John Stewart and Elinor [Unk]

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Husband John Stewart ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 27 Apr - Ireland 2
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Wife Elinor [Unk] ²

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            AKA: Ellen [Unk] 3
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Children

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1 M John Stewart ^{2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 26 Dec 1766 2 3
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         Spouse: Jane Cavett (      -      ) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Stewart

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The old family register shows that he was born on the 27th day of April, but the figures for the year have been obliterated. It is believed, however, to have been in the third decade of the eighteenth century.

Although Presbyterian, the race was Jacobite, and when, in 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stewart headed the last attempt which was ever made to restore the Stewarts to the throne of their ancestors, John Stewart, founder of the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, branch of the family, espoused the cause of one to whom it is possible he was remotely linked by ties of blood as well as bound by obligations of loyalty. When the army of the Prince was defeated and his followers scattered, John Stewart, (originally spelled Stuart), like many others, fled to the north of Ireland. His sojourn there was brief, and in 1749 he embarked from Londonderry for the colonies, determined to make a home for himself and his posterity in the province of Pennsylvania. He settled in Elizabeth township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a large tract of land at Round Hill and built the first shingle-roofed house erected in that township.

He and his wife were the parents of eight children\emdash four sons and four daughters.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 411, 468.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 431.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 210, 410.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 468.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 145.