Below is listed some records I found from the STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE Does anyone have information on the HENRY-WILLIAM STEWART/STUART Family-mentioned below. America-Ireland or Scotland. ****************************** TOMES G & H JULY 1953-JUNE 1963 STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE **************************** HENRY STEWART-who was one of Colonel GEORGE WASHINGTONS Guides in the Virginia Expedition against the French in the Ohio River Basin in 1753=D:175, was asserted in a Memorandum prepared many years ago by Mrs KATIE S KULLING-daughter of REUEL STEWART-Son of THOMAS PAGE STEWART-son of JAMES STEWART-Son of WILLIAM STEWART=D:209, to have been a Brother of WILLIAM The Memorandum-about 1750-A Party of Scotch Irish Presbyterians came from Balentoy, County of Atrium, Ireland-Omar being the County Seat and from Byron Ireland. Among them were:Messrs: HELMS--YOUNG--SHARP--OSMONDS-- and 4 brothers--ARCHIBALD--WILLIAM--JOHN and HENRY STEWART and others. ORMAR is probably meant for OMAGH and BYRON for TYRONE These men settled at first along the foothills of the Pocono Mountains-but finding the Country to Hilly and the soil to poor-they moved to the wider-more fertile valey of the MUSCONETCONG in WARREN-now SUSSEX County NEW JERSEY-where they measured off their claims by chain lengths. HENRY STEWART who was first at Pennslyvania settled on the MUSCONETCONG RIVER 1737-before WILLIAM STEWART was born *************************************************************** TOMES C & D JULY 1933-JUNE 1943 STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE HENRY STEWART-of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey-Carpenter-bought March-16-1736-7 of ROBERT PEARSON-Esquire of Nottingham Township, Burlington(now Mercer)County for 100 a Tract of 312 acres on the Branch of the River Deleware called Muskonetkong in Amwell Township(Deeds:GG;47) The Region where he settled was then rather primitive and was peopled by New Englanders-although STUART(also spelled Stewart) may have come up from Moorland Manor,Philadelphia County,Pennsylvania-where a HENRY STEWART and FRANCIS STEWART owned land in 1734. HENRY STEWART of Greenwich Township, Morris County New Jersey-Yeoman-sold February 29-1747-8 to CHARLES READ of the City of Burlington 50 acres of the 312 acres in Greenwich Township-which he bought from ROBERT PEARSON March 16-1736-7: It was adj to land owned by JOHN READING Esquire(Deeds: IK:323) STEWART still owned the rest of his land as late as March 25-1749 when he made his final annual payment on a Mortgage-which he had given March 25-1737 on his 312 acre Tract on the Upper side of the MUSCONETCONG CREEK to the Commissioners of the Loan Office of Hunterdon County(Mortgage Book E-#79) In November 1753-when GEORGE WASHINGTON was on his way to the French Post near ERIE-said VEECH in his Monogahela of Old-his party consisted of himself-HENRY STEWART--JOHN DAVIDSON--CAPTAIN JACOB VAN BRAAM--CHRISTOPHER GIST--BARNABY CURRAN--JOHN MCQUIRE--and WILLIAM JENKINS. STEWART and GIST had joined the Party at Fort Cumberland, Maryland. ************************************** TOMES G & H STEWART CLAN MAGAZINE JULY 1953-1963 STEWART CROSSING of the YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER between FAYETTE and WESTMORLAND COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA about where CONNELLSVILLE is-Was named for HENRY STEWART-who came there with his Family and a Party of Pioneers in the year 1753=D:175 That was the year Governor DINWIDDIE of VIRGINIA sent GEORGE WASHINGTON-with a few Frontiersmen-whom he got together at Fort Cumberland (The same men listed above were in his group) They were on a Mission to the Ohio River to warn a French Commander that he was encroaching on VIRGINIA Territory. The French at that time owned CANADA and the GREAT LKES and had enlisted the support of the Indian Chiefs in blocking further land grabs by the English.One of HENRY STEWARTS Sons was WILLIAM STEWART-who returned to the Region after the Indian Troubles died down. The original STEWART Homestead was taken over by WILLIAM CRAWFORD-states WILLIAM E STEWART of KENSINGTON PENNSYLVANIA who has compiled a mass of History about Col CRAWFORD. ____________________________________________________________ Scholarships for Moms Grant Funding May Be Available to Those Who Qualify! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d0465c3d182fca17em02vuc