John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart

[3] The historian Allan Fea states in his biography of Monmouth that Major-General James Crofts married a daughter of Sir Thomas Taylor (“after 1706, when he is described as single”) and had a daughter, Maria Julia; and that she married first a Mr Dalziel and secondly R. Wentworth Smyth-Stuart, who claimed to be Monmouth's son by Henrietta Maria Wentworth.

Fea was convinced that Monmouth ”undoubtedly left a son by her (born in 1681), who was adopted and educated in Paris by Colonel Smyth”.

[5] An obituary said that Stuart had been a Doctor of Medicine and had been educated “amid the Grampian hills”, and then had “attended the lectures of Dr Gregory” at Aberdeen,[2] but no university career has been traced.

He later wrote that at one time he commanded an armed sloop in Chesapeake Bay and at another raised a company of men for frontier work.

[1] Escaping from rebel forces, Stuart arrived in New York in 1777, and was commissioned as a Captain into the Queen's Rangers, a Loyalist regiment.

John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth, of the Queen's Rangers, setting out his adventures, and was critical of the “deluded and mistaken” rebels.

[6] The Queen's Rangers were stationed at King's Bridge, New York, from July 1778,[5] and on 23 October 1778, Stuart married Abigail Haugewout, the daughter of a loyalist farmer in Hempstead, Long Island.

In May 1779, he launched a number of proceedings against his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe, but they were found to be “Malicious, Frivolous, Vexatious, & Groundless”.

The British government had set up a Commission to give financial help to loyalists with losses from the war, and in 1780 they awarded Stuart £100 a year as an interim allowance, increasing this to £200 in 1781 and to £300 in 1783.

He made an application to the Privy Council, asking to be awarded Long Island, a Crown property in the Bahamas, in view of his claimed losses of 3,300 acres in Virginia and Maryland, but he was not believed and this was rejected.

Stuart then wrote his book A Tour in the United States of America,[1] which was published by George Robinson in 1784, agreeing to pay £160 for the printing.

"[8] In 1795, Stuart accepted a post as assistant barrack-master-general in San Domingo and to get there joined Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian on an expedition to the West Indies.

[2] On 20 December 1814, Stuart died as a result of being run over by a carriage which hit him at the corner of Southampton Street, Westminster, leaving his second family destitute.

[15] The Monthly Magazine printed a six-page obituary which celebrated Stuart's life, believing his version of all events, and appealed on behalf of his dependants: It may be hoped that some friend of the royal house of Guelph will do Humanity the justice to point out to them the necessities of this withered branch of the once-royal house of Stuart.

[2]In January 1815, Lord Palmerston, Secretary for War, agreed to Eunice Stuart being paid an annual allowance of £25 out of his Compassionate Fund, including £15 for the support of her children.