Husband Col. George Stewart 1
Born: 1736 2
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Died: Abt 1786
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Marriage: Abt 1758
Wife Margaret Harris 1
Born: Abt 1736
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Died: 1815 - Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA 3
Buried: - Beulah Cemetery
Father: Capt. Thomas Harris ( - ) 2
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Children
1 F Ann(e) Harris Stewart 1
Born: 1764 - Maryland 4
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Spouse: Dunning McNair (1762-1825) 5
Marr: 6 Apr 1786 1
2 F Sutia Stewart 8
AKA: Statira McNair,6 Sutiah Murry 7
Born: 7 Oct 1777 - Doyle's Mills, Juniata Co, PA 9
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Died: 2 Sep 1857 - ? Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 10
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Spouse: Samuel Allen Rippey (1767-1812) 8
Marr: 16 May 1797 9
Spouse: Jeremiah Murry (Abt 1759-1835) 6 11 12
Marr: 1820 9
3 M Robert Stewart 9
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General Notes: Husband - Col. George Stewart
One year after ataining his majority and large inheritance, he married
Margaret Harris. Before a year had elapsed after his marriage, he moved from the neighborhood of Donegal to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Soon after that he sold the ancestral Stewart farm of 207 acres situated on the Susquehanna River at Marietta for 442 pounds. Seventeen days afterward, the farm was resold for 460 pounds. The deed was not recorded for sixty-nine years. It is said that part of this property had formerly been owned by a Wilkins, a forefather of John Wilkins, Sr., of Pittsburgh.
George Stewart remained only a few years in Carlisle and then joined his father-in-law, Thomas Harris, and brother-in-law, who had emigrated to Cross Roads (later Churchville), near Bel Air, Maryland. Here he bought property and was taxed as an "inholder." He remained in Maryland until 1775, when he returned to Pennsylvania. During the fifteen years residence in Maryland, six children were born, among them his first daughter Ann (Mrs. Dunning McNair) in 1764.
It is generally believed that George Stewart's aversion to slavery was the chief cause of his return to Pennsylvania. This time he settled farther west in the Tuscarora Valley, at a place later known as Doyle's Mills, Juniata County, Thomas Harris occupying land on the opposite side of Tuscarora Creek, a tributary of the not-distant Juniata River.
Shortly after his settlement in the Tuscarora Valley, the Revolutionary War broke out. He and his oldest son, John, then seventeen, were soon deeply involved in it. Cumberland County, of which that region was still a part, had four sub-lieutenants, one of whom was George Stewart, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The duty of these officers was to collect and furnish supplies of all kinds and reinforcements for troops sent out to guard the settlers against Indian attacks, and, also, for state troops to fight the British.
He became one of the wealthiest men of his township, standing highest in the assessment rolls, at a valuation of $18,740 and being the solitary instance of assessment for "plate."