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Descendants of Henry Stephens

Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS⁶ STEPHENS (HENRY⁵, NICHOLAS⁴, THOMAS³, EDWARD², HENRY¹) was born 14 December 1678 in Stonington, Connecticut, and died 07 September 1750 in Cannan, Connecticut. He married (1) MARY HALL 26 May 1702, daughter of STEPHEN HALL and RUTH DAVIS. He married (2) ABIGAIL WINN (WYNNE) 14 March 1719/20.

Notes for THOMAS STEPHENS:
Thomas Stevens (Stephens) was born at Stonington, Connecticut December 14, 1678 (Town Records), and baptized in the Congregational Church February 18, 1693. He settled in Plainfield, Connecticut where he married May 26, 1702, Mary Hall, the third daughter of Stephen and Ruth Hall. She was born in Concord, Massachusetts, June 1, 1677 and died at Plainfield, Connecticut, May 30, 1719. Thomas Stevens (Stephens) married, second, Abigail Wine (Wynn, Wynne), March 14, 1719/20. She died at Canaan, Connecticut, January 10, 1770, aged 94.
Thomas Stevens was living in Plainfield June 28, 1741, and at Canaan, Connecticut, June 21, 1743 (deeds on record at Canaan), where he was made an inhabitant December 11, 1744. He died September 7, 1750, and was buried in the old cemetery, south of Canaan. The inscription on his gravestone is as follows (authority S. P. Stevens):

"Here lies the body of Thomas Stevens who died Sept. 7 1750 in the 72 year of his age,

All ye who dwell below the sun,
Prepare to die to judgment come,
Though here my body lies in dust,
Seven sons I had I went first.
And they all soon must follow me."

The Plainfield records at first gave the title "Junior" and , later, "Secundus," to this Thomas Stephens to distinguish him from his brother in law, Thomas Stevens who married Ruth, the eldest daughter of Stephen and Ruth Hall, and who formerly resided in Stow, Massachusetts. The following deed from the Voluntown, Connecticut Records shows the connection of Thomas, "Junior," with Henry Stephens/Stevens of Stonington, Connecticut.

"To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting: Know ye that the Thomas Stevens ye 2nd of Plainfield in ye County of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England husbandman for and in considering of ye sum of twelve pounds money to me in hand already paid by Joshua Whitney Jun, of Plainfield afore said the receipt thereof I do acknowledge and myself therewith satisfied, Therefore have given, granted, bargained and sold and do by these presents, convey and confirm unto ye sd Joshua Whitney his heirs and assigns for ever one right shear or alotment in ye Township of Voluntown in ye common or undivided land which is yet to be laid out which right originally was my Honored Father Henry Stevens of Stonington Deceast; The first division being already disposed of by my Honored Father aforesaid, and is excluded all the remainders to have and to hold unto the said Joshua whitney his heirs and assigns with all the apurtenances previlege and commodities belonging to the same for ever, to have, hold, use occupy posess and enjoy peaceably and quietly without any let or hindrance from me, my heirs, or assigns, avouching the same to be free from all incumbrances whatsoever and that in my own right I have full power to sell and dispose of ye same in manner as above, express furthermore I the said Thomas Stevens do bind myself and heirs to warrant, secure and defend the above bargained and demised premises unto ye above sd. Joshua whitney his heirs and assigns against the lawful claim thereunto; in withness thereofI have hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of September in the fourteenth year of the reign of our soverign Lord George ye Second by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King &. etc. A.D. 1740.
"Signed sealed and delivered
in the presents of-
Andrew Stevens Thomas Stevens 2nd
Zebulon Stevens Windham s.s Thomas Stevens
February ye 18th the 2nd. personally appeared in.
day A.D. 1740/41 Plainfield, this tenth day of
Received this deed September 1740, before me the
to record and recorded subscriber and freely acknowl-
by me Ebenezer Dow, edge this to be his act and deed
recorder. before me,
"Timo. Pierce
"Assist."

("Voluntown, Connecticut, 12-4-06. A copy of the original, Book 2 page 190. Elim A. Kinne, Town Clerk")

This first deed to him recorded at Canaan was made to "Thomas Stevens S.C.," in the Index, "Thomas Stevens 2nd"

*The above information was obtained from the "Stephens/Stevens Genealogy" by Plowdon Stevens (1909).

More About THOMAS STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 18 February 1692/93, Baptized In Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

Notes for MARY HALL:
THE FAMILY OF MARY HALL, WIFE OF THOMAS STEVENS

The widow, Mary Hall, was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1662.

Children:
John b. 1627, lived in Medford Massachusetts
Stephen

Stephen Hall, son of Widow Mary Hall, was born in 1637. He lived in Concord, Stow, Medford, Massachusetts, where he went in 1685, and Plainfield, Connecticut, in which place he settled in 1699, and where he died October 1, 1724. He married December 3, 1663, Ruth the daughter of Dolor and Margary (Willard) Davis. She was baptized at Barnstable, Massachusetts, March 24, 1644, and died June 6, 1715, at Plainfield Connecticut.

