Person:John Stuart (46)

John Stuart was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Note of Caution

Wikipedia and others state that the father of this John Stuart was from Scotland, but other sources state that he was one of three brothers from Ireland. Needs further investigation.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Page 291.--22d October, 1773. John Stewart, of Botetourt, son and heir-at-law of David Stewart, deceased, to Harmon Lovingood.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Stewart, in Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. (Rosslyn, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912-1913 in Three Volumes).

   [Note: Chalkley spelled the surname "Stewart" which does not appear to be the spelling used by John Stuart himself.]

2. ↑ John Stuart, in Edson, George Thomas. Stewart clan magazine : genealogical records of Stewart--Stuart families. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975-1977)
   VIII, No 1, Jul 1929.

   STUARTS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA.
   
   Mrs. Margaret Scruggs Carruth, 3715 Turtle Creek boulevard, Dallas, Texas, B: 100. has pursued an extensive research of records of the Stuarts of Augusta county, Virginia, and has perhaps the most nearly complete and authoritative collection of data on these families of any person. She finds that some persons, with conclusions unsupported by proof, have put forward genealogies of these families which she regards as very misleading and harmful. Mrs. Carruth has prepared the following sketch, based on the histories of Waddell, Egle, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart. Rev. Robert Stuart, White, Peyton, Chalkley and others. ...
   
   ... Later came David Stuart with his brother-in-law. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie [1690-1770], Mary's brother, and settled in that part of Augusta county which became Greenbrier, and David's only son was styled John Stuart of Greenbrier. ...

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} John Stuart (Virginia), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
4. ↑ Cole, J. R. History of Greenbrier County. (Elkview, West Virginia: West Virginia Genealogical Society, 1995)
   p 51-60.
5. ↑ Colonel Stuart, in Dayton, Ruth Woods. Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes. (Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia Pub. Co., 1942)
   p 149.

   ... A custom arose among the early Stuarts of chiseling their names on the outside stone walls of the Manor. Many are still plain to be seen, protected as they are from the weather by the porch. Colonel Stuart himself cut his name, "J. Stuart 1807," the year he resigned his long-held county clerkship - a milestone in his life. The name of his wife, "Agatha Stuart," appears very carefully cut, with scrolls below and above - no doubt also done by Colonel Stuart. The name of their son and successor as owner of the Manor, "Lewis Stuart," is there, as well as the name of one of the Stuart sons-in-law, "R. Crockett." One stone bears the inscription, "This house was built in 1789." Two other stones bear the initials "G.W.," "J.A.," T.J." - George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. A family tradition is that these illustrious men were once guests under this roof. However, nothing of his having been near this locality is mentioned in the records of Washington's travels, and the family has no written record or other verification of such a visit.
   
   Tradition has it that Washington and Jefferson were among the important persons who were guests at the Old Sweet Springs, less than thirty-five miles away, and, if such were true, the proprietor of the Springs, William Lewis, being an uncle of Mrs. Stuart, it would not seem unlikely that invitations to noted guests to visit the Manor were extended from time to time, and accepted. However, there is nothing to prove either of these men visited the Sweet Springs, although Washington's nephew, George Augustine Washington, was a guest there. Letters were exchanged between Jefferson and Stuart concerning the bones of prehistoric animals which Stuart had found on his lands and in which they were both interested, though how close their relationship may have been other than through their mutual membership in the American Philosophical Society, one does not know. Another name, though certainly in a different classification - is also chiseled on this wall, that of Aaron Burr, who owned lands at Sweet Springs and who is said to have made several visits to this region.
   
   The family of Colonel and Mrs. Stuart consisted of four children: Margaret Lynn Stuart, first native white child in the Fort Springs region, born in 1777, who married Andrew Lewis, son of Colonel Charles Lewis; Jane Lewis Stuart, born in 1780, who married Robert Crockett, of Wythe County, becoming the mother of Charles S. Crockett and of a daughter, the first wife of Judge James E. Brown, of Wythe; Charles Augustus Stuart, born in 1783, who married Elizabeth Robinson; Lewis Stuart, born in 1784, who married Sarah Lewis of Bath County, granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, nine children being born of this marriage.
   
