Genealogy of Hugh Stewart and Descendants COMPILED BY FRANCENIA STEWART WHITE ESTHER STEWART HUNT EMMA STEWART LYMAN 1892-1895· 1912 · COLUMBUS, OHIO THE F. J. HEER PRINTING COMPANY 1914 ANCESTRAL PLAQUE. 1Jn .fflemnry nf 1.Eatfler. To whose Devotion and Love of family we are indebted for much of the material, these pages are dedicated as fulfilling her loyal thought and desire of years. F. S. W. E. S. L. "They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate, I think they have no portion in us after We pass the Gate ! " -Dawson. ERRATA. 'f!here are several names that were unintentionally omitted in the proper places, but have been numbered in such a way as to indicate their positions in their respective families. EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS. b - born. m - married. d - died. In tracing the generations we ·have adopted the simple plan of be­ ginning with Hugh Stewart, the earliest family name of which we have knowledge, calling him Hugh1 (frrst generation). Each child of his is, in turn, following name, 2 (2nd generation) ; each grandchild, 3 (3rd gen­ eration) ; each great grandchild 4 ( 4th gene,ration) ; each great. great grandchild is 5 ( 5th generation), etc. This is the key that will enable anyone quickly to trace each person without trouble, but be sure to get it fixed in your mind, at the start. ·:,:,~. ~ ELIZABETH RoxnuRGH-S MITH. ( Lady Dalrymple.) Badge-Oak. Slogan or vVar-cry- Creag-an-Sgairbh. (A. rock in April.) _--\rms - Or, a Fesse cheguy. Ar.. and Az .. surmounted of a bend engr., Gu., within a double tressure, flory-counter-flory, of the last. Crest - A Pelican Ar .. winged Or.. in her nest, feeding young, P. P. R. Motto - Vivescit vulnere virtus. ( Virtue when \vounded flourishes.) - Burke. SYiMBOLI S:\L Or. ( gold) Generosity. Ar. (silver) Peace and Sincerity. Gu. (red) Militarv Fortitude. Az. (blue) Truth ·and Loyalty. The F esse represents the belt of honor worn by a kni~ht. It was first granted cheguy Ar., and Az .. to the Ste\vart family of Scotland. and svmbolized bv its, colors. Peace and Sinceritv. Truth and Lovaltv. and bv its square figures, Verity, Constancy. Equity ·and "the square ·deai." • The Bend represents the scarf of honor \\~Orn by a knight to support his sword. Being engrailed shows that a grant of land was given at some time for service. The Tressure is an emblem of Protection and Preserva­ tion. The Pelican feeding her young is emblematical of the duties of a parent. This symbol has often been used by the church as the emblem of devoted and self-sacrificing charity. \V ADE. X OTE -The crest belonizs to the Philadelphia Stewarts who came over from Glasgow 1745 to 1750- (1915). INTRODUCTION The effort to rescue from oblivion the fami~y history of this special line of the Stewarts, ( or as some of the family have spelled it, "Stuart,") begun in 1893-'95, and was for several reasons, discontinued by the compilers ·who are now in 1912 undertaking it again. The usual difficulties had been encountered, of not obtaining the desired information from those not especially interested, letters, many of them, being unanswered and often when re­ ceived, not giving full data of births, marriages and deaths ; so if any family, or member of a family, is not fully represented, it is largely due to that family itself. It has been a wearisome labor, but one of interest and devotion, to the wish to rescue what we have of the records of a family that has been worth­ ,vhile, in their niche, in the structure of our country,-"Such an interesting family'\ exclaimed one young descendant. It is not easy to trace early American families at the best, and the com­ pilers of this record came upon a stone wall beyond the date of Hugh's (I) birth, and the fact that he did have a father who ca,me to America, except traditions. Even Hugh's birth, given at Philadelphia~ December 19th, 1757, may have been at- so1ne point near the mouth of the Schuylkill River. Chambersburg, Pa., insistently re-appears, and at some time may have been the home of our first ancestors, and the '\vol£ story", though tra­ dition, after the "quarrel" sent them south·ward, toward Balti­ more. This tradition says that one Robert lies buried there. After sifting and comparing, the compilers, with limited time and opportunity, gave their best efforts to the "clan", be­ lieving that a more personal search of records, old deeds, etc., would unravel much that is now unaccounted for, hoping that someone of the younger generation, with this for a foundation, will be interested enough to devote time and means to a more developed record, especially of the early line and the scattered younger generations. "For so the ark be borne to Zion, who Heeds how they perished or were paid that bore it? For so the shrine abide, what shame- what pride If we the priests were bound or crowned before it?" (vii) Introduction. It has been suggested from a similarity of names and dates and the exile into Ireland soon after 1665, that a family con­ nection may be trace.able from John Stewart, Glasgow, Scotland,. as Robert, his son, born 1665, at Glasgow, and died in Ireland,. 