Margary Willard was a daughter of Richard and Margary Willard of Horsmonden, County Kent, England, and was baptized November 6, 1602. She was a sister of Major Simon Willard of Lancaster, Mass., whose daughter Mary married Januaary 22, 1671, Cyprian Stevens, a brother of Thomas Stevens of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Dolor Davis the father of Ruth, came to America in 1634.

*The above information was obtained from the "Stephens/Stevens Genealogy" by Plowdon Stevens (1909).

More About ABIGAIL WINN (WYNNE):
Fact 1: 10 January 1770, Died at the age of 94

Children of THOMAS STEPHENS and MARY HALL are:

6.	i.	THOMAS⁷ STEPHENS, b. 12 January 1703/04, Plainfield, Connecticut.
	ii.	PHINEAS STEPHENS, b. 30 December 1705.
7.	iii.	URIAH STEPHENS, b. 02 June 1708, Plainfield, Connecticut; d. 20 October 1764, Buried in Lower or South Cemetery.
8.	iv.	ANDREW STEPHENS, b. 06 November 1709, Plainfield, Connecticut; d. 27 September 1770.
9.	v.	BENJAMIN STEPHENS, b. 17 April 1713, Plainfield, Connecticut; d. 1787, Canaan, Connecticut.
10.	vi.	SAMUEL STEPHENS, b. 06 March 1714/15, Plainfield, Connecticut.
11.	vii.	ZEBULON STEPHENS, b. 25 February 1716/17, Plainfield, Connecticut; d. 04 July 1814.

Child of THOMAS STEPHENS and ABIGAIL (WYNNE) is:

viii.

JESSE⁷ STEPHENS, b. 31 August 1721; d. 12 October 1726.

3. RICHARD⁶ STEPHENS (HENRY⁵, NICHOLAS⁴, THOMAS³, EDWARD², HENRY¹) was born 25 January 1679/80 in Stonington, Connecticut, and died 1732 in Stonington, Connecticut. He married SARAH HARKER 09 June 1704 in Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of JOHN HARKER and PATIENCE FOWLER.

Notes for RICHARD STEPHENS:
Richard Stephens was born at Stonington, Connecticut, January 25, 1679/80 (Town Records), and was baptized in the Congregational Church February 18, 1693. He married June 9, 1704, Sarah Harker, born September 21, 1681, the daughter of John and Patience (Fowler) Harker of Boston. She was baptized in the First Church but married by Reverand Samuel Willard of the Old South Church, of which her mother had become a member. She died in Canaan, Connecticut, June 13, 1754. (The Old South Church was then known as the Third Church of Boston.)

Richard Stephens settled in Stonington, Connecticut, and received one half of the homestead from his father (See deed, August 13, 1710, Land Book 3, pages 171-172). Here he lived until June 1732. Mrs. Stephens united with the Stonington Congregational Church December 7, 1712.

*The above information was obtained from the "Stephens/Stevens Genealogy" by Plowdon Stevens (1909).

More About RICHARD STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 18 February 1692/93, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

Children of RICHARD STEPHENS and SARAH HARKER are:

	i.	JOHN⁷ STEPHENS, b. 21 March 1704/05.
12.	ii.	SARAH STEPHENS, b. 04 May 1708, Stonington, Connecticut.
	iii.	MARY STEPHENS, b. 02 February 1709/10.

Notes for MARY STEPHENS:
There is a record of the tombstone of Hannah Stephens saying

"Hannah, Daughter of Richard Stephens Dyed May 10, 1710"

However, one of the dates has to be wrong, as this is before the recorded date of birth as being August 9, 1714.

*The above information was obtained from the "Stephens/Stevens Genealogy" by Plowdon Stevens (1909).

More About MARY STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 03 September 1710, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

	iv.		HEPZIBAH STEPHENS, b. 25 July 1712.
	v.		HANNAH STEPHENS, b. 09 August 1714.

More About HANNAH STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 21 August 1715, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

vi.

PATIENCE STEPHENS, b. 30 August 1716.

More About PATIENCE STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 12 November 1716, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

vii.

RICHARD STEPHENS, b. 27 February 1718/19.

More About RICHARD STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 21 June 1719, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

13.	viii.		EBENEZER STEPHENS, b. Unknown, Stonington, Connecticut; d. 27 February 1801, New Marlboro, Massachusetts.
	ix.		PRUDENCE STEPHENS, b. Unknown.

More About PRUDENCE STEPHENS:
Fact 1: 13 May 1722, Baptized in Congregational Church at Stonington, Connecticut.

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