Thomas STEPHENSON

Abt 1625 - 1663  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Thomas STEPHENSON
  Born	Abt 1625	England
  Gender	Male
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	7 Dec 1663	Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I4951	Main
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2017

  
  

  Family	Margaret MNU,   d. 26 Nov 1663, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire
  Married	Abt 1640	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Children	1. Margaret STEPHENSON,   b. Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 12 Dec 1707, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire   2. Elizabeth STEPHENSON,   b. 1649, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 1664  (Age 15 years) + 3. Mary STEPHENSON,   b. Oct 1651, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Feb 1725, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age ~ 73 years)   4. Thomas STEPHENSON,   b. Abt 1652, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 7 Dec 1663, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 11 years)   5. Joseph STEPHENSON,   b. Abt 1647, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 4 Aug 1694, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 47 years)   6. Bartholomew STEPHENSON,   b. 1658, Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 5 Apr 1724, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 66 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F12045	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1625 - England Married - Abt 1640 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Died - 7 Dec 1663 - Oyster River [Durham], Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Thomas owned land on the south side of the Oyster River by May 1643 as he is mentioned in the land grant to Valentine Hill. Thomas was involved in a lawsuit in 1642 so was here by that time. On 11 June 1644 Thomas was granted three acres at Oyster Point and the neck of land opposite. He was granted 30 acres at Oyster Point in 1649 and had another grant in 1654. On 3 Sept. 1680 Thomas and Margaret Willey deposed that they had lived in Oyster River 40 years and that Thomas Stevenson cultivated his neck of land forty years ago near the Oyster Bank, commonly called Stevenson's Neck. The western boundary of Thomas's land was called Stevenson's Creek. On the neck between Oyster River and Stevenson's creek at the end of the point is Thomas's cellar hole. In the field near the homesite is a low mound with several granite field stones like those used to mark graves in the 17th century. "The Towne Rate made the 19th 10th mo 48. Tho : Stephenson, Rated and to pay 4d p£ is 0050:00:00 0000:16:04" "To the Right Worshipfull the Governor and magistrates & Deputies of the Generall Court now assembled in Boston. The humble petition of the inhabitants of the town of Dover. Shewethe that whereas your poor petitioners were taken under the government of the Mattachusetts, by the extent of the line of the Patent of the Mattachusetts, and likewise the people there are accepted and reputed under the government as the rest of the inhabitants within the said jurisdiction, as also a Committee chosen to bound out the Towne, which accordingly was done, & afterwards was confirmed at the Generall Courte as the Acts do more fully declare. Therefore wee your poore petitioners do humbly crave protection in our habitations and rights accordinge to the laws & liberties of this jurisdiction, & likewise that some order might be taken to restraine such as doe disturbe and molest us in our habitations by challengine us by patent, & threateninge of us & sayinge that wee plant upon their grounde & that we must give them such rent as they please for cuttinge grass and timber, or else they will take all from us, so by this means the people are many of them disqueited, not onely by the Patent, but alsoe by the threats of Edwarde Colcorde who with others of his pretended owners do report that they have fourteen shares & that they are the greatest owners in the Country, which patent wee conceive (under favour) will be made voyde if it be well looked into, so hopinge ever to enjoye protection within your jurisdiction Wee shall ever pray... Ye mark X of Tho. Stevenson..." dated May 1654. (3) Thomas was involved in another lawsuit in 1655. "Oyster River 3d Raet 4:9 mo. in ye yeir 61... Tho. Stevenson 1-0-0."(2) He was taxed again the same year for 14. "Oyster River Provetion Rate made throwe the hole towneship ye 7th 10th month 1663... Tho. Stevenson estat 0-4-3." The administration of the estate of Thomas Stevens/o Oyster River was granted to his son Joseph, 28 June 1664. Joseph Stevenson, being a minor, chose William Follett for his guardian, who accepted and gave bonds of £100 "for paymt of the portions to rest of sd Joseph his brothers & sisters, when it is knowne wt it comes to". The inventory was taken by William Follett, John Davis, and William Dow and amounted to £107/1/3 and was attested by Joseph Stevenson, administrator, 29 June 1664. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb..com/~mainegenie/STEVENSO.htm