CAPT. CHARLES STEWART of HORN HEAD HOUSE
by BromNichol@aol.com.
http://members.aol.com/BromNichol/stewart.htm
...
"Horn Head House, home of the Stewart family
formerly of Horn Head from the time of its purchase by
Captain Charles Stewart in 1700 until its sale in 1934 by his
g-g-g-grandson, Lindesay Stewart.
This is the "Horne Head Castle" referred to by Massengill.
The house was still standing in 2000
though unoccupied since 1934,
and now used for the storage of farm implements.
It is located outside Dunfanaghy in co. Donegal.
Photograph courtesy of Rev. Canon Alexander B. Stewart, of co. Down.

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While the details of his lineage are obscure,
 there's no question but what Capt. Charles Stewart
descended from the Stewarts of Darnley,
probably through the Stewarts of Raiss in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
The arms and motto used by Capt. Stewart bear this out.
The basic arms are those of Sir John Stewart of Derneley,
created Lord of Aubigny in France.
He was killed in 1429 at the Seige of Orleans while serving as
Constable of the Scottish troops fighting for the Dauphin, later
Charles VII of France.

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 NICHOL family
is researching the same STEWART families
in the INCH ISLAND, DONEGAL neighborhood, and then locating on
HOLSTON RIVER  of Washington Co VA with the ELDER families.
NICHOL genealogy:
http://members.aol.com/BromNichol/nichol.htm

"According to the Protestant Householders List,
James Nikill was living in the townland of
Magherabeg, Fahan Parish, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1740.
 His wife's name has not survived but from contemporary Church of
Ireland and surviving civil records we know he had at least three
sons: John, James and William, birth order unknown."

I.    A-32. JOHN NICHOL (ca. 1750- ) son of A-64.
JAMES NIKILL of Magherabeg, Fahan Parish, Co. Donegal, married A-33.
MARGARET DYSART, daughter of  Samuel and Frances (Anderson) Dysart of
Brook Hall, Ballynashallog, Templemore Parish, Co. Londonderry; and a
descendant of Frances Stewart reputedly of the Horn Head gentry
family. [Source:  Samuel Evans Massengill, The Massengills,
Massengales, and Varients (Bristol, TN: King Publishing Co., 1931]

    A.    Josiah Nichol (1770-1833), was baptized in St. Mura's
Church, Fahan Parish, Co. Donegal in 1770, immigrated to America
 about 1788, and died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1833. In 1796 he
purchased 203 acres of land in Washington Co., Virginia, on the North
Fork of the Holston River from his uncle, Col. James Dysart. He
married April 19, 1797, Eleanor Ryburn, born Washington Co.,
September 21, 1781, died Nashville November 18, 1864. She was the
daughter of Matthew and Jane (Beattie) Ryburn.

    1.    Margaret Dysart Nichol, born 1798, at Salt Works,
Washington County, Virginia; died Davidson County, Tennessee, 1834;
married in 1814 at the Hermitage, Captain (later Brigadier General)
Robert Livingston Armstrong. She was estranged from her parents at
the time and living with General Andrew Jackson (later to become
seventh President of the United States) and his wife Rachel. Then
Captain Robert Armstrong was born 1792 at Abingdon, Virginia, died
Washington City, 1854 and was buried in Nashville. He was the son of
Col. James (Trooper) Armstrong and Susannah Wells, and a graduate of
the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1813.
     a.    Robert Armstrong, Jr. (1815- ), born Abingdon, Virginia....
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SALT WORKS, now SALTVILLE, Virginia
Mapquest map, north of Blacksburg, Washington Co VA, location of ELDER land.
at
http://tinyurl.com/u59sx

SEARCH "KING STUART HOUSE" SALTVILLE, VA:
..."The Historical Society visited a "dig site" in Saltville; the King-Stuart House,
where  Flora Stuart, wife of General J.E.B Stuart (deceased) ,
and her children lived which was built in 1795 by William King,
another of Saltville's early salt manufacturers; the Battle Site;
the Salt Kettles site;  Mrs. Russell's Methodist Church and home; the Museum;
the Mattheson Chemical Corp. train, which was probably used in the Salt works, and library."
 

