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Eliphalet Stevens

1. Ruth Stevens

2. John Stevens

3. Joseph Stevens

4. Benjamin Franklin Stevens

5. Elizabeth Stevens

6. Robert Stevens

7. Julia Eliza Stevens

8. Harriet Stevens

9. George Stevens

10. Martha Stevens

11. Christopher Stevens

12. Charles Stevens

13. Henry Stevens

14. Melissa Stevens

NOTES: Richard Carl Stevens, "Stevens-Day Genealogy," Los Angeles, 1954. Ripley County Censuses, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880.

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Jacob Stevens

1. Ephraim Miller Stevens

2. Jonathan Stevens

3. William Stevens

4. Hannah Stevens

5. Jacob Stevens

6. Eliphalet Stevens

NOTES: Richard Carl Stevens, in his "Stevens-Day Genealogy," (Los Angeles, 1954), incorrectly identified Jonathan Stevens and Elizabeth Morgan, who married in Cape May County, New Jersey, as the parents of this family, apparently not having come across John Littell's work, "Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity above Chatham," published 1852. While Littell has made errors, sometimes omitting a generation and other times assigning same-named children to the wrong families, the match between what he put forth about Jacob and Betsy Miller Stevens' family and what R. C. Stevens discovered independently is compelling. The children of Jacob Stevens and their spouses as put forth by Littell matches the uncles listed by Stevens, including the distinctive name, Asenath, bride of Stevens' Uncle Miller (whom Stevens names as Ephraim Miller Stevens, while Littell names him only as Miller). Absolute proof, in the form of a marriage record, will, etc., remains to be found. Apparently the marriage did not take place in the Westfield Prebyterian Church (Essex County, New Jersey), where many Miller marriages took place. One further difficulty in locating absolute proof is that Betsy Miller's parents were both deceased prior to her marriage. If the marriage record is found, we can hope that an uncle or other near relative may have signed as her representative.

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Jonathan Stevens

1. John Stevens

2. Sarah Stevens

3. Betsy Stevens

4. Jane Stevens

5. Christopher Stevens

6. Jonathan Stevens

7. James Stevens

8. William Stevens

9. Jacob Stevens

10. Frazee Stevens

NOTES: John Littell, "Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity above Chatham," published 1852. Littell is known to have made many incorrect placements, and so the names, etc., do all want additional substantiation. However, Littell was a cousin of the Stevens - Miller family, and his life was roughly contemporaneous with the above individuals. Mcuh of what he states has been borne out, such as the Christopher Stevens - Rachel Dunham marriage. Proofs contrary to what he has set forth for this family have not come to my attention thus far. He sates, page 404, that Jonathan Stevens "lived near where Samuel Squier now lives and had children..." My estimates for the dates of birth are based in part on Littell's statements regarding Rhoda Garthwaite dying at above 80 years of age, and the date of marriage provided for Jonathan Stevens and Keziah Jennings. They should, however, be taken as nothing more than a "best guess." Jonathan Stevens may have come from the eastern part of Long Island, as did many settlers of the Elizabethtown area of the Passaic Valley, but I have doubts about that, as he appears not to have come with the main group of settlers. He may be a part of the Stonington, Connecticut, Stevens family; there was a migration from that area to Piscataway. He may, too, be a scion of the Coert Stevens van Voorhees family of New Netherland, some of those descendants having assumed the surname Stevens. My own feeling is that the Stonington connection is more probable, since many of the names used in the Stevens line were common to them, while their is little indication of Dutch names. However, Jacob was often used by the Dutch families, and the other names, under English influence, may be disguised to us.

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