Elizabeth Canby (Wilson) Stewart (1740 - aft. 1822)

Born 12 Dec 1740 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wife of Wiliam Stewart — married Feb 1765 in Delaware, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died after 12 Aug 1822 after age 81 in Thompsontown, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

An un-substantiated Ancestry.com tree has her born in Philadelphia in 1744. If the family followed standard Scottish naming practices (and we have the kids in the right order), then her parents may have been named Margaret and William. Or possibly Sarah and John.

There is a Thomas Wilson who lived in Port Royal, PA, along the Juniata river, in 1791^[1] Could this be a brother, or even her father? A person of the same name (same person? his father?) surveyed that land and laid claim to it in 1755^[2]

In 1801 a Matthew Wilson was chosen for some county position, as was John Stewart. Again, a relative?^[3]

The same source^[4] has a story about a James Wilson who was "captured by Indians" with his son, John. It's not clear what year. However, someone who was likely the same James Wilson is mentioned as being in Sherman's Valley by 1750^[5]

James and William Wilson were the first and second lieutenant (respectively) in the battalion that formed in 1776^[6]

There's a bunch more, worth looking into.

Her name is listed as Margaret in some sources: The children of William and Margaret Stewart were John, Wilson, Sarah, Mary, Margaret, Gracey, Elizabeth, Rachel and Rebecca.

John, the eldest, married Elizabeth, a daughter of David Walker, and settled on the home-farm and died April 13, 1831, aged sixty years and ten months. He was a justice of the peace from 1821. His son David succeeded to the farm and died in September, 1836 aged thirty years, the last of the name. The property now belongs to J. Stewart Lukens, a descendant of William Stewart and grandson of Henry and Gracey (Stewart) Lukens. The children of John Stewart were Anna (Mrs. Abraham Lukens); Elizabeth died unmarried; David married Elizabeth McAlister; William died March, 1832; Wilson died May, 1814; Eliza married Dr. Cyrus McCurdy; Mary became the wife of Dr. John Irvin. Of the other children of William and Margaret Stewart, Sarah married Abraham Deen; Mary became Mrs. Noble Crawford; Margaret married George Brown; Gracey married Henry Lukens; Elizabeth married Isaac Cook; Jean became the wife of Andrew Thompson, tailor; Rachel, Mrs. John Thompson; and Rebecca, Mrs. Andrew Thompson, whose husband was a farmer."^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 423.
2. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 762.
3. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 450.
4. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 641.
5. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 71.
6. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 92.
7. ↑ "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..."Edited by F. Ellis and A. N. Hungerford. Published in Philadelphia by Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, Pages 865-874.

• History of that Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, Vol. 2, edited by Franklin Ellis, Austin N. Hungerford, 1886, p. 1083-1084.

• Stewart Clan magazine, Vol VI, No. 11, 1929 , in section on Archibald Stewart, by Isaac Martin, p. 127-128.

• Grace Morgan Minor, (rgmin@bright.net), "Electronic."

• Ancestral File, Rittenhouse.FTW, "Electronic," Date of Import: Apr 8, 2001.