
 b. in Colrain, Mass., April 6, 1752, m. Oct. 3, 
 1774, Rosana Harmon, b. May 17, 1754, and d. 
 April 25, 1 8 13. He settled in Halifax, Vt., and 
 we find him also at Bennington, Vt. He re- 
 moved to the State of New York and settled on 
 a farm, where, it is said, the apples that fell from 
 the trees rolled down into Vermont. He was a 
 soldier in the Revolution, serving with his father 
 in Col. Blair's Reg't, Albany Co., State of New 
 York troops, and was granted land bounty for his 
 service. 
 
96 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Eunice 6, b. Feb. 26, 1776, m. Horace Bar- 
 nam. 
 
 Their daughter, Rosana A. 7, b. 18 17, was a 
 graduate of Mrs. Willard's school for young ladies, 
 at Troy, N. Y., which was so noted in the early 
 years of the last century. She m. Abel Wilder, a 
 physician. 
 
 1. Joseph 6, b. March 14, 1778, m. Sarah Dun- 
 ton. 
 Their son, Joseph Dunton 7, b. in Hartford, 
 N. Y., 181 1, was a physician in Washington, 
 D. C, and surgeon in the United States Army. 
 Under the belief that a large estate awaited the 
 Stewart heirs in this country, he went to Eng- 
 land and made a study of the family. 
 
 3. Reuben 6, b. April 9, 1780. He was at one 
 time a resident of Watertown, Mass., m. a 
 daughter of William Johnson at Hartford, 
 N. Y., Reuben Stewart d. in Delaware, Ohio 
 Aug. 12, 1838. 
 
 Children. 
 Sarah 7, Minerva 7, Austin 7. 
 
 4. Rosana 6, b. July i, 1782, m. John Allen. 
 
 5. David 6, b. Jan. 20, 1784. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 97 
 
 6. Margaret 6,* b. April 8, 1786, m. Asa Kellogg. 
 
 7. Mary 6, b. Feb. 20, 1788. 
 
 8. Silvester 6, b. March 7, 1790. 
 
 9. Annie 6, b. May 15, 1794, m. Asa Kellogg, 
 
 (his second wife.) 
 10. Enoc 6, b. June 18, 1797. 
 
 Possibly errors may be found in the above rec- 
 ord of the children of Joseph 5, but an urgent 
 appeal to his descendants failed to call forth a re- 
 sponse. 
 
 John,^ (Joseph,^ John/ Robert,^ Walter/) b. in 
 Colrain, Mass., Feb. 14, 1755 ; went to Vermont 
 with his parents ; m. Feb. 22, 1777, Susan Smith, 
 b. March 14, 1758. He was a Revolutionary 
 soldier, serving for two years as corporal with the 
 Vermont troops, part of the time under Capt. 
 Hopkins and Col. Seth Warner. He served in 
 the War of 18 12 and was promoted from the va- 
 rious degrees of rank to that of colonel. He 
 settled in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. ; 
 d. Aug. 1 83 1. His wife received a pension until 
 her death in 1841. 
 
 Children. 
 I. Chauncy 6, b. April 15, 1781, m. and left one 
 
 * See Addenda, Stewart-Kellogg, p, 205. 
 
 7 
 
98 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 son, Sidney, b. about 1805 ; m. Alvina Hop- 
 kins in 1834, one son, George S., b. 1835. 
 Alvina d. in Kingsbury. Sidney d. in Wis- 
 consin. 
 
 2. Rhoda 6, b. Feb. 15, 1784; m. Daniel W. 
 
 Wing of Fort Edward, where he d. She d. 
 same place, Feb. 8, 1823. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Chauncy 7 4. Caroline 7 
 
 2. Smith 7 5. Susan 7 
 
 3. Halsey R. 7 
 
 3. Elizabeth 6, b. Feb. 13, 1787, d. April 7, 
 
 1801. 
 
 4. Martin Luther 6, b. March 23, 1789, d. 
 
 Sept. II, 18 15. 
 
 5. Susan 6, b. Oct. 15, 1791, d. Jan. 5, 1864. 
 
 6. Margaret 6, b. April 27, 1794, m. John Calk- 
 
 ins. Their son John S. Calkins served in 
 the Mexican War and later in the Civil 
 War, and d. from the effects of wounds re- 
 ceived while in service. 
 
 7. Ann 6, b. Nov. 25, 1796, d. Feb. 7, 1871. 
 
 8. Mary 6, b. Nov. 28, 1799, d. Dec. 7, 1859. 
 3. John Calvin 6, b. Feb. 14, 1803. 
 
londonderry stewarts 99 
 
 Sixth Generation. 
 
 David,^ (William/ Charles/ John/ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Colrain, Feb. 24, 1761. He was 
 a soldier under Gen. Daniel Shays ; m. Miriam 
 Haven, b. in Hopkinton, Mass., Dec. 27, 1760. 
 He was an active and successful farmer, his land 
 being in that part of Colrain known as Bernards- 
 ton Gore. The little low, long, weather-beaten 
 house is still standing (1903) which he erected 
 for himself in 1793. ^^ <^- April 4, 1830. She 
 d. Nov. 23, 1845. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. David 7, b. Dec. 21, 1788. He was a soldier 
 
 in the War of 1812, d. at West Point, 
 March 16, 1825. 
 
 2. Jane 7, b. Dec. 26, 1790, m. Erastus Chapin, 
 
 who was b. in Springfield, 1790. He was 
 a farmer and resided in Leyden the greater 
 part of his life ; d. in Greenfield, April 30, 
 1870. She d. June 26, 1867. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Eliza Jane 8, b. April 25, 18 13. 
 
 2. Mary C. 8, b. April 6, 18 16. 
 
 3. Sarah E. 8, b. March 10, 1818. 
 
 4. Julius E. 8, b. Dec. 14, 1821. 
 
lOO GENEALOGY OF 
 
 5. David G. 8, b. Aug. 27, 1824. 
 
 6. Miriam 8, b. Aug. 27, 1827. 
 
 3. Amos 7, b. June 4, 1793. 
 
 4. Betsey 7, b. Aug. 25, 1795, m. Jesse Nelson 
 
 of Colrain. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Horatio 8, b. Sept. 16, 18 16. 
 
 2. Joram 8, b. June 14, 1818. 
 
 3. Adaline 8, b. Nov. 18, 1824. 
 
 4. Andrew J. 8, b. May , 1830. 
 
 5. William 7, b. Aug. 21, 1797. 
 
 6. Joram 7, b. March 3, 1800, m. in Rutland, 
 
 Vt., d. in Edinburg, N. Y., 1839, leaving a 
 son Charles. 
 
 Charles,^ (John/ Charles/ John/ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Colrain, July 15, 1763. He was 
 without doubt the soldier from Ashfield who 
 served in Colonel Wesson's Massachusetts line 
 regiment in 1778, 1779 and 1780, and the same 
 who served in Capt. Oliver Shattuck's Co., Lieut. 
 Col. Barnabas Sear's Regt. in 1781, m. Mary dau. 
 of John Hulbert, the Indian fighter of Colrain. 
 A separation followed and a second marriage, 
 then a final separation. His second wife was 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS lOI 
 
 Hannah Gates, b. in Leyden about 1777. He 
 is said to have been a carpenter by trade and 
 erected the house in which he Hved at Leyden 
 about 1793. The house is still standing. He 
 lived in the immediate neighborhood of the origi- 
 nator of a religious sect known as Dorrillites and 
 seemed to have been a follower. In the summer 
 of 1795 he went to Truxton — then Fabins — 
 Onondaga Co., N. Y., his family joining him the 
 following winter, the journey being made with an 
 ox team and occuping six weeks. He became a 
 prosperous man in his new home, prominent 
 and active in building up the new town, giving 
 the new community transportation, through a 
 line of teams to Albany, and having built for 
 himself a spacious house, then popularly known 
 as the " big red house," he entertained emigrants 
 free of charge. He erected a sawmill and grist- 
 mill, and gave the land for the cemetery, and 
 was at one time the second wealthiest man in 
 Onondaga County (the county has since been di- 
 vided) but reverses came ; a big lawsuit was waged 
 year after year for water privileges until both 
 parties spent most of their property. 
 
 Between 18 19 and 1827, he visited his rela- 
 tives at Middlebury, Vt., taking the journey on 
 horseback, sitting erect and stately in the saddle, 
 his long white hair done up in a queue making a 
 
I02 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 deep impression upon the memory of one of the 
 younger members of his host's household. In 
 1834, he again sought a home elsewhere ; this 
 time Michigan was the goal and a third house 
 was built at Genesee, Genesee County, where he 
 resided until his death in 1837. His wife, 
 Hannah, d. in Flint, Mich., in 1845 ^^ 1846, a 
 member of the Baptist church. 
 
 Children by Second Wife. 
 
 1. Clarissa 7, b. in Leyden, Mass., about 1794, 
 
 m. David Mather, d. in California. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Louisa 8 4. Emily 8 
 
 2. Mary 8 5. James 8 
 
 3. Anna 8 6. Charlotte 8 
 
 One of the above daughters was many years 
 ago principal of a young ladies school in New 
 York City. 
 
 2. Amy 7, b. in Truxton, N. Y., about 1797, 
 
 m. Elijah Pierce of Truxton. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Laura 8 5. Franklin 8 
 
 2. James 8 6. Mary Jane 8 
 
 3. Abigal 8 7. Adaline 8 
 
 4. Emily 8 8. Charles 8 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO3 
 
 3. Luke 7, b. about 1798, m. Ruth Wrisley. 
 
 One child, Reuben 8. 
 
 4. Laura 7, b. m. Joshua Kendal and re- 
 
 sided at Lafayette, Ind. (was insane). 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Mary 8. 
 
 2. Arabella 8. 
 
 3. Ruth 8. 
 
 5. Maria 7, m. Wm. Earl, resided in Truxton. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Albert 8. 
 
 2. Ann 8. 
 
 3. Mary 8. 
 
 6. Infant 7. 
 
 7. Ransom 7, m. Adalaide Ellsworth. 
 
 Children, 
 
 1. Charlotte 8. 
 
 2. Charles 8. 
 
 3. Mary 8. 
 
 8. Angeline 7, m. Dr. John A. Hayes. 
 
 Children. 
 I. John 8. 
 
I04 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 1. Delia 8. 
 3. Emma 8. 
 
 9. Addison 7, b. May 29, 181 1. 
 
 10. Madison 7, died young. 
 
 11. Franklin 7, died young. 
 
 12. Samuel 7, twice married. Was killed by a 
 
 horse thief in Kansas. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Augusta 8. 
 
 2. Adalaide 8. 
 
 Enos,^ (Johin,^ Charles,* John,^ Robert,^ 
 Walter/) b. in Colrain, Mass., April 15, 1766, 
 m. Dec. 6, 1787, Lucretia Clark, b. in Leyden 
 July 20, 1767. He was a farmer of his native 
 town and from the Biographical Review of Frank- 
 lin County we take the following. " He had a 
 farm of his own, and carried his produce, together 
 with that he bought in large quanties from the 
 neighboring farmers, to the Boston market, realiz- 
 ing a generous income from his transactions. He 
 was an old-time Whig, and was liberal in his re- 
 ligious views." He d. Nov. 29, 1856. She d. 
 Nov. 6, 1833. 
 
londonderry stewarts io5 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Lydia 7, b. Oct. 26, 1788, m. Briggs Potter 
 
 of Leyden, d. 1859. 
 
 2. Sally 7, b. Dec. 28, 1790, m. Robert Riddell 
 
 b. Nov. 15, 1789. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. William 8, b. Jan. i, 1 8 14, d. April 12, 18 16. 
 
 2. Thomas R. 8, b. Feb. 13, 18 16. 
 
 3. Enos Stewart 8, b. Oct. 25, 18 18. 
 
 4. Sarah 8,* b. Aug. 7, 1823, m. Hon. Oscar 
 
 Lovell Shafter who was b. at Athens, Vt., 
 and became Chief Justice of California. 
 Judge O. L. Shafter's nephew is the noted 
 Gen. William R. Shafter of Cuban war fame. 
 
 5. Mary 8, b. Dec. 8, 1826. 
 
 6. William C. 8, b. Oct. 14, 1829. 
 
 7. Samuel Taggart 8, b. Jan. 17, 1833.' 
 
 8. Henry Gawn 8, b. March 6, 1837. 
 
 3. Enos 7, b. May 20, 1794, lawyer in Boston, 
 
 d. in 1847. 
 
 4. Luther 7, b. May 5, 1796. 
 
 5. William 7, b. Dec. 10, 1798, d. in Rock 
 
 County, Wis. 
 
 * See Addenda, Stewart-Shafter, p. 210. 
 
I06 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 6. Ann 7, b. Oct. 24, 1800, m. Lewis Clark. 
 
 7. Matilda 7, b. Nov. 12, 1805, ^- Charles 
 
 Smith. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Milo Crosby 8, b. Oct. 20, 1830, m. Helen 
 
 S. Stratton. 
 
 2. Lucretia 8, b. July 24, 1834, d. March 28, 
 
 3. Charles Cullen 8, b. May 7, 1837, m. Myra 
 ' E. Miller. 
 
 4. Mary Lucretia 8, b. July 8, 1843, ^- Oscar 
 
 M. Loomis. 
 
 8. Polly 7, b. Dec. 4, 1807, m. Lawrence Kemp. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Mary Ann 8 4. Lucretia 8 
 
 2. Sumner 8 5. Charles S. 8 
 
 3. Horace 8 6. Elsie 8 
 
 John,« (John/ John/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
 b. April 27, 1773. Resided on the home farm 
 in Shelburne, one half of which was deeded to 
 him in 1796, the other half to be his after the 
 decease of his parents. Previous to 1 8 1 8 changes 
 and improvements in the highway made removal 
 necessary, and an additional acre was bought just 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO7 
 
 east of the old home and buildings erected. Re- 
 verses came and the old farm went out of the 
 hands of the Stewarts. He m. April, 1796, 
 Charlotte, dau. of Samuel and Grace (Fisk) Flagg 
 of Brookfield, Mass., b. in 1 774. She d. Aug. 23, 
 1827. He d. in Colrain Jan. 28, 1843. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Catherine 7, b. Jan. 19, 1797, m. 1822, Wil- 
 kins B. Clark. He d. Jan. 27, 1877. She 
 d. April 25, 1889. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Catherine F. 8, b. Jan. 1823, m. April 18, 
 
 1838, D. W. Temple, d. Oct. 30, 1875. 
 
 2. Charlotte F. 8, b. May 10, 1826, m. George 
 
 Keith, d. 1861. 
 
 3. Caroline A. 8, b. July 15, i828,m. March 8, 
 
 1849, Lorenzo Park, Hinsdale, N. H. 
 
 4. Dexter 8, b. May, 1831, d. Jan. 17, 1832. 
 
 5. Dexter W. 8, b. April 24, 1834, m. Fannie 
 
 Langdon, Torrington, Conn. 
 
 6. Isabel A. 8, b. Sept. 24, 1837, m. Lucius 
 
 Cook. She d. Jan. , 1902, at Orlando, 
 Fla. 
 
 7. J. Darwin 8, b. April 12, 1844, ^- April 8, 
 
 1868, Minnie Saunders. 
 
I08 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 2. Roxana 7, b. April 5, 1798, d. Sept. 12, 1802. 
 
 3. Electa 7, b. June 5, 1800, d. Sept. 14, 1802. 
 
 The above two were victims of the great epi- 
 demic of that year. 
 
 4. Infant 7, b. 1801, d. age three months. 
 
 5. Samuel F. b. Sept. 9, 1803. 
 
 6. Ira 7, b. Aug. 23, 1805. 
 
 7. Amanda C. 7, b. Nov. 1 7, 1 809, m. March 27, 
 
 1834, Lorenzo Severance of Shelburne, 
 Mass. He passed to the higher life 
 Sept. 22, 1887, and she followed him 
 Feb. 23, 1898. The proverb " she looketh 
 well to the ways of her household, and eateth 
 not the bread of idleness," was true of her. 
 That " cleanliness was next to godliness " 
 seemed moulded into her very life and char- 
 acter, and through a long and busy life she 
 adhered tenaciously to a strictly systematic 
 method, in all her household duties and the 
 members of her family were trained to the 
 same degree of system and tidiness. Yet 
 while keeping an incessant warfare with dirt, 
 the proverbs were equally true of her. " She 
 seeketh wool and flax and she layeth her 
 hands to the spindle." With this and the 
 ample time she found to ply her needle, she 
 was constantly adding to the coffers of her 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO9 
 
 home. In her teens she suffered the loss of 
 a beloved mother, over whom she had 
 watched with a daughter's anxious care, dur- 
 ing a sickness of many long months. After 
 this bereavement their troubles came not 
 singly, their property was being swallowed 
 up by creditors, and she unhesitatingly left 
 the parental roof and commenced the life 
 of a domestic, first in her own neighborhood 
 and town, and afterward in Watertown, 
 Mass., serving early and late for the pittance 
 of one dollar per week ; yet from this scanty 
 allowance she managed to save a sum suffi- 
 cient to redeem their home and an acre of 
 land, which furnished a home for her father 
 in his declining years, and won for herself 
 a reputation for faithfulness and filial esteem. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Calvin C. 8, b. Oct. lO, 1 83 5, died March 27, 
 
 1836. 
 
 2. Mary E. 8, b. May 3, 1837, m. Aug. 28, 
 
 1866, John Kimball, m. 2d Reuben W. 
 
 Field. She d. March 10, 1890. 
 
 She early united with the church and had been 
 
 a faithful and consistent Christian, and when her 
 
 last sickness came she waited with faith and a 
 
 childlike trust for the coming messenger which 
 
no GENEALOGY OF 
 
 should bear her forth to a more glorious exist- 
 ence. 
 
 " Death cannot come 
 To her untimely, who is fit to die, 
 The less of this cold world, the more of heaven, 
 The briefer life, the earUer immortality.' 
 
 >» 
 
 3. Martha A. 8, b. May 3, 1839, m. Nov. 8, 
 
 1877, Henry O. Draper, Ware, Mass. 
 
 4. B. Frank 8, b. March 2, 1841, m. Dec. 25, 
 
 1875, Elizabeth M. Kimball. He is owner 
 and occupant of the old Stewart homestead, 
 Shelburne, Mass. 
 
 5. James H. 8, b. Sept. 4, 1844, d. Feb. 15, 
 
 1846. 
 
