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Rh 21 March, 1764.* He was a Vestryman of Christ Church from 1758 to 1766, and was Church Warden from 1759 to 1762. On the declaration of the colonies' independence he withdrew to England, and retired to Swansea where he died aged 91. He married Elizabeth daughter of William Chancellor of Peresford, Somerset. He and his brother Charles became largely interested in Lancaster County lands, a large portion of which they sold in 1758 to Baron Stiegel, upon which the latter laid out the town of Manheim, and eventually he bought the entire Stedman interest in the tract. 5 Alexander Stedman was one of the Commission in 1 756 appointed by Lieutenant Governor Morris to audit, adjust and settle the accounts of certain owners of horses and wagons, contracted for by Benjamin Franklin under General Braddock's service. 6 Alexander's younger brother Charles, born 1713, shared in the ill fortunes of the Stuarts, and came to Pennsylvania where his interests increased. He was a member of Christ Church Vestry in 1752-74 and again 1776-78; and was Church Warden in 1764 and 65, and was present at Mr Duche's house on 4 July, 1776 when the Vestry unanimously passed the resolution requesting in the name of the vestry and their constitutents to omit the petitions in the liturgy for the royal family. Charles married in 1769 Ann, daughter of Dr Thomas Graeme. Sabine says of Alexander and his son Charles, Jr: " of Philadelphia: the latter a lawyer. Both attainted of treason, and estates confiscated." 7 4 He had been commissioned Associate Justice of the City Court 5 October, 1756, and President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Philadelphia in place of William Coleman, 8 April, 1758, and Presiding Justice of the Orphans' Court 9 December following. 5 Pennsylvania Magazine, i. 69 and viii. 68. 6 Ibid., v. 336. Dr. William Drewet Smith was married to Miss Peggy Stedman daughter of Alexander Stedman, Esq., of this city. Pennsylvania Gazette 23 Aug. 1775. 7 Loyalists, ii. 581. Charles, Jr., became head of the Commissariat of the British army in the States, war prisoner in 1776 and again 1780, and was companion to Major Andre while in prison. He was author of the History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. 2 vols. quarto, London, 1794. " The author thinks that Howe could have closed the war victoriously in the campaign of 1776."

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