Person:William Stewart (231)

[Abstracted 20130731 by cos1776]
STEWART, William. Lincoln county, VA (now KY).
Will: 25 Aug 1781. Presented in Court for Land Patent: 21 Jan 1783.
- to "my well beloved Father" (unnamed): 2 tracts of land on the N side of the KY River containing 2400 ac, one tract known as Trough Spring on the head of Glenns Creek, the other tract adjoining
- to brother Robert Stewart: 500 pounds from the estate
- to unmarried sisters, Hannah and Mary: the remainder of the estate divided between them
- Exrs: James Hunter, John Smith, William McBride
- Witnesses: Clough Overton, Ebenezer Miller, Frank McBride
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[cos1776 note: at the time of probate, Clough Overton and Frank McBride were deceased]

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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. ...