STEWARTS IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA
STEWARTS IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VA
RICHARD(4) STEWART (Charles(3), born about 1720, married (1)_________, and (2) ___________. See D:122. His father, in his will dated 2 Dec 1752, and probated 25 Sept 1753, gave him 200 acres of land in Surry {after 28 Nov 1753}, Sussex} County, and after his mother Anne's death in 1754 he came into possession of his father's home plantation and 200 acres adjoining it, in addition to other land in Brunswick County. His brother James, in his will dated 28 May 1767, gave him a mourning ring. He obtained a grant 14 July 1769, of 395 acres in Sussex County on the south side of Nottoway River, adjoining his own land, John Bradley's and Timothy Ezell's, on the Meherrin Road that led to Hicks' Fort, "on the county line which divides Sussex from Brunswick." Richard Stewart of St. Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, bought 25 Mar 1771, of James Denton and wife Mary 180 acres on the south side of Three Creek, adjoining John Davis, in Brunswick (now Greensville) County. He bought 27 Jan 1772, of Benjamin Harrison of St. Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, 41 acres on the north side of the Otterdam Swamp, adjoining his own land, Hicks' and the swamp: the witnesses to the deed were William Rogers, John Rives and Robert Mabry. He bought 25 Apr 1777, of Mordecai Jones 200 acres on the east side of Hicks' Swamp, bounded by lines of Nicholas Blanks, James Walker and Nathaniel Mason and his own land. We believe he was the Richard Stewart who married (2) [bond 22 June 1785, Sussex County], Morning Charles, a widow. Mourning Stewart of Albemarle Parish, Sussex County, made her will 6 Nov 1787, leaving all her property to her husband, Richard Stewart, and it was probated 20 Mar 1788. The witnesses were William Tomlinson, Sr., John Tomlinson and William Tomlinson, Jr. Richard Stewart of Sussex County dated his will 6 Aug 1797, and it was probated 6 Sep 1798, in Sussex County. The witnesses were Richard Drewry, Walter Payne, Richard Mason and David Barker. As the contents of the will were given rather full in Tome D, page 122, we shall not repeat them. He spoke of the legacies left by his brother John "to some of my children," and referred to his land on the Otterdam Swamp adjoining land which formerly belonged to Benjamin Harrison and James Walker, and to his land in King William County which his daughter Ann Northington had had for some time. He also named "daughter Ann Stewart, daughter of my second wife," implying that he had two daughters named Ann. His son John served as executor. Children:
John c. 1755
William
Richard
Ann ; mb. 1 May 1780, Nathan Northington, Sussex County
Edmond
Mary
Charles
Ann
**Sarah Stewart, daughter of Richard, married (bond 6 Jan 1789) John Tomlinson, Sussex County. As she was not mentioned in Richard's will in 1797, she may have died before that date.
WILLIAM(4) STEWART (Charles(3) was evidently of age when his father made his will in 1752. His father bequeathed him considerable land, including a half interest with Richard in 200 acres in Surry [later Sussex] County. There was a William Stuard of Brunswick County–probably a different man–who bought 23 Nov 1778 of William Horton and wife Sally 100 acres adjoining William Fergason, James Stuard and Thomas Evans, witnesses to the deed being Wiliam Finch, George Woodruff and Benjamin Woodruff. William Steward probably resided in Sussex County, where his daughter, (Elizabeth) Rebecca, married (bond 27 Feb 1785) Thomas Mitchell. THIS IS THE WILLIAM STEWARD WHO MARRIED MARY SHANDS. Rebecca married Thomas Mitchell, a cousin to John Mitchell, who married her sister Charlotte (Scota) Steward. Rebecca named one of her daughters Scoty after her sister. See Mitchell research at http://www.hom.net/~htpiii by Henry Poole III.
