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Charles Stuart

STUART, Charles, author, born in Jamaica, West Indies, about 1783; died near Lake Simcoe, Canada, in 1865. His father was a British officer, who fought at Bunker Hill and in other battles of the Revolution, and was subsequently stationed in the West Indies. Tile son at the age of eighteen, when living at Belfast, Ireland, received a lieutenant's commission in the Madras army. He was promoted captain, received a severe wound in an encounter with native insurgents, and after thirteen years' service, returned to England, and was retired with a pension. Some time later he received a grant of land on Lake Simcoe, and was commissioned as a local magistrate. About 1822 he settled in Utica, New York, as principal of the academy, which he taught for several years. From that period he spent much of his time in the United States. He was one of the early emancipationists, and took part with Gerrit Smith in anti-slavery meetings. Captain Stuart was the author of several pamphlets that were published by the British and foreign anti-slavery society, the most effective of which was "Prejudice Vincible," which was reprinted in this country, lie published a volume of short poems, and a religious novel entitled "Parraul of Lure Sing, or the Missionary and the Mountain Chiefs." His principal other works were "The West India Question: Immediate Emancipation would be Safe and Profitable" (New Haven, 1833); "Memoirs of Granville Sharp " (New York, 1836) ; and "Oneida and Oberlin : the Extirpation of Slavery in the United States " (Bristol, 1841).

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Charles Stuart - did not receive a land grant on Lake Simcoe, nor did he die there. He lived from 1817-1819 at Amherstburg, on the Detroit River, where he divided his 1,000 land grant to provide lands for incoming fugitive slaves. After he returned from England in 1851, he moved to Lora Bay, on Georgian Bay near the town of Thornbury (a long way from Lake Simcoe!) where he was a founder of the Canadian Anti-Slavery Society. He died in 1865 adn was buried at Lora Bay but his grave was moved to the Thornbury-Clarksburg cemetery. A provincial plaque is mounted at Thornbury to mark the site of his home. -- karolyn smardz frost

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