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From: "Rebecca L. York" <>
Subject: Re: Stewart Information
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:52:22 -0700



Bob,
That's all I found on the letter. I was looking on Ancestry.com for YORK's.
Of course 866 hits came up - York Co, New York, etc. So I looked thru each
one quickly. Found the 2 Stewart stories a couple of BAER stories and no
YORK ones.

< http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4455.htm >
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Description:
Bordered by the Susquehanna River in southeastern Pennsylvania, York County
was formed in 1749 from neighboring Lancaster County. This database is a
collection of biographical sketches of prominent men from the county in the
nineteenth century. In addition to providing a brief history of the
individual, information regarding spouse, children, political alignment,
military service, occupation, and religious affiliation is also included. It
reveals facts for about 2,000 men. For those Ancestry.com patrons seeking
ancestors from eastern Pennsylvania, this collection can be informative and
interesting.

Extended Description:
Source Information:
A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania. n.p., 1886.
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Becky



>Hi. Am interested in your letter, as I have some Stewarts that are
>involved in some of the places of your story. I have a William Stewart,
>who had a son William born about 1793 in Virginia according to the 1850
>census. In 1801 the son was apprenticed in Mason County KY to a Samuel
>Stevens to learn carpentry. By 1809, William Sr. was dead and the son
>got out of his apprenticeship and chose John Shotwell as guardian. In
>1816 he married Shotwell's daughter Abigail in Mason County. They lived
>there until the 1850's when both died. Oldest son Theodore stayed in
>Mason, while next sons John Shotwell Stewart and William Green Stewart
>went to Lafayette county, MO. THey also had 3 sisters, Charlotte who may
>have married a Bryan, Elvira who probably married a Carter, and Abigail
>who never married.
>
>The timing seems close to yours, and the locations seem compatible. Have
>you any more information that fits with my names? Thanks very much
>
>Bob Stewart
>
>
>
>On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 17:01:40 EST writes:
>> Hello. The following is an excerpt from a letter. Our ancestors
>> living in
>> what was then Passise, Passiac [?] county, Virginia in the year 1789
>> joined a
>> company of five families, who with their stock and household goods
>> travelled
>> to what is now called Braddock, Pennsylvania, only a few miles up
>> the Monongah
>> ela river from Pittsburgh. They raised a crop and constructed what
>> was known
>> as a keelboat.
>>
>> It must have been a large boat to hold the five families, their
>> horses, cows,
>> pigs, farming equipment, household goods, and, of course, children.
>> They were
>> to help make the future farmers, merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc.
>>
>> Early in the spring of 1790, the five families loaded their
>> belongings in the
>> crude boat and embarked on the Ohio, floating down the beautiful
>> river to the
>> mouth of Limestone Creek, where Maysville, Ky. is now located. It
>> was an
>> uneventful trip. My grandfather Stewart was then four years old. He
>> was born
>> in Virginia on May 1, 1786.
>>
>> The Indians were more troublesome on the Ohio side of the river; so
>> they
>> moved south of the river three miles where there were quite a number
>> of
>> settlers. The town of Washington is now located there. The following
>> Spring
>> our little company moved to the Ohio side of the river and settled
>> around
>> what is now the little town of Aberdeen.
>>
>> The Stewarts located on the hill at the head of a small creek called
>> "Fishing
>> Gut," one mile from the Brookover home.
>>
>> Grandfather had 2 brothers and 3 sisters:
>> Susie, Lavina, and Jane Stewart
>> Joseph, James and John Stewart.
>>
>> Uncle Jim and Aunt Susie were never married. Aunt Susie died in
>> 1884, and was
>> 95 years old. Aunt Lavina's married name was West. She had three
>> children,
>> William, Joseph and Ellen. Joseph preached at my grandfather's
>> funeral.
>> William West moved to Port Huron, Michigan, and one of his daughters
>> and her
>> brother is the founder of the "Lady Maccabees" there. Ellen married
>> Pickerell
>> -- her daughter lived near Georgetown, Ohio.
>
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