ant ancestor of this
family.

4. EBENEZER AP STEPHENS AP EVANS, (4).

5. DAVID AP STEPHENS AP EVANS, (5).

Who left their native home in Wales, and embarking in a sailing vessel,
after a voyage of something like thirty days, landed at Philadelphia;
this sometime prior to the year 1733. The three brothers selected lands
in what is now Berkes County, which was not set off from Philadelphia
County until 1752. There are traces of them in Union Township, where a
David Stephens held land in 1728; he was probably (5), (This from a
letter I have from the secretary of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society). In 1752, a "David Stephens, Jr.," died in Britain Township,
Bucks County, not far from Union, who had a brother Samuel, and a
"Cousin John," (probably 7), which fits our history. (From documents in
my posession from Register of Wills, Philadelphia). His father, David
Stephens, Sr., was probably (5). Nothing would be more natural than that
David Stephens, (5), should have a son named for him, and that that son
should seek lands over in Bucks, and that the family name of John should
descend, as it has through many generations in our own lines, to his.
David's brother Joshua had a son John, (7). It was while the three
brothers, Joshua, Ebenezer and David, were living under the jurisdiction
of Philadelphia County, that they received their shares of the Welsh
estate. Hence, searches for this should be confined to records prior to
1752, the time Berkes was set off from Philadelphia.

FOURTH GENERATION

JOSHUA STEPHENS, Sr., (3), the name now being changed, lived in what is
now Berkes County, and probably in Union Township, near the David
Stephens above mentioned. His children were:

6. JOSHUA, born in 1733, the immediate ancester of the family, and
with whom the certain history of the family begins.

7. JOHN }
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8. STEPHENS } Of these two brothers nothing is further known than
that from a family tradition they "went South", whatever that
means: "South" being an indefinite term from a standpoint in
Berkes County. John was a tory during the Revolution. The
existence of Stephens depends upon the testimony of Joshua
Bowen Stephens of Hardin, Ohio, in a conversation with me there
in 1886. To these three brothers Dr. John Wesley Stephens of
State Line, Indiana, added a sister, in a letter to me, (182):