Stuart Cairns Maitland (1816-1861)
of Dundrennan, near Glasgow; Merchant, of Maitland, Phelps & Co., New York
He came to New York from Scotland as a partner in Maitland, Kennedy & Co., which became Maitland, Phelps & Co. He married Margaret, daughter of the epicurean Dominick Lynch, of New York, but returned to Edinburgh under a cloud of scandal: "In playing cards with a gentlemanly black adventurer, named Meredith, he lost one evening in Saratoga something over $100,000." Mr. Meredith was a brother of Gen. Samuel Meredith - 1st Secretary of the U.S. Treasury - and the held the appointment of Measurer in the Custom House in New York. Maitland - "being a man of scrupulous ideas of honor" - would have paid every dollar he lost, but his friends would not permit him to do it, and compromised the matter for a very small sum with Meredith.
