A soldier in the French and Indian War.
His children are listed below, since it is not known which one of his three wives is the mother of which children:
1. Elizabeth, born Jan. 11, 1729, married John Clark of Colrain, Mass.
Children: Matthew, Agnes, Charles, Rebecca, Daniel, Mary, Jennet, John, Icahabod, Elizabeth
2. Mary, born May 5, 1730, married Abraham Peck of Colrain, Mass.
Children: Samuel, Sarah, Mary, John, Rachel, Abraham, Lydia, Margaret
3. Margaret, born Oct. 4, 1731, married 1st, John Kately of Colrain, Mass.
Children: Hannah, born April 22, 1752; John, born 1753
married 2nd, John Anderson of Colrain, Mass., son of John and Mary Anderson and grandson of John Anderson, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Londonderry, N.H. as early as 1725. John and Margaret moved to Shelburne, Mass. about 1771.
Children: Mary, born Oct. 20, 1755; James, born Oct. 3, 1757; Rebecca, born Sept. 3, 1759; David,
born April 10, 1761; Lydia, born May 15, 1763; Elizabeth, born Jan. 15, 1765; Jonathan, born March 17, 1767; Margaret, born May 16, 1769, Martha, Sarah (last two born in Shelburne).
John Anderson died in Shelburne Dec. 22, 1780. His widow Margaret married, 3rd, Lieut. James Stewart of Colrain, Mass.
4. William, born Feb 12, 1733
5. John, born about 1735
6. Jennet, married Joseph Bell of Halifax, Vt.
Children: Catherine, Susannah, James, John, Joseph, Polly, David
7. Samuel
8. Rebecca, born 1742, married her cousin, John Stewart.
9. Lydia, married Joseph McKown of Colrain, Mass. He was in the Colonial Wars and died 1791
Child: Hannah, born 1776, married Thomas Rogers and went to Ohio in 1812, her mother going with
them (Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905).
(Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905, pg. 19).
Son of John Stewart and Elizabeth Clark
Husband of
#1 Mary Martha Ayers m. 1727
#2 Jenett Lindsay m. 1759
According to "Genealogy and Biography of Descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart" by Frank Severance, and Louise McClellan Patrie's 1974 "History of Colrain, Mass", he was born closer to 1705 (findagrave.com). findagrave.com also claims indicates the wives Mary and Marhta listed in Severance were the same person.