Duncan STEWART

Abt 1629 - 1717  (~ 88 years)

• Name	Duncan STEWART
  Born	Abt 1629	Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	23 Aug 1629	Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
  Also Known As	Dunkin, STEWARD
  Migration	1654	Massachusetts
  Occupation	Shipwright
  Immigrant?	Y
  Identured flag	Y
  Parents Unproven	Y
  Verified Death	Y
  Verified Marriage	Y
  Historical Notes	It is generally believed that he came to Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1654 as an indentured servant. The following information is extracted from "Genealogical History of the Duncan Stuart Family in America" by Joseph A. Stuart 1894 (available in Sutro Library) From Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England" under "Stewart or Stuart, sometimes Steward; Duncan, Newbury, shipwright, had at Newbury, Martha, April 4, 1659; Charles, June 5, 1661; James, Oct. 8, 1664; Henry, May 1, 1669; then removed to Rowley and had three more, and died there at the age of 100 years." In the first Rowley tax list extant, 1691, Duncan is taxed. He was an owner of land at Ipswich, Mass., in 1658, and with his wife Ann had Katherine, June 8, 1658, one year earlier than Savage had any account of him; also that at Newbury he had Elizabeth, on Nov. 2, 1662. In Salem, Massachusetts a deed dated April 16, 1718, recorded Vol. 37, fol. 230 in which James Stuart, of Boxford; John Stuart, of Rowley; Samuel Stewart, of Wells, Ebenezer Stuart, of Newbury, deceased, convey to Stephen Greenleaft certain land; which had been conveyed by our honored father, "Dunkin Stewart." Extracts from "Essex Institute Historical Collections" that in Vol. XIV, the records of deaths of First Church, Rowley had John Stewart, aged 90 years and 8 or 9 months, which would give him a birth date of February or March 1666, and make his birth in Newbury, three years earlier than Henry's. This verbatim record is also from the same source: "1717. Dunkin Stewart, about (it's thot) an 100 years old, Aug 30"; and "1729. Old Widow Stewart, relict of Duncan, July 9." Gage's "History of Rowley" "Shipbuilding was first carried on in Rowley at Rowley landing by Duncan Stewart and sons, who came from Newbury as early as 1680, and perhaps earlier. Previous to his death he sold his shipyard to Edward Saunders." "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine" "...this branch of the Stewards, or Stewarts, trace to Duncan Steward, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who settled there in 1658. He joined the church in Rowley, September 26, 1723; his wife Anne joined September 17, 1721. Both Duncan and Anne Steward lived to be nearly one hundred years old; they made their home in Newbury, Massachusetts, where Duncan was a shipbuilder; in 1680 they were living in Rowley. ... Some of the branches of the family spell their name Stewart, others Stuart, but it is positively known that Duncan spelled his Steward." Salem Registry of Deeds lists six deeds for Duncan Steward, one deed Dunckin Steward and one deed Duncan Stewart. "Founders of Early American Families" published by The General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, Cleveland, Ohio 1985 lists Duncan Stewart as a Scotch prisoner. "The non-English colonists from the British Isles were almost entirely Scots. ... Yet the great majority were prisoners who were taken captive by the armies of Oliver Cromwell and brought to America in 1651 or 1652. Here they were sold as indentured servants for a period of severan years or less. Many of the "Scotch prisoners" were deported to Boston where they were acquired by planters from Maine to the Plymouth colony."
  Died	30 Aug 1717	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
  Buried	unknown   [1]
  Person ID	I46489	Main
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Abraham SOMES,   b. 21 Aug 1707, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 22 Nov 1775, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Martha EMERSON,   b. 25 Dec 1715, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Nov 1823, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 107 years)
  Married	3 Dec 1730	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F32276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann WINCHURST,   b. Abt 1632, England ,   d. 9 Jul 1729, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 97 years)
  Married	Apr 1654	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Catherine STEWART,   b. 8 Jun 1657, Norwich, New London, Connecticut ,   d. Abt 1750, Norwich, New London, Connecticut  (Age 92 years)   2. Martha STEWART,   b. 4 Apr 1659, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 19 Jan 1709, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age 49 years)   3. Charles STEWART,   b. 5 Jun 1661, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   4. James STEWART,   b. 8 Oct 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Sep 1750, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 85 years)   5. Henry STEWART,   b. 1 May 1669, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 May 1689, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 20 years) + 6. Anna STEWART,   b. 1 Apr 1671, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. Dec 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 20 years) + 7. Samuel STEWART,   b. 1673, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Mar 1742, Wells, York, Maine  (Age 69 years)
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F32266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Migration - 1654 - Massachusetts Married - Apr 1654 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Died - 30 Aug 1717 - Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Alexander and his older brother Duncan were shipped to the USA as prisoners in 1650 and arrived in Maine. According to family tradition, Duncan was born about 1623 in the parish of Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. He was a soldier who was captured in the Cromwellian War and was shipped to Massachusetts, USA, as an indentured servant. Duncan Stewart was transported to Ipswich, Massachusetts sometime before 1649. He was enslaved as an indentured servant to George Hadley in whose service he worked as a shipwright. Duncan married about APR 1654 to Ann Winchurst who was an indentured servant of John Cogswell. Duncan and Ann were whipped for fornication by order of the church sometime prior to their marriage. —— Duncan Stewart was born in the Highlands of Scotland about 1623. He espoused the cause of his kinsman King Charles II, and in supporting him, either at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, or Worcester in 1651, was captured by the army of Cromwell, and with the other prisoners taken in those battles sent to the American Colonies, and indentured as servants to the Colonists. Duncan was landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1654 and married Anna Winchurst of that town. They removed to Newbury in 1659 and for thirty years occupied a farm in Byfield Parish near the Rowley town line. They later removed to Rowley. In early Suffolk Court Records, Vol. 42, p. 75, dated 1698, on file at the courthouse in Boston, Mass., can be found the deposition of Duncan Stewart "About seventy-five years old" and witnessed by the court officer. The name of Duncan Stewart, and later a reference to his widow as "Old Widow Stewart" appears in Rowley town records. Duncan died in 1717, and his wife in 1729, probably over a hundred years old." - From "Sprague Journal of Maine History, Vol. VIII" "DUNCAN, Newbury, shipwright, perhaps br. of Alexander, had Martha, b. 4 Apr. 1659; Charles, 5 June 1661; James, 8 Oct. 1664; Henry, 1 May 1669; rem. to Rowley, had three more, [[vol. 4, p. 191]] and d. 1717, aged, as Coffin says, prob. from exagger. tradit. 100." - From Savage Their first child was Catherine. —— STEWART, Duncan m. AnnWinchurst in 1654, both being in service of George Hadley, and liv. 30 yers. on the Dummer est. in Byfield, moving to Rowley ±1689. Perhaps. he first conoid. removing to Scarboro, where he bot 100 a. at Blue Point from T. Collins in Dec 1680. Taxed 1681, but the fam historian, Mr. George S. Stewart, said he never liv. there, and he sold to Franis Wainwright in 1708. Ag. ±75 in 1698. He d. in Rowley 30 Aug 1717, did. Ann 9 July 1729. [1, 3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 51761422. [S47] New England Marriages To 1700, Torrey, Clarence Almon, 1450. [S4] Maine and New Hampshire, Genealogical Dictionary of, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, ME. 1928-1939), 675.