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Stewart, Walter -1796

Military officer; born about 1756; recruited a company in Pennsylvania at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War; appointed captain in 1776, and later in the same year aide to General Gates; commissioned colonel of the Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot in June, 1777; served with distinction throughout the war; brevetted brigadier-general in 1783; later became major-general of Pennsylvania militia. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1796.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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