A reference to John Stewart [00249], an early settler of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. At that time the area was in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Source: Samuel T. Wiley, Historian and Editor, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John M. Gresham and Company, 1891), Page 50; digital images, Internet Archive, Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/ : downloaded 23 June 2011; Early settlers.

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...In 1773 William Bracken build a grist-mill on Black Lick, and near him settled John Stewart, Joseph McCartney, John Evans, Thomas Barr and John Hustin.