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Charles Stewart

STEWART, Charles, soldier, born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1729 ; died in Flemington, New Jersey, 24 July, 1800. His grandfather, of the same name, was a Scottish officer of dragoons, who, for services in the battle of the Boyne, was given an estate in Ireland. The younger Charles came to this country in 1750 and became a deputy surveyor-general of the province of Pennsylvania. In 1774 he was a member of the first convention in New Jersey that issued a declaration of rights against the aggressions of the crown, and in 1775 a delegate to its first Provincial congress. By his adopted state he was made colonel of its first regiment of minute-men, then of the 2d regiment of the line, and in 1777 was appointed by congress commissary-general of issues in the Continental army, serving as such on Washington 's staff till the close of the war. In 1784-'5 he was a representative from New Jersey in congress.-His grandson, Charles Samuel, clergyman, born in Flemington, New Jersey, 16 October, 1795; died in Cooperstown, New York, 15 December, 1870, was graduated at Princeton in 1815, when, after studying law, he took a theological course. He was ordained and sent as missionary to the Sandwich islands in 1823, but, owing to the failing health of his wife, returned in 1825, and afterward lectured through the northern states in advocacy of foreign missions. In 1828 he was appointed chaplain in the United States navy, and during his visits to all parts of the world he collected material for his works. He was subsequently stationed for many years at New York, where, in 1836-'7, he edited the "Naval Magazine." In 1862 he was retired, and at his death he was the senior chaplain in the navy. The degree of D. D. was given him in 1863 by the University of New York. His works include "Residence at the Sandwich Islands, 1823-'25," which is an authority on the early history of that mission (New York, 1828); "Visit to the South Seas in the United States Ship' Vincennes, ' with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, etc." (2 vols., 1831; improved ed., by Reverend William Ellis, 2 vols., 1839); "Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1834) ; and "Brazil and La Plata in 1850-'53 : the Personal Record of a Cruise" (New York, 1856).-Charles Samuel's son, Charles Seaforth, soldier, born at sea, 11 April, 1823, was graduated in 1846 at the United States military academy, where he was assistant professor of engineering in 1849-'54. He was made 1st lieutenant in the corps of engineers in 1853, serving as assistant engineer in 1854-'7, and as superintending engineer in the construction of fortifications in Boston harbor till 1861, having been promoted captain in 1860. He served during the civil war in the corps of engineers, was made major in 1863, and was chief engineer of the Middle military division in 1864-'5. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1867, colonel in 1882, and was retired in 1886.

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