Person:Jacob Stephens (3)

Estate Records

Jehu's widow was named Bethia: "From other information a John (Probably an error for Jehu as so often happens to his records) Stephens died before the Sept. term of Blount Co. Tenn. Court 1810, and his widow, Bethia (this was Jehu's wife's name), relinquished her right to administer the estate in favor of John Stephens, Jr.

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Records in Virginia

1782, Montgomery Co., VA Tax List: Jehu Stephens.

3 June 1788, Montgomery County Order Book 1, p. 317: Ordered that Michael Stiffey Thomas Copenhaver, Jehu Stephens & Benjn Rogers Junr do view the nearest & best way for a Waggon Road from Michael Stiffies to Bevers Mill & make report to the next Court they being first sworn.

6 October 1789, Montgomery County Order Book 4, p. 91: Ordered that William Ward, James Dean, Stephan Saunders and Jehu Stephens being first Sworn do View the nearest and best Way for a Waggon Road from Stephen Gooses Senr to Adam Denners and make report thereof to the next Court

October 1792, the General Assembly appointed Francis Preston as a trustee of the newly created Wythe Academy, along with prominent locals John Adams, William Calfee, Walter Crockett, Jesse Evans, George Hancock, James McCampbell, James McGavock, Robert Sayers, Byrd Smith, Alexander Smyth, Jehu Stephens, Reverend John Stanger, William Tate, and Preston's brother John. ⁵¹ Some of these men later served as Preston's agents on poll day. [Whiskey, Soldier and Voting: Western Virginia Elections in the 1790's, pg. 75],

1.   Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection
   pg. 79-80.

   Col. Jacob (Jehu) Stephens lived in what is now Wythe County on Reed Creek...-5 ft. 8-heavy made, & strong active man, a great wooodsman & a fine gunner. Rather illiterate...It was on Goose Creek in Bedford Co. where he Bufords lived, he was raised. Stephens' halfbrother & older(the same mother) was Capt. Henry Paulin...married for his first wife a Ramsey, a sister of Wm. Col. Stephens was a farmer - good character- lived in a Dutch settlement. Moved to Tennessee just as the bells of the Indians Wars...moved to Little River in Knox Co., Tennessee... Died there somewhere about the close of the War of '12.