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Facts and Events
| Name |
David Stuart |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1729 |
Delaware |
David Stuart was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Processioning List of 1747/48
- "Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settlers lands and their neighbors at specific time periods:
- Vol. 2 - Page 19.-- Daniel Harrison and Morgan Bryant report, viz: (1747-8, 24th February) - Processioned for Samuel Harrison, present Daniel Love, John Wright; processioned for Robert Cravens, present Daniel Love, John Wright; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present John Rutledge, Richard Wainscot; Daniel Harrison not processioned, there being a dispute; processioned for James Anderson, lines unknown; processioned for Col. James Wood; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present Archibald Hopkins; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present Jacob Dye, Richard Wincot; processioned for Cornelius Bryan, present Thos. and Benj. Bryan; processioned for Charles Robinson, present Adam Reder; processioned for Townsend Robinson, present Adam Reder; processioned for Thomas Moore, present Francis Hughes; processioned for John Miller, present Thos. Hughes, Thos. Moore; processioned for Thomas Moore, present Francis Hughes; processioned for Joseph Hite, present Samuel and David Stuart; processioned for Jacob Chrisman, present David Stuart, Sam'l Harrison; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Jost Hite, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Jost Hite, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Wm. Duff's estate, present John Miller; processioned for Robert Green, present John Miller; processioned for Robert Green, present John Miller; processioned for James Robeson, present John Miller; processioned for George Bowman, present Richard Winscot; processioned for Joseph Bryan, present Wm. Bryan; processioned for Morgan Bryan, present James Bryan; processioned for Samuel Wilkins, present Wm. and James Bryan and Samuel Wilkins. (Note: record shows Samuel and his son David owned land in the Linville Creek area in 1748/48).
References
- "Samuel and Lydia Stewart lived in Augusta County, Virginia, ten years or more before moving to North Carolina in 1753. In 1748 Samuel and Lydia's oldest son David had gone to the northwest Carolina frontier. This was very early in the white history of this area, as by 1746 there were only a few settlers west of the Yadkin River. In 1748 it took Morgan Bryan (connected with the Daniel Boone family) three months to travel with his family from the Shenandoah to the Yadkin River, clearing the way as he went. If by any chance David Stewart traveled with the intrepid adventurers of Bryan's group, he was not part of the settlement they formed. Speculation: Since Isaiah Harrison, Jr., thought to be David's maternal grandfather, went to North Carolina between 1848 and 1850 , David and his adventuresome fifty-nine year old grandfather may have journeyed together."
"David Stuart, Samuel and Lydia's oldest son, found land near the Yadkin River about twenty miles below Virginia's southern border and about eight miles from what would in 1753 become the Moravian's "Wachovia settlement" (present-day Winston-Salem, in Forsyth County, North Carolina) in the hilly piedmont."
"David was the first of the Stewart family to obtain a land grant in North Carolina. He was the advance scout for the family, and was obviously satisfied with reports of an unlimited amount of good, cheap, available land in the northwestern part of North Carolina along the reaches of the upper Yadkin River."
"By the time Samuel Stewart and his family moved to join David (and possibly Samuel, Jr.) in North Carolina in 1753, twenty-four year old David was already one of twelve constables recently appointed for the large, newly created county of Rowan. David's beat was on the north side of the Yadkin River, from Muddy Creek and upward."
"Certainly the route to North Carolina was easier to travel in 1753 when Samuel, Lydia, and the rest of the family joined David, than when David had made the trip five years earlier. It probably took Samuel and Lydia about a month to make the trip down the Great Wagon Road. By the time the rest of the Stewarts came, the difficult wagon road was somewhat improved, even the last twenty or so miles of the journey. Contemporary North Carolina maps called their route the "Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia," spacing that long name along the trail."
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rdanner/Samuel.html
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