 6. Herman L. 8, b. Nov. 4, 1854, d. Feb. 10, 
 
 1855. 
 
 8. Eliza R. 7, b. Jan. 12, 18 13, m. about 1841, 
 Dennis Daniels. He d. Dec. 16, 1884; she 
 d. April 28, 1894. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Ann E. 8, b. April 30, 1842, m. Sept. 7, 
 
 1858, Alonzo Goodwin, m. 2d Burtus So- 
 per. Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 2. Samuel F. 8, b. Oct. 2, 1843, "^' J^^^ ^> 
 
 1 87 1, Fannie A. Morton. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS III 
 
 He was a soldier in the Civil War, in ^id 
 Regt. of '^ nine months' men ; " was in the Battle 
 of Baton Rouge, Battle of Indian Bend, forty- 
 days' siege at Port Hudson and several skir- 
 mishes. North Orange, Mass. 
 
 3. John S. 8, b. March 14, 1845, ^' Mary 
 
 E. Harris. He d. June, 1874. 
 A soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in July, 
 1 86 1, in the i8th Mass. Regt. for three years. 
 He was in several battles, was wounded in the 
 head, had a sunstroke, yet he served his full time 
 and came home from the war in good fighting 
 trim and looking remarkably well in spite of the 
 hard service he passed through. 
 
 4. Augusta S. 8, b. Aug. 12, 1846, m. Charles 
 
 Mosher (?) d. (?) 
 
 5. Helena R. 8, b. Aug. 21, 1848, d. Aug. 27, 
 
 1880. 
 
 6. George F., 8, b. March 21, i850,m. Sarah 
 
 McGuire, Kewanee, 111. 
 
 7. Henry W., 8, b. Aug. 2, 1852, d. March i, 
 
 1859. 
 
 8. Effington R., 8, b. Oct. 2, 1856, d. Jan. 26, 
 
 1859. 
 
 9. Infant, 7, b. d. -18 15. 
 
112 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Abraham W./ (Robert/ John/ John/ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Windham, N. H., August 4, 1786. 
 He was early fitted for teaching and followed that 
 calling for eighteen years, having labored in Sa- 
 lem, N. H., Methuen and Bernardston, Mass., 
 Kingsbury, N. Y., and other places. A thorough 
 and successful teacher for his time, his school 
 experiences were varied and interesting. He was 
 teaching during the winter of 18 10, noted for the 
 cold Friday of January 19 of that year. On that 
 day only five of his pupils braved the cold to 
 meet him at the school-house warmed only by an 
 open fireplace. They had gone through their 
 morning exercises, and next were to write, but the 
 ink froze on their pens ; the cold was so intense 
 he was obliged to dismiss the school, and taking 
 a little boy in his arms, who was too small to face 
 the increasing cold, he started for home and bade 
 the others to get home as best they could. The 
 first exercises of his pupils each morning was to 
 read the Bible, and while the scholars were read- 
 ing he occupied the time in sharpening quills for 
 pens, or setting copies. His knowledge of the 
 Bible being such that the least error would attract 
 his instant attention, no matter what he was doing. 
 One morning a roguish boy saw he was very busy 
 and thought he would not notice whether he was 
 reading right or wrong, and he read his verse 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I I3 
 
 wrong purposely, but he was instantly interrupted 
 with, " You are not reading right." He was fond 
 of relating his experience in a school where the 
 master had been killed by the scholars, previous 
 to his teaching there. He was a large and mus- 
 cular man and noted for his wonderful strength. 
 He once told the writer that when he was sixteen 
 years old he shouldered an old cannon on Salem 
 Common, a feat that no other man was able to 
 perform. 
 
 He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Served 
 at Portsmouth, N. H., on garrison duty, and his 
 descendants were among the bravest of the brave 
 during the late Civil War. He m. Betsey Coch- 
 ran and lived for some time at Salem, N. H. His 
 old Bible, a gift from his mother, printed in Edin- 
 burgh by His Majesty's Printer, Alexander Kin- 
 caid, is in his son's possession. Upon the fly 
 leaves are written numerous odd bits of poetry 
 and snatches from hymns. He d. in Haverhill, 
 Mass., Jan. 3, 1870. She d. Jan. 9, 1868. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John 7, b. March 27, 18 15. 
 
 2. James 7, b. Oct. 7, 18 17. 
 
 3. Robert 7, b. June 6, 1820. 
 
 8 
 
114 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 4. Sarah 7, b. Dec. 30, 1822, m. June 29,1842, 
 
 Isaiah H. Emerson. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Ellen M. 8, b. April 9, 1844, d. Nov. 1872. 
 
 2. E. Herbert 8, b. Jan. 5, 1846, m. July 6, 
 
 1 869, Jennie Leighton. 
 
 3. Arthur K. 8, b. Aug. 1847, d. Nov. 9, 1889, 
 
 m. 1887, Annie Elsworth. 
 
 4. Eugene E. 8, b. Aug. 12, 1852, d. May 10, 
 
 1883. 
 
 5. Charles C. 8, b. Aug. 9, 1854, m. Delia 
 
 Kingman. 
 
 6. Emma L. 8, b- May 30, i86i,m. Nov. 1883, 
 
 William F. Page. 
 
 5. Rebecca 7, b. April 11, 1825, m. Alfred 
 
 B. Noyes. She d. Jan. 24, 1901. He d. 
 Aug. 12, 1904. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Frank E. 8, b. Oct. 10, 1853, m. Aug. 
 
 1894, Mary E. Cross. 
 
 2. Charles B. 8, b. Sept. 12, 1864, m. June 15, 
 1883, Orra A. Hill. 
 
 6. Lucinda T. 7, b. 1827, d. Nov. 29, 1844. 
 
 7. Mary P. 7, b. 1829, d. Sept. 14, 1834. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS II5 
 
 Aaron,^(see Memoir of Capt. Stewart, p. 172) 
 (John/ Samuel,* John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. at 
 Bennington, Vt., March 22, 1775, m. at New 
 Haven, Vt., May 16, 1807, Selinda, dau. of 
 Captain Colt, of Lyme, Ct. 
 
 The following is a copy of a letter written by 
 Aaron Stewart to Hon. Mathew Lyon, a Repre- 
 sentative in Congress from the State of Kentucky: 
 
 " New Haven, Vt., Dec' 7, 1808. 
 " Sir : 
 
 "Although I was a child when you left this 
 part of the country my knowledge of your char- 
 acter, as well as the friendship existing between 
 you and my father (John Stewart) induces me to 
 trouble you with a few inquiries as to the proceed- 
 ings in Kentucky, or rather their laws under the 
 following circumstances. One of my uncles went 
 into that state, I think about the year ' 84 and 
 purchased lands. He erected a distilery and was 
 doing business to good advantage till he was 
 draughted out in defense of his country against 
 the Savages and was killed in St. Clair's defeat. 
 My father had advise of his death soon after 
 the melancholly event took place but the recent 
 tumult there and the fears natural to people un- 
 acustomed to travel lengthy journies prevented 
 him from making any application for the property 
 left by my uncle. My father is eldest brother 
 and I am his oldest son. Now, sir, if you will 
 have the goodness to inform me whether that 
 property is now attainable and what are the nee- 
 
Tl6 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 cessary measures to be pursued if it is you will 
 confer a real obligation upon one of your distant 
 friends. I presume I could not apply to a more 
 suitable person for information in the above bus- 
 iness than yourself. Your intimacy with its laws 
 will enable you to inform me by letter whether 
 I can obtain it, which favor I have to beg you 
 will comply with as soon as you can without 
 inconvenience to your own important concerns. 
 
 " I am very respectfully you ob^ servant. 
 
 " Hon. M. Lyon. Aaron Stewart. 
 
 > > 
 
 The foregoing letter seems to have been re- 
 turned to Aaron Stewart for it was enclosed in the 
 following reply from Lyon : 
 
 " Washington, Feb. 20, 1809. 
 
 " Sir :— 
 
 "Your letter of the 12th of December is be- 
 fore me. In hopes of finding some clue to a 
 knowledge of whereabouts your uncle lived I 
 have waited an answer to you without success. I 
 see no difficulty in your recovering your uncle's 
 property if it can be found. The law provides 
 for heirs under age and there is so many ways of 
 breaking up vendue titles that there is but little 
 faith in them in Kentucky. Purchasers return 
 the land for a handsome gratuity. Kentucky is 
 larger than four Northern states and your uncle 
 may have lived in Ohio — where I live was not 
 settled till 1798. This is all I can say about it. 
 
 " Yours respectfully 
 
 " M, Lyon," 
 
londonderry stewarts ii7 
 
 Children of Aaron and Selinda Stewart. 
 
 1. Charlotte Augusta Matilda 7, b. at New Ha- 
 
 ven, Vt., Feb. 28, 1808, d. Sept. 25, 18 10. 
 
 2. Homer Hine 7, b. April i, 18 10. (See Me- 
 
 moir of Capt. Stewart, p 177.) 
 
 3. Ira Hubbell 7, b. Feb. 6, 18 12. 
 
 Ira,^ (John,^ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
 b. at Pawlet, Vt., July 15, 1779, and was Noble 
 Stewart's partner. He became a man of great 
 prominence in Western Vermont ; member of 
 the legislature ; trustee of Middlebury Col- 
 lege, etc. Oct. 29, 1 8 14, he married Elizabeth 
 Hubbell of Lanesboro, Mass. He died at Mid- 
 dlebury, Vt., Feb. 13, 1855. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Huldah H. 7, b. at Middlebury, Vt., Jan. — , 
 
 1820, d. April 12, 1830. 
 
 2. Dugald 7, b. Sept. 26, 1821, d. March 30, 
 
 1870. 
 
 3. John Wolcott 7, b. Nov. 25, 1825. 
 
 John B.,^ (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert,^ 
 Walter,^) b. in Bristol, Vt., 1791. Previous to 
 1 8 16 he went to Cayuga County, N. Y., where he 
 was engaged in teaching when his father joined 
 
Il8 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 him while on his way to Ohio, in the fall of that 
 year. In the spring of 1817 he returned to the 
 old home at Bristol and made arrangements for 
 the removal of the family to Royalton, Ohio, 
 where the father had located and was rearing a 
 home in the dense wilderness. This journey was 
 made with two yoke of oxen and a horse, and 
 they were forty days on the road. Here he re- 
 sumed his work as teacher and surveyor and 
 owned and cultivated a small farm. He was one 
 of the earliest pension agents appointed by the 
 government, his duties taking him to Cleveland 
 quarterly, on horseback, and bringing back two 
 canvas bags filled with silver dollars. The old sol- 
 diers gathered at his home, the bags were opened, 
 the money counted out and divided. He was 
 a staunch Whig and very pronounced in his po- 
 litical and religious belief. He m. Huldah Hayes 
 and d. Sept. 13, 188 1 in Royalton, Ohio, a. 90 
 years. She d. March 13, 1883, a. 83 years and 
 7 days. The following obituary was written for 
 a local paper by her son Prof John Stewart. 
 
 " Huldah Hayes was b. at Bristol, Vt., March 6, 
 1 800, and in 1 820 she went with her father, David 
 Hayes to the wilds of Northern Ohio and settled 
 in Canfield, Mahoning county. She was married 
 to John B. Stewart, and hand in hand did these 
 two noble soldiers begin the battle of their long 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS II9 
 
 and useful lives. Being among the first settlers 
 of the state, there were, of course, many hardships 
 to be endured, but nobly did those two strong 
 hearts bear every burden thrust upon them, and 
 not within their own home circle, were their labors 
 of love confined ; there were neighbors and friends 
 who needed words of encouragement and cheer, 
 and with all such they were ever ready to sympa- 
 thize." 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Caroline 7, b. Oct. 1822, m. 1846 Sher- 
 
 wood. Had one son and two daughters none 
 of whom are living. Mrs. Sherwood was liv- 
 ing at Riverdale, Mich., in 1900. 
 
 2. Henry 7, d. in Kansas. Five children. 
 
 3. Royal 7, d. in Kansas. Three children. 
 
 4. Betsey 7, m. 3d Wm. Wilber. Seven chil- 
 
 dren. Mrs. Wilber was living at Royalton, 
 Ohio, in 1900. 
 
 5. John 7, m. Rosalthe, a great-grandaughter of 
 
 Gen. Ethan Allen. 
 He was teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Insti- 
 tute at Columbus, Ohio, from 1873 to 1886, in 
 which year he died at Salt Lake City, Utah, while 
 on a trip to California. 
 
 6. Phebe 7, b. Aug. 1840, m. Charles W. Fitz- 
 
 water, b. Oct. 5, 1838, in Elk, Warren Co., 
 Penna. He was the son of Thomas and 
 
I20 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Polly (Thompson) Fitzwater. They reside 
 on her father's farm. 
 
 Samuel,^ (Samuel/ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Bristol, Vt., May 6, 1796; went 
 to Ohio with his father's family and settled on a 
 farm in Newburgh, six miles from Cleveland ; 
 m. Jan. 15, 181 8, Cherry Edwards, b. Nov. 22, 
 1800, d. Nov. 21, 1858. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Jehial S. 7, b. Oct. 15, 1818. 
 
 2. Noble I. 7, b. April 15, 1821, d. March 25, 
 
 1856. 
 
 3. Calvin M. 7, b. Nov. 4, 1825, d. Aug. 26, 
 
 1845. 
 
 4. Rodolphus E. 7, b. Jan. 24, 1828. 
 
 John C.,^ ( John,^ Joseph,^ John,^ Robert,^ Wal- 
 ter,^) b. in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y., 
 1803, m. Serena Linendoll, and lived at Fort Ed- 
 ward, N. Y., practically all his life until a few 
 years prior to his death, when he lived with his 
 daughter at Glens Falls, N. Y., where he d. 
 Nov. 13, 1891. 
 
 Children. 
 I. John J. 7, b. May 27, 1830, d. young. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 121 
 
 2. Susan S. y, b. Aug. 22, 1831, m. M. H. 
 
 Bradt, a retired coal merchant, resides at 
 Glens Falls. 
 
 Child. 
 Ernest, who d. young. 
 
 3. Rhoda W. 7, b. June 5, 1833, ^- Wm. R. 
 
 De Garon (?). He is dec. ; she is a resident 
 of New York City. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. David 8, b. at Fort Miller, N. Y. 
 
 2. William 8, b. at Fort Miller, N. Y., dec. 
 
 3. Anna 8, b. 1862, d. 1892. 
 
 4. Serena 8, b. 1866, m. Henry C. Stuart. Re- 
 
 side in New York City. 
 
 4. Charles B. 7, b. Dec. 16, 1834. • 
 
 5. Mary Ann 7, b. Sept. 29, 1836, m. Oct. 7, 
 
 1857, Walter S. Durkee ; both dec; she d. 
 Sept. 22, 1869. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John S. 8, b. March 2, 1859. Professor of 
 
 music. 
 
 2. Minnie D. 8, d. young. 
 
122 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 6. George W. 7, b. Feb. 27, 1838, m. Dec. 2, 
 
 1880, Elizabeth Vanderberg ; resident of 
 San Diego, Cal., retired miner. 
 
 7. John C, Jr., 7, b. July 25, 1840. Served 
 
 through the Civil War and died from the 
 effects of hard service; d. unm. Feb. 12, 
 
 1877. 
 
 8. James R. 7, b. July 21, 1841. 
 
 9. Rosana 7, b. April 23, 1 842, d. Aug. 24, 1 860. 
 10. Margaret E. 7, b. Jan. 22, 1850, m. at Cov- 
 ington, Kentucky, Jan. 6, 1882, John C. 
 Barry ; reside in Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 Seventh Generation. 
 
 Amos,^ (David,^ William,^ Charles,* John,^ 
 Robert," Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., Jan. 4, 
 1793. He was a hard worker, a successful farmer, 
 a kind neighbor, a prominent man in town affairs, 
 and a strict Presbyterian in religion. He served 
 his town in the legislature three years ; was select- 
 man in 1831, 1832, 1833,1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 
 1838, 1842, 1843, 1846, and 1863. He was a 
 soldier in the War of 1812, and later a captain in 
 the militia. He was twice married ; his first wife 
 was Margaret Oaks, b. 1797, d. Aug. 29, 1850. 
 He m. 2d Lydia Babcock. She d. Jan. 21, 1883 ; 
 he d. June 17, 1867. 
 
londonderry stewarts i 23 
 
 Children, all by First Marriage. 
 
 1. Amarlah Haven 8, b. May 13, 1818. A 
 
 notice of his death published in the Gazette 
 says: " Amariah H. Stewart, aged 84 years 
 and 10 months, died in Westford, Ct., March 
 25, 1902. Mr. Stewart was for many years 
 a teacher in pubHc schools. He enlisted in 
 ' the 29th Reg't, New Jersey Vol., as orderly 
 sergeant. He was present at the Battles of 
 Antietam and Malvern Hill. He was also 
 a member of the G. A. R. of Colrain until a 
 short time previous to his death, when he 
 applied for a discharge on account of his age 
 and the great distance which prevented his 
 meeting with the post. . . . The interment 
 was in the family lot in East Colrain. 
 Though afflicted with a chronic disease, his 
 death was sudden and unexpected, being 
 found dead in his room. He was unmar- 
 ried." 
 
 2. William 8, b. Sept 16, 1820. 
 
 3. Silas 8, b. Dec. 21, 1822. Physician, d. in 
 
 New York City, Nov. 23, 1865. -^^ ^^^ 
 one of the " Forty-niners " who crossed the 
 plains to California. He made a second 
 trip to the "land of gold" about 1851. 
 Unmarried (?). 
 
124 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 4. Nancy J. 8, b. June lo, 1825, d. Sept. 16, 1849. 
 
 5. David 8, b. July 29, 1827. 
 
 6. Amos 8, b. Dec. — , 1829, d. May 6, 1832. 
 
 7. Amos 8, b. May 29, 1833. 
 
 8. Charles 8, b. June 29, 1836, d. Sept. 2, 1870. 
 
 9. Mary 8, b. Feb. 13, 1839, m. S. D. Handy 
 
 of Colrain, and moved to Illinois about 1876. 
 She d. at Maple Park, Nov. 5, 1881 ; he d. 
 in Chicago. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Margaret, a teacher in Chicago. 
 
 2. N. Fitch. 
 
 10. George 8, b. June 29, 1843. 
 
 3 
 
 William,^ (David,^ William,^ Charles,^ John, 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Aug. 21, 1797, 
 m. Jan. i, 1822, Susan, b. May 15, 1800, dau. 
 of Jared Brown of Colrain. He m. 2d, Prudence 
 Trumble of Edinburg, N. Y., b. March3i, 1807, 
 d. Nov. 6, 1887. He d. Nov. 8, 1881. 
 
