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From: Jared Olar <>
Subject: STUART / EVERLY
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 17:36:55 -0600

A friend of mine can trace one of her lines back to MICHAEL EVERLY
(1754-1804) and MARY STUART (Born in Scotland, Survived Michael and
remarried to a man surnamed MARKLEY). This information is taken from the
book "HENDRICKER AND JOCKISH HISTORY . . .," by Barbara Lindsay Cripe, 1988:

MICHAEL EVERLY, born in 1754, son of a wine merchant in London on
Devonshire St. near Derby, later called Queen's Lane. Michael came to
America in 1769 (aged 14). He was a Hicksite Quaker. Fathe didn't want
him to go to America, but his mother helped him. The Everly family can
be traced back 600 years in England. Michael's greatgrandfather came to
America in 1696, but later returned to England.

In 1781 Michael married MARY STUART at Germantown (Philadelphia),
Pennsylvania. They had four children, named MARY MAGDALENE STUART
EVERLY, STUART EVERLY, CATHERINE BARBARA EVERLY, and MARTHA JANE EVERLY.
Michael died at Chambersburgh in 1804 of "the Bloodyflux." CATHERINE
BARBARA EVERLY (born 10-24-1794) married JOHN LEHMAN, and
it is from these two that my friend Janice Jockisch is descended.

MARY STUART was born in Scotland, said to have been baptised a
Presbyterian. She was supposedly a member of the Royal Stuart Dynasty.
One tradition says that King CHARLES II was her great-uncle, but another
tradition says CHARLES I was her greatgreat-uncle. Yet another,
seemingly contradictory, tradition says that her Stuart ancestors had
intermarried with the Cromwells of England.[Wait! It gets even better!]
Mary's mother was supposedly born in Edinburgh Castle, while a brother
of Mary's father was supposed to have been buried in Westminster Abbey.

Mary's brother, baptised in Scotland, was a china merchant, while Mary's
sister CATHERINE STUART married a soldier in the English army of the
surname of CAMPBELL. Catherine and her husband "died at Loraine."
Mary's brother, the China merchant, had a son named CHARLES STUART, who
married RUTH EVA MARKLEY, his cousin, daughter of Mary by her second
husband. Charles and Ruth had a son named CHARLES STUART, editor of the
Methodist Ep. Church paper for the Civil War. This Charles' son was
named GEORGE STUART.

Mary's children by her second husband (NN) MARKLEY were RUTH EVA MARKLEY
(see above), REBECCA MARKLEY (who married (NN) HUTTON), and AMELIA STUART
MARKLEY.

Mary and her husband Michael Everly were said to have hobnobbed with the
Founding Fathers. (Imagine that--royal blood AND patriots too!) During
a reception given at her house in New York City while the Continental
Congress was in session, she danced the first dance with none other than
Benjamin Franklin, who afterwards gave her a bracelet set with garnets
"as a token of esteem." At that time Michael Everly was 'Provost
Marshall of the Continental Army' at New York.

When Lafayette visited America on 19 August 1824, Mary attended the
reception and danced with him. Mary's brother, who was then a china
merchant in New York City, had special china pieces made with pictures of
Lafayette's landing. A set of these dishes was presented to Mary. In
1908 S. M. Bushman owned this china set, as well as a table on which
Lafayette and Washington were said to have dined when the Continental
Army was at New York City.

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WHEW!! Michael and Mary had quite a life AND quite a genealogy! It
would be great if all of this were true, but Janice and I are, shall we
say, 'unconvinced' . . . .

Does ANYBODY have any knowledge of any of the persons and events named
above? Who were these Everlys? What branch of the Stuart family did
Mary REALLY come from? It's seems likely that, if Mike and Mary were
really as important as some of their descendants claimed (these stories
and traditions seem to have been taken down in 1908 or earlier), then we
should be able to find notice of them, and of their distinguished lineage.
At the very least that dance with Ben Franklin ought to have been
mentioned in some newspaper or other, right? IF Mary was really such
close kin of the Royal Stuarts, how was she related? Have the baptismal
records of Mary and her family survived in Scotland--that should go a
long way to establishing the identity of Mary's parents, who remain
suspiciously unnamed in these traditions.

Anyone . . . ??

Jared Olar

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