Person:Joseph Stevens (41)

Records in Virginia

Caroline Co. Order Book 10 Jul 1766, p 351: The Order Book notes "the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Joseph Stevens, Dec'd, in Caroline County, also in Essex County..." and mentions his wife Ann.

The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, July 13, 1769: "Caroline, June 30, 1769 It being absolutely necessary that an account should be based on all the unsatisfied demands against the estate of Major Joseph Stevens, I request.... etc etc. Robert Farish, Executor"

The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Page: 3, Column: 1, Aug 26, 1773, notes the sale of 644 acres of land "on which Maj. Joseph Stevens formerly lived" and sundry other stocks, belongings, furniture, etc. in Caroline County.

Caroline Co. Order Book, 1777-1780, p 217: "In Caroline County Court 9th Mar 1780, 'On proof being made to the court that Joseph Stevens (who is since dead) served as a major and engineer until properly discharged in 1758, in a regiment raised for the immediate defence of this State, not being a Militia, and that he never received his bounty of land under the King of Great Britain's Proclamation; Ordered that it be certified to the Register of the Land Office that the said Bounty of Land is vested in Richard Stevens, Eldest Son and heir at Law of the said Joseph Stevens.' " See Vol. 2, Pamunkey Neighbors, for this cite.

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