 Children by First Marriage. 
 
 I. Miriam 8, b. Sept. 29, 1822, m. Whitney 
 
 and both d. in New York City. She d. 
 July 10, 1862. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I25 
 
 2. William F. 8, b. Dec. 29, 1825. 
 
 Children by Second Marriage. 
 
 3. Sarah J. 8, b. Nov. i, 1833, m. Franklin 
 
 Morrill of Vt. Both d. at Saratoga Springs, 
 leaving two daughters. 
 
 4. David J. 8, b. May 10, 1835, d. March 16, 
 
 1837- 
 
 5. Polly T. 8j b. July 3, 1837, m. Sampson Sea- 
 
 ver of Edinburg, N. Y. He d. Jan. 1890; 
 she d. Sept. 6, 1903, leaving three sons and 
 one daughter. 
 
 6. Adelaide N. 8, b. Sept. 10, 1839, m. John H. 
 
 York of Perth, N. Y. He d. Nov. 15, 1877, 
 leaving two daughters. She resides at Glov- 
 ersville, N. Y. 
 
 7. Maria L. 8, b. Oct. 31, i84i,m. George Stew- 
 
 art of Colrain, Mass. 
 
 8. Elizabeth C. 8, b. June 8, 1844, m. Jerome 
 
 Henry, and resides at Topeka, Kansas. Six 
 children. 
 
 9. Lucy A. 8, b. Feb. 10, 1849, ^- Harlow Chase 
 
 of Broadalbin, N. Y. Residence, Kansas, 
 where she d. May 6, 1893. Seven children. 
 
 Addison,^ (Charles,^ John,^ Charles,^ John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. May 29, 181 1, in Truxton, 
 
126 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 N. Y., m. Lucy Tilden, b. Sept. 28, 1 8 1 1, in Avon, 
 N. Y., and went to Michigan in 1833 ^^^ com- 
 menced pioneer life in the traditional log house. 
 Later he lived with and cared for his parents, and 
 after his father's death removed to Flint, Mich. 
 He was a tall, athletic man and rather proud 
 of his physical powers. He d. at Flint, March 
 8, 1848. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Damon 8, b. Feb. 5, 1834, at Genesee, Mich., 
 
 m. Oct. 23, 1867, Frances ^^Q^^ggj^- ^ 
 
 in Barton, N. Y. Mr. Stewart — or " Capt. 
 Stewart " as he is called — entered the U. S. 
 service May 25, 1861, as private, Co. F, 
 2d Mich. Vol. Inf. ; he rose in rank to cor- 
 poral and sergeant ; was wounded In his 
 hand in engagement at Williamsburg, Va., 
 May 5, 1862; discharged Aug. 6, 1862, to 
 reenlist as Captain Co. K, 23d Mich. Inf.; 
 mustered out March 4, 1865. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Hobart 9, b. Dec. 6, i868,m. May 18, 1904, 
 
 Mary C. Dewey. 
 
 2. Mabel 9, b. Dec. 28, 1870. 
 
 3. Lucy 9, b. Dec. 18, 1873. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 27 
 
 4. William C. 9, b. March 10, 1876. Admitted 
 
 to the Bar 1904. 
 
 5. Bertha 9, b. April 18, 1879, m. Jan. 15, 1904, 
 
 at Portland, Oregon, Dr. Frederick D. 
 Strieker ; residence Grant's Pass, Oregon. 
 
 6. Frances 9, b. Jan. 13, 1882. 
 
 2. Harriet 8, b. Sept. 23, 1836, m. Watson Rich- 
 
 ards, 2d Oren Stone. 
 
 3. Laura E. 8, b. Feb. 15, 1838, m. Jan. 7, 1863, 
 
 Henry Seymour. He d. Oct. 5, 1899. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. James 9, b. March 15, 1864. 
 
 2. Charles 9, b. Dec. 14, 1865, ^- -^^g- 6, 
 
 1866. 
 
 3. Harriet F. 9, b. Oct. 25, 1867. 
 
 4. Catherine L. 9, b. Aug. 10, 1869. 
 
 5. William H. 9, b. Dec. 11, 1874. 
 
 6. Mary S. 9, b. June 14, 1876. 
 
 7. Emily 9, b. Dec. 30, 1880. 
 
 4. Charles W. 8, b. Sept. 7, 1839, soldier in the 
 
 Civil War; was ist Lieut, in Co. E, 23d 
 Regt. Mich. Inf. Vol. ; was killed in action 
 
128 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 at Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864. The poet 
 says : 
 
 " The gallant man, though slain in fight he be, 
 Yet leaves his country safe, his nation free ; 
 Entails a debt on all the grateful State : 
 His own brave friends shall glory in his fate." 
 
 5. Ann 8, b. Sept. 4, 1842, m. Jan. 8, 1879, 
 Henry Van Aken, and d. May 3, 1884. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Elizabeth S. 9, b. Jan. 17, 1883, at Vernon, 
 Mich., and after her mother's death was 
 adopted by her aunt, Harriet Stone. 
 
 6. 
 
 r 
 
 7- 
 
 Richard A. 8, b. Oct. 10, 1845. ^^^ ^ P^^" 
 
 vatein Co. G, loth Regt. Mich. Inf. Vol. ; 
 
 was killed in action at Jonesborough, Ga., 
 
 Sept. I, 1864. 
 Catherine 8, b. Oct. 10, 1845, ^- March 24, 
 
 1851. 
 
 Luther,^ (Enos,^ John,^ Charles,^ John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., May 5, 
 1 790, m. in I 820, Belinda, b. Sept. 7, 1 796, dau. of 
 Mathewand Mary (Anderson) Barber. The Bio- 
 graphical Review says : " His life was spent in Col- 
 rain, and, besides attending to his farming interests, 
 he had a large lumber business. He was a very 
 busy and successful man during his active life, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 29 
 
 and passed his last years in quiet retirement. He 
 was honest, truthful, and positive in his opinions 
 of right ; and he had no fellowship with what he 
 esteemed wrong, and the Bible was his counsellor. 
 He was a Republican in politics, and he and his 
 wife members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 He died Dec. 30, 1885. His wife passed away 
 Feb. 5, 1892. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Mary S. 8,m. Jan. 18, 1842, Burton A. Burn- 
 ham. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Sumner C. ? 
 
 2. Sarah M. ? 
 
 2. Luther B. 8, m. Oct. 14, 1848, Melissa Miner, 
 
 m. 2d, Sevie (?) Shepardson, m. 3d, Sarah 
 Taylor, residence Colrain. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Rosilla 9 ? 
 
 2. WiUiam 9, who is an artist at Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 3. Maria F. 8, m. Jan. 20, 1848, Elisha D. Alex- 
 
 ander. 
 
 9 
 
130 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Mary M. 9 5. Edmund 9 
 
 2. Grace 9 6. Elisha L. 9 
 
 3. Orrin 9 7. Linna 9 
 
 4. Eva E. 9 8. Emma H. 9 
 
 4. Emma 8, b. m. May 4, 1859, Avery J. 
 
 Denison. 
 
 5. Edmund B. 8, b. Oct. 26, 1835, ^* ^^^- ^^' 
 
 1858, Harriet, dau. of William Robertson. 
 She d. April 28, 1898. " He spent his life 
 on the old homestead with the exception of 
 three years, when he started out for himself. 
 At the expiration of that time he took charge 
 of the home place and has been a very suc- 
 cessful farmer, devoting considerable time to 
 sheep raising. He is a great lover of fine 
 horses and generally keeps one or two 'fine 
 steppers.' In a good apple year he makes 
 about two thousand barrels of cider. He 
 deals wholly in sweet cider, finding market 
 in the vicinity, in New York, and in Boston." 
 His fine buildings are located in a beautiful 
 spot on the banks of Green River, in East 
 Colrain. 
 
 6. Juliet A. 8, b. July 23, 1838, m. Jan. 8, 1856, 
 
 James P. Bell. 
 
londonderry stewarts i3i 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Lizzie E. 9, b. June 28, 1857, d. Nov. 14, 
 
 1874. 
 
 2. Charles E. 9, b. Jan. 15, 1859, d. Nov. 5, 
 
 1874. 
 
 3. Bertie B. 9, b. April 25, 1865, d. Nov. 6, 
 
 1874. 
 
 4. Arthur S. 9, b. Oct. i, 1870, d. Nov. 17, 
 
 1870. 
 
 5. John A. 9, b. Nov. 17, 1876, d. Dec. 23, 
 
 1879. 
 
 Samuel F./ (John,^ John,^ John/ John,^ 
 Robert/ Walter/) b. in Sheburne, Mass., Sept. 9, 
 1803, m. April 19, 1837, Mary Sweet, b. Nov. 5, 
 1807, i^ Milford, Otsego County, N. Y. He 
 followed farming in his native town for several 
 years, but like his kin, the State of New York 
 had a peculiar attraction for him, and early in 
 1830 resolved to seek his fortune in that land of 
 promise. He halted for a time near Utica, where 
 he found prosperity sufficient to make that his 
 abiding place for some years, and there he found 
 his wife, a daughter of wealthy parents. In the 
 fall of 1839 he paid his native place a final visit 
 with a view of another removal. About this time 
 
132 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 the great West held out inducements to till her 
 broad acres, and early in i 840 he left Utica with 
 his family for Illinois, traveling by canal boat to 
 Buffalo, a luxury in the mode of travel which had 
 superseded the slow moving ox team of his grand- 
 father's time. From Buffalo the journey was 
 made with a pair of horses and wagon. 
 
 Reaching the vast prairies of Illinois he took 
 up a ranch and erected a house three miles from 
 Buffalo Grove, since called Polo. But fortune 
 still beckoned onward, and after a residence of 
 three years, he sold out and removed to Albion, 
 Dane County, Wisconsin, where he encountered 
 all the hardships and uncertainties of a pioneer far- 
 mer, and when the earth refused to yield suste- 
 nance to man, the venison of the forest and fish 
 of the lake was the resort, while rattle snakes and 
 other natives disputed the right of way, but he 
 conquered obstacles and resided in Dane Co., 
 twenty-four years. He then sold out and pur- 
 chased a farm on Otter Creek, in the town of 
 Milton, Rock County, where he continued to re- 
 side until his death which occurred on Aug. 15, 
 1876. She d. May 10, 1872. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Charlotte A. 8, b. in Utica, N. Y., Dec. 31, 
 1838, m. Oct. 13, i860, Richard B. Hull of 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IJJ 
 
 Milton, Wis., b. Dec. 7, 1837, d. Feb. 17, 
 1904. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Luella A. 9, b. Oct. 14, 1861, m. Smith, 
 
 m. 2d, McKenzie. She d. June 15, 
 
 1904. 
 
 2. C. Eugene 9, b. May 2, 1865. Resides on 
 
 the old homestead with his widowed mother. 
 
 2. F. Eugene 8, b. in Buffalo Grove, 111., Aug. 
 
 15, 1841. 
 
 3. John 8, b. in Albion, Wis., Sept. 3, 1843, d. 
 
 Aug. 6, 1859. 
 
 4. Mary R. 8, b. June 18, 1845, "^- ^^^- ^^^3> 
 
 Justin M. Hull, b. June 9, 1845. -^^ ^^^ 
 a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in 1862 ; 
 served fourteen months, and was discharged 
 by reason of an injury received at the Battle 
 of Prairie Grove, Ark. He graduated from 
 the Bennett Medical College and commenced 
 practice as a physician, in Lake Mills, Iowa. 
 He was elected to the State Legislature in 
 1879. He was a member of the Iowa State 
 Board of Health. About 1 885 he moved to 
 Milton, Wis. He d. suddenly at Madison, 
 Wis., April 11, 1889. 
 
134 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Nora K. 9, b. March 3, 1866, d. May 26, 
 
 1896, m. Chas. R. Hill. 
 
 2. Emma A. 9, b. Dec. 12, 1867, d. Dec. 26, 
 
 1867. 
 
 3. Mary R. 9, b. March 23, 1869, d. Jan. 16, 
 
 1870. 
 
 ' 4. Nathan J. 9, b. June 12, 1871, Milton, Wis. 
 
 5. James L. 8, b. March 18, 1848. 
 
 Ira; (John/ John/ John/ John/ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Shelburne, Aug. 23, 1805, ^• 
 Caroline Little of Halifax, Vt. He was a black- 
 smith by trade and followed his brother Samuel 
 to York State where he worked at his trade on 
 the canal line near Rome, but his health failing, 
 he returned to Massachusetts and d. in Shelburne, 
 Oct. 15, 1836. She m. 2d, Whitney of Con- 
 way. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Caroline M. 8, b. Jan. 24, 1829. Left an 
 orphan at the age of seven, she received her 
 training in a Shelburne family. The writer 
 remembers her as a person of remarkable 
 beauty and geniality ; a sweet singer, and 
 devoted Christian ; m. Denison Green of 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I35 
 
 Bernardston, b. 1825. They went West in 
 1856 and the following description of their 
 experience as pioneers is given by their son. 
 " Denison W. Green and his wife and child 
 left Bernardston, Mass., in 1856, to seek a 
 home in the then far West going as far 
 west as Dane Co., Wis., where they remained 
 till the fall of i860. Land was high in that 
 part of the country, and hearing of the 
 beautiful climate of Minnesota with its free 
 lands, he emigrated from Albion, Wis., to 
 Minnesota, arriving at the town of Bethel, 
 now known as Linwood, Anoka County, 
 about the middle of October of that year. 
 At that time not a foot of railroad was built 
 in the state, and the journey was made with 
 horses and a covered wagon, the outfit being 
 owned by a man in Bethel, who had pur- 
 chased them in Wisconsin where we lived, 
 and engaged him to bring us through. Our 
 whole earthly possessions consisted of a few 
 household goods and one cow which we 
 drove along, but died a few weeks after our 
 arrival. This, with a hard winter before us 
 was not very cheering, and at this time our 
 finances in the way of cash amounted to 
 J 1. 25. We managed to get into an old log 
 house, situated upon the banks of a beauti- 
 
136 \ GENEALOGY OF 
 
 ful lake, where a few acres had been opened 
 up, which upon the following spring we 
 proceeded to plant. The house contained 
 two rooms, one below and one up stairs. 
 I will not mention the experience we had in 
 getting it in suitable shape to move into, 
 but in due time we moved in and commenced 
 housekeeping with such as we had, but our 
 furniture was mostly home made. Tamarack 
 was the wood used mostly in this line for 
 bedsteads, tables, and stools, but our first 
 table was made from the boards of a box of 
 goods that we had shipped by steamboat to 
 St. Paul, and was quite an elaborate affair as 
 it had leaves. 
 As the country was sparsely settled and every 
 one without means, no work was to be 
 had to speak of, but fur animals were plen- 
 tiful and father trapped them, and the money 
 obtained from them, and with the wild game 
 abounding in the woods we lived very well, 
 but did not put on much style. During the 
 summer and autumn of 1861, father ob- 
 tained work and so got another cow, work- 
 ing fifty days for her. The winter passed 
 about the same as the one before. In 
 August, 1862, we were warned that the 
 Sioux Indians were upon us, and we turned 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I37 
 
 out our COW to shift for herself, and with the 
 whole neighborhood fled to St. Paul, by ox 
 team, traveling night and day to reach a 
 place of safety. There we remained two 
 weeks, until the Indians were driven back, 
 but not until they had plundered a large 
 tract of country and murdered many hundred 
 people. We then returned to our home to 
 commence over again, having spent what 
 little money we had during our stay in St. 
 Paul. A little later father took up a home- 
 stead consisting of i6o acres, one mile from 
 our first location, and in the spring of 1863 
 we built a log house and a stable and moved 
 into it to commence anew, we having sold 
 out for a trifle what improvements we had 
 made on our former location. Upon this 
 farm we toiled as best we could with little 
 means to work with, other than our hands, 
 but after many years we had opened up a 
 beautiful farm, and it was then that mother 
 passed away. No one who has not passed 
 through the experience can imagine the 
 hardships that the pioneer has to pass 
 through and undergo, in order to open up 
 the beautiful West. Our nearest point of 
 trade was forty miles, taking four days to 
 make the trip with an ox team. Volumes 
 
13 B GENEALOGY OF 
 
 could be written upon the subject." She 
 d. June 9, 1873. ^^ ^' J^h ^^5 1890. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Clarence D. 9, b. Feb. 27, 1853, m. Nov. 20, 
 1879, Sadie J. Dow. ; m. 2d, April 30, 1896, 
 Mrs. Eudora DeLue. Dealer in real estate 
 and loans, Anoka, Minn. 
 
 2. James I. 8, b. May 29, 1830. 
 
 3. Samuel O. 8, b. ,d. young. 
 
 4. Amanda 8, b. about 1834, after the death of 
 
 her father she was adopted by Mrs. Phebe 
 Webster of Upton, Mass. ; d. about 1849. 
 
 5. Maria 8, b. Aug. — , 1836, d. April 24, 1837. 
 
 John,^ (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. March 27, 1815, m. 
 April 19, 1838, Alice S. Webster. His early 
 life was spent in farming and shoemaking, buy- 
 ing his leather and selling the products of his la- 
 bors at Haverhill, Mass. About the time the 
 shoe business received such an impetus through- 
 out New England he disposed of his farm and 
 engaged successfully in shoe manufacturing at 
 Haverhill, and continued in that business during 
 the rest of his active life. He d. Sept. 30, 
 1894. Shed. Feb. 13, 1895. 
 
londonderry stewarts i39 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Sylvanus 8, b. April 14, 1840. 
 
 2. Charles P. 8, b. Dec. 19, 1842. A shoemaker. 
 
 A soldier in the Civil War in the 50th U. V. 
 M. ; d. May 5, 1872. 
 
 3. Mary E. 8, b. March 9, 1844, d. young. 
 
 4. Warren A. 8, b. March 2, 1846. 
 
 5. Mary E. 8, b. July 30, 1 847, m. May 20, 1 869, 
 
 Geo. M. Paul of Haverhill. They have 
 one daughter, Alice, b. Jan. 21, 1872. 
 
