29 August 1863
The Stuarts, who have figured in the Virginia and Maryland campaigns as active rebel officers, are descended from David Stuart, of Inverness, in Scotland, who claimed as his ancestor an illegitimate brother of Queen Mary. Implicated in the rebellion of 1715, under the lead of the elder pretender David Stuart fled to Virginia, where he was engaged as tutor in the family of Mr. Brent, of Richland, Prince William county; Mr. Brent had married a Miss Gibbons (sister of Sir John Gibbons, member of Parliament for Middlesex) and her sister being at the time on a visit to Virginia, Stuart succeeded in winning her affections, and she married him.
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