Stewart Hill Cemetery Listing

Listing of Persons Buried at the Stewart Hill Cemetery

Stewart Hill, now called Wyssaup Road, is cemetery #39 in North Stonington.

Barbary PALMER

Barbary5 (Barbara) PALMER (William4, William3, Gershom2, Walter1) was born 27 Jan 1750 in Stonington, New London, CT. She was a daughter of William PALMER, Jr. (1704-1781) and his wife Abigail WYATT (-1784).

She and Nathan were married 1 May 1768 in Stonington and were the parents of the following ten children: (red text indicates my ancestor)

1. Nathan, 1769-1850, m (1) Honor BROWN, m (2) Anna BROWN
2. Barbary , 1771-?, m Capt. Nehemiah BROWN
3. Edward, 1774-1837, m. Rebecca NOYES
4. Priscilla, 1778-?, m. Noyes WHEELER
5. Betsey, 1780-1861, m Col. Dension RANDALL
6. Russell W., 1783-?, m. Caroline LORD
7. George Palmer, 1786-1851 m. Mary ("Polly") HEWITT
8. Phebe, 1789-?, m. Oliver SWAN
9. Cyrus, 1792-?, m. Sophia CROCKER
10. Apphia, 1795-?, died young

Stonington Families in New York

Many families from the Stonington, CT area, migrated to areas in New York. Some settled down but some returned back to Connecticut.

Hal Miller, Webmaster of the Berne Historical Society in New York, wrote this article about those families. The Web page for the Berne Historical Project is of great interest to any of us with families that moved to New York. It is rich with census records, maps and gravestones.

Hal so loved the idea of this blog, that he started one for the sharing of ideas about these families called Berne, New York Blog. I hope you will visit it.

Stewart House

Stewart House
Originally uploaded by midgefrazel

This is the side of the house as it appeared in 2004.

Stewart House

Stewart House
Originally uploaded by midgefrazel

Photo of the house that I took in 2004. It seems to be in the same position as the old homestead but with a more modern front.

Stewart Reunion

Stewart Reunion
Originally uploaded by midgefrazel

This is a scanned copy (one of two) of an undated photo of the Stewart/Steward family homestead. It was obtained from Gladys Chase of the North Stonington Historical Society from the archives stored at the Society.

This photo was probably taken the same day as the other photo as the windows in the house are open to the same level.

Look closely to the left side where the two men are standing. What are those poles? Do you see the Stewart Hill cemetery? Note the wooden gate on the side where the house is, which I don't think is there now.

Stewart Family Reunion

Stewart Family Reunion
Originally uploaded by midgefrazel

This is a scanned copy (one of two) of an undated photo of the Stewart/Steward family homestead. It was obtained from Gladys Chase of the North Stonington Historical Society from the archives stored at the Society.

Maureen Taylor, world known "photo detective" examined it and sets the date, from the clothing, at about 1900.

There are many mysteries about this photo. What was the reason for the reunion? Who is the couple standing posed having their photo taken and are the people attending family, neighbors or friends. Note that some are Orthodox Jews.