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15.JOHN9 STEWART (LYDIA8HARRISON, ELIZABETH7WRIGHT, GIDEON6, PETER5, NICHOLAS4, NICHOLAS3, NICHOLAS2, JOHN1) was born Bet. 1736 - 1744 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 1770 in Kentucky.He married (1) SARAH FULKERSON.He married (2) HANNAH BOONE February 14, 1765 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Notes for JOHN STEWART:
John J. STEWART
ABT 1736 - ____
BIRTH: ABT 1736, ,Augusta,Virginia
Father: Samuel STEWART
Mother: Lydia HARRISON
Family 1 : Susannah FULKERSON
_David STEWART ______+
_Samuel STEWART _|
|_Mrs. David STEWART _
||--John J. STEWART
|_Isaiah HARRISON ____+
|_Lydia HARRISON _|
|_Elizabeth WRIGHT ___+
BIOGRAPHY: John J. Stewart is listed on the 1764-1765 lax lists of Rowan County, North Carolina and the 1771 tax list of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. On 26
October 1765, he sold his land in Rowan County, North Carolina and moved to Macklenburg County, North Carolina, which land he sold in 1775 prior to moving to the North Fork of
the Holston River on the Tennessee/Virginia border.
BIRTH: The 1759, 1761, and 1768 tax lists of Rowan Co., North Carolina are use to determine the birth order of the children. The 1759 tax list records Samuel with his two adult sons,
David and John Stewart. The 1761 tax list records Samuel with his sons; David, John, Samuel, Joseph and Isaiah. The 1768 tax list records Samuel with David, John, Joseph, Isaiah and
Benjamin, the baby in the family. Researcher: Joyce Lindstrom.
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Ron I have dabbled a bit on this line never knowing for sure if it related to mine even though there are some simularities involved.
What I have is from Rowan/Anson on. I have also heard from some of the researchers that this line went first to Ma. then Ny., then
NJ., De., Va, and finally NC, Tn. The part Iam more familar with is the Stewart-Harrison line who where in North West Va. before
comming to Anson and Rowan County, Nc 1758. Samuel Stewart and Lydia Harrison had son named John who married supposedly
2 times once to an unknown woman and secondly to the widower Susanna Fulkerson Bledsoe abt 1759. Susanna Fulkerson married
Thomas Bledsoe, she was the daughter of Frederick Fulkerson. Susanna and John Stewart took up land in present day Surry County,
NC abt 1759 or so, they stuck around a few years and then left for Mecklenburg County, NC and finally ended up around the Hostein
River in Va. Susanna and John had 2 known children, David and Wiliam, both erved in the Rev War. Susanna had by Thomas
Bledsoe 2 or 3 sons, Loving Bledsoe, and Anthony, all these Blesoes and Stewarts ended up again around the Hostein river are aof Va
near the Tn border. What makes me believe that there is a connection here is the fact that my line, who were in Surry County NC by
1774, and Henry County, Va, had so much contact with the BLEDSOES. As a matter a fact the oldest child of my
GGGGGgrandfather, whose name was Nathaniel married supposedly Mary Bledsoe. My GGGGGgrandfather was John Stewart born
between 1728-1734 and died in Surry County, NC 1806. Children of John Stewart and wife Rachael: Nathaniel born abt 1745-1754,
John Jr., Edward born abt. 1758,Nancy born abt.1760, Joseph born abt. 1772, Susanna born abt. 1774. John Stewart may have
marrid 2 times as there is a large gap between the first 2 sons. Researching: Hawks, Dean, Bledsoe, Keith, Laffoon, Hardin, Royall,
Payne, Norman, Cockerham, Burris, Rotten and others. There are many out there of the Stewart-Alburtis line, all of them that I know
of have ties to Rowan County, NC. Teresa Stuart de Rios
Kenn, that John married Susanna Fulkerson Bledsoe, widow of Thomas Bledsoe. The other John, of Halifax County, Va , married
Sarah Fulkerson, daughter of Derrick Fulkerson and Elenor. Susanna's father was Frederick Fulkerosn, who lived in
Brunwick/Halifax Va. since 1748, had land also in henry, Patrick Va. and Surry/Rowan, Nc. A James Fulkerson was also in all those
places mentioned above. Frustrating isn't it? So we have 2 Fulkerson/Stewart marriages, Sarah was probably younger cousin of
Susanna. Teresa Stuart de Rios
John Stewart
(ca. 1735 after 1802)
from The Maiden Family of Virginia and Allied Families
by Sarah Finch Maiden Rollins
"John Stewart, third son of Lydia (Harrison?) and Samuel Stewart, was born ca. 1735 in Sussex County, Delaware. He married a
young widow, Susanna (Fulkerson) Bledsoe ca. 1760 in Rowan County, North Carolina. During his adult life John Stewart was a
pioneer wherever he went. When John Stewart was a little boy about seven years old, his family moved away from
Sussex-on-the-Delaware. The family settled near Linville Creek in Augusta County, Virginia, a section that would become part of
newly formed Rockingham County thirty-five years later. This is where John grew up, in an area of the Shenandoah Valley where
others from Sussex County, Delaware, lived too. When John was 18 the family left the Shenandoah Valley and moved to Rowan
County, North Carolina, where ca. 1760 John married."
