Armstead Stewart

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  • Name Armstead Stewart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Born 1783  Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Gender Male 
    Race Black  [6
    Reference Number 2512 
    Residence 1810  Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Residence 1830  Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Residence 1850  Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Age: 55 
    Died USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2512  Families

    Father Thomas Stewart,   b. 1727, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mildred Stewart,   d. USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F3096  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Pheobe Ede Embrey,   d. USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 26 Feb 1830  Knox, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Stewart,   b. 20 Dec 1830, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Apr 1907, Honey Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)  [natural]
     2. Nancy Jane Stewart,   b. Abt 1832, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Family ID F3067  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Flora Crook,   d. USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 10 Oct 1806  Brunswick, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Armstead Stewart,   b. Abt 1805, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Family ID F3089  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1783 - Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 10 Oct 1806 - Brunswick, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1810 - Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1830 - Vigo, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 26 Feb 1830 - Knox, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 55 - 1850 - Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - - USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Census
    1810 U.S. Census - Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia
    1810 U.S. Census - Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia
    Roll: 67; Page: 84; Image: 00106

  • Notes 
    • Armstead, born say 1783, over sixteen years old when he was listed in John Day's Dinwiddie County household in 1800 (with his brother Henry Stewart). He was taxable in the household of his father in 1807 and taxable in his own household with a slave in 1809 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-99; 1800-9; 1810-14]. He was head of a Dinwiddie County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [VA:161]. He was called Armstead Stewart of Dinwiddie County when he married Flora Crook, 10 October 1806 Brunswick County bond, Robert Crook security. Robert Crook was a "free negro" head of a Brunswick County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:708]. Armstead was taxable in Dinwiddie County on 3 slaves in 1811, 2 in 1812 and his estate was taxable on 2 slaves and 3 horses in 1813. (His widow) Flora Stewart was taxable on 2 slaves from 1815 to 1819 [Personal Property Tax List 1810-14; 1815-19]. His heirs Theophilus H., Edward R., Henry A., Julian, and Robert (still an infant) were named in a chancery suit in Dinwiddie County on 4 September 1832 [Chancery Orders 1832-52, 13].
      SOURCE Paul Heinegg http://freeafricanamericans.com
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      Armstead was kidnapped and enslaved by Daniel Durham. Daniel Durham's bio in the book Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County reads:

      Daniel Durham, born in Virginia in 1801, came to Vigo County with his brother William in 1822. In emigrating westward, he had first located in Tennessee and then in Kentucky. He had brought with him forty or fifty slaves, but conversion to Quakerism caused him to free them all. Not only that, but he bought a large tract of land in Kentucky, raised on it a big crop, and then turned it all over to the freed slaves to enable them to live until able to become self-supporting. When he came to Vigo County he was accompanied by a few of his former slaves. One of them, a girl, died and was buried in the family plot on the Lyman Durham farm. One was Si Lewis, who settled in Knox County and became the owner of 1,300 to 1,400 acres of land near Carlisle. The name of another was Armistead Stewart. Daniel Durham settled about a mile and a half south of the village, but he owned land from near Honey Creek up to Hulman street and from the river to Seventh Street. He owned the Chestnut property and nearly all the land down that way. Daniel was the
      father of John, Thomas, William, Daniel Robert, and David, and their generations are still represented in the county.

      SOURCE: excerpt from GREATER TERRE HAUTE AND VIGO COUNTY. http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/archives/genhistories/oakey/Volume1/Part1/pt014.pdf

  • Sources 
    1. [S244] 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1810; Census Place: Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia; Roll: 67; Page: 84; Image: 00106; Family History Library Film: 0181427.
      Record for Armistead Stweard

    2. [S190] 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), 1830; Census Place: Vigo, Indiana; Series: M19; Roll: 30; Page: 79; Family History Library Film: 0007719.
      Record for Armsted Stuart

    3. [S359] Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
      Record for Arnestead Stewart

    4. [S266] Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Record for Elizabeth Underwood

    5. [S319] Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Book: County Court Records at Vincennes, IN.
      Record for Ede Embry

    6. [S153] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Harrison, Vigo, Indiana; Roll: M432_177; Page: 236A; Image: 485.
      Record for Armstad Stewart

    7. [S269] Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Record for Rances Anderson

    8. [S269] Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Record for Sylvia Patterson

    9. [S319] Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Vigo County, Indiana; Index to Marriage Record 1840-1920 Inclusive Volum, W. P. A. Original Record Located: County Clerk's O; Book: C-B; Page: 260.
      Record for Armsted Stewart