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The late Charles A. Stuart, of Greenbrier, son of Col. John Stuart, after the appearance of Hugh Paul Taylor’s sketches over the signature of “Son of Cornstalk,” published in the Staunton Spectator of August 21, 1829, over the signature of “Son of Blue Jacket,” a brief criticism, in the nature of some corrections regarding his own family, to this effect: That Mrs. Jane Paul was no relative of Mrs. Margaret Lewis, wife of Col. John Lewis; that her first husband, Mr. Paul––not John, but probably Hugh Paul––was apparently from the north of Ireland––their son Audley Paul was born before the migration of the family to Pennsylvania; Mr. Paul, Sr., it is said, became the pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of Chester, in that province; but as Chester was a Quaker settlement, it is more likely that he located in some Presbyterian community in that region, and there must have died. Mrs. Paul, for her second husband, married Col. David Stuart, also from Ireland, by whom she had John Stuart and two daughters. Mrs. Stuart’s grandchild, Charles A. Stuart, resided many years in Augusta, representing that county in the State senate, subsequently removed back to Greenbrier county, where he died about 1850, at the age of about sixty-five years. He was a man of sterling qualities.––L. C. D.

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The following table exhibits a list of the several counties west of the Blue ridge––the counties from which each was taken––when established––their area in square miles––population in 1830, and amount of taxation for the same year.

Counties.From what
taken		When
formed.		Area.Popula-
tion.		Taxa-
tion.
Augusta,Orange,173894819,9256,734
Alleghany,Bath, Botetourt
and Monroe,		18225212,816526
Bath,Augusta, Botetourt
and Greenbrier,		17917954,068865
[47] Brooke,Ohio,17972027,0401,136
Berkeley,Frederick,177230810,5283,356
Botetourt,Augusta,1770105716,3543,809
Cabell,Kanawha,180910335,884629
Frederick,Orange,173874526,0459,396
Greenbrier,Botet’t & Montg’ry,177814099,0591,716
Giles,Montgomery, Monroe
and Tazewell,		18069355,300541
Grayson,Wythe,17939277,675537
Harrison,Monongalia,1784109514,7131,669
Hampshire,Augusta & Fred’k,175498911,2792,402
Hardy,Hampshire,178611565,7002,633
Jefferson,Berkeley,180122512,9274,721
Kanawha,Greenb’r & M’tg’ry,178920909,3341,453
Lewis,Harrison,181617546,241630
Logan,Giles, Kanawha,
Cabell & Tazewell,		182429303,680245
Lee,Russell,17935129,461789
Monongalia,District of W. A’g’ta,177672114,0561,492
Monroe,Greenbrier,17996147,7981,158
Morgan,Berkeley and
Hampshire,		18202712,702546
Montgomery,Fincastle,1777108912,3061,666
Mason,Kanawha,18049046,534915
Nicholas,Kanawha, Greenbrier
and Randolph,		181814313,338373
Ohio,District of W. A’g’ta,177637515,5901,968
Preston,Monongalia,18186015,144441
Pendleton,Augusta, Hardy and
Rockingham,		17889996,2711,120
Pocahontas,Bath, Pendleton and
Randolph,		18217942,542405
Randolph,Harrison,178720615,000644
Russell,Washington,178613706,717739
Rockingham,Augusta,177883320,6635,056
Rockbridge,Augusta & Botetourt,177868014,2443,276
Scott,Lee, Russell and
Washington,		18146245,712503
Shehandoah,Frederick,177276719,7504,922
Tyler,Ohio,18148554,308757
Tazewell,Russell & Wythe,179913055,573727
Washington,Fincastle,1777175415,6142,918
Wythe,Montgomery,1790199812,1632,178
Wood,Harrison,179912236,4181,257
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Total,378,29376,848

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Little and Big Sewell mountains, dividing Fayette and Greenbrier counties, seem to perpetuate the name and memory of this early and adventurous pioneer. Col. John Stuart states, that Sewell’s final settlement was forty miles west of his primitive one, and on a creek bearing his name originating in Sewell mountain, and flowing into Gauley. Col. Preston, in his Register, gives September, 1756, as the date of Stephen Sewell’s death by the Indians, and Jackson’s River as the locality.

Mrs. Anne Royall, in Sketches of the History, Life and Manners of the United States, (New Haven, 1826), p. 60, who visited the Greenbrier country in 1824, gives the name of Carver as Sewell’s companion. “These two men,” says Mrs. Royall, “lived in a cave for several years, but at length they disagreed on the score of religion, and occupied different camps. They took care, however, not to stay far from each other, their camps being in sight. Sewell used to relate that he and his friend used to sit up all night without sleep, with their guns cocked, ready to fire at each other. ‘And what could that be for?’ ‘Why, because we couldn’t agree.’ ‘Only two of you, and could you not agree––what did you quarrel about?’ ‘Why, about re-la-gin.’ One of them, it seems, was a Presbyterian, and the other an Episcopalian.”––L. C. D.

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An error as to date. King George’s proclamation was dated Oct. 7, 1763. For full text, see Wisconsin Historical Collections, XI., pp. 46 et seq.––R. G. T.