Stewart, Sir Walter of Tonderghie (b. ABT 1475, d. 1549)

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Note: THE FOLLOWING IS FROM "STEWART CLAN" WRITTEN BY SAMUEL ARTHUR STEWART. LAPORTE INDIANA. HISTORIAN AND PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER.

Sometime during this period of exodus from the lands beyond the sea, a young man named STEWART landed in Philadelphia. A traditionin the family is to the effect that it was in the year of George Washington's birth, 1732. Tradition is silent as to whether his wife accompanied him or whether he was married after his arrival. A tradition states that he came from County Down but beyond this nothing is known save that he came from the North of Ireland... Tradition has little to say regarding is life and death, but it seems tha he viewed out the land and found a home in the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania but at this point tradition ceases when fact makes known that he had an only child, a son whose name was JOHN, his birth place unknown. It is likely that his parents were married in Ireland (in 1725) and he came over with them as a child, for if his father came over in 1732 it is all in keeping with the year of JOHN STEWART'S death as he did not die before 1806, for his grandson THOMAS, who was birn in 1801, distinctly remember his grandsire, then an old man.

JOHN STEWART married in 1757 at Shippensburg, Pa a widow with several children, by the name of Culbertson... JOHN STEWART had an only son and child, CHARLES, who was born in 1759...

JOHN STEWART and family experienced troublous times in the Cumberland Valley. The following is taken from a rare volume, entitles"An Early History of Pennsylvania and the West." "

On March 19th 1764, the Indians carried off five persons from within five miles if Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Penna and shot one man through the body. The enemy about eleven in number, pursued successfully by about one hundred provincials. The houses of JOHN STEWART , Adam Simms and others were burnt. these people lost all their grain which they had threshed out with the intention to send it for safety further down amont the inhabitants."

This account fixes the residence in the Cumberland Valley and gives us a certian fixed date, for CHARLES STEWART was two(five?) years old when the raid was made by the Indians, hence we have his birth year, 1762(1759?)... A verbal tradition describes the cabin which was burned as a well built log house having a split shingle roof, the shingles fastened by iron nails made by the local blacksmith.

The name of JOHN STEWART appears on the muster roll as a private in Captian Charles McCloys Company, 1st Batalion, Cumberland County Militia; (see foot note page 149 vol. 6. Penna Archives, 5thSeries) From this it appears that he was ready for service during the War with England, and it is likely that he was enlisted as much for the protection of the frontier as anthing else.

Nothing definite is known as to when the Stewarts crossed the mountians to make their home in the Western part of the State, but during the War with England and for some years later a constant stream of Scotch and Irish poured over the mountains into what was then known as Westmoreland. The territory now embraced in Washington, Fayette, Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties was rapidly settled during this period. Here in 1784 the name CHARLES STEWART appears on the muster roll of Capt. Guthries company of Westmoreland County Militia, so it looks as if the Stewarts left the Cumberland Valley and crossed the mountains sometime between 1781 and 1784. Their names appear in an early history of Pennsylvania as living near Hannastown, now Greensburg. JOHN STEWART died in Westmoreland County and was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Greensburg.



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John Stuart/Stewart and his wife Margaret Duncan Culbertson are buried in the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Amberson Valley, Franklin Co., Pa. His head stone was broken and replaced with a field stone from his home. The stone is still there in 1988.
(Maybe this is where his wife was buried? This fact does not match ours -ksm)

The marriage records of John and Margaret is listed in the record on two dates 1757 and 1758, it is believed to be 1757.

Margaret Culbertson's family were members of the Catholic Church.

Note from the will of John Steward: "It would please me grately if a boy Steward would be named George Washington Steward in honor of General George Washington of whom I served". (copied as written) (No George Washington Stewarts that I have found - ksm)

John Stuart served in the unit commaned by Captain Joseph Armstrong (located near present day(1992) Edenville, Pa.)
Captain Armstrong's unit was formed by men from Letterkenny and Hamilton Twps. The records also list a Daniel and Charles Stuart.
A note in the records state "Old Charlie was a damn good shot".

John Stuart served in several Cumberland Co units, Captain Cluggage of Franklin Co. and Bedford Co. also Captain John McConnel1780-1781.

