Person:Hugh Paul (1)

Information on Hugh Paul

David Stuart 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 1745. He left five children. The eldest of these children became a Catholic priest who moved to America and died on the eastern shore of Maryland. Audley Paul, another son, was an officer in the British colonial forces in Virginia. Pollie Paul, who moved to America with her stepfather, David Stuart, married Governor Mathews, of Georgia.

Mrs. Margaret Lynn Paul, afterward Mrs. David Stuart, was a granddaughter of the Laird of Loch Lynn, Scotland. She was also a niece of Margaret Lynn, who married Col. John Lewis, one of the first settlers of Augusta county, the father of Gen. Andrew and Col. Charles Lewis (heroes of the battle of Point Pleasant). She was named for her aunt, Margaret Lynn (Mrs. John Lewis). David Stuart left three children: Sabina, who married Captain Williams, of Augusta county. Margaret, who married Col. Richard Woods, of Albemarle county. John Stuart, afterwards Col. John Stuart, of Greenbrier county.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~zopp/stories.pdf