Lands Where My Fathers Died: The Stewarts from Scotland to America

The Stewart family has been the subject of history, chronicles, dramas, operas, and novels for hundreds of years. Lands Where My Fathers Died accurately recreates that history from 1230 A.D., when the first family member used STEWART as his surname. Here are the High Stewards, founders of Paisley Abbey, the Cradle of the Stewarts, as well as the royal Stewart and Stuart kings and queens. The Stewarts came from medieval Glasgow, were exiled in Northern Ireland, and found their future in the New World, America. When Hugh Stewart gets on a ship in Belfast in 1735 and eventually arrives in Philadelphia a history of intrigue and courage begins. Pioneers, Indians, frontiersmen and women, farmers and merchants, wars and crimes, births and deaths fill these pages. These stories give equal credit to the women who became Stewarts by marriage and shared in the trials and joys of family life on the frontier. These brave men and women are progenitors of today's generations of Stewarts.