Looking for some Stewarts.....Once upon a time there were three brothers...Samuel, James and John. James and Samuel went off the the gold fields of California during the "gold rush" to seek their fortune...and they found it. James went back to Massachusetts and it seems that Samuel stayed in California. Eventually, James went to Ireland and bought back a bride, a Sarah Lamont (or perhaps Lamon). They settled in Waltham, Mass. and raised a good sized family. One of James and Sarah's sons was my Great Grandfather...William John Stewart. (W.J.) W.J. married a woman named Elizabeth Sloan from Townsend, Mass. Eventually they moved to Townsend to live on a farm that was built by Elizabeth's Grandfather...Peter Sloan. So began the history of the Townsend Stewarts.....and now the time has come to begin to gather the new history of the clan and fit it together with the past.
So if anyone out there stumbles upon this blog and you know some Stewarts please point them in this direction...maybe they know something the rest should know.
In the photo above L-R are Mabel Stewart, Unknown soldier, Elizabeth Sloan Stewart, Flora Stewart. taken on the Stewart farm in Townsend, Mass. (WWI era)
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