Person:Thomas Stewart (57)

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Name[1] Thomas Stewart
Gender Male
Birth? 3 Oct 1768 Fortingall, Perthshire, Scotland
Other[1] 1774 North CarolinaArrival
Marriage 31 Aug 1815 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United Statesto Dorothy Longest
Death[3] 26 Jul 1836 Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 POSSIBLE Record Match - for review, in Filby, P. William; Paula K. (Paula Kay) Byers; Dorothy M Lower; Paula K Woolverton; and Mary K. (Mary Keysor) Meyer. Passenger and immigration lists index: a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. (Detroit [Michigan]: Gale Research, c1981-)
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    Record for Thomas Stewart

  2.   Family Notes.

    Thomas Stewart came to America with his brother, Patrick Stewart who died unmaried in New York. Thomas Stewart migrated to kentucky with the early pioneer settlers, locating first in Shelby County, but later moved with his family to Jefferson County where he bought a farm which was located about twelve miles from Louisville on the Old Lexington Pike. He lived on that farm the remainder of his life. Thomas Stewart was married to Dorothy Longest.

    10/03/1768 STEWART THOMAS WILLIAM STEWART/ISABELL MENZIES M Fortingall /PERTH

    Thomas Stewart
    http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=5bfc09d7-2908-41bf-b59c-015fd4c09a76&tid=7870267&pid=-1024170595

  3. Family Recorded, in Starling, Edmund L. History of Henderson County, Kentucky: comprising history of county and city, precincts, education, churches, secret societies, leading enterprises, sketches and recollections, and biographies of the living and dead. (Henderson, KY, 1887)
    643.

    ... One of Thomas [brother of Patrick] Stewart's sons bore his name. Thomas, this son, on the thirty-first day of August 1815, married Dorothy Longest, of Jefferson County, and lived and died in the City of Louisville July 26th, 1836, a leading and highly respected citizen. He was a successful contractor, having built many houses and accumulated considerable property. At the time of his death, he was considered wealthy, but placing too much confidence in mankind, and being too easily imposed upon, his affairs were found to be in an embarassed [sic] condition. Three sons survived him, Coleman W., Thomas Jefferson, and Richard Clairbourne. ...