Alithea (Wetmore) Stewart (1771 - 1834)

Born 19 May 1771 in Rye, Westchester, New York

Ancestors

Wife of Reuben Craft — married before 27 Aug 1787 in New Brunswick

Wife of Walter Stewart — married about 1802 in New Brunswick

Descendants

Died 23 May 1834 at age 63 in Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada [uncertain]

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Biography

Part of a Loyalist family that settled in Hammond River, New Brunswick, Alithea ^[1] "Althea" Wetmore was born at Rye, New York, 19 May 1771, the daughter of James Wetmore and Elizabeth Abrahams; ^{[2] [3]} She married (1) her widowed brother-in-law, Reuben Craft, ^[2] before 27 Aug 1787 (birth of daughter Jerusha Craft); married (2) Walter Stewart (called "Walter Sherwood" in the Wetmore Genealogy) sometime after c1802, when her first husband died. ^{[2] [4] [5] [6]} Alithea died, probably at Kingston, New Brunswick, 23 May 1834. ^[2]

Research Notes

Both the Wetmore Genealogy ^[2] and The History of French Village by Andrew Sherwood Beyea report that the name of Alithea Wetmore's second husband was Walter Sherwood, ^[7] born in Pennsylvania about 1770. They married sometime after the death, c1801, of Alithea's first husband, Reuben Craft.

But see this note of Terry E. Phillips on the profile of Walter Stewart:

When the research was done to write the Wetmore Family of America book in 1861, an error was made that recorded Walter's surname as Sherwood.^[2]. It wasn't until the early 2000's that another researcher working on the families of Kings County, New Brunswick found the errors in the marriage records and it was shared with descendants.

Sources

1. ↑ A transliteration of the Greek word for "truth", "άλήθεια".
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Wetmore, James Carnahan, The Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches: With Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Notices (Munsell & Rowland, Albany, New York, 1861), p. 225. Cit. Date: 14 Dec 2019
3. ↑ Johnson, Daniel F., Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick), Vol. 11, No. 251, citing the New Brunswick Courier of 29 Nov 1845. Cit. Date: 8 Jul 2021.
4. ↑ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., (John F. Trow & Son, New York, New York, 1874), Vol. 1, p. 500. Cit. Date: 16 Dec 2019
5. ↑ Adams, Hebron E., The Craft Family of New York, New Brunswick, and Maine (Self-published, Feb 1987, Reston, Virginia. Photocopy in the library of David James; additional copies archived at Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine; Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick; New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick; Kings County Museum, Hampton, New Brunswick; Calais Free Library, Calais, Maine), p. 2.
6. ↑ Beyea, Andrew Sherwood, The History of French Village (manuscript at the Archives and Research Library of the New Brunswick Museum, 1924; transcribed by David Horgan, 2001, 105 pages, with index), p. 69. PDF in the library of David James.
7. ↑ Andrew Sherwood Beyea, The History of French Village (manuscript at the Archives and Research Library of the New Brunswick Museum, 1924; transcribed by David Horgan, 2001, 105 pages, with index), p. 69. PDF in the library of David James.

See also:

• Archives of Kings County Museum, Hampton, New Brunswick, Web site
• "Andrew Sherwood Beyea's, History of French Village", a column by Ruby Cusack in the [Saint John, NB] Telegraph-Journal (date not provided), History of French Village