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Deacon Thomas Stevens
b.Abt 1650
Facts and Events
"Thomas Stevens of Amesbury … apparently was not the son of the earlier (Stevens) immigrants but quite possibly some connection. The first mention of him is in 1670 when he deposed, aged 20, that he had come from Ipswich, he again deposed in a Newbury case, aged 29 in 1679. From these two depositions, he was about twenty-one when he married in Newbury, in 1671, an Amesbury girl and settled in her home town. His first child is called 'of Thomas and Mary', an evident error. He was granted a common right in Amesbury in 1668-69, took the oath of allegiance there in 1677, was a member of the train-band in 1680, a selectman in 1686. He became a Freeman in 1690, and was a school teacher in 1693. By trade he was a sawyer and husbandman. He must have possessed more than the ordinary amount of education to have been entrusted with the teaching of the school. In his later years, he was a Deacon in the Amesbury Church. Thomas Stevens did not deal in land. He apparently owned only his homestead at the time of his death."[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
I:327.
Dea. Thomas Stevens [#107] of Amesbury, d. Amesbury 14 Apr 1729, m. Newbury 15 Apr 1670 [sic, probably 1671, see marriage record and attached comments/links] Martha Bartlett.
[Added clarification: the will never explicitly mentions Robert Hoyt, only daughter Martha deceased (which we independently know to be his wife) and her two daughters, Matha and Abigail Hoyt.]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
Vol. 2, p. 647-648.
Deacon Thomas Stevens, b. about 1650, d. Amesbury 14 Apr 1729, m. Newbury 15 Apr 1671 Martha Bartlett.
- ↑ Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913)
589.
STEVENS, Thomas, Dea., (died) Apr. 14, 1729.
- ↑ Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881: Online database. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014)
Case 26439: Stevens, Thomas, Amesbury 1729 Apr. 28.
Will of "Thomas Stevens of Almsbury ... yeoman being weake in body", dated 29 Nov 1723, proved 28 Apr 1729, names son Roger Stevens; son Thomas Stevens; my children; two Granchildren Hannah Hoyt and Abigaill Hoyt of my daughter Martha now deceased. Sons Roger Stevens and Abel Merrill to be executors.
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