John Stewart
(1753-1783)
BIRTH
December 8, 1753
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DEATH
March 23, 1783
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Charleston, South Carolina
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John Stewart, whose name is also spelled Steward, was a Maryland Continental officer who led one of the assault columns at Stony Point in 1779 and received a silver medal from Congress. Stewart became a major in the 2nd Maryland Regiment in 1777 and was captured on Staten Island that August while commanding the rear guard. At Stony Point on July 16, 1779, he led one of the assault columns in Anthony Wayne's night attack. He died in South Carolina in 1783.
EARLY LIFE
John Stewart was born on December 8, 1753, in Maryland, the son of Stephen Steward, a merchant and shipbuilder, and his wife, Anna. In August 1776 he became a first lieutenant in a Maryland independent company and fought at Brooklyn, Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton and Princeton.
Stewart became a major in the 2nd Maryland Regiment in 1777 and was captured on Staten Island that August while commanding the rear guard.
At Stony Point on July 16, 1779, he led one of the assault columns in Anthony Wayne's night attack. Congress voted him a silver medal, which reached America only after his death and was given to his father.
Stewart became a lieutenant colonel in 1781 and served in the South. He died near Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1783 after a fall from his horse, and was buried at St. Philip's Church.
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John Stewart, whose name is also spelled Steward, was a Maryland Continental officer who led one of the assault columns at Stony Point in 1779 and received a silver medal from Congress. Stewart became a major in the 2nd Maryland Regiment in 1777 and was captured on Staten Island that August while commanding the rear guard. At Stony Point on July 16, 1779, he led one of the assault columns in Anthony Wayne's night attack. Stewart became a lieutenant colonel in 1781 and served in the South. He died near Charleston, South Carolina, in March 1783 after a fall from his horse, and was buried at St. Philip's Church. 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.
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