Charles Stewart (New Jersey politician)

Charles Stewart (1729–1800) was an officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Continental Congressman.

Colonel

Charles Stewart
Born1729
Gortlea, County Donegal, Ireland
DiedJune 24, 1800(1800-06-24) (aged 70–71)
Flemington, New Jersey

Biography

Stewart was born in 1729 in Gortlea, County Donegal, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1750 and pursued a career in agriculture.[1] After 1763, he lived at Lansdown, his mansion in Landsdown, New Jersey.[2] He married Mary Oakley Johnston (d. 1771), daughter of Judge Samuel Johnston (1706–1785), who owned a large estate there.[3][4] Stewart was commissioned lieutenant colonel of militia in Hunterdon County, New Jersey in 1771, and commissioned colonel of a battalion of Minutemen on February 15, 1776. He served in four sessions of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey (1775–76)

After the outbreak of war, he was appointed commissary general of issues by the Continental Congress on June 18, 1777. Stewart later became a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.

Stewart died June 24, 1800, at a farm he owned on Mt. Carmel (Coxe's Hill) in Flemington. He is interred at Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Grandin.

Gen. Farrand Stewart Stranahan was his great-grandson. Another great-grandson was Charles Seaforth Stewart.

References
  1. Snell, James P. (1881). History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. Everts & Peck. p. 252.
  2. Brasch, C.F. (July 23, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lansdown". National Park Service. With accompanying 5 photos
  3. Mott, George S. (1878). The First Century of Hunterdon County, State of New Jersey. Flemington, N. J.: E. Vosseller. pp. 32–35.
  4. Kuhl, John W. (Spring 2009). "Charles Samuel Stewart (1795–1870), Navy Chaplain" (PDF). Hunterdon Historical Newsletter. Hunterdon County Historical Society. 45 (2): 1058–1060.


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