Person:John Stevens (118)

Record in Orange County, VA

• 22 Apr 1756, On the motion of Reubin Daniel and Anthorit his Wife, Executors of Peter Mountague, deceased, and John Stevens who intermarried with Sarah, one of the Decedent.'s [sic] Daughters, it is ordered that Richard Thomas, Elijah Morton, John Pendleton and Roger Bell or any three of them examine state and settle the Account of the administration of the Decedent's Estate and make a report thereof to the next Court. [Orange County, Virginia Order Book 6, p.233]

1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   The following query letter was contained in the Revolutionary War Pension File of a DIFFERENT and likely unrelated John Stephens (1763-1842):
   
   query letter in file says a John Stephens of Virginia married Sarah Montague & they had daughter Sally/Sallie (born in Virginia 1/23/1767) who married there 3/10/1785 to Charles Alfred Lindsay (b. 1752, died 1829 there).
   
   https://revwarapps.org/s31392.pdf

2.   John Stevens was born in 1734 and died August 1826 in Orange County, Virginia. Owin Thomas was his guardian, as well. John married Sarah Montague on October 28, 1756 in Orange County, Virginia. The Montague family can be traced to the early 1600's in Buckinghamshire, England. Sarah was born on January 29, 1739 at Pine Top in Orange County, Virginia. John and Sarah's farm there was named Thornhill. Sarah's father, Peter Montague, died in 1745 after a slave named Eve put poison in his glass of milk. Eve was tried for murder in Orange County on January 23, 1746, found guilty, and sentenced to public execution by burning. The executioner was paid 50 pounds of tobacco for "finding a sledge (a sled) to transport her to the place of execution" and 175 pounds of tobacco for executing her.
   
   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stanjoy/Stevens/WPStevens.html