 Ebenezer Stuart, son of Duncan Stuart and Ann Winchester.Born 1676 at Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, died Apr 30, 1749 at Byfield, Massachusetts, 72 or 73 years RFN1101 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894 I get no birth record of Samuel or Ebenezer; (specs they growed, like Topsy,) nor can I find any data of Samuel, but from records of deeds at Salem (See Appendix C) I learned that Ebenezer accumulated property at Rowley, these deeds placing hi m as an Innholder at Rowley Byfield, in the corner of Rowley south of Newbury Byfield, and owning land near his inn, one purchase extending to the Bradford line. In the deed of 1718 the daughters' names are missing, but among my note s is a marriage of Silvanas Wentworth and Elizabeth Stewart, of Rowley, Nov. 3 , 1685, when Duncan's Elizabeth would be 23 years old. This, with our story of the daughters that were Carters, previously mentioned, and that there was a N ancy Carter in the household of Captain Robert Stuart during the Revolution, s upposed to have been a descendant of one of these sisters, is all I learn of them. Ebenezer married Elizabeth Johnson May 23, 1698, and from a deed by one of his children I learn that he died before Feb. 23, 1746, making him seventy or more years old at ?? death. His estate was not settled till 1749, (See App end?? C, bottom of page 146.) Below is as full a tabular record as I can obtai n of the births, marriages and deaths of the CHILDREN OF EDENEZER AND ELIZABE TH JOHNSON STUART. NAME ??ORN MARRIED TO OF DIED AO? ? 1. SAEAM May1??,1699 (???)Wob??ter Kingston 2.ROB??T Nov.20,1701 Dec.11,1727 Anno Adams Newbury 1782 80 3. ??ARD Oct. 15,1704 Jud ith Poor Boxford 4. JOHN Oct. 20, 1707 Nov. --,1732 Hannah ??ley Rowley 5. ELIZABETH " " " Feb. 17,1726 Benj. Wchster Kingston bef 1746 6. AN N Mar. 27,1712 No record Samuel Lowell Rowley 7. MERCY No reco rd Dec. 26,1734 Ezra Clough Kingston 8. MA?? Oct. 26,1715 Ma r. 8,1737 Nathl Boynton Rowley 9. CHARLES May ??1,1718 No record Sar ah Fisk Boxford 10. JA??E Aug. 17,1720 Dec. 24,1751 William Dav is Newtown . APPENDIX C. D??RDS TO EBENEZER STUART, AND ABSTRACT OF HIS WILL. In the Essex Registry of Deeds at Salem I found these records:--B. 26, p. 176, Jonathan Pritchard sold land to Ebenezer Stuart; b. 33, p. 58, Samuel Dic kinson sold to Ebenezer Stuart land bounded on the southeast side by land of s aid Stuart, southwest by Woodman's land; b. 44, p. 148, Dec. 9, 1724, Samuel Platto to Ebenezer Stuart, Innholder, of Rowley, in the part called Byfield, an d upon the plain called Rye Plain, 11 acres--3 acres as part of lot laid out as right of Richard Thurlow, and 3 acres as part of lot laid out as right of F rancis Parrott--the three acres bounded on westerly end by so called Ox Pastu re Land; b. 45, p. 58, July 1, 1725, John Bennett to Ebenezer Stuart, for ¶7 1 0s., one lot, which is the last draft of freehold right in the middle commons- -witnesses, Joseph Jewett and John Hobson; b. 48, p. 279, Sept. 30, 1726, Dav id Wood to Ebenezer Stuart, for ¶30, one commonage or freehold in Middle Commo nage; b. 49, p. 169, July 12, 1727, Mehitable Woodman, single, of Newbury, dau ghter of Joshua Woodman, to Ebenezer Stuart, lunholder, of Rowley, for ¶185, e ight acres, bounded Ed by the great swamp, Nd by land in possession of John Lu ll, Innholder, N. W. and S. W. by land of Dea. Maximillian Jewett,--with 1-2 d welling house, 1-2 of barn and orchard.--Also another tract of 30 acres , bounded Ed by Maximillian Jewett's land, N. W. by Town of Rowley's land?? W. by the highway in Bradford, and S. E. by said Stuart's land. In all these de eds Ebenezer's name was spelt with "u" as ??ere printed. The following, sent me by Mr. Preston, are spelt by him with "ew," and I am inclined to think the name in the deeds was thus spelt as I had taken notes of only those in the index spelt Stuart, thinking at the time no others Married May 23, 1698 at Rowley, Massachusetts (50 years married) to:  Elizabeth JohnsonBorn 1677 at Rowley, Massachusetts, died Apr 12, 1749 at Byfield, Massachusetts, 71 or 72 years RFN1102 Children: 1. Sarah StuartBorn May 10, 1699 at Rowley, MA, died after 1719 at Kingston, NH, at least 20 years RFN1103 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical H istory of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 2. Robert StuartBorn Nov 26, 1701 at Rowley, Massachusetts, died 1781, 79 or 80 years RFN1104 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. ROBERT S TUART, our immediate ancestor, second child and eldest son of EBENEZER, of DUN CAN STUART; was born at Rowley, Nov. 26, 1701. In his youth he was in the pers onal service of Gov. William Dummer, at Newbury, Mass. On Dec. 11, 1727, he ma rried Anne Adams, a relative and co-descendant with the Governor from John Dum mer, of Bishopstoke, Eng., he being of the 4th and she of the 6th generation f rom John through the two brothers