STUART, John, clergyman, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 24 February, 1740; died in Kingston, Canada, 15 August, 1811. He was the son of a Presbyterian emigrant from the north of Ireland, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1767, entered the communion of the English church, studied and was ordained priest in England, and, after his return in 1770, labored for seven years as a missionary among the Indians of the Mohawk valley, into whose language he translated the gospel of Mark and the church catechism. After the revolt of the colonies, his loyalist principles and supposed connection with efforts to rouse the Indians against the Americans led to his expulsion by the Whigs. His house and church were plundered, and he took refuge in Schenectady in 1778, and in 1781 emigrated to Canada, where he was soon afterward appointed chaplain of a provincial regiment. He labored as a missionary among the Indians of Upper Canada, and laid the foundations of the Church of England among the white inhabitants of the province, his parish covering its entire area. For some time he taught an academy in Kingston, which town he made his home. He was chaplain to the legislative council some time before his death.--His son, George Okill, clergyman, born in Fort Hunter, New York, in 1776; died in Kingston, Ontario, 5 November, 1862, was graduated at Harvard in 1801, after first studying in Windsor college, Nova Scotia, was ordained priest in 1804, and was rector of a church in York (now Toronto) till 1811, when he removed to Kingston to succeed his father. In 1820 he was made archdeacon of Kingston. He received the degree of LL D from Windsor college in 1832, and in 1848 that of D. D. from Harvard. In 1862 he became dean of the newly created diocese of Ontario.--Another son, Sir James, bart., jurist, born in Fort Hunter, New York, 2 March, 1780" died in Quebec, Canada, 14 July, 1853, studied at Windsor college, Nova Scotia, read law with Jonathan Sewell, and was admitted to the bar in 1801. He was assistant secretary to the lieutenant-governor, Sir Robert S. Milnes, for several years, at the same time practising law in Quebec, and in 1825 was appointed solicitor-general for Lower Canada. In 1808 he was elected to represent Montreal in the legislature. He was removed from office in 1809 in consequence of a difference with the executive. He remained in the assembly till 1817, and was in that body the foremost representative of the English party and an eloquent opponent, of Chief-Justice Sewell. In 1822 he was sent to England as a delegate of the people of Montreal to advocate the reunion of the provinces, and while there received the appointment of attorney-general for Lower Canada. He became an executive councillor in 1827, and the same year was elected to represent Sorel in the provincial parliament. His political course led to his suspension from office in March, 1831. This act of the governor-general was approved by the British minister for the colonies in November, 1832. The succeeding colonial minister, to repair the injustice that had been done to Mr. Stuart, offered him the post of chief justice of Newfoundland ; but he declined, and resumed the practice of law in Quebec. In 1838 the Earl of Durham, at the conclusion of his inquiry into the state of the Canadian provinces, appointed Stuart chief justice of Lower Canada in the place of Jonathan Sewell, who was retired. During Sir John Colborne's administration he acted as chairman of the special council of Lower Canada, and framed the law for the registration of titles and mortgages, the corporation acts for Quebec and Montreal, and a general municipal system for the province. He prepared the act of union that was passed by the British parliament in 1840, and in that year was created a baronet. Another son, Andrew, lawyer, born in Kingston, Canada, in 1786; died in Quebec, Canada, 21 February, 1840, was educated in the school of Reverend John Strachan, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1807. He established his reputation as an eloquent advocate in 1810, when defending Justice Pierre Bedard, and from that time till his death was employed in nearly every difficult or important suit. He entered the provincial parliament in 1815 as representative of the lower town of Quebec, and afterward represented the upper town until the constitution was suspended in 1838, except in 1834, when his defeat and that of others who sought to curb popular passions led to the formation of the Constitutional association, of which he was chosen chairman, and by which he was sent in 1838 to England for the purpose of promoting the union of Upper and Lower Canada. From 1838 till his death he held the office of solicitor-general. He contributed five papers on historical and antiquarian topics to the "Transactions" of the Quebec literary and historical society and published "Notes upon the Southwestern Boundary-Line of the British Provinces of Lower Canada and New Brunswick and the United States of America" (Quebec, 1830) ; "Review of the Proceedings of the Legislature of Lower Canada, 1831" (Montreal, 1832); and, with William Badgley, an "Account of the Endowments for Education in Lower Canada" (London, 1838).