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Title: The Stephens Family
A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens

Author: Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens

Commentator: Alonzo Smith Bower

Release Date: August 2, 2008 [EBook #26173]

Language: English

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THE STEPHENS FAMILY

A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens

Written by Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens, Los Angeles,
California, A. D. 1892

Printed, with a few additions, by Alonzo Smith Bower, Lima,
Ohio, A. D. 1910

JOSHUA STEPHENS, (6), the ancestor of this STEPHENS Family, was born,
according to the family tradition, in what is now the County of Berkes,
in the State of Pennsylvania, of Welsh parents, A. D. 1733. According to
the recollection of C. C. Stephens, (176) his grandfather, E. D.
Stephens, (16), son of this Joshua Stephens, (6), stated to him in an
interview at Hardin, Ohio, about 1860, that Joshua Stephens's father's
name was also Joshua Stephens, (3), which would make him the senior;
that Joshua Stephens, Senior, with two brothers, David, (5), and
Ebenezer, (4), came over from Wales. Of these three last named persons
nothing further is known at the present writing, than the foregoing
statement.

That there was a large Welsh immigration into the present territory of
Berkes County prior to 1733, the birth year of Joshua Stephens, Jr.,
(6), is a fact well corroborated by the (Stot.) history of Pennsylvania.

EXPLANATION

The principal abbreviations used in these pages are:

b. standing for born.
m. standing for married.
d. standing for died.
y. standing for young.

For convenience and distinction, as in all genealogical works, each name
is given a number separately. Without this it would be difficult to tell
which Joshua Stephens is meant, for there are many of that name, as also
others. The numbers are also valuable for tracing out any particular
pedigree; for instance, suppose that William Stephens,