JOHN(4) STEWART (Charles(3) was perhaps the John Stuart of St. Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, who bought 12 Mar 1755, of Edward Goodrich, gent., and wife Anne, for 170 Pounds, 280 acres in the Parishes of St. Andrew's and Albemarle and in the counties of Brunswick and Sussex, adjoining the lands of Barlow and Wyche on the north, Wyche on the east, Edwards on the south and Elizabeth Eldridge on the west, on the south side of Three Creeks. The witnesses to the deed were Andrew Troughton, Howard Hurst and Priscilla Vaughan. John was given a mourning ring in the will of his brother James, 28 May 1767. On 23 Nov 1767 he (of Albemarle parish, Sussex County) bought of William Pettway and wife Elizabeth 150 acres in St. Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, on the south side of Three Creek, adjoining Daniel Fisher, Allen Jones and Elizabeth Stith (who was the former Elizabeth Eldridge, as shown by footnote on page 27). The witnesses to the deed were Daniel Fisher, Thomas Peele, James Balfour and David Mason. On 19 July 1770, he (of Sussex County) bought of the trustees of Elizabeth Eldridge-Stith a tract of 150 acres, and 50 acres contiguous to it, on the south side of Three Creeks, in Brunswick County. This land, after 1781, was in Greensville County. The tax list of 1783 for Greensville County showed John, Sally, and Elizabeth Stewart. John's will was probated in that county in 1783. We presume he left no children, as he bequeathed considerable property to some of the children of his brother Richard.
JAMES STEWART (Charles(3), born about 1726, married (bond 29 Nov 1752) Elizabeth Irby, daughter of John and Anne Irby of Brunswick County. We made a mistake in 1939 in assuming that his wife's name was Robinson, D: 107 [John Irby dated his will 30 Apr 1746 with John Berry, Edmond Irby and Elizabeth Irby as witnesses, and it was probated 6 Aug 1747. He gave the land he lived on to his wife Anne during her widowhood, and then to his son James Irby. He gave his negroes to his wife until his son William was 21, when they were to be divided among all his children, whom he did not name. He appointed his wife executrix. She later married a Mr. Robinson and was living in 1777.] He was executor of his father's will in 1753 and inherited the remainder of his father's tract of land at the mouth of the Turkey Branch. Agnes Freeman, widow of Arthur Freeman, of Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, leased 10 Dec 1754, to James Stewart of Brunswick County, for 12 years, her plantation and mill on Flatrock Creek in Lunenburg County, with the use of her slave, livestock and equipment; witnesses to the lease were David Garland {A David Garland of Amherst County was given power-of=attorney 20 Jan 1795, by John Stewart of the same county, D:114, to receive money due on a bond from William Richey and Thomas Lewis.} and Philip Russell. James Irby of Meherrin Parish, Brunswick County, sold 10 Jan 1760, to James Stewart of St. Andrew's Parish in same county 290 acres in Meherrin Parish on a small branch on the south side of Meherrin River, which had been given to James Irby by John Irby, adjoining Benjamin Wyche: witnesses to the deed were William Cryer, John Barlow, William Bullrell and James Buchanan. James Stewart was granted 7 Aug 1761, 440 acres in Sussex County on the south side of Nottoway River, adjoining the lands of Peter Avent and his father, Timothy Ezell and Charles Stuart. James died in 1767. His will, dated May 28, 1767, was proved 24 Aug 1767, in Brunswick County. The witnesses were Thomas Morris, William Connally and Penny Hurst, and the executors were to be his brothers John and Richard Stewart "and my loving wife Elizabeth and David Mason." {Ann Mason married a Charles Stewart.} He bequeathed to James Mason 150 acres on the south side of the Otterdam Swamp, "100 acres of which was an old survey and 50 acres which John Irby willed to me and which is now in possession of the said James Mason, he having paid me a valuable consideration for the same." "I desire that my loving brothers John and Richard Stewart will each accept a mourning ring." He gave 25 shillings to James, Isham, John and Lawrence, sons of Lawrence House, deceased and gave 15 shillings to Nathaniel Holt of Sussex County. {The House family was kinfolk through his grandmother Anne Pace Steward, being grandchildren of a Pace aunt who married a House.