 James,'' (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Salem, N. H., Oct. 7, 
 1 8 17, m. Nov. — , 1843, Abbie W. Clark. Re- 
 sided at Derry, N. H., in 1844; removed to 
 Haverhill previous to 1846, and for a time lived 
 at Plaistow, N. H. A shoemaker by trade. He 
 was a soldier in the Civil War enlisting Sept. 30, 
 1 861 in Co. F, 17th Regt. Mass. Vol., serving 
 two years and eight months. He d. Aug. 23, 
 1881. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. George E. 8, b. in Derry, N. H., Sept. 29, 
 1 844, m. 1st, Sarah Jordan of Saco, Me. ; m. 
 2d, Mary E. Loud of Denmark, Me. He 
 served two years in the Civil War in Co. F, 
 
140 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 17th Regt. Mass. Vol. A resident of Lynn 
 in 1897 ; a shoemaker. 
 
 2. Charles H. 8, b. in Haverhill, Mass., April 8, 
 
 1846, m. Adaline Marden of Greenland, 
 N. H. ; m. 2d, Mary Sweeny of Homestead, 
 Penna. Served two years in the Civil War ; 
 was in Co. F, 17th Regt. Mass. Vol.; dis- 
 charged in 1863 ; re-enlisted in Co. D, ist 
 Mass. Cav. ; served till the close of war ; 
 residence. Homestead, Penna. ; a detective. 
 
 3. John W. 8, b. March 16, 1848. Soldier in 
 
 Civil War; enlisted in Co. A, 4th Mass. 
 Cav. ; d. at Richmond, Va., Dec. 24, 1865. 
 
 4. James A. 8, b. March 30, 1850, m. Mary E. 
 
 Worster of Elliot, Me. 
 
 5. Emma F. 8, b. Jan. it, 1852, m. J. Marcel- 
 
 lus Smith of Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 6. Frank H. 8, b. in Plaistow, N. H., Dec. 
 
 12, 1857, d. Feb. 6, 1870. 
 
 7. Richard A. 8, b. Feb. 12, 1859, m. Florence 
 
 Davis, of Boston, Mass. ; residence Home- 
 stead, Penna. ; a printer. 
 
 Robert,^ (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,^ John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. June 6, 1820, m. Dec. 25, 
 i860, Sarah J. Moore of Parsonfield, Me. 
 A shoemaker by trade ; retired and a resident of 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I4I 
 
 Haverhill. Five children d. young. One dau., 
 Ida F. 8, b. Jan. 7, 1867, ^- Nov. 19, 1889, 
 Neal J. Taylor of Bridgeport, Conn. ; she m. 2d, 
 Nov. II, 1896, Herbert F. Sheldon, of Stone- 
 ham, Mass. One dau. Dorothy 9, b. June 21, 
 1891. 
 
 Homer Hine,^ (see memoir p. 177) (Aaron,^ 
 John, ^ Samuel,* John,^ Robert," Walter,^) b. in 
 New Haven, Vt., April i, 1810, m. ist, in Wind- 
 sor, Vt., May, 1837, Jane E., dau. of Edward 
 Campbell, m. 2d, in New York City, Septem- 
 ber 4, 1849, Margaret E. Dunbar. 
 
 Children by First Marriage. 
 
 1. Helen 8, b. July 4, 1839. Is a gifted writer. 
 
 2. Mary 8, b. 1840, d. July 16, 1846. 
 
 3. Anna 8, b. 1842, d. Jan. 15, 1847. 
 
 Children by Second Marriage. 
 
 I. Katharine Dunbar 8, b. in New York City, 
 Oct. 22, 1852, m. Sept. 29, 1884, John G. 
 Dunscomb, who was born in Halle, Ger- 
 many, in which country his family were 
 traveling at the time. His ancestry runs 
 back to Bermuda, his father, Edward Duns- 
 comb, and his mother, Mary Seon, having 
 been born there. The ceremony occurred 
 
142 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 at the Brick Presbyterian Church, 37th Street 
 and Fifth Avenue, New York City, and was 
 performed by the Rev. Lucius Curtis, D. D., 
 of Hartford, Ct., (a relative of the bride) 
 and the Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D., Pas- 
 tor of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Duns- 
 comb lived in Saginaw, Michigan, about five 
 years, then in Brooklyn, N. Y., and now live 
 in Summit, N. J. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Margaret Stuart 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., 
 
 Jan. 26, 1886. 
 
 2. Cecil 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 23, 1887. 
 
 3. John Carol 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 27, 
 
 1889. 
 
 4. Godefroi 9, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 27, 
 
 1892. 
 
 2. Homer Hine, Jr., 8, b. at Willow Tree, N. Y., 
 Jan. 30, 1855. He was educated at the 
 Chandler School, Hanover, N. H. For 
 some time he was in southern Florida and 
 a town on the east coast was named 
 " Stuart " because he was instrumental in 
 having the East Coast Line Railroad built 
 through there. Since 1890, however, he has 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I43 
 
 lived in Philadelphia where he is a General 
 Manager of the Philadelphia House of the 
 Fairbanks Co., a concern of extensive in- 
 terests having its origin at St. Johnsbury, 
 Vt. October 3, 1888, he married Marga- 
 ret B. Kenney in Athens, N. Y. The cere- 
 mony was performed by the Rev. John H. 
 Salisbury, D. D., Pastor of the Trenton, N. J., 
 Presbyterian Church. Margaret B. Kenney 
 was the daughter of Leander Kenney and 
 Ellen B. Howland. The earlier spelling of 
 the name was K-e-e-n-e-y and Leander's 
 father, James R. Keeney of New London, 
 Conn., spelled it thus as shown in the mar- 
 riage certificate of his wife, Jane Harris, also 
 of New London. Ellen B. Howland traces 
 her descent from John Howland of the 
 " Mayflower " and in her honor, her grand- 
 son. Homer, has taken the name of How- 
 land. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Homer Howland 9, b. July 5, 1890, in 
 Athens, N. Y. 
 
 3. Inglis 8, b. at Willow Tree, N. Y., March 24, 
 1859; unmarried and, with his widowed 
 mother, is living in Roseneath, N. Y. He 
 contributed the Menjpir of Captain John 
 
144 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Stewart {infra) and has rendered valuable 
 assistance on other branches of the Stewart 
 Family. 
 
 Ira Hubbell/ (Aaron,^ John/ Samuel/ John/ 
 Robert/ Walter/) b. in New Haven, Vt., Feb. 6, 
 i8ii,m. Jan. 7, 1834, Eunice Boyce. Ira H. 
 Stewart died while on a business trip to New Or- 
 leans, La., — , 1849. Eunice Boyce Stewart died 
 Dec. 9, 1852. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Ernest B. 8, b. in Berlin, Vt., Sept. 25, 1846, 
 m. Annie K. Ansley. He early changed 
 the spelling of his name, for he enlisted 
 July 16, 1862, in the 9th Vermont Infantry 
 under the name of Ernest B. Stuart, credited 
 to Bethel, Vt. After the close of hostilities, 
 he removed from Vermont and was in Chi- 
 cago at the time of the great fire, 1871, 
 when he was burned out and lost everything. 
 He became a chemist and is still a resident 
 of Chicago. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Eunice M. 9, b. Dec. 4, 1873, "^- Jo^^ W. 
 
 Beckwith. 
 
 2. Allyn 9, b. June 19, 1877. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I45 
 
 3. Mable A. 9, b. Oct. 11, 1883. 
 
 Dugald/ (Ira/ John/ Samuel/ John/ Robert/ 
 Walter/) b. in Middlebury, Vt., Sept. 26, 1821, 
 m. Sophia C. Allen, dau. of Dr. George C. Allen 
 of Burlington, Vt., Jan. 26, 1857. She was b. in 
 Burlington, Sept. 21, 1836. 
 
 Dugald was a lawyer and filled many official 
 positions and was becoming a man of great prom- 
 inence in the State when he was carried off by 
 pneumonia, March 30, 1870. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Dugald S., Jr., 8, b. in Middlebury Vt., Aug. 
 
 18, 1857 ; graduated from Middlebury Col- 
 lege in 1 879 ; died unmarried in Middlebury, 
 Vt., Sept. 23, 1886. 
 
 2. John Hubbell 8, b. in Middlebury Vt., 
 
 March 13, i860, and now a merchant there; 
 
 m. July 15, 1885, Lucia Sutton, b. in 
 
 Stowe, Vt. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Dugald 9, b. in Middlebury, Vt., Sept. 27, 
 
 1887, now at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. 
 
 2. Benjamin Sutton 9, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
 
 Jan. I, 1889. 
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146 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 3. George Allen 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
 Nov. 23, 1 86 1, and now living with his 
 widowed mother in Middlebury, Vt. 
 
 John Wolcott/ (Ira,^ John/ Samuel,^ John/ 
 Robert/ Walter/) b. Nov. 25, 1825, in Middle- 
 bury, Vt., m. Emma, dau. of Philip Battell, Esq., 
 then residing in Middlebury, Vt. Emma (Bat- 
 tell) Stewart was b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 5, 
 1837, and d. in Boston, Mass., March 19, 
 1 900. Mr. Stewart has been a man of great prom- 
 inence. He has been a delegate to the Na- 
 tional Republican Conventions since i860 and 
 Governor of the State in 1870, 1871 and 1872. 
 Member of Congress many terms. Director of 
 Railroads, Trustee, etc. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Emma Battell 8, b. March 14, 1863. 
 
 2. Philip Battell 8, b. Jan. 29, 1 864 ; graduated at 
 
 Yale, 1886, m. in York, Maine, Sept. 13, 
 1893, Sarah Frances Cowles of Chicago, 111., 
 and now resides in Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. John Wolcott 2d, 9, b. Aug. 11, 1895,111 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I47 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 ^ 
 
 Robert Forsyth 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
 Sept. 17, 1871, d. Dec. 1880. 
 
 Anna Jessica 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
 Sept. 17, 1871. 
 
 5. John Wolcott, Jr., 8, b. Jan. 1873, d. 
 
 July, 1874. 
 
 Jehial S.,^ (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ Samuel,"* John.,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. i, 
 1818 (old Bible says 18 19). His educational 
 advantages were meagre, and his early life was 
 spent on his father's farm; m. Jan. 12, 1850, 
 Sophia Thomas of Bangor, N. Y. Oct. 14, 1856, 
 they settled near the outskirts of Cleveland and 
 kept a hotel or road house as it was called there 
 and here he remained four years. He then 
 moved to Cleveland and was employed as a com- 
 mission merchant for some years, when he re- 
 moved to Oil Creek, and engaged in the oil busi- 
 ness, and later dealt in real estate, making and 
 losing a fortune. His natural turn of mind was 
 astronomical study and with proper training he 
 would have been a success in that work. He d. 
 Aug. 28, 1 89 1. Shed, in Chicago, March 8, 1895. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Jehial H. 8, b. April 4, 1851. 
 
 2. Marshal R. 8, b. Oct. 17, 1 859, unmarried. 
 
148 , GENEALOGY OF 
 
 He was educated in the Cleveland public 
 schools, afterwards attending Oberlin College. 
 He has been a salesman and actor, and is a 
 resident of N. Y. City. 
 
 Effie S. 8, b. Feb. 17, 1863, like her brothers, 
 was educated in the public schools of Cleve- 
 land. At an early age she developed a 
 talent for music which was fostered by her 
 mother and was given all the advantages her 
 means would allow. Being obliged by ill- 
 ness to leave school after a year's absence it 
 was decided to send her to Chicago to begin 
 her studies for a professional life as she re- 
 fused absolutely the idea of becoming a school 
 teacher. She lived a year there keeping 
 house for her two brothers while pursuing 
 her studies there. She went to Pittsburg 
 and took care of herself the first year by ob- 
 taining the second best church position in 
 that city. There also she made her first 
 appearance in opera " Norma," when a great 
 future was predicted for her. After two years 
 she went to New York and commenced at once 
 her professional career, singing in concert, ora- 
 torio and opera with much success. But as life 
 was not complete without a term of study in 
 Europe, an opportunity was given her in 
 1889 to go to Paris, though she had to relin- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I49 
 
 quish her position as soprano soloist of the 
 5th Ave. Cathedral, N. Y. She remained 
 in Paris 2^ years learning French and eigh- 
 teen operas, when by the death of her father 
 she was obliged to seek her living, so she 
 turned towards London where she soon won 
 recognition and joined the Carl Rosa Opera 
 Company, in which she was very successful, 
 as well as in concert and oratorio. Having 
 lost her father, and her mother at the point 
 of death, she left all her future and hurried 
 home to ease the aching heart of a lone 
 mother, thereby losing the promised goal of 
 her life. She has remained in this country 
 since making a name for herself in all 
 branches of her art. 
 
 Charles B.,"^ (John C.,^ John,^ Joseph,* John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Fort Edward, N. Y., 
 Dec. 1 6, 1834, m. Jane T. Marvin, of Troy, 
 N. Y. From 1 863 to 1 864 he was connected with 
 the hardware house of Warren, Hart, and Lesley 
 and their successors J. M. Warren & Co., of 
 New York City. In the fall of 1864 he removed 
 to Brooklyn and was connected with an old es- 
 tablished hardware house in that city, but failing 
 health led him to take a trip to Virginia in 
 March, 1869, which resulted in his purchasing a 
 
150 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 farm in Culpepper County (near the then Virginia 
 Midland R. R.), midway between Culpepper 
 Court House and Orange Court House. The 
 tract contained 337 acres, the last homestead of 
 Hon. Daniel F. Stoughten, a descendant of 
 Capt. Stoughten of the Revolution, who was 
 granted a large tract of land by the Government 
 for his services during the Revolutionary War. 
 It was across this farm the Northern troops 
 charged the Rebels at the Battle of Cedar Moun- 
 tain, or more properly Stoughten's Mountain. 
 The farm when he bought it was without build- 
 ings or fences, having been devastated by both 
 armies. Several years were spent building, mak- 
 ing fence, improving and cleaning up generally, 
 hoping for good returns, which never materialized, 
 owing to the impoverished condition of the 
 soil, the result of the old style of Virginia farm- 
 ing, merely striving to raise corn and bacon to 
 feed their slaves, wherein their available cash was 
 invested. His neighbors treated him very coldly 
 and looked upon him with suspicion, for which, 
 he says, " They were excusable for no one could 
 realize their losses except by personal experience." 
 But to use his own words : " They gradually 
 learned that ' Yankee Stewart ' was a decent sort 
 of chap, and if one can believe surface indications 
 they were sincerely sorry when that same Yankee 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I5I 
 
 went back North." He made many friends, and 
 he looks back to that period of fourteen years' 
 residence in old Virginia with many pleasant 
 recollections. He now resides at Glens Falls, 
 N. Y., engaged in the coal business. 
 
 Children. 
 I. Charles M. 8, b. Troy, N. Y., May 24, 1859. 
 Engineer on Boston and Maine R. R. 
 Residence, Mechanicsville, N. Y. ; m. Ida 
 B. Moore, of Richmond, Va. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John M. 9, b. Oct. 27, 1879. A graduate 
 
 of Mount Hermon, 1904. 
 
 2. Sadie 9, b. March 15, 1882. 
 
 3. Susan 9, b. March 26, 1885 (0- 
 
 4. George W. 9, b. Dec. 25, 1883 (?) dec. 
 
 5. Lillian V. 9, b. Dec. 4, 1887. 
 
 2. Ella V. 8, b. Oct. 2, i860, d. Aug. 2, 1886. 
 
 3. Clement 8, b. Aug. 2, 1862. Drowned, June, 
 
 1879. 
 
 4. George W. 8, b. d. in infancy. 
 
 5. Lillian 8, b. March 21, 1866, d. Aug. 28, 
 
 1886. 
 
 6. Henrietta 8, b. d. in infancy. 
 
152 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 7. Mary 8, b. • Culpepper, Va., d. in infancy. 
 
 8. Wallace A. 8, b. August 16, 1874, electrical 
 
 worker, Glens Falls ; m. Lena Adams of 
 Glens Falls. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Wallace C. 9, b. 1900. 
 
 2. Donald G. 9, b. 1902. 
 
 9. Bessie E. 8, b. Dec. 27, 1879, m. Nov. 19, 
 1902, Louis F. Maynard, Glens Falls. 
 
 10. Donald P. 8, b. May 16, 1881; hospital 
 steward, U. S. Army, Luzon, Philippine 
 Islands. 
 
 James R.,*^ (John C.,^ John,^ Joseph,* John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Fort Edward, N. Y., 
 July 21, 1847, ^- ^^ Washington, D. C, Aug. 16, 
 1873, Grace V. Bushang of Virginia, b. July 7, 
 1853. Subsequent to 1869 he joined his brother 
 in Virginia and worked at farming. After his 
 marriage he removed to Western Virginia and re- 
 sided there until 1888. He is still a farmer, and 
 is now a resident of Glens Falls. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Merch B. 8, b. in Culpepper, Va., June 24, 
 1875. ^ graduate of West Point; served 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 53 
 
 through "Spanish-American" War; was 
 promoted to captaincy and now located at 
 Governor's Island, New York Bay. 
 
 2. Arthur B. 8, b. Feb. 13, 1881 ; enlisted in 
 
 Light Artillery, July, 1900 ; promoted to 
 sergeant ; now stationed at Fort Carly, Wash. 
 
 3. George V. 8, b. March 2, 1885 ; at Annapo- 
 
 lis Naval Academy. 
 
 4. Claude A. 8, b. June 9, 1887. 
 
 5. Nita G. 8, b. Feb. 15, 1892, in Glens Falls, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 6. Ruth V. 8, b. Aug. 27, 1895. 
 
 Eighth Generation. 
 
 William,^ (Amos,^ David, ^ William,^ Charles,^ 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. Sept. 16, 1820, m. 
 Nov. 26, 1851, Mary C. Chapin, dau. of Erastus 
 Chapin of Leyden, d. July 30, 1895. -^^ ^^^ 
 passed his entire life upon the farm where his 
 grandfather settled about 1793. He attended the 
 district schools and helped his father in carrying 
 on the farm until the latter's decease, after which 
 the estate was managed by himself and brother. 
 " He has been a tireless worker all his life and 
 eminently successful, being considered by his 
 fellow-townsmen to be one of the most prosper- 
 ous farmers in the neighborhood. Mr. Stewart 
 
154 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 has long been prominently identified with local 
 public affairs, having served the town for many 
 years as selectman and assessor, and has been a 
 Representative to the State Legislature ; he is also 
 an active member of the Methodist Church." 
 
 Child (Adopted). 
 
 Edith 9, b. Sept. 20, 1870, m. Herbert Root, 
 and has two children. 
 
