STEWART

Charles Stewart married Sarah Finney

There is a book at Spruance, History of Doylestown Old and New - page 308
The Stewarts were among the first to settle in, or near, the present limits of the borough, whose first representative, Charles Stewart, came from Scotland between 1720 and 1730, and bought a farm. He was a young man of culture and some means, and served in the French and Indian Vi/ars with the rank of Captain. His wife was a Mrs. Finney, whose sister was the mother of Mrs. Hugh Meredith. George Stewart, son of Charles, whose wife was Parthena Barton, was the father of Barton Stewart,6 a well—knowninhabitant of Doylestown in his day. Barton Stewart’s log wheelwright shop stood on the site of the Intelligencer office—-monument place.

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John Harris took an active part in the building of the Presbyterian Church in 1769. and was one of the principal managers and the ticket seller of the lottery which the money was raised for construction of the same. - He married Hannah Stewart. daughter of Charles Stewart. of Upper Makefield township. and: they . had seven children' John. Ann. Sarah. Elizabeth. Mary, .Rachel, and Hannah. Harris died August 13, 1733,' aged :16; and was buried in the Newtown Presbyterian Graveyard. His widow continued to live at the homestead many year~ after his death. The slave census of 1780 shows that Hannah owned 11 slaves, three times as many as anyone else in the township. In 1787 she went to Kentucky to get her share. of her brother William Stewart's estate. When and where she died is not known to the writer.
"Historic Newtown", by Edward R. Barnsley

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Of our present public houses it is thought the older portion of the Fountain house was built by Enoch Harvey about 1804 and he kept it several years. He came here in 1788, and married a daughter of Charles Stewart. Stewart was a man of culture and some means, whose father had immigrated from Scotland, bought a farm near Doylestown, and married a Miss Finney, whose sister was the wife of Dr. Todd, and mother of Mrs. Hugh Meredith. Charles Stewart was the father of Barton Stewart.

Bucks County Historical Society Bulletins (Vol 1-4

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