John Roy Stewart and his genealogical legacy

Abstract

The following account provides a strong case for the identification of immediate descendants of Colonel John Roy Stewart, soldier in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army and poet, one of whose present-day male line descendants has taken a Y-DNA test. This has revealed what is probably one of several genetic markers distinct to descendants of ‘The Wolf of Badenoch.’ The account lays out important evidence to support the genealogical case and to tell the story of John Roy’s son Charles, who followed a military career in the steps of his father and of Charles’s son James, a merchant and British Consul at New London, Connecticut.