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Lazarus Stewart

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Emily Post — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • James Stewart 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Stewart   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jul 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hanover Township, Lancaster (now Dauphin), Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Jul 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Wyoming, Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Espy
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  James Stewart

  Margaret Stewart (Ahnentafel No:27 )

  • Notes: 

  • He was suspected of being one of the leaders of the Paxtang Boys. The Paxtang Boys were a group of Scotch-Irish militants who massacred the Conestoga Indians in 1763.

    Lazarus Stewart was killed at the Battle of Wyoming (aka Wyoming massacre).

• Sources for Lazarus Stewart

  • ¹ Harvey, Oscar Jewell, The Harvey Book: Giving the Genealogies of Certain Branches of the American Families of Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon and . . ., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E.B. Yordy and Co., Printers (1899), 554, 730, 745-775.
  • ² Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1906), 543.
  • ³ Johnson, F. C., editor, The Historical Record: A Monthly Publication Devoted Principally to the Early History of Wyoming Valley and . . ., October 1886, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 17.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Battle of Wyoming", (accessed 08/26/2014).
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Lazarus Stewart", (accessed 08/26/2014).