Historical records matching Capt. Lazarus Stewart
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About Capt. Lazarus Stewart
Capt. Lazarus Stewart was the famous Captain of the Hanover Boys and Captain in the Revolutionary War under Col. Zebulon Butler's Pennsylvania militia. While stationed in the Wyoming Valley of PA on July 3, 1778 they encountered the British and Iroquois Indian forces a few miles away from camp. Getting into bad order as they attacked the British, an onset by the Iroquois panicked the militia as they attempted to dress their lines, and utterly routed them. Captain Stewart and his cousin, Lieutenant Lazarus Stewart, Jr., actually called The Younger, were both killed in the fight. The troops wounded and taken prisoner were tortured and killed in what became known as the Wyoming Valley massacre.
In many different books he has been listed as the son of Lazarus 1, Alexander, Robert, John and James. However in the court records over the settling of Lazarus 1's estate Capt. Lazarus is said to be the son of James and Margaret and there is a Lazarus named a son in James' will. Wills, 1730-1908; Index, 1729-1947; Author: Lancaster County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Probate Place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Hanover Twp, Luzerne, PA Times-Leader history of the township: "Captain Stewart built the first house, a blockhouse one and a half stories high, in 1771 in the Breslau area between Buttonwood Creek (now Solomon’s Creek) and the river. His brother Charles Stewart built the second home in 1771 in the same area." from "Luzerne County-Times Leader" p.59f
From "History of Luzerne Co., PA" edited by H. C. Bradsby Thomas Nelson & Co.1893: "Capt. Stewart and his forty men—the "Paxton boys"—came from Lancaster first in February, 1770. They were moving in behalf of Connecticut against the Penns, capturing Fort Durkee, and the four-pound canon that had been brought there. The roster of Capt. Lazarus Stewart's company (in 1770-1) is as follows: Lazarus Stewart, Thomas French, Robert Young, JAMES STEWART, Adam Storer, Jacob Stagard, George Ely, Lodwick Shalman, George Aspen, John Lard, John McDonnell, George Meane, Lazarus Stewart, Jr. (actually his younger cousin), William Young, Peter Kidd, John Robinson, John Simpson, Adam Harper, Peter Seamen, John Poop, Mathias Hollenback, (spelled then Hollenbaugh), Joseph Neal, Baltzer Stagard, John Stellie. John McDormer, William Stewart, Lazarus Young. William Carpenter, Luke Shawley, Nicholas Farrings, Conrad Phillip, Casper Relker, John Sault, Peter Szchewer, Robert Kidd, Ronemus Haine, and Adam Sherer. Within the next two years the following were all that remained in Stewart's company: Lazarus Stewart, Lazarus Stewart, the younger, James Stewart(Brother), William Stewart, Robert Young, John Robinson and Thomas Robinson— eight of the Lancaster men. Their places were partly filled by (BROTHER) CHARLES STEWART, (COUSINS) JOHN YOUNG, DAVID YOUNG, James Robinson, (now unrelated) William Graham, John Donahaw, Josias Aspia, Hugh Coffrin, and John Franklin and Silas Gore; the last two from Connecticut." So this quote shows Charles Stewart, brother of Capt. Lazarus, had joined with the Militia by 1772 after moving there in 1771, building the second house in Hanover, Luzerne. In the 1st division of lots in Hanover, Charles was given lot 26. In the second division in 1776, Charles was given lot 19, Capt. Lazarus was given many lots, and another brother James was given lot 2. James' name appears in the 1770 list above of the Paxton Company from Lancaster Co. Charles is not on the 1774 company list nor any of the lists of the 1778 Wyoming Massacre. So he survived the atrocities of 1778 but everybody was then driven out of Hanover Twp by the British Col. Butler and the marauding Iroquois. Capt. Lazarus' surviving wife and children procured a water craft and floated down the Susquehanna to Harrisburg thus returning to Hanover Twp. beside Harrisburg for the rest of the War. Back up in Luzerne after the War a few family members returned to Hanover and the 1796 list of taxable residents there showed the names of George Stewart, David Stewart, James Stewart, William Stewart (apparently the key partner with Capt. Lazarus and co-founder of the township decreed by the Connecticut company), then lastly was the name of Josiah Stewart, the son of Capt. Lazarus.
Charles Stewart sometime during and after the time of the War of 1776 moved further north up the Susquehanna River. He kept his wife and 4 children still with him to the end and died in Bradford County, PA in 1800 holding 306 acres of land on the Towanda Creek, near present day Towanda, Bradford Co., PA and leaving a wife and 4 children. (extracted from Google Reader-Archives.com "History of Luzerne Co. and Bradford, PA")
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Stewart
Captain Lazarus Stewart (July 4, 1734 – July 3, 1778) was an 18th century Pennsylvanian frontiersman and leader of the Paxton Boys. He achieved notoriety by leading the massacre of the Susquehannocks in 1763, and was a prominent military commander — on the Yankee (i.e. Connecticut) side — in the Pennamite Wars. He met his death in battle with the Loyalists and Iroquois at the Wyoming Massacre, in an attack precipitated by his own rashness.
In July 1778, a strong force of Loyalist troops and Iroquois under Colonel John Butler approached the Wyoming Valley. Colonel Zebulon Butler, home on leave from the Continental Army at the time, was chosen to lead the militia which assembled at Forty Fort. Colonel Butler favored delay, as reinforcements might be expected from Philadelphia and other local forts.[5] However, Captain Stewart (who commanded the company of men from Hanover Township[6]) and others argued that they should immediately attack and drive off the enemy before they could be besieged in Forty Fort. Their counsel carried the day, and the militia marched out on July 3, 1778. They encountered the Loyalist and Indian forces a few miles away. Getting into bad order as they attacked the Loyalists, an onset by the Iroquois panicked the militia as they attempted to dress their lines, and utterly routed them. Captain Stewart and his cousin, Lieutenant Lazarus Stewart, Jr. were both killed in the fight. The troops wounded and taken prisoner were tortured and killed in what became known as the Wyoming Valley massacre.
After hearing of the defeat, Stewart's wife and children fled down the Susquehanna, and remained in Lancaster County until the close of the war
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Capt. Lazarus Stewart's Timeline
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July 4, 1734
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West Hanover Township, Dauphin County, PA, United States
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1763
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Hanover, Lancaster Co., Pa
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1768
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Luzerne, Luzerne, PA, United States
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1770
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
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1777
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July 3, 1778
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Wyoming Valley, Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA, United States
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1778
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