Person:Robert Stewart (179)

Research Notes

• Trough Spring was the name of the settlement that his brother William Stewart had claimed in 1779 and which William had left to their father Charles Stewart after his death.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Robert Stewart, in Davis, William Watts Hart; John Woolf Jordan; and Warren Smedley Ely. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time. (New York, Chicago: The Lewis publishing company, 1905)
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   ... After the death of Charles Stewart, in 1794, Mrs. [Sarah] Stewart, with her daughters, Mrs. [Mary] Hunter, Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, and Mrs. [Anne] Shields, a daughter of Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, and all widows, with their children, immigrated to Kentucky, where their descendants are numbered among the most distinguished people of that state. Charles Steward, the father of Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, had four other children, Robert, who died, unmarried, at Trough Spring, Kentucky, William, a schoolmate of Daniel Boone, who accompanied him on his second visit to Kentucky, and was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, Mary, who married James Hunter, and Charles, who died at Newtown in 1773, at the age of thirty-seven. Charles Stewart, the father, died September 26th, 1794, aged seventy-five, and was buried in the Presbyterian yard at Newtown. ...