"Between 1775 and 1778 John moved his family west across the Blue Ridge Mountains to a branch of the Holston River in
Washington County, North Carolina, the section that became part of new Sullivan County in 1779. John Stewart was in his early
forties at that time and had covered a lot of territory."
"The first reference to John Stewart on a document is when he was listed as the surveyor's chain-carrier when his father, Samuel
Stewart, had his 508 acre tract of North Carolina land surveyed on the Yadkin River on 24 May 1754."
"Most of John's brothers would locate in this general area west of the Wachovia Tract of the Moravians and near the Yadkin River in
the western part of present-day Forsyth County. However, John traveled further up the Yadkin, towards Southwestern, Virginia. The
big Yadkin River does not flow east, but south into South Carolina where it becomes the big Pee Dee River as it then flows to the
coast; therefore, early settlers came mostly from the north, and many of these came down the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia.
John Stewart's parents and siblings had come down that road from Augusta County, Virginia. Here in `The Hollow," in what would
later become Surry County, North Carolina, many came to make their homes. The Hollow was the section above the modern town of
Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and extended across the Virginia line. Soon after 1756, when he was twenty-one John Stewart settled in
The Hollow, although there is no official record of his owning land. In the years 1757 through May 1759 traces of Indians had been
seen beyond The Hollow and there was anger and fear in all the land." In the first months of 1759 there was a great lack of food for
a hundred miles around, and Indians were murdering whites in the neighborhood. In the summer of 1759 a typhus fever epidemic
killed many throughout North Carolina and Virginia."
"John would find his future wife, Susanna (Fulkerson) Bledsoe, in The Hollow. Susanna's father was Frederick Fulkerson and her
mother is thought to be Anna Middlesworth. In her teens (about 1755), Susanna married Thomas Bledsoe, a widower with nearly
grown children. One son, Loving Bledsoe, was born to Susanna and Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas died in 1758"
"On 8 October 1759 Frederick Fulkerson conveyed to his young widowed daughter, Susanna Bledsoe, for the nominal consideration
of five shillings, 500 acres lying on the east side of the middle fork of the Ararat River."
"On the Rowan County Tax List of 1759 John Stewart's name is listed, as are Samuel Stewart and David Stewart. About 1760 John
Stewart and the widowed Susanna Fulkerson Bledsoe married."
"Their children were:
1. David Stewart: b. ca. 1761 and
2. William Stewart, My direct line"
"The Hollow, which had the heaviest settlement in Rowan County, was where John and Susanna started married life. This would be
where their first child, David, was born about 1761. Susanna's son by her first marriage, Loving Bledsoe, was about six years old. It
is likely that John and Susanna went to Halifax County, Virginia, approximately the time when her father, Frederick Fulkerson, did. In
1761 Susanna's father was buying land in Halifax County . John and Susanna, with Loving and David, probably moved to Halifax
County, Virginia, in late 1761 or early 1762. However, John and Susanna would not stay on in Halifax County as Frederick Fulkerson
did."
"Many of the settlers constantly moved up and down and east and west on the North Carolina and Virginia border east of the Blue
Ridge, buying and selling land."
"Earlier in 1764 John and Susanna had moved back to North Carolina. Less than two years later John and Susanna sold the rest of
the Rowan County 500-acre tract her father had conveyed to her when she was a widow. After 1765 there is no further land record
for John and Susanna Stewart in Rowan County, North Carolina, but it is most likely they lived on some of Frederick Fulkerson's
Rowan/Surry County land, inasmuch as Frederick was in Halifax County, Virginia, until 1772. John's parents had died - Samuel
Stewart in late 1768, and John's mother Lydia in late 1772."
