These posts focus on individuals likely related to Sallie Stewart living in Queen Anne’s District of Prince George’s County as recorded in the 1870 census.
Sallie Stewart
The basic outline below is derived from the 1870 census. Posts will provide more detail about her life and connections to other individuals.
1870; Census Place: Queen Anne, Prince Georges, Maryland; Roll: M593_592; Page: 212A | ancestry.com
Sallie Stewart was born around 1847 in Maryland. She was the daughter of James Stewart and lived with her father and brothers and sisters after the Civil War.
Annotated excerpt from the 1861 Martenet Map of Prince George’s County | loc.gov
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James Stewart (Jr) and his wife, Ann (Nancy) Fletcher, liberated themselves during the Civil War from their enslavement in Prince George’s County. Nancy was enslaved by Marsham Waring and his heirs, while her husband was enslaved by Waring’s brother-in-law, Benjamin Lee. Both Waring and Lee were large landowners along the Western Branch in Queen Anne District. Following…
In 1830, Eliza Stewart was held in the prison in Washington County, District of Columbia. She was listed as 16 years old, wearing a country cloth frock, linen shift, and coarse shoes. Burr, the jailor, advertised for her return to her enslaver: Joseph Wilson living near Bladensburg in Prince George’s County, Maryland. (Daily National Intelligencer,…
See “the many Patrick Stewarts” for the introduction to why this post was written. Patrick Stewart of the Marsham Waring Inventory was 40 years old with an estimated birth year of 1820. Patrick Stewart of Seat Pleasant was 37 in the 1870 census, with an estimated birth year of 1833. It seems unlikely that they…
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