John Stuart's house was burned in an Indian raid through thearea in 1764 also the barn of Mr. Walker in Path Valley. A report by Captain John McAlster described the raid and the pursuit of the raider inMarch 1764 {Franklin Co. History and the Pa. Archives in Harrisburg, Pa.}


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THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE RECORDS OF NANCY JENETTA ECKENRODE 1878, TED STEWART 1962 AND HARRY FORMAN HIS BOOK CONOCOCHEAGUE HEADWATERS OFAMBERSON VALLEY.

(There is a large question whether the John Stewart below is "our" John Stewart. Many of the facts presented conflict with what we know of our John Stewart)

The earliest this name was John Stuart Sr. who was married to Margaret Duncan Culbertson, widow of Captain Alexander Culbertson of Culbertson Row, who was killed April 2, 1756 at Bloody Run on Sideling Hill while in pursuit of the Indians following the Fort McCord Massacre of April 1, 1756.

Book 5 Recorders Office includes a recording which definitely proves that John Stuart was married to the "widow and relic" of Alexander Culbertson. In 1795 an earlier agreement of 1765 was executed (recorded1801) before M. Herron on testimony of David Herron and three others which show where John Stuart and Margaret, widow and relic of Alexander Culbertson, were releasing rights as "Tenants in Dower" to Samuel Culbertson, eldest son of Alexander Culbertson. From the same sourcequote "I John Stuart, intermarried to the widow of Alexander Culbertson"etc.

From Culbertson records, quote "That Margaret Culbertson widow of Alexander Culbertson, was married to John Stuart in 1757 or 1758. This wording also mentions the agreement of 1865.

John Stuart, Charles Stuart and Daniel Stuart served in the earliest organized body of troops west of Carlisle, that of Capt. Joseph Armstrong (near Edenville 1755) NOTE: Captain Alexander Culbertson's application for a commission was dated five days earlier than Joseph Armstrong, but facts indicate Armstrong's force was organized earlier. Armstrong's men were from Hamilton and Letterkenny Twp.

When did John Stuart move to Amberson Valley? This is a moot question. Genealogists have failed to mesh some of the puzzling facts concerning part of John Stuart's movements. If John Stuart and Margaret Culbertson lived as "Tenants in Dower" to Samuel Culbertson for a lengthily period of time, this fact alone could solve some of the perplexing problems concerning his residence.

North of Armstrong's along the mountain wall near the McConnells a warrent was located in the name of John Stuart. The warrant was for 202 acres (Letterkenny Twp.) bears the date January 23, 1767(number 2547) and was surveyed June 1, 1767. This may have been the same land which Charles Stuart gave to his son John and bears the date February 3, 1766 (date of Charls Stuart's will)

Charles Stuart owned an adjoining warrant to John Stuart.Charles Stuart served under his neighbor Capt. John McConnel in 1780-81with John Stuart and his neighbors. Charles Stuart removed to Bedford Co.but returned to Franklin Co. and died near Mercersburg.
NOTE: From a Capt. John McAlister letter quote "The Indians burned the house of John Stuart, Letterkenny Twp. in 1764. These Indians were pursued to Path Valley where they also burned the barn and killed two cows and some horses on a Mr. Walker etc." unquote. The writer believes 3ethis to be the same John Stuart due mainly to the locations given also to a shred of Stuart tradition which indicated the Stuart's suffered in an Indian raid. This was the affair of March 1764, when numerous buildings were burned near Cumming's, later West Mill, several miles from Upper Strasburg now in Letterkenny Depot. A large group were killed near the same spot while harvesting July, 1757.

The names of John Stuart, John Stewart, John Steward are found on the Militia roll of at least five or six Cumberland County Captains, also Captain Cluggage of (Franklin) and Bedford Counties in 1776. A John Stuart took the oath of allegiance in 1778. The writer believes that the John Stuart whose stone has been re-lettered and placed in the Amberson Cemetery by Steward descendants, was the same John Stuart who served under Captain Armstrong in 1755 and served under his neighbor Captain John McConnell with Frederick Stake and others. I also believe he served under Captain James McConnell and possibly under Captains in the Cumberland County Militia.

