David Stuart
BIRTH
Aug 3, 1753
King George County, Virginia
DEATH
Alexandria, Virginia
FAMILY
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Stuart, David
(1753-1814)
David Stuart (1753-1814) was a public official and physician and the spouse of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart was a social hostess whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected David Stuart to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at Scotland helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including David Stuart in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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David Stuart was born on Aug 3, 1753 in King George County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies David Stuart with work or public activity as a doctor, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.














