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Note: 1712 , in Londonderry, Ireland ; d. April 10, 1783 , in Hanover, Lancaster county, Pa. He came to America about 1735 , locating on the Swatara, Lancaster county, Pa. He served as coroner of Lancaster county from October 4, 1746 , to October 8, 1749 . Mr. Wallace m., circa 1740 , Mary Clyde , of the "Irish Settlement," b. 1721 ; d. April 12, 1784 .

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Stewart, James (b. 27 OCT 1768, d. 24 DEC 1852)

Note: At least four branches of the Stewart family came to this part of the “Reserve” at about the same time, they were soon designated by the locality in which they lived. James of Franklin County, PA, who, in 1801, settled on the Mahouing, and built a flouring mill, was known as Stewart at the mill or Stewart’s dam. (This family is now extinct, but the Arrels, of Poland, are descendants of Margaret his sister, etc.) William Stewart, from Huntingdon County, settled in Liberty in 1800. We were known as the Coitsville Stewarts. We have been unable so far to discover which one of our Stewarts first brought his family to Coitsville. Tradition says that James, the third son of Robert, came to Washington County, PA, and having married Jean Smiley, November 27, 1798, he settled in Moon township, Allegheny County; that in 1802 he and his brother John came to Western Reserve to look up a new home. They spent their first night in Ohio, at least in the cabin of John Struthers. His cabin stood in the now village of Struthers, not fifty feet from where we pen these words. They probably stopped with him, for the reason that he and their mother both came from Chester County and knew each other there. The Stewarts remarked that his land was rough and stony, and that they and their forefathers had always farmed hilly land, and they would if possible prefer a change. Mr Struthers, being a land surveyor and having assisted in laying out farms in surrounding neighborhood, took them to Coitsville, where he said they could find level land.

The following contract, now in the possession of Alexander, son of James, indicates the result of the trip, and is the first record we find of our Stewarts in Coitsville:

This Agreement, made this 3rd day of December, A.D. 1802, by and between Camden Cleveland, of the County of Trumbull and N.W. Territory, on the one part, and John and James Stewart, Moon township, County Allegheny and State Pennsylvania, on the other part, Witnesseth, That the sd Cleveland doth agree to sell and bargain to said Stewart a tract of land in Township No. 2, in the first range, south part of lot No., 5, to the number of Three hundred and seventy-four acres, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be divided into two payments, five hundred dollars to be payed the first day of May, 1803, and four hundred and thirteen dollars to be payed first of May, 1804, all on interest from this date according to their notes berring even date, and when the said Stewarts fufllfill on their part then the said Cleveland agrees to execute a good and sufficient Deed, but if the said Stewarts do not fulfill on their part this article is to be void.
Whereon we have hereunto sett our hand and seals.
Witness: Joseph Bissel, James Stewart
Cameden Cleveland (L S)
John Stewart
James Stewart
Received of James and John Stewart Twenty-four Dollars which is the interest of the last payment
Camden Cleveland
Coitsville, May, 1804

James was drafted into the war of 1812, but on account of the serious illness of his wife (which sickness resulted in her death), hired a substitute, paying him $100 and a gun.

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

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Stewart, Mary (b. 1776, d. ?)

Note: William and Mary were first cousins.

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Stewart, William (b. 18 MAY 1808, d. 23 MAY 1887)

Occupation: Place: Tanner

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio