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Wentworth Stewart Jr. (1770 - 1807)

Wentworth Stewart Jr.
Born in Gorham, Mainemap
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Husband of — married 4 Nov 1790 [location unknown]
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Died at age 36 in Gorham, Mainemap
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Biography

1. Wentworth Stewart, born (as by his own entry on the Gorham Me, town records) 10 October 1731 and was "of Berwick, Me.: 23 January 1753 as by deed from James Gilkey; purchased land in Gorham, Me. that year and lived there; was Town Clerk, Selectman, Representative in 1773 and '4; was lieutenant in 1757, in Capt. Joseph Woodman's company of six months' men raised in that vicinity for the French war; was Captain in the army of the Revolution, and died in Sewall's Point, Mass. He married, 4 February 1753, Susanna, daughter of Rev. Solomon Lombard, the first settled minister of Gorham, Me.; she was born 14 August 1734, and married 2d, 4 March 1779, William Wood, of Gorham, Me. Wentworth Stewart had:

1. Mary Stewart, born 20 January 1754; married. 3 July 1770, John Green
2. Susanna Stewart, born 21 May 1757, died 4 January 1759
3. Joseph Stewart, born 3 April 1759; married 30 September 1779. Hannah Smalley.
4. Solomon Lombard Stewart, born 13 February 1762; died 29 December 1763
5. Sarah Purrinton Stewart, born 25 February 1764 married 20 May 1871 Ebenezer Phinney.
6. Dorcas Stewart, born 8 June 1766; married 17 August 1787, ; married Peletiah McDonald.
7. Susanna Stewart, born 1 April 1768; married 4 January 1786, Francis Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me.
8. Wentworth Stewart, born 17 August 1770; married, 4 November 1790, Hannah Shaw. A Wentworth Steward married Nancy, daughter of Isaac and Anna (Whitney) Hall, born 16 Oct 1798.
9. Solomon L. Stewart born 24 February 1773
10. Anna Stewart, born 31 October 1775; married 17 November 1791, Nathaniel Stevens, Jr. [1][2]


Sources

  1. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass. pg 139-140
  2. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American" by John Wentworth, LL.D, 1878 Boston, Little, Brown & co. pg 242-243
  • Moore Family Genealogy




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