 David,' (Amos,^ David,' William,^ Charles,^ 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., 
 July 29, 1827. He received his education in the 
 district schools of his native town. He is re- 
 membered as a boy of exuberant spirit and ac- 
 tivity and his boyish pranks are still told by his 
 old schoolmates. 
 
 He was a contractor and builder, and followed 
 that business for over forty years. He was one 
 of the carpenters that helped to build Washington 
 Hall, Greenfield, Mass. In 1855, he had a 
 touch of Western fever and emigrated to Wis- 
 consin, locating in Oshkosh, where he remained 
 about one year, during which time he buried his 
 first wife, Feb. 15, 1856. He then returned to 
 Washington, Macomb Co., Mich., where he met 
 and married, Oct. i, 1857, Mary, daughter of 
 Louis and Nancy (Knapp) Davis of Washington, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 55 
 
 and they resided there for some years. The last 
 12 years of his life he spent with his son, Haven 
 C. Stewart in the Upper Peninsula at Sidnaw, 
 where he died Aug. 31, 1901, and was taken to 
 Macomb Co., for burial. His 2d wife died 
 July 23, 1884. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Haven C.9, b. June 25, 1858, m. May 9, 1888, 
 
 Josephine R., b. in Lowell, Mich., Feb. 15, 
 1858, dau. of Samuel Moye, who was b. 
 in Switzerland, and his wife, Mary Myres, 
 b. in Brantford, Can. Mr. Stewart is a 
 resident of Sidnaw, Mich. He is postmas- 
 ter, and proprietor of " The Houghton," 
 the leading hotel of the place. He also 
 deals in harvesters, mowers, discdrills, bug- 
 gies, carts, plows and harrows. In short he 
 is a " hustler.'* 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Marie 10, b. in Marquette, Mich., August 5, 
 
 1890, d. Sept. I, 1 89 1. 
 
 2. Rex H. 10, b. Dec. 7, 1891. 
 
 3. David G. 10, b. at Sidnaw, Aug. 26, 1896. 
 
 2. Ellen M. 9, b. June 26, 1861, m. June 24, 
 
 1883, Wm. Latta. 
 
156 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 3. Kate J. 9, b. Jan. 24, 1864, m. Jan. 24, 1894, 
 
 Walter Phelps. 
 
 4. Mollie M. 9, b. Aug. 11, 1869, ^- i^ Evart, 
 
 Mich., Sept. 26, 1894, Geo. Engel. 
 
 Amos,^ (Amos/ David/ WilHam/ Charles/ 
 John/ Robert/ Walter/) b. in Colrain, May 29, 
 1833, m. April 14, 1858, Mary Cone, b. in Marl- 
 boro, Vt., Oct. I, 1836, dau. of Jesse and Abi- 
 gail (Nelson) Cone. The following is from the 
 Biographical Review. " He attended the schools 
 of his native town in early years, and at the age 
 of eighteen, under the influence of the gold fever, 
 made an overland trip to California with an ox 
 team, leaving Greenfield in April, 1851, and ar- 
 riving at his destination in October. He went 
 immediately to the mines of Sonoma County, 
 where he worked for three years ; his expectations 
 of sudden wealth, however, like those of many 
 others, failing of realization. He returned East 
 by the way of the Isthmus ; but, before settling 
 down in his native place, he went to Wisconsin, 
 where he remained for a year and a half, at the 
 end of which time, not altogether satisfied with 
 that part of the country, he returned to Colrain, 
 and in 1857 purchased the farm that he now oc- 
 cupies. He is extensively engaged in farming 
 and fruit growing, having a productive orchard 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 57 
 
 which yields over four hundred barrels of apples 
 yearly ; he also devotes considerable attention to 
 dairying interests. He is a republican in politics, 
 has served as selectman and assessor, and special 
 county commissioner for several terms." 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Jennie E. 9, b. Jan. 16, 1859, d. Jan. 19, 1875. 
 
 2. Abbie M. 9 , b. Nov. 25, 1866, m. W. T. 
 
 Holton, d. in Redlands, Cal., Jan. 8, 1891. 
 
 3. Charles A. 9, b. April 14, 1871, m. Nov. 30, 
 
 1904, Sadie D. Miller of Colrain. He was 
 for several years employed as superintendent 
 on a fruit ranch in Redlands, Cal. He now 
 resides with his parents in Colrain. 
 
 George,^ (Amos," David,^ William,^ Charles,^ 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, June 29, 
 1843, m. Maria L., b. Oct. 31, 1841, dau. of 
 William Stewart of Gloversville, N. Y., and re- 
 sided on the old homestead at Colrain until his 
 death April 5, 1888. She is now a resident of 
 Greenfield. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Henry 9, b. Sept. 26, 1874. Served during 
 the late " Spanish-American " War; enlisted 
 May 3, 1898 ; was wagoner, and was in the 
 Battle of El Caney, July i, 1898 ; under 
 
158 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 fire at San Juan hill, July 2, 1898, and at the 
 surrender of Santiago, July 11, 1898. When 
 Gen. Ludlow's horse was shot from under 
 him, young Stewart was sent to take the saddle 
 and equipments from the animal. He d. in 
 Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 23, 1899, from the 
 effects of hard service in Cuba. 
 
 2. Frank G. 9, b. Dec. 16, 1875, d. March 25, 
 
 1876. 
 
 3. Rose M. 9, b. June 27, 1877. 
 
 William F.,« (William,^ David,^ William,^ 
 Charles,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. Dec. 29, 
 1825, m. 1st, 1849, Sarah Howard; they had a 
 daughter, and both wife and child d. from spotted 
 fever. He m. 2d, Hester Dobbs of New York. 
 He served in the Civil War in Company C, 
 115 Regt., N. Y. Vol., d. Aug. 31, 1864, at 
 David's Island, N. Y. Harbor, and buried in the 
 Union Grounds at Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long 
 Island. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Charles 9, b. . A resident of Glovers- 
 
 ville, N. Y. 
 
 F. Eugene,^ (Samuel,^ John,^ John,^ John,* 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Buffalo Grove, 111., 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 59 
 
 Aug. 15, 1 841, m. March 27, 1866, Lucinda 
 Sprague, b. July 15, 1846. He enlisted Jan. 4, 
 1864, in the 13th Wisconsin Infantry, Capt. G. 
 U. Briggs' Co., Wm. P. Lyons, Col. In giving 
 his army experience, he says : " We were in many 
 skirmishes with bushwhackers and guerilla bands, 
 and in two hard fought battles ; the first was at 
 Decatur, Ala., Oct. 26, 1 864, and the next at Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., Dec. 15 and 16, 1864; ^Y regiment 
 was in the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army 
 Corps, under Gen. Wood. At Nashville we 
 warmed their jackets up in good shape and com- 
 pletely * hustled ' them. Soon after the battle we 
 were reviewed by Gen. Thomas and the whole 
 Corps sent to New Orleans ; from there we crossed 
 the Gulf of Mexico, and from there into Texas, 
 where we were mustered out, Dec. 1 8, 1865. The 
 regiment stands on record at the State Capitol, 
 Wis., as doing the most marching and guard 
 duty of any regiment in the State. I think the 
 closest call I had during my army life was down 
 on the Tennessee river. Our lines were on the 
 east side and the ' Johnnies ' were on the west 
 side of the river. Five of us from my company 
 had been doing patrol duty and several times had 
 crossed the river, while out on a lark, and one 
 night we had crossed as usual when suddenly the 
 Rebs sprang up on all sides of us, ordered us to 
 
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 surrender, and fired buckshot right and left ; they 
 did not hit us the first round and we ran for the 
 river, but the fellow that was nearest me threw 
 his hand up to his shoulder and said * Something 
 has stung me.' I told him he was shot, for I 
 could see the blood there, but he ran as far as he 
 could and then hid in the bushes. I told him if 
 I got back safely I would watch my chance and 
 come back and rescue him. The rest of us swam 
 the river and were soon again under the protec- 
 tion of the Stars and Stripes, and as soon as we 
 could we went back and got our comrade and 
 reached our lines all right." 
 
 He followed farming in Wisconsin and later 
 removed to Iowa where he followed the same 
 calling until his health failed. He now resides at 
 Clear Lake, Iowa. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John H. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., May 19, 
 
 1867. 
 
 2. Ira E. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., Sept. 23, 1868. 
 
 The above are thrifty business men of Clear 
 Lake ; they run the " bus and dray " business, 
 and are the only ice dealers in the city. 
 
 3. Nelia M. 9, b. April 7, i87i,m. Jan. i, 1896, 
 
 Westley Collins. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS l6l 
 
 4. Roy D. 9, b. Clear Lake, Dec. 22, 1884, 
 graduate of Clear Lake High School, 1904. 
 
 James L.,^ (Samuel,^ John,'^ John,^ John,* 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Albion, Wis., 
 March 18, 1848, m. in Milton, Oct. 2, 1869, C. 
 Ellen Hall, b. Sept. 4, 1853. He took charge 
 of the homestead at Milton, Wis., and resided 
 there until about 1901, when he sold his farm 
 and removed to Johnstown and resides with his 
 son-in-law. 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. Hettie M. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., Nov. 10, 
 1870, m. in Milton, Oct. 6, 1892, Peter J. 
 McFarlane, b. in Richmond, Wis., Feb. 25, 
 1868. ■ 
 
 Child. 
 
 I. George S. 10, b. in Johnstown, Wis., Aug. 18, 
 1898. 
 
 James L/ (Ira,^ John,^ John,^ John,* John,^ 
 Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Shelburne, May 29, 1830, 
 m. Nov. 24, 1852, Mary E., b. Nov. 11, 1836, 
 dau. of Aaron and Harriet Field. After the 
 death of his father he was brought up by strangers 
 and experienced the hardships that usually fall to 
 1 1 
 
I 62 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 the orphan, yet he was never known to complain. 
 His youthful days were brightened by a natural 
 love for music, and he became a fine singer and 
 master of the violin. In 1856 they went to Wis- 
 consin, and after a short experience there at farm- 
 ing returned to Bernardston, Mass., and being a 
 natural mechanic, he took up the trade of carpen- 
 ter and wagon maker, soon after moving to South 
 Deerfield where he followed his trade successfully 
 until 1862, when he enlisted as sergeant in the 
 52d Regt. Mass. Vol. for nine months. His 
 Chaplain in speaking of him said, " Sergeant 
 Stewart never swears, but vows and vums." He 
 participated in the Battle of Baton Rouge and 
 much skirmishing in the Battle of Indian Bend, 
 and the Forty Days' Siege of Port Hudson. 
 Here he found time to exercise his fine mechan- 
 ical genius in carving numerous fancy articles 
 from bone and southern woods, which he brought 
 home as souvenirs of army life in the fall of 1863. 
 He was mustered out of army service, and again 
 took up his residence and trade in South Deer- 
 field. About 1869 he joined his relatives in 
 Minnesota, erected himself a residence on the 
 beautiful shore of Anoka Lake and d. in Lin- 
 wood, Minn., Aug. 11, 1872. His widow m. 
 Denison W. Green, and d. July 2, 1888. Mr. 
 Green d. July 22, 1890. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 63 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. George E. 9, b. Bernardston, Mass., June 3, 
 
 1855, d. in Minn., April 15, 1876. 
 
 2. Hattie H. 9, b. South Deerfield (?) May 4, 
 
 1861, d. June 8, 1861. 
 
 4 
 
 Sylvanus,^ (John,^ Abraham,^ Robert,^ John, 
 John,^ Robert,'^ Walter,^) b. April 14, 1840, m. 
 Sept. 6, 1865, Mary E. Washburn of Natick, 
 
 Mass. She d. He m. 2d, Oct. 8, 1885, 
 
 Bertha Eastman. In early life he was a hatter by 
 trade ; later a shoe cutter. When the Great Re- 
 bellion broke out he enlisted in N. H. 1st Regt. ; 
 served three months ; re-enlisted and served 
 three years, and was discharged at the close of the 
 war ; he then engaged in the restaurant business 
 and has now retired and resides in Haverhill. 
 
 Child by First Marriage. 
 
 I. Ernest L. 9, b. Feb. 27, 1867. 
 
 Child by Second Marriage. 
 I. Effie W. 9, b. Nov. 14, 1886. 
 
 Warren A.,^ (John,*^ Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* 
 John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. March 2, 1846, m. 
 Nov. 19, 1868, Nellie A. Carr of Chester, N. H. 
 She was killed by lightning July 29, 1885. 
 
164 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Florence E. 9, b. Dec. 25, 1872. 
 
 2. Lizzie G. 9, b. Dec. 19, 1876. 
 
 Jehial H.,^ (Jehial S.,^ Samuel,^ Samuel,^ Sam- 
 uel,* John/ Robert;^ Walter/) b. April 4, 1851, 
 m. Feb. 2, 1889, Alice Hazeniiag, b. Sept. 25, 
 1856. He was educated in the Cleveland public 
 schools, afterwards attending Oberlin College. 
 He spent many years as a traveling man, and for 
 over twenty years has resided in Chicago, where 
 he is engaged in the oil and paint business. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Frank 9, b. March 8, 1891. 
 
 2. Samuel 9, b. June 9, 1893. 
 
 3. Effie 9, b. Feb. 12, 1895. 
 
MEMOIR 
 
 - OF — 
 
 Captain John Stewart of Middlebury, Ver- 
 mont ; of his son Aaron Stewart and 
 Grandson Homer H. Stuart. 
 
 John Stewart was born at Londonderry, N. H., 
 September 12, 1745. He told his grandson 
 Homer H. Stuart that having lost his father 
 when he was about five years old he went to Col- 
 rain, Mass., to live with an uncle, Samuel Stewart. 
 In 1759, when fourteen, he enlisted in the French 
 and Indian War and marched into the Province 
 of New York, where he took part in a fight with 
 the Indians at Oriskany. His company served 
 under General Jeffrey Amherst and he was with 
 it at the taking of Montreal in 1760. After the 
 close of this war we find him a member of the 
 Congregational Church at Bennington, Vt., and 
 also enrolled in " The Green Mountain Corps," 
 which defended the Vermont people from the 
 New Yorkers who laid claim to Western Ver- 
 mont under Grants. He took part in the events 
 
 («65) 
 
I 66 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 of the stirring year of 1 775, serving under General 
 Montgomery at the second capture of Montreal, 
 November 13, 1775, and serving in the Revolu- 
 tionary War under Colonel Joseph McCracken. 
 After the war he was addressed as " Captain 
 Stewart." Whether this title came to him by 
 regular commission or was accorded by courtesy of 
 the day, is uncertain, but judging from his char- 
 acter it is scarcely probable he would, unless really 
 entitled, have allowed its use. Moreover he had 
 a sword — usually the badge of a commissioned 
 officer. 
 
 When the Revolutionary War ended, he settled 
 at Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, where for 
 ten years he kept an inn, called " Mount Inde- 
 pendence House." This inn was destroyed by 
 fire in 1 794 and he moved to a farm at Burling- 
 ton, not far from Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 
 Between 1806 and 181 1 he resided at New 
 Haven, Vt., and from the latter year until his 
 death, July 31, 1829, at Middlebury, Vt. 
 
 While Captain Stewart was rather reticent, as a 
 rule, he was less reserved with his grandson. 
 Homer H. Stuart. Occasionally winter evenings, 
 by the large open fireplace, he would relate events 
 of his own childhood and adventures that had be- 
 fallen him and his brothers in youth and manhood. 
 Often in later years did Homer wish that he had 
 

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LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 67 
 
 taken the precaution to write down these reminis- 
 cences of his grandfather and great uncles in the 
 French and Indian War — with Rogers' Rangers — 
 in the forays of the Green Mountain Corps — in 
 the Revolution, as well as further West where 
 William Stewart, the companion of Daniel Boone 
 lost his life at the Battle of Blue Licks. But the 
 young, listening to such hearthside narrations, 
 are prone to forget how much personal and family 
 history will pass away irrecoverably with the nar- 
 rator, and thus it was with him. 
 
 Captain Stewart had a distinct remembrance of 
 his aged great-grandmother. He used to relate to 
 Homer her stories of the family's persecutions by 
 " Bonnie Dundee," in Scotland. Tradition in 
 the family states that she (a Forsyth) was the 
 widow of Robert Stuart who was born in Scotland 
 in 1655, and died in 17 14. She accompanied 
 her son John Stuart, (the proprietor) born in 
 Edinburgh about 1682, to Londonderry, N. H., 
 and survived him. As Captain Stewart was born 
 in 1745, she must have been living as late as 
 1750 or 1752. 
 
 Homer H. Stuart once remarked that the char- 
 acter " Henry Morton of Milnwood," in Sir Wal- 
 ter Scott's Romance " Old Mortality," reminded 
 him of Robert Stuart as portrayed in these tales 
 of Captain Stewart's great-grandmother. For 
 
I 68 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Robert, according to these stories, fought against 
 Monmouth and in consequence was exiled and de- 
 prived of his estate. With the tradition of this 
 " lost Stuart Estate " Homer was familiar, but 
 merely laughed when urged to seek its recovery. 
 His own good sense told him it was better to 
 serve his day and generation in useful work than 
 to dream of recovering these escheated lands. 
 
 Captain Stewart's sense of honor was keen. A 
 pension was tendered him for his military services, 
 but he replied, *^ I want no pay for having served 
 my country." The evening before he passed 
 away he sent for his grandson to come to his 
 bedside. For some minutes he silently regarded 
 the young man. Finally he said, " Homer, I am 
 going to bid you good-by now." Then giving 
 him some good advice as to his course in life, he 
 tenderly and affectionately pressed his hand in 
 farewell. 
 
 Captain Stewart's character commanded the 
 respect of all. Rigidly upright and of unswerv- 
 ing conviction, he was a worthy descendant of 
 his Covenantor ancestor Robert, " a man who 
 would die for a principle or a prejudice " and ut- 
 terly devoid of fear. After the close of the Revo- 
 lutionary War the country was for some time in 
 a distracted condition and traveling dangerous. 
 Late one night, passing a dismantled house, he 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 169 
 
 heard groans. He reined in his horse to hsten. 
 The sound came from the house. Dismounting 
 he tied his horse and groped into the ruins. 
 Guided by the sound he felt his way down a 
 rickety stairway to the cellar. There two glow- 
 ing eyes met his own. He stood quietly until the 
 groaning was renewed, and then slowly advanced 
 until his outstretched hand encountered a sheep ! 
 The creature had tumbled into the cellar and had 
 been disabled. Into such environment not many 
 men would have dared to enter unarmed. 
 
