David Stuart
(1753-1814)
BIRTH
August 3, 1753
PLACE
King George County, Virginia
DEATH
1814
PLACE
Alexandria, Virginia
FAMILY
WIFE
Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart
(1754-1811)
CHILDREN
Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson
(1784–1823?)
CHILDREN
Rosalie Eugenia Stuart
(1801–1886)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
CONSTITUTION RATIFICATION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
FEDERAL CITY COMMISSION MEMBER
AWARDS
David Stuart (1753–1814) was a Virginia physician, legislator and trusted correspondent of George Washington. Educated at William and Mary and in Edinburgh, he married Eleanor Calvert Custis, the widow of Martha Washington’s son, in 1783. He represented Fairfax County and supported ratification of the Constitution. Washington later appointed him one of three commissioners responsible for planning the new federal capital, linking his medical career with public service.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
David Stuart was a Virginia physician, legislator and trusted correspondent of George Washington. Washington later appointed him one of three commissioners responsible for planning the new federal capital, linking his medical career with public service. Stuart was also a founding trustee of the towns of Centreville and Providence (now Fairfax City), and of the Centreville Academy in 1808. Stuart's exact date of death is unknown, but he wrote a codicil to his will on October 7, 1814, and his will was filed on Oct 17, 1814, so it was between those dates. His daughter stated he died at "Howard," the residence of his son-in-law Mr. Robinson” (Anne Calvert Stuart’s husband), in Alexandria. It's also unclear where he was buried, but it is likely he was buried at the cemetery on his property at Ossian Hall. Her body was later moved to Page's Chapel in 1848, part of St. Thomas Church in Croom, Prince George's County, Maryland. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
David Stuart, the Virginia physician, ratifying-convention delegate and federal-city commissioner, distinct from later Civil War officers. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume IX: Virginia — John P. Kaminski; Gaspare J. Saladino (editors). [Primary writings with biographical context] Find on Amazon
2. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 — Hugh Blair Grigsby; R. A. Brock (editor). [Collective political biography and convention history; two volumes counted once] Find on Amazon
3. The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series — Dorothy Twohig (editor). [Related primary correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
4. The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" — Flora Fraser. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
5. Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. — Scott W. Berg. [Related biography of Pierre L’Enfant and federal-city history] Find on Amazon
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