John and Margaret Stuart sold their land in Letterkenny to Conrad Wolf in 1784. His name is found in Amberson in 1790 and in 1799 tax list includes his name with fifty acres of land and one cow. Other references are found in 1812, 1816, 1819, 1822 and his sale in 1825. John Stuart definitely owned land on the east side of the creek in 1816 against the Kittatinny Mountain. Adam Specht gained control or purchased the John Stuart lands in 1819. The acreage generally agrees with the acreage of the present Ray Eckenrode site. This seems to have been the George Steward place, later Jacob Steward.

Steward knowledge states that John Stuart was 107 years old when he died in 1822. He was a pew holder at Rocky Springs, this is in the records. George Steward was his father's executor, the estate was settled in 1825.

One record states that Margaret Culbertson Stuart lived from 1725 until 1794. Since John Stuart did not marry Margaret Duncan Culbertson until 1757, he would have been over 40 years of age when he married Margaret and would have lived 29 years after her death.
NOTE: In Franklin County records under George Steward, Administrator, fo rthe year 1825 is found the following quote "John Steward died in 1823 leaving a widow deceased and 10 children above the age of 21 years of age." It also states that he owned one undivided half of a tract of land lying and being in Amberson Valley, joining lands with George Johnson, John Taylor, John Fleck, and others containing 100 acres and 110 perches(clerk of the court's office). Since this land was definitly part of Captain Alexander Culbertson warrant of 1755, it is the conclusion that the Culbertson lands induced John and Margaret Stuart to move to Amberson. Certain Samuel Culbertson records and a John Culbertson transaction seems to confirm this. Samuel Culbertson, son of Alexander Culbertson and Margaret and Colonel John Culbertson never lived in Amberson.

Records of John Stuart in Amberson are rare. A notable exception is the appraisement sheet and sale sheet of his personal affects in 1825. Will book C page 738 reveals that George Steward was named executor, son of John Stuart. Neighbors John Fleck and Abraham Witter served as appraisers and the papers were attested by Edward McVitty Justice of the Peace. This sale was held March 31, 1825 and the proceeds were well under $51.45 3/4 appraisal. Among the buyers were the following named Stewart; George Stewart, Eli Stewart, John Stewart, Samuel Stewart, and Elizabeth Stewart. Other purchases were William Emery, John Stake, Catharine Speck, Adam Specht, Robert Lewis, John Struble, and other persons.

The 1804 tax list proves that Samuel and George Stewart were operating a grist mill but by 1807 George Stewart was the sole owner or operator. Evidence indicates that George and Samuel grist mill (possibly earlier John Stuart) was the Wallace site. The George (Jacob) Stewart place was the Eckenrode site and seemingly part of the Captain Alexander Culbertson land in 1755. John Stewart purchased some of the Duncan landwest of the creek and Van Scyoc mill location from Benjamin Chambers in 1839 and sold to Daniel Craig in 1881. John Stewart lived at the present Pennypacker site but owned other Duncan land. Adam and Catharine Specht after selling their land up the valley moved to the present Guy Stakeplace where his estate was settled up by John Steward in 1852. Noah Stewart lived at the Stake place after Adam Specht. Other persons remember several old Stewart ladies who lived at the Pennypacker site. By 1858 the only Stewart places marked on the map were the Davis Stewart place at Mill Run, the John Stewart on the west side of the creek across from the present Van Scyoc mill site on part of the early Duncan land,and a John Stewart place south of the Timmons Road against the Kittatinny Mountain in Metal Twp., Valentine "Felty" Stewart who lived at the Barnabas Fegan place on Pike's Peak, was married to Mary E. McVitty in 1852 and moved to this site between 1858 and 1868. The name Felty's Narrows and the Felty Stewart place is now visited by hunters, hikers,descendants or historians and the site is a focal point on the CatholicPath.

Note: Charles Stewart is buried in Old North Cemetery, Hubbard Twp.,Trumbull Co., Ohio.
Charles Stewart was a member of Capt. William Guthrie's Ranger Company Westmoreland Co. Malitia in 1780.

Came to Westmoreland Co. in about 1782 with his Father John Stewart. *(From letter written by S. Arthur Stewart on 10, 1931.)

