Person:David Stewart (15)

Research notes

1812 he married Nancy Barker, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Barker. Marriage also in Salt Lake film 464,494: Marriage Bonds filed in Monongalia, Virginia (now West Virginia) 1796-1850 Vol. IV.

ca 1815 - went to Hamilton County, Ohio with his brother Samuel Stewart

1818 - sells land in Hamilton County, Ohio to his brother Samuel Stewart and Catherine Singhass

1818 - a group of settlers traveled down the Ohio River and up the Wabash River, from Hamilton County, Ohio to Crawford County, Illinois, arriving on Christmas Day, December 25.⁵ Brother Samuel Stewart remained behind in Hamilton County.

1830 - moved to McLean County, Illinois.

1.   Stewart Clan Magazine
   62, Sep 1949.

   David Stewart married May 5, 1812, Nancy Barker, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Barker, who gave surety. His grandfather gave him Oct. 13, 1808, a tract of land on Stewart's run, waters of Indian creek, and he sold part of this Oct. 14, 1811, to John Riggs. He bought of Samuel Stewart Mar. 9, 1813, 42 acres on Stewart's run, and on the same day he and his wife Nancy sold 116 acres of this land to William Stewart.

2.   Stewart Clan Magazine
   66, Oct 1949.

   [The Stewart Clan Magazine article says that David and his family removed to Richland County, Illinois, but this is wrong. It was Crawford County.]

3.   Illinois Public Domain Land Sales.

   Purchaser: Stewart, David. Residence: Crawford County. Aliquot Parts or Lot: W2NE Section Number: 35 Township: 07N Range: 11W Meridian: 2 County of Purchase: Crawford 80 acres at $1.25 per acre. total price: $100 Type of sale: FD (federal) Date of Purchase: 05/14/1825 Volume: 291 page: 009 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/PublicLandSalesNameServlet?purchaserNumber=0127474

4.   Hamilton County, Ohio Deed Book.

   Book 56, for example, has a sale from David Stewart to Samuel Stewart. Deed #320 (1827-1835)

5.   Oral History of Nancy Wilson Alexander Shepherd, in Rootsweb.

   ... We arrived in Hamilton County, Ohio in the last days of October, 1815, where my father had previously bought a farm on the banks of a small stream then known as "Dry Run". The farm was located about eight miles from Harrison and between that place and Cincinnati. My brother Vastine having been sent out to raise a crop the year before, which he did when not engaged as a "Minute Men", to which organization he belonged. We did all our trading in Cincinnati until we removed to Illinois (Palestine), in the fall of 1818. When we left the Ohio River, for our last home, we purchased a flat boat, loading every thing but the horses and wagons and children sending the boat in charge of broth Harvey and a man by the name of Campbell and another hired man to the mouth of the Wabash River, at which point the flat boat was exchanged for a keel boat and the cargo, consisting of household goods, farming implements, furniture, salt, dried apples, peaches, whiskey, flour and many other articles needed in a new country, were transferred to the keel boat and additional hands employed. The salt brought seven dollars a bushel at Palestine. After a great deal of hardship and labor the boat with cargo arrived at Vincennes during the week of Christmas, 1818. The goods being hauled from Vincennes to Palestine, Illinois.
   
   Thomas G. Cullom, brother William Wilson, Joseph Kitchell, Wickliff Kitchell, and David Stewart, came to Palestine in the year 1817 and built cabins for their families.
   
   Palestine was laid out by Cullom and Judge Kitchell. Cullom died a few years later. ...

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 USGenWeb Archives for Crawford Co., Illinois.

   Palestine Cemetery, Section 7, Row 16:
   Stewart, Ann died February 11, 1853 age 61 yrs 3 mos 1 day, wife of David.
   Stewart, David Died September 9, 1830 aged about 49 years.

7.   Butcher, Bernard Lee, and James Morton Callahan. Genealogical and personal history of the upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912)
   3:1234.