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INFORMATION ABOUT THE STEWARDS OF ENGLAND AND EARLY-DAY VIRGINIA

The following is based on articles kindly sent to me by Peggy Givens who lives in America and has undertaken extensive search itno the family name Steward.

The earliest records of the name in England are those of Martin Steuhard, who was living in Norfolk County in 1273; Adam le Stiuuard of Gloucestershire in 1273; Hugh Stiward of Norfolk in the same year; Nicholas Staward of Somerset in 1327; and Willelmus or William Stuard of Yorkshire in 1379.

The greater part of the family of the name in Norfolk is believed, however, to be descended from the ancient Scottish line. Sir John Steward, son of John, the "Scot-Angle" married a daughter of Sir Thomas Kiriel and a daughter of Sir John Hamerton. His children were Richard, who married the daughter and heir of John Burley; Thomas; and Galfrid. Richard's sons were Nicol, a lawyer of the Middle Temple who married Cecilia, daughter of John Baskerville; and Thomas. Nicol or Nicholas' children were William; Richard; Robert, the prior, Simon, Nicol, and others. Of this family, Nicholas, son of Richard Stywart, was resident about the beginning of the sixteenth century at Wells in Norfolk.

His sons were Richard, Robert, Nicholas, and Symon. Of these, Richard married Elizabeth Cossyn, (Comyn)? by whom he was the father of Jeffrey, Richard, Thomas, and William; Nicholas left issue by his wife, Elizabeth Lucas, of Sir William Steward, of the Isle of Ely, who was the father of Sir Thomas Steward, High Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon; and Symon was the father of Robert, Edward, Marcus, John, Thomas, Augustine, and Nicholas Styward or Steward, whose descendants were numerous in Norfolk, Suffolk, and the County of Cambridge.

The Stuarts of Hampshire, England, trace their descent from Sir Alexander Stuart, a younger son of the ancient Scottish family. Of this line, Nicholas Stuart of Hartley, in Hampshire, was advanced to the dignity of Baronet in 1660. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Miles Sandys, of Gloucestershire, and was the father by her of Nicholas, Miles, Charles, and numerous daughters.

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AUGUSTINE STEWARD, a member of the Virginia Company, was in the Virginia Colony in 1611 and 1612. Augustine Steward, nephew of Robert, prior of Ely cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, married Anne, aunt of Sir Samuel Argall.

Sir Samuel (c.1580-1626) was an English administrator of Virginia, 1617-19: defeated Indians, 1612; French in Nova Scotia, 1613; and assisted in attack on Cadiz, 1625-26."

Sir Samuel Argall was granted some of the "land of New England by lotts, Cape Cod, and into the maine (high sea)" in a distribution made probably about May 1622. He was an early voyager to America, 1609, 1613, etc.

Augustine Steward owned the site of Barking Abbey, in Essex.

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