Hi Donald, Are you sure you are not from some VA line? Anyone under 21 was considered a minor, so your Samuel could have been apprenticed out at age 18. Perhaps he was the son of David Stewart. Did you ever find out who he was apprenticed out to, and do learn what? Also CHEATHAM is an old VA name, they were probably in MD also. Teresa --- Donald E King <dking4@gte.net> wrote: > > > The oldest information for my Stewart line is Samuel > Preston Stewart, > variously reported in the census as Samuel B., > Preston and Pleasant. > According to family records, his date of birth is > Oct 23, 1810. He > married Emily Cheatham ca 1830 in Montgomery Co, KY. > > However, I also have a document written in 1816 > where the Court in > Montg. Co, as a part of the settlement of the estate > of David Stewart > Jnr, established an apprenticeship for Samuel B > Preston - aged 16. > However, my Samuel would have been born ca 1810 and > the 1830 census > confirms that my Samuel was born ca 1810 - > definitely not 1800. So - > did the clerk, or whoever was making the Court's > copy accidentally > write Samuel's age as 16 instead of 6, for the > moment confusing his > age with the year 1816? Or am I on a wild goose > chase? > > I do not know which Stewart male in Montgomery was > his father. The > reasons why I am interested in Anne Arundel are the > appearance in > both places of the names Stephen and Ezekiel. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com