"I do not know who owns the Charles Stewart farm near Hubbard, the farm where our ancestor settled in 1811..."
*(From letter written by S. Arthur Stewart. A professor in LaPorte,Indiana. on August 10, 1931 to family reunion.)

"In 1810, Charles Stewart and his wife Francis Stockton and his large family of boys and girls left Westmoreland County PA and settled on a farm about two miles north of Hubbard, Trumbull County,Ohio. Here the large family was raised to manhood and womanhood, only to be scattered to various places in Ohio and Pennsylvania and as far west as California"
(From letter type written, unknown author describing ancestry and the first Stewart-Dickson Reunion held in 1925)


"In about 1811, the wander-lust struck Charles and so for the purpose of bettering his condition he left the homes and friends in Washington County and moved to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where a farm was purchased in the south eastern part of Brookfield Township. Here his life was spend on the farm, within reach of nearly all of his children, who with one exception settled in eastern Ohio or Western Pennsylvania. He died at an advanced age and was buried in the Old Cemetery at Hubbard,Ohio. The mother of his children died (1832) some time before her husband, and after a few years he married Miss Hannah Welsh (Johnson?) who survived him several years.
(from Stewart History, written by Rev. Samuel Arthur Stewart, 1912)

"Charles Stewart was a man of large stature and of great strength, a poor businessman, coming to Ohio when land was to be had ,almost for the asking, he never managed to accumulate anything beyond the one farm that was lost to him because of his indiscreet and indiscriminate signing notes and going security. A man with a family of boys in that day had ample opportunity of securing land which would have made the following generations rich, but this he did not do and left heirs nothing but the name of a father and the memory of a father who was kind and loving. He was evidently a man of splendid impulses, yet unable to make his life count for the most. The War of 1812, found him a man in his prime with several sons capable of bearing arms, yet no record exists of any of them offering their services in the hour of their country's need. It may be said that he was a good man, but not a man of force and action.
(from Stewart History, written by Rev. Samuel Arthur Stewart, 1912)

Note: Jasper Markle Thompson was one of the men that Fayette countydelighted to honor. He was one of that useful class of men in every State whose patriotism, integrity, intelligence, and usefulness give stability to society, prosperity and progress to its business affairs.

He was born near Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, August 30, 1822, and was the youngest son of Andrew Finley Thompson and Leah Markle Thompson.

He is of Scotch Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His ancestors on both sides fled from the "old world" on account of their religious convictions and found shelter in the colonial lands of Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century.

His paternal grandfather came from the Cumberland Valley to near Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Penna. He married Mary Jack, daughter of John Jack, who was prominent in drafting the Hannastown Declaration of Independence in 1775. He moved to Kentucky and was a comrade in arms of Boone. He died in Mason county of that State.

: Andrew Finley Thompson was born in Kentucky in 1791, and served as a soldier with three of his brothers in the War of 1812. He was taken prisoner at Hull's disgraceful surrender, and after being released traveled on foot from the wilds of Michigan to the home of his relatives in Westmoreland county, Penna. He wedded Miss Leah Markle of Westmoreland county, the youngest of Gasper Markle's twenty two children.

Gasper Markle was a native of Berks county and settled in Westmoreland county toward the close of the French and Indian War. His father, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, fled from Alsace in 1686, and went to Amsterdam where he engaged in business until 1703. In the same year he removed to Berks county, Penna.

A F Thompson with his young bride returned to Kentucky where Mrs Thompson died in 1823, and was soon followed to the grave by her husband. They were the parents of three children: William L Thompson, who died at twenty years of age; Mary Thompson, wife of J P Carothers of this county,
who died in 1865; and Jasper M Thompson.

Jasper M Thompson, after his parents' death when less than three years of age, was taken to Westmoreland county and lived with his grandmother, Mary Markle, until her death in 1832 when he engaged with his cousin, General Cyrus P Markle.

After twelve years of varied and useful experience in farming, clerking, and bookkeeping, he removed in 1850 to Redstone township. He purchased a part of the Walters farm near New Salem, but in the same year bought and removed to a farm in Menallen township, two and one half miles from Uniontown where he farmed and dealthin livestock until 1862.