 He attended the lecture of Lyman Beecher 
 when the latter went through Vermont on his 
 temperance crusade, and became convinced that 
 it was morally wrong to use liquor. He was then 
 eighty, and for some years had taken daily a small 
 glass of Medford rum. He ordered the cask 
 brought out and emptied in the barnyard. 
 Through some oversight its inspiring contents 
 flowed into the pig-sty and soon there was great 
 revelry in the piggery ! 
 
 Captain Stewart was very hospitable and lived 
 well, having everything of the best. His horses 
 were noted as carefully selected animals. He 
 was an exemplary Christian and a pillar of the 
 Middlebury Church. In person he was some- 
 what over six feet, well built, but not corpulent, 
 abundant white hair, fair complexion and a strong- 
 
170 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 featured face. His carriage was erect and dig- 
 nified. 
 
 Mrs. John Stewart (Huldah Hubbell) was the 
 daughter of Elnathan Hubbell and Mehitable 
 Sherwood. She was born at Stratford, Connecti- 
 cut, May 20, 1752, and died at Middlebury, Vt., 
 August 24, 1847. 
 
 The late Rev. Samuel G. Coe, who was her 
 pastor, described her as always most elegantly at- 
 tired in black silk, and said that she was usually 
 alluded to as " Lady Stewart." She was de- 
 scended from Richard Hubbell and also from 
 Captain Matthew Sherwood. 
 
 The following is the obituary notice written by 
 her friend, the scholarly Philip Battell, Esq., and 
 which appeared in one of the newspapers at the 
 date of her decease. 
 
 " In this place, on the 24th inst., Mrs. Huldah 
 Stewart, aged 95 years. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart was born in 1752 and was the 
 third daughter of Mr. Elnathan Hubbell, then a 
 resident of Stratford, Conn. At an early age she 
 accompanied her father's family to Bennington in 
 this state, where March 22nd, 1772, she was 
 united in marriage to John Stewart, with whom 
 the providence of God permitted her to live 57 
 years. 
 
 As her father removed to this State when the 
 difficulties between the inhabitants of Vermont 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I7I 
 
 and the citizens of New York were occurring ; 
 and as, some years after, the Revolutionary 
 struggle came on, and the storm of war swept 
 over that part of the country where her husband 
 was residing, Mrs. Stewart's earlier days were 
 days of peril, privation and change. Her husband 
 was at the taking of Montreal under Montgom- 
 ery ; at the battle of Bennington, her father, 
 husband, and two of her brothers were on the 
 field of conflict. As Mr. Stewart at the time of 
 the latter engagement was residing in Bennington, 
 and his house was no great distance from the 
 battle ground, Mrs. Stewart often described the 
 intense agony she experienced while listening to 
 the roar of cannon, and seeing the wagon loads of 
 the dead and wounded carried past her door, lest 
 some of her friends might have fallen. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart resided successively in Benning- 
 ton, Cambridge, Pawlet, Ticonderoga, Orwell, 
 Burlington (Otsego Co.), N. Y., New Haven, 
 Vt., and Middlebury. 
 
 She became a resident of Middlebury in 1812. 
 She first made a public profession of religion in 
 1800, while living in Burlington, N. Y. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart was a woman of uncommon 
 energy and decision of character, and the vicissi- 
 tudes through which she passed in early life de- 
 veloped the more this trait in her mind. No one 
 could converse with her, and witness the lighting 
 up of her countenance, venerable with the lines of 
 a century of years marked upon it, and not be 
 convinced of this fact. 
 
172 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Mrs. Stewart was a fine specimen of cheer- 
 fulness in old age. The pains and infirmities of 
 her advancing years were severe, but she endured 
 them with fortitude and patience and her custom- 
 ary vivacity seemed never to forsake her. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart was a consistent and exemplary 
 Christian. She was a witness to the truth of the 
 declaration, that the hoary head when found in 
 the ways of righteousness is a crown of glory. 
 She loved the word of God and to draw spiritual 
 refreshment from its well of salvation. Her clos- 
 ing days were illumined with the hope of a blessed 
 immortality. 
 
 * Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. 
 Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from 
 their labors ; and their works do follow them ! ' " 
 
 Aaron, the eldest son of Captain Stewart, born 
 at Bennington, Vt., March 22, 1775, was named 
 after his uncle Aaron Hubbell, but did not use 
 the " Hubbell " in his signature ; sometimes in 
 boyhood he wrote his name "Aron." He was 
 a man of fine physique, standing six feet in his 
 stockings and weighing 190 pounds when only 
 sixteen, was well educated and his penmanship 
 was beautiful. He had many social gifts and was 
 everywhere a favorite. Down to the outbreak of 
 the Second War with England he was engaged 
 in teaching at various places, Charleston, N. Y., 
 Longmeadow, Mass., Rutland, Vt., etc. He 
 

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 married at New Haven, Vt., May i6, 1807, 
 Selinda Colt. 
 
 Aaron Stewart volunteered in the War of 18 12, 
 but his career was brief, and on July 16, 18 13, 
 was laid at rest in the Military Cemetery at Sackett 
 Harbor, N. Y., known as " Post Madison." 
 
 The following is a letter written shortly before 
 his death to his wife at New Haven, Vt. : — 
 
 " NiAGRA, May 15, 1813. 
 
 " Dear Selinda : — 
 
 I have written you two Letters that have been 
 worn out in my pocket for want of conveyance, 
 but I can put this in the post office here, not 
 doubting but you are very anxious to hear from 
 me at this time, as your knowledge of the battle 
 and taking of York and knowing that I was in 
 the engagement would make you solicitous for my 
 welfare until you hear from me — I cannot, for 
 want of time as well as paper enter into a descrip- 
 tion of the Battle — it was contended for with ob- 
 stinacy on both sides, but the confusive hurry 
 prevented me from realizing the dolorous sight 
 of the dead and wounded, the latter of which 
 much exceeded the former — By the best accts. I 
 can get we had sixty-two killed on the field of 
 battle, and 119 wounded, several of whom are 
 since dead — the British are supposed to have lost 
 more then we did — We are expecting to attack 
 the fort opposite here (viz) Fort George — in a few 
 days, it is a strong place and they are concentrat- 
 
174 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 ing all the force they can, so we may expect a 
 warm reception, but if the God of battles preserves 
 me you shall hear of my fate immediately after 
 — With respect to what impressed my mind with 
 the greatest burthen is your situation Five hun- 
 dred miles now parts us and I know you to be in 
 want. I have not as yet rec'd either money or 
 clothing. I know your people will not let you 
 want, but it was my intention to have left you in 
 a state of independency and assisted Charles — I 
 pray for a speedy close to the War that myself 
 with many other fools may be permitted to return 
 to their families, the only place where real com- 
 fort is to be taken — Homer and Hubbell — I long 
 with all the affection of a father to see you, but if 
 that never shall happen, may you find friends here 
 that will lead you up to manhood in the habits of 
 virtue, temperance, and industry. 
 
 It would be a real pleasure to me to receive a 
 letter from you, but I know not to whom to tell 
 you to direct it — yet on second thought I wish 
 you would, and direct it to Sergeant Stewart of 
 Capt. Grafton's Company in the 2ist Reg't of 
 Infantry — 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 Mrs. Selinda Stewart. Aaron Stewart. 
 
 May 17th — No alterations since the within 
 date — The mail does not start until Thursday 
 next — But I shall now close with bidding you 
 adieu." 
 
 The following letter was to his brother-in-law, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 75 
 
 Charles Bulkeley Colt. Sometimes the family 
 spelled it "Coult" as did Aaron in the present 
 instance. 
 
 "Fort Oswego, June 7, 18 13. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 A part of our Company are detailed for guard 
 to accompany a small party of some of the prison- 
 ers we took at Fort George and are now convey- 
 ing them to Greenbush, there to wait until they 
 are exchanged — They are 106 in numfcer, stout 
 well looking — we have treated them in such a 
 manner that they appear attached to us, and some 
 have told me that it would be their choice to 
 remain with us. — My time is so short, and busi- 
 ness is so pressing that it is impossible for me to 
 write much, and I have a thousand things I want 
 to say, and as many questions to ask — O Charles 
 — what scenes I have to pass through — at all 
 hours — in all weather — we are obliged to be on 
 the alert while we are on the enemy's borders — 
 but in battles — O God — to stand and see men 
 falling all around and the horrible groans of the 
 dying while you are marching over their mangled 
 body's — the reflection is more chilling on cool 
 deliberation than the fact appears while in action 
 — War is a curse — I want to see Lynda and the 
 children more than I have words to express — but 
 the God of Heaven only knows what my fate will 
 be — A soldier who is continually in danger can 
 hardly promise himself anything. 
 
 Government neglect me — I have not yet 
 drawn my uniform or any money — If I could send 
 
176 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 home a supply of cash I should feel much more 
 easy in mind. I am only Orderly Sergeant, and 
 his duty in a moving army is as disagreeable as it 
 is fatiguing, his cares are unceasing and his re- 
 sponsibility great — I want to hear from you all, 
 but know not how you will convey letters on act. 
 of our continual moving — I however want you to 
 write often — 'Tis now after midnight so after 
 apologizing for this hasty scrall 1 shall bid you 
 adieu — My kindest love to you all — 
 
 Your friend and Brother, 
 Mr. C. B. Coult. A. Stewart." 
 
 Selinda Colt (Mrs. Aaron Stewart), born at 
 Montville, Conn., November 8, 1789, was the 
 daughter of John Colt and Susanna Bulkeley. 
 The latter was a granddaughter of the brilliant 
 Colonial Divine, John Bulkeley, who was the 
 grandson of Charles Chauncey, President of 
 Harvard College. Soon after the death of her 
 husband she moved from New Haven to Fayston, 
 Vt., and resided with her parents till 1825, when 
 she married Elias Wells and thereafter lived at 
 Duxbury, Vt., till her death, March 6, i860. 
 
 In early life Homer H. Stuart decided to re- 
 vert to the form " S-t-u-a-r-t " used by the family 
 in the earlier generations as shown by " Proprietor 
 John Stuart's " will and similar records. His 
 name came as follows. A certain Homer Hine 
 had been a boyhood friend of Aaron Stewart who 
 
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 MRS. SEI.INDA STKW'A RT- WELLS. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 77 
 
 named his oldest son " Homer Hine," after him. 
 This friend was the son of Noble Hine and Pa- 
 tience Hubbell and was born July 25, 1776, dy- 
 ing at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1856. The Hine 
 family were great friends of Captain Stewart's 
 family and it is probable Noble Stewart (Aaron's 
 younger brother) was named after Noble Hine. 
 
 Homer H. Stuart, born April i, 18 10, at New 
 Haven, Vt., remarked that the sole recollection 
 he had of his father (Aaron Stewart) was sitting 
 on the knee of a tall man dressed in uniform and 
 that he reached up and played with the large 
 buttons on his coat. In later years his mother 
 spoke to him of this incident and said his father 
 was then bidding her good-bye. From a letter 
 which Aaron wrote his father, Capt. Stewart, we 
 may fix the date as about March 11, 18 13. In 
 the latter part of this year, Mrs. Selinda Stewart, 
 left a widow, went to Fayston, Vt., where Homer 
 remained a few years. 
 
 His recollections of Fayston always remained 
 distinct. Bears were very frequent there and 
 lived in the timber above the farms. Except in 
 winter they seldom gave trouble. One cold night 
 the household was roused by ear-piercing squeals 
 from the pigpen. Before his grandfather Colt 
 could get out of doors with his musket, a bear 
 was seen silhouetted against the snowy hillside 
 12 
 
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 dragging a lusty porker. Another time he was 
 sitting on a fallen tree picking raspberries and 
 looked up to see a great black bear at the other 
 end of the tree picking raspberries too ! In the 
 little brook beside the house, he amused himself 
 in making dams and placing upon them water 
 wheels whittled out for him by his uncle Charles 
 Colt. Water from this brook was conducted to 
 the kitchen where it filled a huge trough made 
 from a tree trunk and here were a lot of trout. 
 When a guest happened along unexpectedly, all 
 that was necessary was to scoop out some of 
 these fish and in a short time serve them fried 
 with pieces of salt pork. In the log school-house 
 near-by he learned his letters and he remarked 
 that "1818" was the first date he remembered 
 writing on his slate. At this time, from descrip- 
 tions which have come down from his mother, he 
 was a sturdy little freckled boy with brown eyes 
 and tow hair, " homely " as she phrased it. In 
 later life so strikingly handsome did he become 
 that it was common remark. When the statue 
 of the "Typical Puritan" was being designed in 
 the early '8o's, St. Gaudens, the artist, was ur- 
 gent he should pose. Much is it to be regretted 
 that his modesty caused him to decline, not only 
 this, but the similar requests of many other artists, 
 and we have merely a casual photograph which 
 
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LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 179 
 
 fails entirely in portraying the delicate peach blos- 
 som complexion and abundant silvery hair. 
 
 In 1 8 19, Captain Stewart decided that Homer 
 should have a liberal education and he went to 
 Middlebury to attend school. In 1828 he en- 
 tered Middlebury College. He held a high posi- 
 tion in his class without much exertion and made 
 a brilliant graduation address in August, 1832. 
 After reading law for some months at Spring- 
 field, Vt., he received an invitation in 1833 to 
 teach at Richmond, Va., and went South via 
 Troy. At Albany he saw a railroad for the first 
 time and enjoyed a ride behind the primitive loco- 
 motive. A few days were passed in the City of 
 New York awaiting his vessel's departure and he 
 roamed around the city which was to claim so 
 much of his life. In 1833 he found the houses 
 rather scattered north of Houston Street, while 
 Washington Square was merely a field surrounded 
 by a picket fence. Northward from the " Parade 
 Ground," as the Square was termed, came open 
 country with an occasional farmhouse. 
 
 The voyage down the coast to Norfolk was 
 devoid of incident. He noted the ante-bellum 
 plantations bordering the Chesapeake as the ves- 
 sel slowly glided along to City Point near Rich- 
 mond and the general features of the James River 
 came back to him thirty years later as he traced 
 
l80 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 the movements of the Army. His stay in Rich- 
 mond was brief and in January, 1834, he re- 
 turned by way of Washington. He saw very 
 Httle of the Capital, merely passing through, quite 
 unconscious how often he would be there in its 
 later and more stirring years. A stage carried him 
 to Relay House where he took the train into Bal- 
 timore. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at 
 this date extended to Point of Rocks and the 
 Washington Branch was not completed till the 
 following year. 
 
 Reaching New York he succeeded in getting a 
 clerkship in the firm of Rogers, Ketchum & Gros- 
 venor, whose city office was at 60 Wall Street. 
 The foundry of the firm was at Paterson, N. J., 
 and was beginning to manufacture locomotives. 
 Down to 1870 it was quite common to come 
 across an old style locomotive with " R. K. & G." 
 on the steam chest. Under the title of " The 
 Rogers Locomotive Works " the establishment 
 became celebrated. 
 
 His position here was temporary for he soon 
 had a chance to transfer himself upstairs to the 
 law office of William Emerson, brother of Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson. 
 
 Mr. Stuart used to relate that as soon as Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson arrived at the office, he and his 
 brother William, tilting their chairs and project- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS l8l 
 
 ing their feet over the window sill into Wall 
 Street, wouJd talk hour after hour. Seated as he 
 was a few feet away, he could not avoid hearing 
 their conversation on those lines of Transcenden- 
 talism. Nearly fifty years later he was heard to 
 admit to that intimate friend and admirer of 
 Emerson, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, that in 
 1 834, these lines of conversation did not appeal to 
 him. " I simply could not grasp them," he said. 
 
 They were too diaphanous and had not taken 
 on that epigrammatic crystallization forming so 
 great a charm in Emerson's writings and stamp- 
 ing him the Umpire Philosopher. While both 
 Mr. Stuart and Mr. Emerson were descendants 
 of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley of Concord, 
 neither was aware of their kinship. Mutual 
 knowledge of the cousinship, far away though it 
 was, would have led to better acquaintance and 
 have given Mr. Stuart an earlier comprehension 
 of Emerson's greatness of intellect ; for Mr. 
 Stuart — at least in later years — was an unerring 
 critic of a man's mental ability. 
 
 The nursery of Vermont had not prepared 
 Mr. Stuart for the meeting with Emerson. Quite 
 the contrary. He had been brought up to meas- 
 ure men and their moods by the inflexible stand- 
 ard of Middlebury as it was in the early eighteen 
 hundreds. 
 
I 82 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 His grandfather — essentially Scotch in mind, 
 body and speech, and, by hardship in war, very 
 practical — was not in accord with the trend of 
 thought beginning to take its rise in Massachu- 
 setts. Aaron gave evidence of departure from 
 Captain Stewart's standard, doubtless owing to 
 the infusion of Puritan blood since the Hubbells 
 and Sherwoods were distinctly of this class, hav- 
 ing been among Connecticut's earliest settlers. 
 But Homer had not come under the influence of 
 his father, and was still swayed by the ideas of 
 his loved and respected grandsire. Therefore the 
 Vermont method of measurement as applied to 
 men and things was destined to conflict with, 
 and finally give way to, the method taught by 
 the broader catholicity which was his Bulkeley- 
 Chauncey heritage. This supplanting is not sur- 
 prising. Wafted from the past floats the Aura 
 of one's forebears and no other result could have 
 been predicted — merely the length of time requi- 
 site to give the proper maturity which should 
 enable him keenly to appreciate Emerson. Ob- 
 servation of humanity and profound reflection 
 were to train him into this maturity. The train- 
 ing was to be on a frontier arena, facing resource- 
 ful antagonists — training, drilling him to think 
 with utmost clearness and to utter his thought 
 with beautiful precision — training, bestowing on 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 83 
 
 him sympathy for the poor and lowly, without 
 regard to color, creed or race. 
 
 It is interesting to consider what would have 
 been the career of this versatile thinker if his 
 formative years had been passed in the galaxy of 
 contemporaries who made " Brook Farm " his- 
 toric and of whom he was intellectually a peer. 
 His capacity for enjoyment of such companion- 
 ship was of the highest degree. To have com- 
 muned with Hawthorne would have been a joy. 
 His intercourse with Nature was not less intimate 
 than Thoreau's. A tree to him was adorable. 
 Beneath some lofty Weymouth pine he would 
 harken to the wind soughing through the boughs 
 and say with a smile, " It is singing Wareham." 
 That first glimpse of Ocean as his vessel rounded 
 Sandy Hook ! Many a time in later years when 
 a heavy storm was brewing did he go to Rocka- 
 way Beach and spend a day looking out over the 
 rollers sweeping shoreward and muse. Watching 
 a procession of clouds, the expression of his grave 
 face took on a kind of rapture. The poetic was 
 the side present to his mind. What friendships 
 he would have formed at Concord ! But this was 
 not to be. He and Ralph Waldo Emerson were 
 fated thus to meet and thus to pass. 
 
