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STEWART Family

Duncan STEWART

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• D: 30 Aug 1717 in Rowley, Essex Mass
• M: 1654 in Piswich, Essex, Mass to Ann WINCHURST She died 9 Jul 1729 in Rowley, Mass.
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Children of Duncan and Ann STEWART

1. Jane STEWART - born 1654 in Ipswich, Mass
2. Katherine STEWART - born 8 Jun 1658 in Ipswich, Mass
3. Martha STEWART - born 4 Apr 1659 in Newbury, Mass; married John WENTWORTH
4. Charles STEWART - BORN 5 June 1661
5. Elizabeth STEWART - born 2 Nov 1662 in Newbury, Mass; married Sylvanus WENTWORTH
6. James STEWART - christened 16 Oct 1664 in Newbury, Mass; married Elizabeth _______________.
7. Catherine STEWART - born 7 Nov 1665 in Ipswich, Mass; married Paul WENTWORTH
8. John STEWART - born 1666; married Elizabeth ________________
9. Anna STEWART - born 1666; died young
10. Henry STEWART - born 1 May 1669 in Newbury, Mass
11. Solomon STEWART - born 1669 in Newbury, Mass
12. Samuel STEWART - born 1670 in Newbury, Mass
13. Ebenezer STEWART - born 1675/6 in Newbury, Mass; married 22 May 1698 in Rowley, Mass to Elizabeth JOHNSON
14. Anna STEWART - born 1671 in Newbury, Mass

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Duncan (Steward) Stewart (b. 23 Aug 1629, d. 30 Aug 1717)

Duncan (Steward) Stewart (son of Duncan Stewart) was born 23 Aug 1629 in Kilmadock, Perth, (Highlands) Scotland, and died 30 Aug 1717 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts. He married Anne Winchurst on 1654, daughter of Alexander Winchester.

 Notes for Duncan (Steward) Stewart:
Came to the US not earlier than 1689 (first year his name appears on Rowley Record)
Note: He was "in service" of George Hadley.

Text: "the New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarain Journal" for the year 1871. vol XXV, published by the society house.

Information taken in part from family group sheet submitted by Carmen R.(Richardson) Smith. (no sources cited) NOTE: Came to America 13 May 1652-Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: "DUNCAN STEWART - b. about 1617 in Scotland, was taken prisoner by the English while a soldier in the army of King Charles II when an army of 10,000 Scottish soldiers were defeated 13 September 1651 at the battle of Worcester. "He and his brother Alexander were sent to America 13 May 1652 to work out a fine which had been imposed by the victorious Oliver Cromwell on the 'rebels' and Duncan had to work several years in a ship yard at Ipswich, Mass. where he was a shipwright. "He married Anne Winchurst, an English girl who had come to America about the same time and who was an indentured servant: that is, she had to work a year or more to pay for her passage over. "Duncan's children ended their name with a 'd', but Ebenezer's used the 'STUART' form of the name. "To prevent reprisals against his family in Scotland, Duncan never let it be known who his father was."

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Notes from http://www.rootsweb.com/'mecanaan/early.htm

Duncan Stewart was born in the Highlands of Scotland about 1623. He espoused the cause of his kinsman King Charles II, and in supporting him, either at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, or Worcester in 1651, was captured by the army of Cromwell, and with the other prisoners taken in those battles sent to the American Colonies, and indentured as servants to the Colonists. Duncan was landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1654 and married Anna Winchurst of that town. They removed to Newbury in 1659 and for thirty years occupied a farm in Byfield Parish near the Rowley town line. They later removed to Rowley.

In early Suffolk Court Records, Vol. 42, p. 75, dated 1698, on file at the courthouse in Boston, Mass., can be found the deposition of Duncan Stewart ...About seventy-five years old... and witnessed by the court officer. The name of Duncan Stewart, and later a reference to his widow as ...Old Widow Stewart... appears in Rowley town records. Duncan died in 1717, and his wife in 1729, probably over a hundred years old.
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Notes from http://www.jimsancestry.net/Stewart.htm

It is believed that Duncan Stewart was among the 9,000 Scottish prisoners taken in the ...Battle of Dunbar... in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell during the civil war in England. Also, it is believed that he was selected to be sold into bondage in the New England states and, consequently, was settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, as an indentured servant to a George Hadley. Here he met his future wife who was in service to George Hadley, possibly as an indentured servant also, but we assume by her own free will.

