Meg Mulvey writes: << I am also trying to find information on a Murdoch & Donald Stewart. I believe they are father & son. Murdoch settled on land (without authority) that was part of the Philadelphia Grant in 1809. I also find him having cleared land in Rogers Hill in 1806-07. According to family notes left by my grandmother, Murdoch died about 1858. Donald died in 1863. I have no idea if they were born in NS or Scotland. I have a birth year for Murdoch of 1755, which seems possible but not probable. >> Murdoch and Donald appear next to each other in the 1817 Pictou census; Murdoch as a couple over 50 and Donald as head of a younger family of four. Another Donald is an 11-year-old passenger on the "Commerce" in 1803, with his parents, James and Janet. I have seen a later census in which Donald and Murdoch Stewart are listed in the same household, or adjacent ones, as "fiddlers," but I haven't located my notes on it. They may be related to William Stewart, my wife's GGgrandfather, but I haven't yet found parents for William. He was born about 1823 in Pictou Co., probably Rogers Hill, married Jane Logan (d. of Walter Logan and Mary Ann Matheson) about 1845, and died in Weaverville, CA about 1859. They had four sons, all born in Nova Scotia: Charles A. (my wife's greatgrandfather), Robert, John Kenneth, and William A., who all died in California. Peter Fish wtc48@aol.com