 So not being attracted to Emerson his attention 
 was turned upon the figure of Aaron Burr. The 
 
184 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 latter, clad in a cloak of military cut and glancing 
 quickly from side to side with glittering eyes as 
 he traversed the streets, Mr. Stuart studied with 
 deep interest. He listened to the views of con- 
 temporaries of Burr and Hamilton and came to 
 the conclusion that had the duel resulted in the 
 death of Burr, then Hamilton would have suf- 
 fered in some measure the obloquy that has been 
 dealt out to Burr. He related how Burr was 
 wont to scrutinize the title of some parcel of 
 land. If he found an available flaw he would 
 quietly lay his plans and then come down upon 
 the unsuspecting owner who would have to buy 
 him off. Burr called on a client, a lady who 
 had a club foot. This deformity made her wad- 
 dle in an uncouth manner and upon entering the 
 parlor, she begged Mr. Burr to excuse her awk- 
 wardness. " Really, Madam," he replied with a 
 most gallant bow, " I deemed it merely a grace- 
 ful limp." 
 
 On his maternal side, Mr. Stuart was related 
 to Joshua R. Giddings, the Abolitionist Member 
 of Congress from the Northwestern Reserve, and 
 was notified he could come out to Ohio and com- 
 plete his legal education in Mr. Giddings' of- 
 fice. Toward the middle of 1834 he left New 
 York City. His money for the journey was in- 
 sufficient and he was stranded in Western New 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 85 
 
 York, where he secured a place as law student in 
 the office of James Burt at Franklinville, near 
 Olean in Cattaraugus County. He worked for 
 his board at Mr. Burt's and was allowed the use 
 of the meagre library. 
 
 For sixteen months he rode the circuit in that 
 and adjoining counties in Pennsylvania and New 
 York and although not admitted to the Bar tried 
 such actions as are entrusted to the neophyte. 
 He recalled that one of these actions — in Alle- 
 gheny County, a " horse case," lasting two days — 
 was tried against a rough hewn young fellow, 
 named Martin Grover, whom many years after- 
 ward he found sitting as one of the Judges of the 
 Court of Appeals at Albany. 
 
 Journeying in all weathers in this rough region 
 was very severe. Often did he reach home at 
 midnight, and tired as he was, would always care 
 for his equally tired horse before going to rest 
 himself. He was in his twenty-fifth year, about 
 five feet eight, " well set up," as the phrase went, 
 and exceedingly active. When weary of riding 
 he used to spring from the saddle and run two 
 or three miles along the forest trail, his well 
 trained horse trotting close behind. Usually he 
 carried a rifle to bring down such game as he en- 
 countered. 
 
 One of his business expeditions led him out to 
 
1 86 • GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Fort Wayne, Indiana. He made his way to 
 Lake Erie and sailed to Toledo, Ohio. There 
 he embarked on a periauger and paddled for more 
 than a hundred miles on the Maumee River. 
 The stream flowed sluggishly between walls of 
 primeval trees, festooned with vines. One inci- 
 dent of the voyage was when a large wild tur- 
 key tried to fly over the river and, its strength 
 failing, fell into the water where it was easily 
 captured. Landings here and there led to log 
 cabins beyond the marshy borders of the river. 
 By one of these cabins towered an immense 
 " button ball " tree, with a curl of smoke rising 
 through the foliage. He was amused to find it 
 a "smoke-house." It had a door and a fire 
 smouldered within the cavity which extended up 
 to an orifice among the branches. Hanging from 
 pegs were hams which the gaunt, sallow mistress 
 of the cabin reached with a long pole. Like 
 most of these settlers, she was a martyr to chills 
 and fever, and the free use of whiskey was as- 
 sumed to hold in check this ailment. Asking for 
 a drink, she stepped to a barrel and, drawing a 
 china bowl full, handed it to him. Supposing it 
 was water, he took a mouthful, only to blister his 
 mouth with raw spirit. Thereupon he asked for 
 water. " Go out to the spring," she replied, 
 pointing to an enclosure of rails, at some distance. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 87 
 
 Here he found a spring, but it welled up in a 
 swampy spot where a couple of hogs were wal- 
 lowing, so he went without a drink. The wood- 
 lands were filled with droves of half wild hogs 
 roving about for food and only occasionally being 
 fed at the house. 
 
 The raftsmen, who floated logs down the Alle- 
 gheny River to Pittsburgh, Pa., assembled their 
 " drives " at Olean. These lumbermen and 
 rivermen were a wild, lawless set. Gambling, 
 quarreling and violence rendered Olean any- 
 thing but attractive to him and he was very glad 
 to get a position with adequate pay at Lock- 
 port, N. Y., in the office of Robert H. Stevens, 
 District Attorney of Niagara County. He 
 reached Lockport in December, 1835, ^^^ ^^^ 
 about ten years made it his home. On his arrival 
 he found a brilliant set of young men and social 
 intercourse with these educated gentlemen, after 
 the dreary Circuit Riding, was indeed welcome. 
 Speaking in later years of these men, he used to 
 enumerate John G. Saxe and George H. Colton, 
 the poets, Sullivan P. Caverno, Mortimer M. 
 Southworth, etc. They met at the hotel for their 
 meals. The hotel keeper set out spirits freely 
 with the meals, but whoever drank brandy or 
 whiskey was expected to buy port or madeira 
 wine, and if a boarder failed to do so he became 
 
I 88 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 aware soon of an unfriendly regard. The results 
 of this mistaken hospitality were only too evident 
 in the overdrinking at Lockport in those days 
 and Mr. Stuart saw some promising careers ruined. 
 While not a total abstainer he very rarely drank 
 either wine or spirits. Everything was flourishing 
 in those days and a great future was predicted for 
 Lockport. 
 
 The railroad from Lockport to Niagara Falls 
 was completed just about the date of Mr. Stuart's 
 arrival and in making a trip over it a curious inci- 
 dent befell him. The passenger car was very small 
 and as he entered he tripped upon a sprawling 
 leg. Its owner, an immense man, made no move 
 to withdraw the leg, but, most courteously begging 
 his pardon, explained that it was rigid from a 
 wound received during the War of 1812. Mr. 
 Stuart entering into conversation responded that 
 he had lost his father in that war. The gentle- 
 man asked in what regiment he served and upon 
 learning said, " Why I was Colonel of that Regi- 
 ment ! What was your father's name ? " " Aaron 
 Stewart from Vermont, — an Orderly Sergeant." 
 " Is that so ? I distinctly recall Sergeant Stewart. 
 He was a splendid specimen of a soldier." How 
 curious was this chance meeting ! How gratify- 
 ing to Mr. Stuart to talk with one who knew and 
 appreciated his father. The individual in ques- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 89 
 
 tion was Colonel Eleazer W. Ripley and he told 
 him a great deal about the operations in that war. 
 
 He went to Utica and July 15th, 1836, passed 
 his examination for admission to the Bar being 
 examined by Joshua A. Spencer. He used to 
 relate that Luther R. Marsh, who sat next to him, 
 became perplexed over questions upon " trover" 
 propounded by Mr. Spencer. When Marsh was 
 fairly cornered, Mr. Spencer asked, " At this 
 stage of the action, what would you do ? " Marsh 
 pondered awhile and replied, "I would advise my 
 client to retain as special counsel, Joshua A. 
 Spencer." The tact of this reply and its humor 
 carried the day and with a general laugh he was 
 " passed." Mr. Marsh and Mr. Stuart, meeting 
 thus for the first time, became lifelong friends ; 
 Mr. Marsh was a most tactful speaker and grace- 
 ful writer and a lawyer of the greatest adroitness 
 and subtlety. His hallucination as to " Diss De 
 Barr Spirit Pictures," which caused such wide- 
 spread comment, was a sadness to all who knew 
 him. They deeply regretted seeing this courte- 
 ous, venerable man exposed to the storm of ridi- 
 cule showered on him by the public press. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Stuart's admission to practice, 
 he formed a partnership with Mr. Stevens and 
 later Billings P. Learned was admitted to the firm 
 which became very successful. 
 
190 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 In May, 1837, he married Miss Jane E. Camp- 
 bell in Windsor, Vermont. She was the daugh- 
 ter of Edward Raymond Campbell. Three 
 children were born in Lockport, N. Y., of this 
 marriage: Helen, July 4, 1839; Mary, 1840, 
 and Anna, 1842. 
 
 Being a fine speaker, he was greatly in demand 
 during the political campaigns. He once made 
 a tour with Silas Wright, speaking with him daily 
 and nightly from the same platform. One of his 
 treasured mementos was an ivory headed hickory 
 cane with a silver circlet inscribed, " Homer H. 
 Stuart from Andrew Jackson." President Jack- 
 son who knew him personally sent this to him. 
 But in 1844 h^ ceased all political work, and to 
 make the severance effectual, withdrew from his 
 law firm. Mr. Learned a little later went to Al- 
 bany, where he engaged in banking and became 
 President of the old Union Bank of Albany. 
 Mr. Stuart came East with his family and located 
 at Williamsburgh, then a separate municipality, 
 but for many years past a part of Brooklyn. He 
 was corporation counsel for Williamsburgh till its 
 union with Brooklyn and also had an office in 
 New York City. 
 
 Soon, however, great grief overtook him in the 
 deaths of his wife and two of the children. Mary 
 died July 16, 1846. Her mother, October 28, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I9I 
 
 1846, and Anna, January 15, 1847. ^^ with 
 the exception of Helen, whose pen name " Helen 
 Campbell " is so well known, there are no repre- 
 sentatives of this marriage. Leaving Williams- 
 burgh, he settled in New York City and applied 
 himself to his profession. It was in 1847 ^^at 
 he became acquainted with Edgar Allan Poe 
 whom he used to meet familiarly. He would 
 smile as he related how Poe was wont to declaim 
 " The Raven " in a singsong tone, but he evi- 
 dently did not endorse the notion that Poe was a 
 hard drinker. He said his manner was shy and 
 that he was never garrulous. For his versifica- 
 tion he had the greatest admiration and could 
 quote whole poems. He was on pleasant terms 
 with James Fennimore Cooper who used to write 
 him very appreciative letters. He contributed 
 to the Knickerbocker Magazine and knew Lewis 
 Gaylord Clark, its editor, and Lewis Tappan, the 
 polished Christopher P. Cranch and the courtly 
 William Betts, whose delightful home, " Merrie- 
 woode," revealed at once the scholar and the aris- 
 tocrat. Nor must there be omitted from these 
 friends the name of Andrew Jackson Downing, 
 that charming personality who yielded his life 
 with quiet heroism to save that of a stranger, 
 and whose career of only thirty-seven years bears 
 out the saying, "To Genius belongs the Here- 
 
192 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 after," for that Genius lives to-day in the land- 
 scape gardening of our National Capitol, and in 
 many of the beautiful country seats along the 
 Hudson. 
 
 September 4, 1849, ^^ married, in New York 
 City, Margaret Elizabeth Dunbar, born in 
 Worthington, Conn., May 28, 1826. She was 
 the daughter of Hon. Daniel Dunbar and Katha- 
 rine Chauncey Goodrich. Samuel G. Goodrich 
 (" Peter Parley ") was the uncle of Mrs. Homer 
 H. Stuart and a most cordial intercourse existed 
 between Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Stuart. Often 
 did Mr. Goodrich consult him in the preparation 
 of his works and notably in his last work, " The 
 Illustrated Animal Kingdom," in two volumes — 
 a work which has had few equals for popular 
 reading and reference. 
 
 Adjoining Mr. Stuart's country place was a 
 small farm. Its owner — a very aged colored 
 man — was called Barkalow. He was of the best 
 type of the pure blooded African — full six feet — 
 straight, well proportioned, his very black coun- 
 tenance crowned with a mop of snowy wool and 
 showing, when he smiled, beautiful teeth. He 
 had been brought from Africa in childhood soon 
 after the Revolution and while yet a young man 
 had purchased his freedom. For many years he 
 had followed the vocation of supplying the market 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 93 
 
 with wild fowl shot on the salt marshes and bays, 
 and at last by dint of economy had paid for this 
 demesne of a dozen or so acres. With the aid 
 of his grandson he tilled successfully and lived 
 comfortably. 
 
 Sunday afternoons Mr. Stuart would go over 
 to see Barkalow. Pie loved to hear him discuss 
 the phenomena of nature for the aged man was a 
 very close observer. He was especially interested 
 in Barkalow's description of life on the " Salt 
 Meadows." Barkalow said that he had built a 
 wigwam there — a frame of poles thatched with sea- 
 weed from the sunbleached winrows of the spring 
 tides. It had a fireplace and a couch of salt hay. 
 He used to speak in graphic terms of the serenity 
 that came over him when, his day's shooting done, 
 he and his dog would return to this humble shelter. 
 How he would prepare his evening meal and lie 
 down on this bed and be lulled to sleep by a choir 
 of countless crickets chirping in the seaweed thatch. 
 How, when wakeful, he would lie watching the fit- 
 ful gleam of the fire and listening to the cries of 
 the wild fowl, winging through the darkness, while 
 from afar came the booming of the Atlantic, " Deep 
 calling unto Deep." " There I was never lonely," 
 he said. As he talked thus, in well chosen speech, 
 it was hard indeed to realize that he was unlet- 
 tered, Mr. Stuart often said, " Barkalow was a 
 
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194 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 poet/' and a true attachment existed between 
 them. 
 
 Yet another dusky neighbor was "Aunt Mary 
 Crummell," mother of the Reverend Alexander 
 Crummell, who was graduated at Cambridge, Eng- 
 land, took orders in the Church of England, and 
 went to Liberia where he officiated for years and 
 where " Aunt Mary " died. Later he returned 
 and was Rector of St. Luke's, Washington, D. C. 
 In 1883 both he and Mr. Stuart were at Saratoga 
 and the Reverend Mr. Crummell conducted the 
 evening service. 
 
 This allusion to Barkalow and Alexander 
 Crummell summons to mind Mr. Stuart's attitude 
 toward the Slavery Agitation. By heredity and 
 reason he was opposed to The Institution. There 
 had been some member of the Stuart family who 
 had located in Virginia and acquired slaves. 
 About 1800 this Stuart liberated his slaves and to 
 insure their freedom sent them to Londonderry, 
 N. H. The " pickaninnies," " George Washing- 
 ton," " Isaiah," and " Salona," made the long 
 journey from " Dixie Land," grew up, lived use- 
 ful, happy lives in this quiet hamlet, and, in the 
 fulness of time, one after another, passed away. 
 Aged citizens spoke of them with affection as they 
 recounted the friendship of yore and the tender 
 ministrations of their mother " Aunt Flora " in the 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I95 
 
 sick room. Enfolded 'neath New Hampshire's 
 turf rest the little band of loyal, law-abiding Freed- 
 men and the marbles erected by the town proclaim 
 the old time love in which " Aunt Flora " and 
 " Miss Salona Stuart " were held. Gloaming 
 shrouds the events of One Hundred Years Ago 
 and has obscured the given name of their eman- 
 cipator. But, like the manumission granted cen- 
 turies earlier by " The Dying Norman Baron," 
 his righteous action lives — 
 
 " Every vassal of his banner, 
 Every serf born to his manor, 
 All those wronged and wretched creatures, 
 By his hand were freed again." 
 
 Then too, on the Colt side he traced his lineage 
 to a Puritan Brown in Old England from whom 
 John Brown of Ossawatomie had descended. 
 
 So in him was to be expected an inchoate dis- 
 like of Slavery. He first perceived it while wit- 
 nessing slave auctions at Richmond, Virginia. 
 The feeling then experienced he never forgot. 
 Still, on his return to the North, he did not feel 
 debarred from the local political disputes of New 
 York State, even though he could not blind him- 
 self to the fact that Slavery as a paramount moral 
 issue must some day be faced. 
 
 His abrupt withdrawal from politics, before al- 
 
196 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 luded to, was due to an incident in 1844. An 
 Abolitionist came to Lockport and attempted to 
 speak. His manner irritated many of the audi- 
 ence who had no sympathy for his cause and to 
 stop him an uproar was created. Mr. Stuart had 
 strolled in to hear the address. Despite the 
 speaker's lack of tact there was something pa- 
 thetic in the way he tried repeatedly to resume his 
 speech and it aroused Mr. Stuart's love of fair 
 play. He went to the platform, and being well 
 known, there was immediate silence. He said in 
 effect that this was a land of free speech and that 
 free speech should be granted to this man. To 
 the shame of the times his plea was scorned and 
 departing from the hall the local " boss " said to 
 him, " You have been a fool to-night and you've 
 ended all your political hopes." 
 
 Depressed on account of this incident, recog- 
 nizing that neither Whig nor Democratic Party 
 had courage to face the issue, but not prepared 
 to ally himself with the Extremists termed " Lib- 
 erty Party Men," he absented himself from the 
 political field for a long period. Myron H. 
 Clark, as candidate for Governor of New York in 
 1854, welded varied Anti-Slavery cohorts into the 
 Republican Party. To the support of this Party 
 he came with enthusiasm, and his attacks upon 
 Slavery thenceforth were most earnest. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I97 
 
 When the news came of the affair at Harper's 
 Ferry in October, 1859, he did not hesitate and 
 a very eloquent address which he made in defence 
 of John Brown was pervaded by intense feehng. 
 Threats were uttered against him, but to these he 
 paid no attention. He spoke time and again in 
 the memorable campaign of i860 for Lincoln and 
 during the Civil War never faltered in his support 
 of the Government. He felt great interest in the 
 three Constitutional Amendments and in the va- 
 rious Reconstruction measures. He was so ef- 
 ficient in the re-election of General Grant that 
 Governor Morgan of New York, who managed 
 that campaign, asked him what ofBce he would 
 like and was astonished when Mr. Stuart an- 
 swered, " I want none whatever." 
 
 The last time he voted at a Presidential elec- 
 tion was when with his two sons he cast his bal- 
 lot for Garfield. He knew Garfield personally. 
 Owing to an accidental change of residence, he 
 failed to vote for Blaine and Logan, greatly to his 
 regret, for he admired Blaine and was well ac- 
 quainted with General Logan. 
 
