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- Thomas Jr. was the son of Thomas Stevenson.1 of England, landed 1644 in Southold, Long Island.
. Elizabeth Lawrence was his first wife.
Married2 was Ann Field, her children were Daniel, Stephen, Nathaniel, Susannah, Ann & Edward Stevenson.
Third wife was Jean.
. 1687. At a Court of Sessions held at Gravesend, West Ryding of Yorkshire upon Lon gIsland. Thomas Stevenson complains of Jno. Ketchon of Newton of wounding & laming a grey horse of the complaints to this date £8. The Court having heard the matter fully, debated between Petitioner & defendant & 6 witnesses, summoned & examined, finding by several circumstances the defiant (refusing to attend the orders of the Town Court appointing arbitration), doe adjudge the Defendant to be built of what is alleged against him. They doe appoint the same arbitrators, nominated by the Twin /court & the Constable of the Peace, to compute & determine indifferently between them what damaged the Petitioner may have sustained as to his horse:
Ref: Kings Co. Registration Office, Vol I, Court Proceedings.
. 1684 Newtown Tax List Thous Stevenson: 40 Acres, horse: 1 one year old & 1 two year old colt; 4 oxen; 8 cows: 5 two yer old & 4 four year old calves; 20 sheep & 7 swine.
Ref: Documentary History of NY, Vol 2 p 298.
. Thomas Stevenson, the founder of this family, was born in London, England, in 1615, & died in Newtown, Long Island, shortly before July 7, 1668. He was the descendant of a family whose ancestor, for services rendered to William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings, was rewarded by a grant of land in Scotland, south of "Glasgow, where the present town of Steventon now.
Thomas Stevenson landed in Virginia about 1643, & removed shortly afterwards to Long Island, where he served under Captain John Landerhill against the Indians. He then settled in Southold. Long Island, with the colony from Connecticut, brought thither by Captain Landerhill & later removed to Newtown & married August 15, 1645. Maria ( Bullock ) Bernard, widow of William Bernarri, of Westchester county, New York.
Children: John, died about 1670, unmarried: Thomas, referred to below ; Edward, born about age 50?, died Dec 12, 1700, married Charity Eield: Sarah, married Patrick Hires, or Harris.
. (II) Thomas, son of Thomas & Maria ( Bullock-Bernard ) Stevenson, was born probably about 1648, & died in 1734. He inherited a part of his father's plantation in Newtown, where he lived & died. He held in succession the various offices that are within the province of a small town. From 1676 to 1678 he was overseer, the equivalent of mayor, of Newtown, & the last year also served as constable.
. 1684 March 3. He & his brother Edward were among the commissioners "to look out for a place of settlement next to the Dutch."
. 1685 October 20, 1685, commissioned justice of the peace of Queens county, & in the succeeding year was one of the granters to whom the new charter of Newtown was given.
. 1706 May 16. He was a member of the boundary dispute commission;
. 1713 he was a member of the committee to defend Newtown in its land suits.
In religion Thomas Stevenson was first a Congregationalist, but after his second marriage became affiliated with the Society of Friends, & about this period began to buy land partly in Monmouth county,East Jersey, but mostly in Burlington county, West Jersey. To this land 4 of his sons removed. His other children remained on Long Island.
. 1680 Thomas Lawrence, administrator of Joseph Winslow, filed a petition of complaint giant Thomas Stevenson, for which the latter gave his bond to the former on 1683 Sept 13, which was settled the succeeding month. This suit-at-law clearly indicates he had not jointed the Society of Friends, as such suit are country to the tents of hat sect. After his first wife Elizabeth Lawrence died in 1683, he married again & joined the Quakers.
. He married.1, Feb 1672. Elizabeth, only daughter of Captain William Lawrence, by his first wife, whose name is unknown.
Her stepmother, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of Mishaguakt, Long Island, married (second") after Capt. Lawrence's death. Sir Philip Carteret, first governor of East Jersey, & Elizabethtown, New Jersey was named in her honor. After her second husband's death her stepmother married Colonel Richard Townley of Elizabethtown.
. Children, 4 by first marriage: i. Thomas, born about 1674; died about 1719; married Sarah (Jenings) Pennington, eldest daughter of Governor Samuel Jenings, of West Jersey. 2. William, born in 1676, died in 1724;
married.2 to Ann Jenning, sister to wife of his brother Thomas. 3. John, referred to below. 4. Elizabeth, died unmarried, November 2J. 1703.
. Nathaniel, born about 1683 - died in 1736; married Mary Rocihill? Daniel born i(x)2. died 1754; married Elizabeth Willett. 7. Stephen, died about 1 73 1 ; married Jane Clement. 8. Susanna, born July 12, 1694, died March 23, 1723; married Thomas Fletts. 9 Ann, died May 19, 1724; married. November 10, 1715, Samuel Thorne.
Ref: Genealogical & Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, 1910. - - -
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