In 1659, the couple moved to Newbury, MA, where they resided for 30 years on a farm on that part of the Dummer estate which became a portion of the Caldwell farm in the Byfield Parish and near the Rowley line.

In 1690, they moved to Rowley where Duncan is on the tax list of 1691 when he was assessed 2 pounds. By deed, dated 20 February 1698/9, ...Dunckin Steward of Rowley, planter... sold to Capt. Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury, MA, the rate lot and right in undivided lands in Newbury, MA, belonging to ...his son Charles Steward, late of Newbury, deceased.... Essex Deeds, 16:17.

Duncan Stewart was among those ...inhabitants of Rowley living northwest of Rye Plain bridge and Long Hill,... 16 March 1702/3, whose minister's rates were abated.

On 17 March 1713/4, four sons of Duncan Stewart signed an agreement for the maintenance of ...their aged and honored parents, Duncan and Ann Stewart... who had resided with their son, John, since 1707. Ann Stewart, ...tho't to be nearer a 100 yn 90 years... was admitted to the Rowley church on 17 September 1721.

...No evidence whatever has been found to show that Duncan Stewart or any of his sons ever engaged in shipbuilding or owned a shipyard, as stated in Gage's History of Rowley, p. 318.... G. B. Blodgette and Amos Jewett, ...Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts,... p. 356.
Duncan and his wife Ann (Winchurst) Stewart had twelve children, the first two born in Ipswich, MA, the others born in Newbury, MA:

Jane, m. 2 June 1682 Joseph Esty of Topsfield, MA.

Kathren (Catherine), b. 8 June 1658; m. Paul Wentworth.

Martha, b. 4 April 1659; m. John Wentworth.

Charles, b. 5 June 1661; d. 8 May 1689; unmarried. In Nov., 1688, he was ...impressed... to serve in a winter's campaign against the Eastern Indians. Coffin's History of Newbury, p. 151.

Elizabeth, m. 2 Nov. 1662 Sylvanus Wentworth.

James, b. 8 Oct. 1664; m. Elizabeth -----.

John, b. ca. 1666; m. Elizabeth -----.

Anna, m. Colin Frazer.

Henry, b. 1 May 1668; probably died young.

Solomon, was a member of Capt. Philip Nelson's Company in the Canada Expedition of 1690, and died of starvation on board the brigatine Adventure, William Bedlow, master, in December 1690. Massachusetts Archives, 37:48.

Samuel, m. Dorcas Boston. Lived in Wells, ME.

Ebenezer, b. ca. 1676; m. Elizabeth Johnson.

More About Duncan (Steward) Stewart:
Occupation: Shipbuilder.

More About Duncan (Steward) Stewart and Anne Winchurst:
Marriage: 1654

Children of Duncan (Steward) Stewart and Anne Winchurst are:

1. Jane Steward, b. 1654, Ipswitch, Massachusetts.
2. Catherine (Katherine) Steward, b. 08 Jun 1658, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. Bef. 1750, New London, Connecticut.
3. Martha Steward, b. 04 Apr 1659, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 19 Jan 1709, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
4. Charles Steward, b. 05 Jun 1661, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 08 May 1689, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts.
5. Elizabeth Steward, b. 02 Nov 1662, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
6. +James Steward, b. 08 Oct 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 17 Sep 1750, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts.
7. John Steward, b. Mar 1665, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 23 Dec 1756, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts.
8. Anna Steward, b. 1668, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
9. Henry Steward, b. 01 May 1669, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
10. Solomon Steward, b. 07 Jul 1671, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 14 Dec 1690.
11. +Samuel Steward, b. 1672, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 11 Mar 1751, Wells, York, Maine.
12. +Ebenezer Stewart, b. 11 Sep 1676, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, d. 30 Apr 1749, Byfield, Essex, Massachusetts.