David Stuart (abt. 1697 - 1767)

Born about 1697 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Lynn) Stuart — married 1748 in Augusta, Virginia

Descendants

Died 23 Aug 1767 at about age 70 in Shenandoah River, Augusta, Virginia

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Biography

David Stuart is a member of Clan Stewart.

This profile is part of the Stewart Name Study.

Of Scots-Irish descent, David Stuart, came from a a family connected with the House of Stuart, whose members were strong partisans of that house and supporters of Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") as king of Great Britain. Soon after the failure of the Prince's cause at Culloden (1746) numbers of the family, including David, found it necessary to immigrate to America. He settled in Augusta County, Virginia on the Shenandoah River, some distance from the town of Staunton.

David had been a close personal friend of Governor Robert Dinwiddie, who was sent to Virginia as its governor by the British Government in the year 1752. In 1755, Governor Dinwiddie appointed David Stuart county lieutenant of Augusta county with the rank of colonel. At the time of his appointment, Augusta county extended as far west as the Mississippi River and as far north as Fort Pitt, (now Pittsburgh). The office of county lieutenant was in those days one of the most important held in the State.

David married Margaret (Lynn) Paul, the widow of John Paul, who was a son of Hugh Paul, Bishop of Nottingham. John Paul was also a partisan of the House of Stuart. He was killed in the siege of Dalrymple Castle in the year of 1745. He left five children. Margaret and David had three children, Sabina, Margaret and John.

David died in the year 1767. He met his death by drowning while attempting to ford Middle River, a branch of the Shenandoah, just after its waters were swollen by a recent rain.

Sources

• Biography from History of Greenbrier County (Lewisburg, West Virginia, 1917)page 51
• "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871"
  Original data: Waddell, Joseph Addison,. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871. Staunton, Va.: C.R. Caldwell, 1902, c1901
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 10550 #378 (accessed 1 September 2023)
• "Greenbrier pioneers and their homes"
  Original data: Dayton, Ruth Woods,. Greenbrier pioneers and their homes. Charleston, W. Va.: West Virginia Pub. Co., 1942
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 30043 #138 (accessed 1 September 2023)
• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
  Place: America; Year: 1747; Page Number: 207
  Ancestry Record 7486 #343119 (accessed 1 September 2023)
  Name: David Stuart; Age: 50; Birth Year: abt 1697; Arrival Year: 1747; Arrival Place: America; Primary Immigrant: Stuart, David; Source Publication Code: 1639; Source Bibliography: DOBSON, DAVID. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984. 239p.;
  Household Members (Name):
  David Stuart.
• "Virginia Biography, Volume I-II"
  Original data: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. I-II. New York, NY, USA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6398 #665 (accessed 1 September 2023)
• "Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776, Vol. 2"
  Original data: Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia colonial militia, 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 29414 #24 (accessed 1 September 2023)
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:David_Stuart_(14)

Acknowledgments

• Thank-you to Kathy Stuart for creating Stuart-1421 on 8 Jul 13.