Richard and Stephen that came to Newbury in 1638. (See Ancestral Chart, page 108, and Appendix D for Dummer, Sewall, Long fellow and Adams records.) Anne Adams was born April 29, 1705, and was of the 4th generation from Robert Adams, who came to Ipswich in 1635. Robert Stuart took his bride upon the pillion behind him to spend their winter's hone ymoon in a leg cabin on his land in the Kingston Woods. From deeds on record I find that he owned land in Rowley in 1723, he selling land then; and in 1729 he sold land with buildings in Rowley. (See Appendix E.) Not being fully sati sfied with his location in Kingston Robert Stuart removed to the Newtown Woods between the years 1741, he then being "of Kingston," and 1745, when he is on record in a deed as of Amesbury. (See Appendix E.) He probably desired to get back into Massachusetts, the King having decreed in 1740 that Kingston should be a part of New Hampshire. If that was his object his effort was futile, for the State line was at length established a few rods south of his house. (See Appendix F.) Our family traditions say that Anne's two brothers, Joseph and S amuel used to visit her frequently, but her father, who was greatly opposed to her going into the wilderness, came but once, when, finding the cabin uncomfo rtably cool he set to work stopping the chinks between the logs. They were in the habit of salting down a beef and a hog each fall for poorer neighbors. A r elative not naturally so generous as themselves reported to him seeing his wif e give a whole strip of pork away, and got for answer that it was put into the barrel for his wife to give to whoever needed it and that he had nothing far ther to do with it. He was an early riser, and while making ??call upon a neig hbor one evening, being told that his turn would come next, as a certain wild cat that had been ravaging the roosts of the vicinity had eaten the last of hi s (Heath's) hens, he answered that if they got up as early as he did they woul dn't have lost many hens.--On going out at earliest dawn to feed his stock the next day he saw the wildcat jump and seize a hen, and located the cat by the squawking of the hen in an unoccupied cattle manger. By grasping the stanchion beam overhead with his hands he succeeded in bringing his whole weight of ove r two hundred pounds upon the wildcat at once; but not till the creature had been able to turn and claw his buskins off and bite and scratch his legs badly did he succeed in stamping the life out of it. Carrying the carcass to the ho use he threw it upon the kitchen hearth, telling his wife to get up and do up his wounds. He was unable to go out of the house again that winter,--but no mo re hens were lost. Like his fathers,--and I might add his descendants,--he was always a little in advance of those about him in religion as well as in polt ics and became a Baptist, or what was then called a "Schemer," In New Hampshir e As It Is I find that the first Baptist Church in New Hampshire was organized in 1755 at Newtown. Our great-grandfather Robert Stuart built the first log church, hired and paid Elder Walter Powers, and with Deacon Francis Chase invi ted all to come and hear THE TRUTH FREE OF EXPENSE. This was called "Stuart's Church," and claiming to have thus already paid for support of the Gospel he refused to pay his "minister's tax." While he wa 3. Richard StuartBorn Oct 15, 1704 at Rowley, Massachusetts, died 1777, 72 or 73 years RFN1040 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 3. RICHA RD, born Oct. 15, 1704, is described in deeds as a husbandman and cordwainer. He married Judith, the daughter of Joseph Poor, previous to 1729. In 1737 an d In 1744 he bought land of his brother John, and in 1746 he bought his sister Ann's share of their late father's estate.--By the Rowley records Richard had :--Ebenezer, Jan. 3, 1729; Joseph, Aug. 5, 1731. Mr. Haskins found a deed by R ichard Stewart, of Leominster, in 1775, conveying to Richard Foster, of Boxfor d, land in Boxford coming to said Richard's wife, Mary, from the estate of her father, Samuel Flak, of Boxford. An Ebenezer Stewart witnessed the deed. Mr. Haskins thought this was Ebenezer's Richard, and that he was twice married, b ut there seems to be no such marriage record in either Boxford or Rowley, nor any death record of his first wife. I think the Richard, of Leominster may hav e been his son, born later than Joseph. (See Appendix C, page 117.) 