   In 1793 Captain Stuart was appointed colonel of the 79th Regiment of Militia, and the commission, signed by Henry Lee, of Virginia, is in possession of a descendant. Another relic of interest also in possession of another descendant is his certificate of membership to the American Philosophical Society, signed by Thomas Jefferson, President. It is dated 1797, when he received his election at a meeting held in Philadelphia.
   
   Colonel Stuart was the first historian of Greenbrier County, writing Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences, it is thought about 1820, but the manuscript is undated and was not published until 1832, some years after his death. It is a most valuable document, the only available contemporary formal account of events in the early days of the county, and is the principal source used by later historians. In this, as well as in many other respects, Greenbrier County owes a deep debt of gratitude to Colonet Stuart.
   
   In 1807, when Colonel Stuart resigned his county clerkship, his son Lewis was appointed by the court to fill the vacancy and retained this position until 1831. Lewis Stuart having married and established his wife at the Manor, Colonel Stuart was relieved not only of his official duties as clerk, but of the management of the Manor as well. He then did an unexpected thing and forsook the latter, returning to his first cabin, "Grumble Thorp," near Frankford, where he continued to live until his return to the stone house about a year before his death. It was in 1820, while he was at the cabin, that he made his will. To his son Lewis he gave Stuart Manor, and to his son Charles he left his Frankford lands and among other tracts "the plantation upon which I now live," meaning Grumble Thorp.
   
   During the many years of his activity Colonel Stuart accumulated, in addition to a large personal estate, many tracts of fine land, owning thousands of acres not only in Greenbrier, but in Giles County, Virginia, and also in Kentucky, and at the time of his death was said to have been one of the wealthiest men in Virginia. A man clearly endowed with qualities and talents of the most superior type, perhaps the greatest legacy left by Colonel Stuart, is that he was largely instrumental in attracting men of his own kind as settlers to this region, men who have given Greenbrier a background of which it is rightfully proud.
   
   Colonel Stuart died on August 18, 1823, and is buried within sight of Stuart Manor, in the family cemetery, not far from the grave of a beloved grandchild for whom he had inscribed this touching epitaph: Here Lies the Body of ELIZABETH STUART Who Died on the Ninth Day of August, 1819 Aged Eleven Years. Beauty Adorned her Face, Symmetry Her Form; Piety to God, Duty to Parents, Friendship and Relations, Sympathy for the Distressed, Characterized her Mind. She is Gone from this World, it is Believed, to Rest with the Spirits of the just mad Perfect, in the Presence of their God. This stone is Humbly Inscribed by her Grandfather JOHN STUART To the First of his Deceased Offspring, to Commemorate the Innocence and virtues of this Deceased Child, who was the child of LEWIS AND SARAH STUART. This epitaph and the inscription written by Colonel Stuart upon the Old Stone Church are enduring witnesses to the profound feeling and depth of character of the Father of Greenbrier County. ...

6.   For Further Research.

   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azopp/data/fam/fam06876.htm
   
   Husband: John Stuart
   Born: AFT. 1752 at: Augusta Co., VA 1
   Married: 1778 at: Lewisburg, Greenbrier (then Botetourt) Co., (W)VA 1
   Died: 18 AUG 1823 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA
   Father:David Stuart
   Mother:Margaret Lynn
   Other Spouses:
   Wife: Agatha Lewis
   Born: 18 MAY 1753 at: Augusta Co., VA
   Died: 1836 at: Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co. WV
   Father:Thomas Lewis
   Mother:Jane Strother
   Other Spouses: John Frogg
   
   CHILDREN
   Name: Margaret Lynn Stuart
   Born: 23 APR 1782 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA 2
   Married: at:
   Died: 1863 at:
   Spouses: Andrew Lewis
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   Name: Jane Lewis Stuart
   Born: 16 FEB 1780 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA
   Married: at:
   Died: UNKNOWN at:
   Spouses: Robert Crockett
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   Name: Charles Augustus Stuart
   Born: 23 APR 1782 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA
   Married: at:
   Died: UNKNOWN at:
   Spouses: Elizabeth Robinson
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   Name: Lewis Stuart
   Born: 14 MAY 1784 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA
   Married: 15 OCT 1807 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA
   Died: 1837 at: Greenbrier Co., (W)VA 1
   Spouses: Sarah Lewis
   SOURCES
   1) Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726-1871
   2) The History of West Virginia, Old and New