John Stuart (Virginia settler), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American Revolutionary War commander and western Virginia settler
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About John Stuart (Virginia settler)
- For others of the same name, see John Stuart (disambiguation).Colonel John Stuart (17 March 1749 in Augusta County, Virginia – 18 August 1823 in Greenbrier County, Virginia [now West Virginia]) was a Revolutionary War commander and pioneering western Virginia settler.
- A veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774), he surveyed and settled the Greenbrier Valley and is known locally as the "Father of Greenbrier County".
- Owing to his Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences, written in 1799, he has been called "the most important chronicler of pioneer history in southern West Virginia".
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