President Lincoln appointed him collector of internal revenue for the Twenty first district of Pennsylvania. After serving efficiently for four years, he resigned and retired from the office with the respect and good will of all with whom he came in contact.

He was one of the original stockholders (1863) of the First National Bank of Uniontown, and of which he was a director from 1863 to 1870 and president from 1870 until his death. He was also president of the Uniontown Building and Loan Association, a director in the FayetteCounty Agricultural Association, a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College, and a director in Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny City.

In 1873 the citizens of Fayette county elected him to the legislature by 1,031 majority on the republican ticket. The democratic majority in the county at that time was about 1,000. He was elected in 1868 as a republican presidential elector, and cast his vote for General Grant.

He was married in 1846 to Miss Eliza Caruthers, youngest daughter of Samuel Caruthers of Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Penna, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. Mr Caruthers' mother was a daughter of Lieutenant John Potter, and her brother, General James
Potter, was a highly trusted friend of General Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Mr Thompson had four children, two sons and two daughters: Ruth A Thompson, educated at the Female Seminary at Washington, Penna, and was married in 1875 to Dr J T Shepler of Dunbar; Lenora M Thompson, educated at the same institution and was married in 1873 to John A Niccolls of Uniontown; William M Thompson, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1871, and resides upon the home farm of over 650 acres; Josiah V Thompson, graduated from the same institution, and at the same time as his brother. He was chosen teller in the First National Bank of Uniontown in 1872, was elected cashier in 1877, and became president of the bank
April 3, 1889.

The First National Bank of Uniontown was organized in 1863, commenced business May 1, 1864, with a capital stock of $60,000 and which was increased in January 1872, to $100,000. The bank has an average annual deposit of $480,000, and now has a surplus fund of $95,000.

Its officers are: Josiah V Thompson, president; Edgar S Hackney, cashier; Francis M Semans, Jr, teller. Its directors are H H Hackney, Joseph M Campbell, D P Gibson, George W Hess, William Hunt, and J V Thompson.

Jasper M Thompson died of pneumonia at his home in Menallen township March 15, 1889. He had made a business trip to the South in February, 1889, and while there contracted a cold which soon developed into symptoms of pneumonia. By traveling almost day and night he succeeded in reaching his home, where he died upon the evening of his arrival.

He attended the old subscription schools, but the more important school from which he received his education was "the great world of active life."

He was for nearly thirty years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at Uniontown, of which he was an honored member for forty years. The grand secret of his success was attention to business and devotion to duty. Christian consistency and true philanthropy was the cause of his popularity and the basis of his usefulness.

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Note: Georgia Historical Collections > GenRef-Hist-Collection-GA > Sketches of Counties

Captain James Jack died in this county, on the 18th of January, 1823, at the age of eighty-four years. He was born in Pennsylvania, from whence he removed to North Carolina, and settled in the town of Charlotte, where he remained until the end of the Revolutionary War, in which he took a decided and active part. At the close of the war he removed to Georgia. In the spring of ’75, he was the bearer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to Congress. His claims upon the State of North Carolina, for Revolutionary services were said to have amounted to 7,646, State currency. Colonel Patrick Jack was his son.

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Source: Josiah V. Thompson Journals
Written: August 12, 1777

Registrar's Office, Carlisle, Pa.
. Will of Robert Jack of Chambersburg will book C p 78 to my wife Rachel house
& lot I live in etc
to my son John Jack 1/3 of my lands & my best stallion etc
to my son James Jack 1/3 of my lands & a colt etc
to my son Robert Jack 1/3 of my lands & a horse & the house I now live in at
his mother's death
to my dau "Sitthey" (Cynthia?) Jack £300 to be pd when she is 18 or when
married
to my dau Margaret Jack £300 to be pd when she is 18 or when married
When my son John becomes 21 yrs old, lands to be appraised & 3 sons to draw
lots as to which each gets.
To Robert Jack, son of my brother John £10.
Appoints wife Rachel & trusty friend Col John Allison to be Exrs. Dated Aug
12, 1777 Robert Jack (seal) Witness Thomas Shenon, John Jack, Matthw Wilson.
Proven Feby 27, 1778 before John Creigh Reg.