 At Washington, where during the 6o's and yo's 
 he passed much time, he was one of a coterie who 
 used to meet informally at the Arlington Hotel. 
 Among these may be recalled the witty, gifted 
 Henry M. Slade, Mr. Woodbridge, Judge Mark 
 
198 ' GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Skinner of Chicago, Generals W. T. Sherman, 
 Alpheus S. Williams of Michigan, H. M. Whit- 
 tlesey of The Freedman's Bureau, and Benjamin 
 F. Butler of Lowell ; Edward J. Phelps, afterward 
 Minister to England, James M. Ashley of Ohio, 
 and others. 
 
 His tastes were scholarly and not a day passed 
 that he did not read the pocket Greek Testament 
 which he carried with him everywhere. 
 
 Augustus D. Shepard, Esq., an official of a 
 Bank Note Engraving Company, relates that, once 
 in Washington, finding it of importance to consult 
 with Mr. Stuart upon a matter affecting the trade 
 at large, late one Saturday night sought that gen- 
 tleman at the Arlington, found him prepared to 
 retire, engaged in reading. The matter discussed 
 required but a few moments. Mr. Shepard when 
 leaving expressed his regret for disturbing Mr. 
 Stuart at such an hour. Mr. Stuart, with a 
 twinkle in his eye, asked : " How is it, Mr. 
 Shepard, that you depart from your rule not to 
 deal with business matters on the Sabbath ? " 
 " Oh ! " rejoined Mr. Shepard, " It is still ten min- 
 utes to midnight." " But," he added, " let me 
 ask with what absorbing book 3.re you closing the 
 week ? " And, upon an assenting motion from 
 Mr. Stuart, lifted the book to find it was the 
 Greek Testament. Mr. Stuart's eyes twinkled 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 99 
 
 Still brighter as he said, " Shepard, I do not find 
 any men who need to read the Testament more 
 than we Bank-Note people/' 
 
 He gave much study to the Money Question 
 and believed in Bi-metalism. In one of the 
 summaries of his reading on the use of gold and 
 silver as money, written in 1 837, occurs the phrase, 
 " Sixteen to One." Apparently this phrase was 
 not unknown to people discussing Free Coin- 
 age sixty years before the Silver Campaign of 
 1896. 
 
 His lectures and occasional essays were models 
 of clearness. One of these essays, " The Soul," 
 was given to a friend, who read it and remarked, 
 " If I could count on hearing such a sermon as 
 that I would go to church every Sunday." 
 
 His wide range of reading kept him fully in- 
 formed as to the developments of Science. Dar- 
 win, Huxley, Tyndall and Herbert Spencer in 
 their respective fields received careful attention. 
 Layard at Nineveh and the Rawlinsons in Baby- 
 lonia ; Max Miiller — writers on electricity and 
 chemistry — all these were reviewed with thor- 
 oughness. In his latest days he came to the con- 
 clusion that the Theory of Evolution was not 
 established. He seemed to incline more to accept 
 the Theory of Design so far as the Animal King- 
 dom is concerned. This conclusion in nowise 
 
200 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 interfered with his admiration of Darwin as an 
 observer and thinker. 
 
 But fascinating though Science was to him, he 
 insisted that the Classics ought not to be aban- 
 doned and that no true scholarship could be ac- 
 quired by the mere study of Science. 
 
 It was indeed delightful to meet with this com- 
 bination of scholarship and administrative ability. 
 Once a clergyman after conversing with him some 
 time asked, " What is your business ? " Mr. 
 Stuart's eyes twinkled and in a spirit of mischief 
 he replied, " I am engaged in printing." He was 
 then President of a Bank Note Company, so that 
 this was a true answer to the question as put. Had 
 it been, " What is your profession ? " and doubt- 
 less " profession " and not " business " was the 
 word intended, his answer would have been dif- 
 ferent. Another time while he was walking in the 
 corridor of the Arlington Hotel at Washington, 
 an individual, whom he did not know, came up 
 and said, " How are you. Judge? " Whereupon 
 Mr. Stuart calmly replied, " I am neither a Judge 
 nor a Colonel," and moved on. Some house- 
 hold bill written in an illegible hand came in from 
 A. T. Stewart's establishment. Unable to deci- 
 pher the hieroglyphics, he returned it, first writing 
 across the face, " This bill seems to charge me with 
 * one bottle of rum and parts of several others.'" 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 20I 
 
 His Store of information, as we have seen, was 
 vast, but in drawing from it he was never pedantic. 
 He spoke with lucidity whether addressing a 
 companion or an assemblage. And indeed was 
 it a pleasure listening to his " summing up " 
 at the end of a trial, the modest, graceful open- 
 ing, the flashes of humor midway and the cogent 
 reasoning with which he closed. Not usually did 
 he consume more than thirty minutes even though 
 the trial had lasted four or five days. In that half 
 hour he was able to lay before the jurymen his 
 client's cause, holding their attention and winning 
 their verdict. Conversant with every detail of his 
 cause and addressing them as man to man, it is 
 not surprising he riveted the attention of both 
 jury and court. And moreover, he would not 
 bring an action if he deemed the client was not 
 morally in the right. 
 
 As a lawyer he possessed foremost ability, but 
 his efforts as a peacemaker often cut short a 
 promising action, since he would bring the oppos- 
 ing sides together and a settlement would result. 
 One of his clients, an exceedingly rich man, sent 
 him instructions to draft a will which Mr. Stuart 
 saw would disinherit a daughter. He summoned 
 the client and told him bluntly he would not 
 draw such an unrighteous will. The client went 
 off in a fury and told several of his friends. But 
 
a02 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 it was found after his death he had followed the 
 lawyer's advice ! This is merely an instance of 
 his conscientiousness in his profession. He had, 
 as remarked before, the highest ability for con- 
 ducting litigation, but he drifted, as so many 
 lawyers do, into the management of corporations 
 and early in the 6o's became President of a Bank 
 Note Company for which he had been counsel and 
 which was then in a languishing condition. He 
 brought new methods to bear in the conduct of 
 the concern. The artistic standard of its engrav- 
 ing was raised by the employment of such emi- 
 nent artists as F. O. C. Darley, to furnish designs 
 for its vignettes. Work was done for the United 
 States Government, for Japan and other countries, 
 besides engraving securities for many railroads. 
 Its returns to the shareholders were very large 
 and the number of employees ran up into the 
 hundreds. 
 
 About 1 871 he became very well acquainted 
 with the Japanese Embassy and entertained the 
 members at his home. Willow Tree, New York. 
 The Marquis I to was very urgent Mr. Stuart and 
 his wife should come to Japan and make him a 
 visit, but the former, always an exceedingly poor 
 traveler by sea, could not bring himself to under- 
 take the long voyage across the Pacific Ocean. 
 These pleasant relations with the Japanese con- 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 2O3 
 
 tinued for years and many of them were welcome 
 visitors at his home. All were courteous gentle- 
 men, and some, like Mr. Kurino, the Minister at 
 St. Petersburg, Russia (at the outbreak of the 
 present war between Japan and Russia), have be- 
 come greatly distinguished. 
 
 In 1879 he withdrew from the Bank Note 
 Company and resumed the practice of his profes- 
 sion and was engrossed therein when the summons 
 suddenly came for him to rest from his earthly tasks. 
 
 On the morning of October 5, 1885, he read 
 awhile in the little Greek Testament and placing 
 the marker, closed it — for the last time. Then he 
 went down town and attended the opening Fall 
 Session of the Supreme Court. After finishing his 
 duties there he walked to his office, just opposite 
 the old Emerson office where half a century earlier 
 he first looked out upon Wall Street. It is re- 
 called that he gazed some time in silence across 
 the street at the old building. Then, saying he 
 felt weary and would return home, he started to 
 depart and expired before reaching the sidewalk. 
 Looking at the Testament that evening it was seen 
 he had been reading the Twelfth Chapter of St. 
 Luke. Years have rolled away, but the marker 
 still is kept where this gifted and sincere man — 
 this " loved and loving husband, father, friend," 
 left it on that bright October morn. 
 
ADDENDA STEWART-KELLOGG.* 
 
 Margaret Stewart,'^ (Joseph/ Joseph,^ John/ 
 Robert/ Walter/) b. Troy, N. Y., April 1 8, 1 786, 
 m. there June 17, 1804, ^sa Kellogg, b. in Shef- 
 field, Mass., Nov. 12, 1777. Mrs. Margaret S. 
 Kellogg, d. June 11, 18 19. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Eliza 7, b. July 27, 1805, d. Sept. 18, 1806. 
 
 2. Warren Stewart 7, b. Milton, Saratoga Co., 
 
 N. Y., March i, 1807. 
 
 3. Edward Asa 7, b. June 15, 1808, d. Oct. 20, 
 
 1809. 
 
 4. Edward 7, b. Jan. 20, 18 10. 
 
 5. Asa 7, b. July 2, 181 1, d. 1848, unmarried. 
 
 6. Eliza 7, b. Aug. 5, 18 13, d. Sept. 15, 1815. 
 
 Mr. Asa Kellogg, after death of Mrs. Marga- 
 ret Kellogg, m. her sister Ann Stewart, 
 (Joseph/ John/ Robert/ Walter,^) b. 
 May 15, 1794. 
 
 * See p. 97. 
 
 205 
 
206 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Children. 
 
 7. Margaret Ann 7, b. March i, 1821. 
 
 8. Jane Eliza 7, b. April 27, 1822, d. July 15, 
 
 1823. 
 
 9. Jane Eliza 7, 2d, b. Sept. 26, 1823. 
 
 10. Mary 7, b. Aug. 12, 1826. 
 
 11. William 7, b. Aug. 25, 1829, d. Nov. 15, 
 
 1830. 
 
 12. Henry 7, 6. Aug. 25, 1829. 
 
 13. Caroline 7, b. May 6, 1 833, d. Sept. 1 5, 1 835. 
 
 Asa Kellogg d. at Troy, Aug. 23, 1836. Mrs. 
 Ann Stewart Kellogg, d. April 17, 1843. 
 
 Warren Stewart Kellogg 7, b. March i, 1807, at 
 Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., m. in New 
 York City, Sept. 10, 1835, Lucy Ann Raw- 
 don. She was b. in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 14, 
 1817, and was a graduate of the celebrated 
 Emma Willard Seminary of Troy. Her 
 father was Ralph Rawdon, Esq., the founder 
 of the American Bank Note Company of 
 New York. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Ralph Rawdon 8, b. June 21, 1836, d. Aug. 3, 
 1838. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 207 
 
 2. Edward Hastings 8, b. Feb. 27, 1838, d. 
 
 Feb. 21, 1898, m. and had children. 
 
 3. Lucy Ann Rawdon 8, b. June 15, 1840; un- 
 
 married. 
 
 4. Margaret Ann 8, b. Aug. 20, 1843. 
 
 5. Warren Stewart 8, b. July 17, 1847; unmar- 
 
 ried. 
 
 6. Leverett Rawdon 8, b. Oct. 6, 1845 » ^-j ^^ 
 
 children. 
 
 7. Isaac Merritt 8, b. Sept. 23, 1849. 
 
 8. Susan Arnold 8, b. July 21, 1852, d. April 29, 
 
 1872. 
 
 9. Abigail Wright 8, b. April 6, i860. 
 
 Mr. W. S. Kellogg, d. in Brushville, now 
 Queens, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1870. Mrs. Lucy 
 
 R. Kellogg, d. in Queens, N. Y., Dec. 9, 
 
 1902. 
 
 Edward Hastings Kellogg 8, b. in New York 
 City, Feb. 23, 1 83 8, m. in Brooklyn, May 30, 
 1875, Maria Curtin. She was b. in Ireland, 
 May I, 1853, dau. of James Curtin and 
 Anne Macormac. Captain E. H. Kellogg 
 graduated from The University of New York, 
 in the same class with Joseph Jefferson. He 
 was a volunteer in the War for the Union, 
 enlisted as first lieutenant 38th Regt. N. Y. 
 
208 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 Vols., was promoted for field bravery and 
 mustered out at close of war. He d. in 
 New York City, Feb. 21, 1898. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Irving 9 4. Mary Stewart 9 
 
 2. Edward 9 5. Isaac 9 
 
 3. Mabel 9 
 
 Margaret Ann Kellogg 8, b. New York City, 
 Aug. 20, 1843, ^' ^^ New York City, 
 Feb. 15, 1865, Thomas Tilly Hazard, b. in 
 Newport, R. I., April 23, 1839. He was 
 the son of Mumford Tilly and Sallie Tew 
 Tilly ; resides at Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Leverett Kellogg 9, b. in New York City, 
 
 Jan. 12, 1866. 
 
 2. Helen Phelps 9, b. in Orange, N. J., June 8, 
 
 1868. 
 
 3. Sallie Rawdon 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., Dec 7, 
 
 1870. 
 
 4. Thomas Tilly, Jr., 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
 
 Aug. 5, 1875. 
 
 5. Margaret Kellogg 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
 
 March 31, 1881. 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 209 
 
 6. Abigail Kellogg 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
 March 31, 1886. 
 
 Leverett Kellogg Hazard, m. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
 Nov. 14, 1894, Elizabeth Burt Dunlap, b. in 
 Jersey City, July 26, 1873, ^^^- of A. Jud- 
 son Dunlap and Mary EHzabeth Dunlap, 
 both of Ovid, N. Y. 
 
 Isaac Merritt Kellogg 8, b. in New York City, 
 Sept. 23, 1849, rnarried Emma Wood, dau. 
 of Col. A. M. Wood, ex-Mayor of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. ; resides at Hollis, N. Y. ; Lawyer. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Rawdon Wright 9, b. in Brooklyn, Feb. 18, 
 
 1878, married Oct. 20, 1903, Louise Tap- 
 pen in Jamaica, N. Y. She is the dau. of 
 Charles Irving Tappen, b. in Huntington, 
 L. I., and Sarah Carver Brown of Taunton, 
 Mass. He is a practicing lawyer. 
 
 2. Lucie Wood 9, b. April 30, 1879, Queens, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Abigail Wright Kellogg 8, b. in Queens, N. Y., 
 April 6, i860, married Adolph Van Rein, 
 Esq., at Hollis, Queens Borough, New 
 York City. 
 
 14 
 
ADDENDA STEWART-SHAFTER. 
 
 * 
 
 Oscar L. Shafter, d. , 1873, Florence, 
 
 Italy. 
 Sarah R. Shafter,' (Sarah/ Enos/ John,^ 
 • Charles,* John,^ Robert,^ Walter.^) 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Emma 9, m. C. W. Howard. 
 
 2. Mary 9, m. Mr. Orr. 
 
 3. Sara Maude 9, b. in San Francisco, Cal., 
 
 Nov. 15, 1856. 
 
 4. Bertha Stewart 9. 
 
 5. Eva Riddell 9. 
 
 Sara Maude 9, married Edward E. Goodrich 
 (b. Aug. 12, 1845) ^^ Boston, Mass., 
 April 23, 1878. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Florence Shafter 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 
 March 22, 1879, d. June 15, 1881. 
 
 * See p. 105, 
 
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212 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 2. Bertha Shafter lo, b. at Abetone Pistojese, 
 
 Italy, July 12, 1880. 
 
 3. Chauncey Shafter 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 
 
 Sept. 19, 1 881. 
 
 4. Elizabeth Ely 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 
 
 Oct. 14, 1885. 
 
 5. Frances Juliana 10, b. in Lausanne, Switzer- 
 
 land, May 18, 1887. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Children of Charles and Mary Stewart. 
 
 1. Robert, b. , d. , age, 9 
 
 months. 
 
 2. Susannah, b. , m. ist, Charles Forbes 
 
 of Truxton, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1807, m. 2d, 
 Asa Austin of Homer, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1821, 
 d. at McGrawville, N. Y., May 13, 1849. 
 
 Children by First Marriage. 
 I. William, b. at Truxton, Dec. 3, 1807, ^' • 
 
 2. Jennet, b. Sept. 10, 18 10, d. April 7, 1833. 
 
 3. Charles, b. Jan. 3, 1812, d. . 
 
 4. Oramel, b. March 15, 1 8 14, d. in Canandaigua, 
 
 N. Y., Feb. 24, 1884; resided in Homer, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 Children by Second Marriage. 
 
 I. Susan, b. in Homer, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1822, m. 
 Harvey Hubbard of Norwich, N. Y., at Mc- 
 Grawville, Sept. II, 1844, d. 1 901. 
 
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214 GENEALOGY OF 
 
 2. Mary, b. in Homer, N. Y., Nov. i8, 1823, m. 
 
 Henry S. Phelps of M orris ville, N. Y., in 
 Robertson Co., Tenn., June 29, 1854, d. 
 1903. 
 
 3. Harriet, b. in Homer, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1825, m. 
 
 De Witt Clinton of McGrawville, June 24, 
 1849. 
 
 2. Mary, b. , m. Edward Hopkins in 
 
 Truxton, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1807, ^' ^^ Evans- 
 ville, Ind. Pioneers, 11 children. 
 
 4. John, b. , d. in Truxton, 1797, from 
 
 accidental poisoning. 
 
 5. Sophia, b. , m. in Naples, N. Y., 
 
 John A. Hinkley, d. in Starkey, Gates Co., 
 N. Y., April 15, 1885. No children. 
 
 6. Anna, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 
 
 Rufus Stearns, Sept. 19, 1815, d. in Benning- 
 ton, Vt., Sept. 8, 1823, 5 children. 
 
 7. Huldah, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 
 
 Backus Kinney, Jan. 6, 18 14, d. in White- 
 water, Wis., June 12, 1864, 14 children. 
 
 8. Sally, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 
 
 Dr. Elisha Doubleday, d. in Italy Hill, 
 Gates Co., N. Y., 6 children, two of them, 
 Mrs. Samantha Wixon and Mrs. Livania 
 Gulick are residents of Italy Hill, N. Y. 
 
 9. Rhoda, b. , m. ist, Samuel Leonard, 
 
LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 21 5 
 
 1 children ; m. 2d, Rufus Stearns (husband of 
 Anna) of Bennington, Vt., Aug. 1 7, 1 8 26 ; m. 
 3d, Alanson Squires of Bennington, Vt., 
 Feb. 8, 1826, d. in Bennington, Vt., 
 
 March 4, 1844, 2 children. 
 
 The above record was furnished by Mrs. Mary- 
 Phelps of Morrisville, N. Y. 
 
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