Susannah Bledsoe Stewart

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Susannah Stewart formerly Fulkerson aka Bledsoe Born about 1740 in New Jersey, British Colonial America

Ancestors ancestors

Daughter of Frederick (Volkertson) Fulkerson and Anna (Middlesworth) Fulkerson

Sister of Frederick Fulkerson [half]

Wife of John Jaural Stewart — married 1760 in Davie, Province of North Carolina

Descendants descendants

Mother of Hamilton A Stewart, Charles W Stewart, Elizabeth (Stewart) Northcutt and Mildred (Stewart) Fortner

Died about 30 Jul 1818 in South Carolina, United States

Susannah FULKERSON......ca. 1740-1776, b. in Hunterdon Co., NJ. She m. (1st) Thomas Ball BLEDSOE (b. 1706 in Essex Co VA), reportedly son of Abraham and Anne BLEDSOE. Thomas has been found only once in Virginia records, on the Orange County tax list of 1734. He died in 1758, killed by Indians somewhere between Gray's Middle Fork and the North Mayo River in southern VA.

In 1759 Susannah bought 500 acres from her father for five shillings, on the middle fork of the Ararat River in Rowan Co., NC. She married (2nd) John STUART/STEWART (b. 1735). They initially lived in Surry Co., NC, then moved up to VA (probably Halifax County), then back to NC. Records show that John and wife Susannah sold land on Bradley Creek, Halifax Co., VA to John MILAM in 1764. I

n 1765 they sold their land in Rowan Co., NC, and moved to Mecklenburg Co., NC. A deed recorded ten years later in Surry County, NC [Deed Books A, B & C 1770-1788 by Absher, A:207-208, 20 Mar 1775 ] states they divided her 500 acres into two parcels, sold to Henry Manadue, Sr and William Robertson: William Robertson & wf Charity, Fincastle Co. VA. to James Roberts, 400 pds 500 ac middle fork Tarrarat River; Granville Grant to Frederick Fulkerson 9 May 1756; then divided & 200 ac conveyed by Fulkerson to Susannah Stuart in her widowhood under the name of Susannah Bledsoe; by John Stuart & sd Susannah to Henry Manadue, Senr; from sd Manadue, Senr. to Henry Manadue, Junr; to Wm. Robertson 29 Dec 1771. The other 300 ac by sd Fredr. Fergason to Susannah Bledsoe; from John Stuart & sd Susannah to William Robertson 1765

John Reed s/William Robertson Elijah Smallwood. In 1774 Thomas and step-son Loving BLEDSOE were listed on the Surry Co., NC tax list (Houzer District). Not long afterward, the family apparently moved back to Virginia and the Scott County area. By 1778 they had moved west across the Blue Ridge mountains to what is now Sullivan Co., Tennessee. Susannah probably died there during in the 1780s. All three of her sons - David STEWART, William STEWART and Loving BLEDSOE - served in the Revolution.[1] Sources

   ↑ https://www.fulkerson.org/volkertnc.html#FREDERICK

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