4. Elizabeth StuartBorn 1706 at Rowley, MA RFN1105 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. The birt h of Ebenezer's ELIZABETH is not recorded in the Institute Collections, althou gh her marriage with Benjamin Webster is. In some of my notes I had her as a t win with John, both born Oct. 20, 1707. She may have been born in 1707 and Joh n in 1709, and both being recorded at one time, one date may have been acciden tally omitted. She married Benjamin Webster, of Kingston, Feb.17, 1726, and di ed before her father. From one of the sisters came Esq. Isaac Webster, of Deep Brook, and from the other came "Wildeat" Isaac Webster, the latter of whom had two sons and four or five daughters, but I fail to learn from which sister they respectively came. 5. John StuartBorn Oct 20, 1709 at Rowley, Massachusetts, died 1792 at Leominster, Massachusetts, 82 or 83 years RFN1106 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 4. JOHN, was b orn with ELIZABETH, October 20, 1707 according to my notes, but by the Essex I nstitute Historical Collections he was born in 1709, withno record of Elizabet h until her marriage. The marriage intentions of John Stewart and Hannah Baile y were published Nov. 10, 1732. She was born June 30, 1709, the daughter of Ca pt. Jonathan. Bailey and his second wife, Sarah (Jewett.) On Feb. 16, 1735 Jo hn boys land in Rowley of his father, Ebenezer Stuart. In 1737 he makes a deed to his brother Richard, in which both their names are spelt with u, he styling himself John Stuart, Jr. He is then of Rowley and mentions his father , Ebenezer. In a deed in 1744 he is a husbandman, of Newbury, selling land in Rowley to his brother Richard, again mentioning his father Ebenezer. A death record in Rowley of "the wife of John Stewart, 16 Oct., 1752," is very likely of his wife, as in Newbury is a marriage record of "John Steward and Mary Some rby, of Rowley, Dec. 12, 1753." John would then be 44 or 46 years old. I get n o record of his death. In the Newbury marriages after his removal to that plac e are these, that may or may not be of his children:--Richard Stewart and Mary Stickney, July 14, 1748, that are probably the parties making the deed in 17 53, supposed by Mr. Haskins to be Ebenezer's Richard and Mary Fisk; Moses Lull and Judith Steward, of Newbury, April 11, 1754; Samuel Burrell and Sarah Stew ard, Dec. 23, 1754; James Smith and Elizabeth Stewart, Dec. 15, 1757. 6. Ann StuartBorn Mar 27, 1712 at Rowley, MA, died after 1737 at Newbury, Essex, MA, at least 25 years RFN1108 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical H istory of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 7. Mercy StuartBorn ± 1714 at Rowley, Massachusetts RFN1134 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 7. MERCY . This name does not appear in the record of births at Rowley, or in the Insti tute Collections, but it does appear in the latter as married to Ezra Clough, of Kingston, Dec. 24, 1734, and in Ebenezer's will as "Mercy Stewart, alias Cl ough." They settled on part of her brother Robert's land in Kingston or Newtow n. I think my sisters know of descendants to the present day. d 8. Mary StuartBorn Oct 16, 1715 at Rowley, MA, died after 1734, at least 19 years RFN1109 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 8. MARY, of the Rowley birth record, was born Oct. 26, 1715. The Institute Collections have the same record, with a marriage of Nathaniel Boynton and Mary Stewart, both of Rowley, March 8, 1737, taken from Rowley's first book of marriages. Sh e must have died without any heirs before her father, as her name is not menti oned in his will. 9. Charles StuartBorn May 31, 1718 at Rowley, MA, died Jul 31, 1750 at Lancaster, MA, 32 years RFN1110 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 9. CHARL ES, born May 31, 1718, was of Rowley in 1749, and according to Mr. Haskins "ha d married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Fisk, of Boxford, previous to 1742." By th e Boxford Town Clerk's letter "Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Judith (Noyes) Fi sk, was born Dec. 13, 1738." A discrepancy somewhere, as this gives her a husb and twenty-four years old when she was but four. There may have been an earli er Samuel Fisk with a daughter Sarah. Mr. Parkhurst found no record of any Cha rles or Richard Stuart or Stewart in Boxford. 10. Jane StuartBorn Aug 7, 1720 at Rowley, MA RFN1111 BIOGRAPHY Bibliographic Information: Stuart, Joseph A. Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America. Caxton Press. 1894. 10. JANE , born Aug. 27, 1720, by my notes, or August 7th by the Institute Collections, married William Davis, of Kingston, Dec. 24, 1751, and settled at Newtown. On e of her sons was Capt. Ebenezer Davis, of Portland, Me., a Continental Veter an. A granddaughter of his married the father of David G. Haskins, jr. Esq., a lawyer, of Boston, who has freely given me much valuable information. I think that Gilbert and Alfred Davis, the latter still a resident ?? Brother and ni ?? of Stuart's wife?? says Mr. ?? Shown by deed o?? Sept. 1??, 1742. ?? Stuar t and wife ?? ?? of Sam?? ?? of ??ford, de??sed, to Sam'l ?? of ??ford, son o f Samuel, dee ?? deed witnessed by Ebenezer and Jane Stuart. ?? of Newton as before stated, with a daughter married near him, and the family of the former now residents of Merrimac, formerly a part of Amesbury, are descendants of Jan e. | |||