BIO: Andrew STEWART, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 184.
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  STEWART, ANDREW, was the son of Andrew Stewart and Mary Dinwiddie, 
whose remains lie in old Paxtang churchyard.  The first Andrew Stewart 
with his brother Archibald Stewart came to America prior to 1733 and 
settled in Paxtang township, then Lancaster county, Pa.  The former 
remained there, while Archibald drifted down the Kittochtinny Valley 
into the Valley of Virginia, and settled in Augusta county, that State.  
He was the head of a large family and whose descendants have been 
represented in the recent history of our country by the rebel 
chieftain, Gen. James E. B. Stuart, "the Murat of the Confederacy," and 
by the Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, a prominent Virginia statesman of the old 
regime.  The youngest son of Andrew Stewart, Sr., was the subject of 
our sketch, also named Andrew.  He was born in Paxtang in 1748, and was 
a farmer by occupation.  He was one of the leaders in the movement for 
the erection of the new county of Dauphin, and hence was named as one 
of the commissioners.  In 1792 Mr. Stewart sold his plantation in 
Paxtang, and removed to Western Pennsylvania.  He died in Allegheny 
county about the year 1827, the date of his will being the 14th day of 
June that year.  Capt. John Rutherford and Thomas Brown, of the county 
of Dauphin, were the executors named in his will, but the former passed 
away before the settlement of the estate.  We have no information as to 
any descendants.