Charles Stewart
BIRTH
1729
County Donegal, Ireland
DEATH
June 24, 1800
Flemington, New Jersey
FAMILY
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Stewart, Charles
(1729-1800)
Charles Stewart was an officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Continental Congressman.
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Bethlehem United Presbyterian Church Cemetery
2 Race Street, Pittstown, NJ 08867, United States
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General Stewart Mansion Marker | River Road, Franklin Township, New Jersey, 08801, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Flemington, New Jersey
Jun 24, 1800
Charles Stewart was born in 1729 in Gortlea, County Donegal, Irelandto Robert Stewart, an Ulster Scots gentleman. His paternal grandfather, Charles Stewart, was an officer of dragoons and fought for William III of England at the Battle of the Boyne. Gortlea was given to his grandfather by William III for his war service. He emigrated to the United States in 1750 and pursued a career in agriculture. After 1763, he lived at Lansdown, his mansion in Landsdown, New Jersey.
Stewart was commissioned lieutenant colonel of militia in Hunterdon County, New Jersey on April 10, 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 Second Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.