1730, had three sons, Samuel, Robert and Hugh. That Samuel and Hugh came to America, and· Samuel settled at Chestnut Level, Pa., and Hugh, at Peshtauk. · These -repeated . family names, with that of Robert, lead the compilers of this record to · urge any Stuarts, Stewarts, Stewards, or Stuards who. may have corroborating data, to communicate with the compilers, that the mystery behind the stone wall of r757., (Hugh's birth,) may be solved.-See Dr. Hugh C. Stewart's letter. This record taken from a venerable book owned by James Finney Stewart, of a Stewart line, is as follows: . "It is a genealogical record, tracing them back to the an- c~stor from which sprang the royal house of Stewart, and ~hat long line of kings and queens,_ ending in Edward VII King of England. History· says that Alan, so1:1 of Flahald, a Norman,. accompanied the Conqueror into England, A. D.· 1066, obtain­ ing by ?is gifts, the land and castle of Owestry in Shropshire.. Alan's eldest son Willia1n is ancestor of the Duke of .Norfolk. Alan's second son, Walter, passed into Scotland, entered. the service of David. I as his Steward, and _received from him large possessions, and the title of Baron of Renfrew, which is one of the titles inherited by King Edward VII. "The office of Steward became hereditary in the family,. and was assumed by them as a surname, the Gaelic word mean:­ ing, the Lord High, or the High Lord, or the Lord next to the King in power. The orthography of the name was changed, by Mary, . Queen of Scots, when _she . returned from Frnnc~,. turning. up her pretty nose at everything Scotch, _and intrqduc­ ing French manners and customs. She· used the French spelling to which she had .been accustomed.· The French alphabe~ had no W in it. This spelling was adopted. by ma11y clansmen, es­ pecially those who adhered to the Church of Rome. "For seven generations, the Stewardship of Scotland de­ scended without a break from father to so~. W altek, the sixth Steward, married ~arj (?ry, daught~r of Robert Bruce, and their son, the seventh ~~~ward of Scotland; ascended the throne on the death of David II, taking the title of· Robert II· and by mar- . Introduction. lX riage or descent, ·we find his descendants on nearly every throne of Europe. In the seventeenth century, a Scotch Covenanter, John Stewart, fled from Scotland to County Down, Ireland, to escape penalties incurred for non-compliance with_ Royal edicts respecting religious worship. His two grandsons, Samuel and Hugh, came to America, and settled in the Lancaster-· Province of Pennsylvania. Samuel's first son, Elijah, died jn 18o7, and his widow, with seven children, moved to Ohio with her family." .) EXTRACT FROl\1 LETTER WRITTEN BY ESTHER STEWART HUNT, 1893. "Speaking of great grand father Hugh's brother, my grand­ father (Robert), used to while away a little time, when I could stop a minute, in those last years when he was under my father's roof, to talk ~about old times; and one thing he told me, was this: That his father, (Hugh,) had a brother· in England, who had four sons, all of whom held positions under Jhe Crown. One ·was Purser in the Navy, the rest, I can not no,v remember. When they would get letters telling his father, (Hugh,) to come' on and secure good places Jor his boys, his mother (Margaret) ,vould become perfectly ;furious. 'Nothing, grandfather would say 'ever roused the· "Scotch" in her so much.' Then he vvould tell of the Stewarts being Catholics, and the name under the ban, until legitimatized at Rome, and say: 'When you read history you will kno,v', not thinking that he knew the records, and I did not. "Hugh (I) Stewart held a great bitterness toward the Stuart kings, and repeatedly said, 'If I thought a drop of the blood of those cruel and idiotic Stuart Kings, was left in my veins, I ,vould open a vein and spill it1 on the ground.' "Rather. mixed statements\have existed in the family in re­ gard to the change, at some time, in the spelling of the name. Since this record was nearing completion we have learned from a resident of Washington, D.