The Carolina churchman [serial] . Capt. Charles Stewart (father of Parson Stewart ofNorth Carolina) was a Scotchman who was no excep-tion to this rule. In the 1900 edition of Burkes His-tory of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (Stewart-Robertson of Edradynate, pages 1350, 1351), is theline of descent of the Stewart family from Robert th-:Second, King of Scotland, through his fierce and war-like son, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan ftheWolf of Badenoch), down a long and unbroken linethrough the Lairds of Bonskeid to Alexander Stewartof Wester Clunie, in Perthshire. In this same volumeof the
The Carolina churchman [serial] . Capt. Charles Stewart (father of Parson Stewart ofNorth Carolina) was a Scotchman who was no excep-tion to this rule. In the 1900 edition of Burkes His-tory of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (Stewart-Robertson of Edradynate, pages 1350, 1351), is theline of descent of the Stewart family from Robert th-:Second, King of Scotland, through his fierce and war-like son, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan ftheWolf of Badenoch), down a long and unbroken linethrough the Lairds of Bonskeid to Alexander Stewartof Wester Clunie, in Perthshire. In this same volumeof the Landed Gentry (Poyntz-Stewart of Ches-field, pages 1505, 1506), we find Capt. CharlesStewart, of the Fifth (Lord Molesworths) Dragoons,recorded as a son of the aforementioned AlexanderStewart of Wester Clunie. Capt. Charles Stewartmarried Rose Hall, and, as already stated, one of hissons was the Reverend Alexander Stewart, of C. Not far from Bath, at Yankee Hall, in theneighboring county of Pitt, lived another Alexander. oldest building of its kind—probably the oldest of anykind—in North Carolina. About the beginning of theyear 1761, Beaufort County and the parish of were severed in twain, the eastern part retain-ing the original names of both county and parish, andthe western part being called Pitt County and Parish. An untiring and self-sacrificing missionary whoserved the parish of St. Thomas during the colonialperiod was the Reverend Alexander Stewart, who wasborn (of Scotch paternity) at Lisburn, in CountyAntrim, Ireland, in .1723. The greatest of Caledonian novelists has said:Every Scottishman has a pedigree. It is a nationalprerogative as inalienable as his pride and his poverty. Stewart (born December 9, 1725; died July20, 17/2), whose father, the Reverend JamesStewart of Wester Clunie, was a brother ofCapt. Charles Stewart. In a letter written by MrStewart, of Pitt County, in 1767, he alludes to his firstcousin at Bath in these words:
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