"If John and Susanna were living on some of her father's Surry county land, it just may have been given to them by him.
Interestingly enough, there is the reference to "Susannah Stuart, a 1771 heiress." John and Susanna stayed on in Surry County a few
more years."
"Sometime between 1775 and 1778 John Stewart took his family over the "big, blue mountain" to live in Washington District, North
Carolina. One route John Stewart could have used was the route Daniel Boone used in 1769 when heading for Moccasin Gap in the
Clinch Mountains to enter what is now Kentucky but was then still Virginia. Leaving from the head of the Yadkin River, the Stewart
family could have taken their course westwardly crossing the Blue Ridge to the three forks of New River, then over Stone Mountain,
next over Iron Mountain into the Holston River valley until arriving on a stream south of Long Island which is present Kingsport
area."
"In the 1770s many people were flowing into this area. Among them, partially as a result of the Regulator movement in Surry County,
there was an exodus (that included a great number of Baptists) to the new frontiers in present-day Tennessee, South Carolina, and
Georgia. It may have been that the Presbyterian Stewarts had become Baptists on the frontier, but as usual, seeking new land in new
places was the prime reason for moving. Those who went west found homes where they believed they were beyond the boundary of
North Carolina and were in Virginia, but actually for several years both colonies claimed the northeastern part of the present state of
Tennessee."
"When John's youngest son, our William, volunteered for military service in 1779 during the American Revolution, he was just over
sixteen. John's son David and stepson, Loving Bledsoe had already volunteered ."
"Records show that John Stewart was on land in Sullivan County (then North Carolina) on 10 July 1788 and had sold some land
there by 17 November 1790. Whether John retained other land there is not known. There is no help from the federal census. The
first census was taken in 1790, in which Tennessee was still included in the Salisbury District of North Carolina."
"Evidence suggests that by ca 1800 John Stewart had crossed from Sullivan County just over the state line into Russell (now Scott)
County, Virginia, where his son William lived, and where he would be closer to son David and stepson Loving too. On 22 May 1802
John Stewart was received "`by experience and baptism" into the Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Church that son William and his
family belonged to. John was sixty-seven years old. It was here that John probably died. The date of death of John's wife, Susanna,
is not known. Evidence suggests she had died by April 1782."
William Stewart, son of John
Notes for SARAH FULKERSON:
Hi Charlie, was your John the same John who patened land on Terrible Creek in 1737 and Bannister River, in 1738? According to the
book "History of Pittyslvania County Virginia" by Maud Carter Clement, he probably came down the "Valley", meaning coming from
Pa.? John and brother James's land changed boundaries a couple of times, in the 1730's it would have been Brunswick County, by
1745 Lunenburg, and 1752-1767 Halifax County, 1767 Pittsylvania County. The inventory of John Stewart Gent. included 9 Bibles
and a Confession of Faith, indicating that he was of Scotch Orgin. The inventory of James Stewart 1777, 9 Bibles, I confesion of
Faith, 8 volumes of Sermons and a parcel of old books. 1767 first list of tiths Pittsylvania Co. list James Stewart Sr and James
Stewart Jr. Now, Susanna Fulkerson widow, married widower John Stewart abt 1760. She was the daughter of Frederick fulkerosn,
who patened land in 1748 Brunwick County, Va., his land changed boundaries and became, Pittsylvania, Henry and Patrick. If you
were to look at a map today his land was nar the Mayo River in Patrick County, Va. In 1758 Frederick Fulkerson bought a large tract
of land on the Ararat River, bordering both Patrick Va and Surry County, Nc. Frederick's brother James bought land in Surry Nc by
1761.The Fulkerson came from Nj. and some settled in Brunwick, Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, Va and Rowan, Surry, NC.
Later we find them in Washington Co.Va. and Scott Co. Va. I believe Sarah Fulkerson's mother was Elenor, she mentions her
daughter Sarah Stuart in her will, NC. If you would like email me and we can share info. [email protected] Teresa Stuart de Rios
Children of JOHN STEWART and SARAH FULKERSON are:
| i. | ABRAHAM10 STEWART. | ||
| ii. | EMILY STEWART, m. HENRY CONWAY. | ||
| iii. | ELIJAH STEWART. | ||
| iv. | HULDA STEWART. | ||
| v. | JAMES MONROE STEWART. | ||
| vi. | WILLIAM STEWART, m. REBECCA KEYKENDAHL. |
| vii. | SARAH STEWART, m. THOMAS GRAYSON. |
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