} He gave Walter Boyd and Charles Nelson, late merchants of Blandford [Petersburg], 1 Pound, which he believed he owed them. He instructed his executors to pay his mother-in-law, Anne Robinson, 4 Pounds yearly in lieu of her dower of the plantation on which he lived, as per agreement with her, and she to live with her daughter. His plantation at Meherrin, now in possession of John Carter, was to be kept in good repair till his son Charles was 21. The children— Anne, Rebecca, Betty, Sally and Charles—should be maintained and schooled from the income of his lands until 21 years old or married, and it might be necessary to sell Ned (a negro fellow) and also a tract of land in Sussex County which he bought of James House. He bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth all his land on the north side of the road from the Otterdam Swamp to the back line adjoining Richard Stewart. The inventory of his personal estate, taken by Thomas Twilly and Richard Johnson, was presented 25 Feb 1768, before William Clack, justice. Children:
Anne c. 1753 m. _________Rives or Reeves
Charles ; died unmarried in 1777
Rebecca
Elizabeth
Sarah
CHARLES(5) STEWART (James(4), Charles(3), born about 1755, was a planter in St. Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, when he conveyed May 27, 1776, to Joseph Kidd of Meherrin Parish, for 600 Pounds, 190 acres in Meherrin parish on the south side of Meherrin River, which James Stewart, his father, had willed to him. Charles, who was evidently his only son, died in 1777, unmarried, perhaps as a soldier in the Revolution. He wrote his will on 20 Mar 1777, with Henry Tazewell, Nathaniel Newsom, and Richard Stewart as witnesses, and it was probated 24 Mar 1777, in Brunswick County. He appointed as executors his friends John Rives and Mordecai Jones [whose bondsmen were Daniel Fisher and John Jones]. He bequeathed three negroes to his mother, Elizabeth Stewart, and after her death the negroes (Will, Henry and Phoebe) and their increase were to be divided among all his sisters. His land on the south side of the Otterdam Swamp in which Mrs. Irby had a right during her life was to be sold and the proceeds divided among his sisters Nancy Rives, Rebecca Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Sally Stewart, and a proper maintenance for Mrs. Robinson during her life was to be provided. "At the death of my mamma and my grandmamma all my lands on the north side of the Otterdam Swamp. . . may be sold. . . and the money divided among my sisters aforesaid."
BENJAMIN STEWART was granted 26 Sep 1760, 455 acres in Brunswick County adjoing Ravenscroft's line "in the Little Creek," Yarbrough's, Gibbe's, Hjows's and Sorrell's lines: "163 acres part thereof being formerly granted unto the said Benjamin Steward by our letters patent bearing date 12 May 1759, 292 acres the residue never before granted" [land grants, 33:959]. We found no record of this man in Brunswick County. In Southampton County the will of Benjamin Stewart was probated in 1795. In Brunswick County a later Benjamin Stewart married (bond 7 Mar 1798) Photo Dupree. {A BENJAMIN STEWART is found in Morgan County, Georgia after this time.}
REBECCA STEWART of Meherrin Parish, Brunswick County, bought 26 Sept 1763, of John Parham and wife Sarah, for 25 Pounds, 50 acres in Meherrin Parish on the south side of Meherrin River, adjoining Thomas Scott, Thweat and John Peterson. She also bought 16 Apr 1764, of Kerby Moody 70 acres of land on the Fox Branch, but deeded it back to Moody 6 June 1766. Rebecca sold her 50-acres tract on 26 Aug 1776 to William Batte, and bought 23 Sep 1776 of Thomas Burnitt, for 30 Pounds, a 200-acre farm on Rocky Run in the same parish.
[This article is extracted from the STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE, Editor--George Edson, Tome E, February, 1944, Vol XXI: No. 8]
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