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From: "Harlow Chandler" <>
Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] James Steward, Ship Fortune 1621
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:01:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: <MBBBLHKAOKDFNCFKHDBPMEDLCFAA.gdrennon@islc.net>


***-----Original Message-----
***From: George Drennon [mailto:]
***Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 11:01 PM
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***Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] James Steward, Ship Fortune 1621
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***Susa/Harlow,
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***Thanks for the quick return. Is there any other mention of Stewards
***(Stewarts) in Plymoth Co., Ma.?
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***George

Hi George,

I don't know anything about this family, and I hope someone else on the list
does. From your first message I think you probabaly know all this already,
but the people you mentioned do appear in some of the sources I have on
hand. Your Elkanah, if I have these people straight and my source is
correct, is the son of Daniel and Prudence (Parker) Steward. According to a
Register article of 1958, "Robert Parker of Barnstable, Mass.," (see pp 197:
198-9) Elkanah was the fourth child of Daniel Steward and Prudence Parker
(marriage, MD 34:117, "Barnstable Mass, Vital Records"), and was born in
Hardwick, Worcester, MA 12 Aug., 1737 and married Lydia Cobb 7 July, 1761.
The younger children were born in Rochester, Plymouth, MA. Daniel was the
son of James Steward and Sarah Waite, and that James is the son of a Daniel,
who, as far as I can tell, is the first of the line to be documented and is
not, in the little I can find, thought to be connected to the James of the
Fortune.

But I'm not sure I have the right people or understand what the line really
is. The Register article gives the date of birth of this Elkanah's father,
Daniel, as 7 June, 1707. This is not the date you have, and in the
Rochester VR (286) there is "Daniel, ch. Jams (Stuard), July 22, 1697."
Actually one date seems to me a very little early and the other a very
little late as the first child of the Daniel in the Register article is b.
1727. In any case, I don't understand, and I hope someone can clear up my
confusion on this.

There's also a James Steward who is mentioned in R. A. Lovell's _Sandwich: A
Cape Cod Town_. He was a schoolmaster in 1686 (p. 109) and that's about all
there is on him, but I think he's the same James who shows up in the Friends
Meeting records. I have no idea how he fits in, if at all, and
unfortunately I don't have the magnificent Sandwich VR anymore.

I'm sorry I'm short of time now and haven't had time to look for more or try
to sort out what I have found, but to answer the question you asked, yes,
there are Stewards in the records and they appear to be the ones in whom
you're interested.


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