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Searching for more info about JEB's father: ARCHIBALD STUART:
Shenandoah Valley Civil War Sites
http://www.mosocco.com/valley.htm
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(KG2) STUART'S BIRTHPLACE
A short distance west is the site of the home of Archibald Stuart, Jr., a statesman of a century ago.
There was born, February 6th, 1833, his son, James Ewell Brown (J.E.B.) Stuart,
who became Major General commanding the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia,
and whose fame is a part of the history of that army. Stuart closed his career by falling
in the defense of Richmond, (at Yellow Tavern) May 11th, 1864. (Route 103, 4 miles south of Friends Mission).

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Genealogy of J.E.B. STUART,
tracing his STUART family  back  to Londonderry.
Found "Valley of the Shadow" (VIRGINIA genealogies):
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/memory/search/browseMemory.php?xml=/db/valley/memoryarticles/AM0005.xml
....
"Augusta County VA:
 "Tenth Annual Reunion of the Virginia Division Army Northern Virginia Association.
Address of Major H. B. McClellan, of Lexington, Ky., on the Life, Campaigns, and
Character of Gen'l J. E. B. Stuart.," by Major H. B. McClellan, October 27, 1880
....
"James Ewell Brown Stuart was born in Patrick county, Va., on the 6th day of February, 1833.
He died in Richmond, Va., on the 12th of May, 1864, of a wound received the day previous at
the Yellow Tavern. His age at his death was 31 years 3 months and 6 days.

"Through five generations his ancestry is traced back to Archibald Stuart, Sr.,
a native of Londonderry, Ireland, but of Scotch Presbyterian parentage, who,
early in the eighteenth century, was compelled by religious persecution to seek refuge in Western Pennsylvania.
 Here he remained in seclusion for nearly seven years before his family could venture to join him.
Removing to Augusta county, Va., about 1738, Archibald Stuart, Sr., acquired large landed estates,
which he divided between his four children.

"His second son, and third child, Major Alexander Stuart, was, early in the Revolutionary War,
commissioned major of the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel McDowell;
and, during Colonel McDowell's illness, commanded the regiment at the battle of Guilford Court-house.
Two horses were killed under him in this action, and he himself, dangerously wounded,
was left upon the field, and was captured by the enemy. He was subsequently exchanged,
and his sword was returned to him. This valued relic is now in the possession of his grandson,
the Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Va.

"Judge Alexander Stuart, the youngest son of Major Alexander Stuart,
was a lawyer by profession, and resided at various times in Virginia,
in Illinois, and in Missouri. He held many honorable and responsible offices in each of these states.
 He died and was buried in Staunton, Va.
His eldest son, the Hon. Archibald Stuart, of Patrick, the father of our general, was an officer in the war of 1812.
He embraced the profession of law, and throughout his long and eventful life was actively
engaged in the practice of his profession, and in political life. He represented first the county of Campbell,
in the Virginia legislature, and was afterwards repeatedly elected from Patrick county to the same body.
He was a member of the famous Convention of 1829-30, and of the Convention of 1850,
in which he was actively associated with the Hon. Henry A. Wise.

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More about Archibald STUART Sr. in EGLE's info:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings/manuscript/stuart.htm

 Archibald Stuart (so spelled by Egle & Waddell) was,
according to W. H. Egle ("Notes and Queries of Interior Penn.", Vol. 2, p. (???),
one of the earliest settlers in Paxtang Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
He was born at Londonderry, Ireland, whither his people had settled on leaving Scotland
in the early part of the seventeenth century.
He had a brother, Andrew, who is buried in the old Paxtang burying ground.
After living in Penn. for a time, he removed with his family to Virginia, and settled
"on the South River of the Shanandoe" (will Bk. 9, p. 503--Augusta Co. records)...."
 

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