Alice Atkins

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• Immigrant: Apr 1638, Southampton, Hampshire, England; Ship: Confidence Arrived: 1638 Newbury, Massachusetts

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126689216/alice-stevens

Family/Spouse: John Stevens. John was born in 1575 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England; died on 21 Sep 1627 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in St. Peter's Churchyard, Caversham, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant: Apr 1638, Southampton, Hampshire, England; Ship: Confidence Arrived: 1638 Newbury, Massachusetts

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John Stevens sailed in April 1638, from Southhampton, England for New England on the ship 'Confidence' with his wife, Elizabeth, his widowed mother, Alice Stevens, his brother William Stevens, and two servants. The number of passengers on this voyage was 110. The names of the two servants who came in the ship 'Confidence' with John & William Stevens
were: John Lowgie & Grace Lowgie. The master of the ship 'Confidence' was John Jobson.

They settled first at Newbury, where Widow Stevens, John & William were proprietors and were allowed pasturing on the ox and cow common, and where John and William were admitted freemen, May 18, 1642.

Newbury was first settled near the Parker river but there was another settlement at Newbury, laid out as early as 1645, nearer the Merrimack
river, where Widow Stevens, John & William received lots of land in exchange for land previously granted at Parker river. Perhaps Widow Alice Stevens was identical with Widow Anne Stevens who was buried at Newbury, July 17, 1650.

William Stevens married & stayed at Newbury, but soon after 1642, John Stevens was one of the Newbury men who accompanied the Rev. Mr.
Woodbridge to Cochichawicke, later called Andover. On an old list of Andover "householders", he was listed as 5th "in order as they came to town". They settled in what is now North Andover Centre. John Stevens'
home seems to have been near the old burying ground which is southeast of the old Bradstreet house, that is still standing. He was one of the
'proprietors' of Andover. He was called 'husbandman' and 'yeoman'. His name appears in the records of the General Court for 1654 as follows:
"John Stevens of Andover, Henry Short of Newbury, and Joseph Jewett of Rowley, a committee chosen to examine into the grounds of a dispute between Haverhill & Salisbury in regards to lands, and to return their apprehensions thereof to this Court".

On the 19th of October, they made an elaborate and minute report of their action in the matter, detailing their surveying, etc. in its full
particulars, and stating their conclusions that former surveyors had made a mistake, by which the land was cut off from Haverhill, to their great prejudice. Their report was accepted.

John Stevens was listed as Sergeant on one of the first records found of a military organization at Andover. This paper bears no date but was placed with papers dating from 1658 to 1659, in the County Court Records.

An idea of the house, estate, and style of living of John Stevens may be obtained from the inventory of his estate taken April 28, 1662.
It listed:-

Imp. - His wearing apparel.
It. - In the hall, two beds with their furniture.
It. - One chest, and foure boxes.
It. - Eight payre of sheets, foure Bolster cases, and three payre of
pillow-bearers.
It. - Three table cloaths, 1 dozen napkins with other sleight things.
It. - One brasse Pott, foure small Kettles, one Skillett, a Scummer,
and warming pan.
It. - One Iron Pott, an iron posnett, two payre of pott hookes, two
trammels, a spitt, a payre of tongs & fire-pan, a payre of
cob-irons with a smoothing iron and a trevett.
It. - Six pewter platters, two brazers, two porringers, foure
drinken cuppes, a salt cellar, a chamber pott, a dozen & a half of
spoones, a latten-pan.
It. - A table board & foure chayres, two cushens, two dozen of
trenchers, half a dozen of dishes.
It. - A muskett, corselett & headpiece, a sword, cutlass, and
halberd.
It. - A Bible with other books.
It. - In the Leanto--Barrels, wheeles, with other lumber.
It. - In the chamber -- bedding.
It. - Wheate, twenty Bushels, Indian corn, ten Bushells.
It. - A bridle & sadle & pommel.
It. - Two flitchers of Bacon.
It. - Baggs. It. - Flax & yarne.
It. - Saws, Axes, prongs with other working tooles.
It. - Eight oxen, It. - Six cows It. - A heifer & two yearlings.
It. - Three calves. It. - Swine It. - A

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7868321/john-stevens

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Parker. Elizabeth was born about 1613; died on 1 May 1694 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried in Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigrant: Apr 1638, Southampton, Hampshire, England; Ship: Confidence Arrived: 1638 Newbury, Massachusetts

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6221934/william-stevens

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• Military Service: 1674 - 1689, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; King Philips War King Williams War Killed at Casco Bay 1689

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Serves as a selectman for several years from 1671 - 1685. Grants of land within the town were a subject of dicussion and dificulty. In 1674, John Stevens was one of ten men chosen to see "if it be convenient to give away any more land or how & to whome".

On February 11, 1678, he took the oath of allegiance to the king. His name was on the list of "proprietors" of Andover who had also been
householders before 1681.

In 1682, John was one of five men chosen "to make articles with such
person or persons as they shall judge fit" about setting up a saw-mill,
fulling mill, and grist mill upon Shawshin river.

The first record of alarms of hostile Indians @ Andover was in October 1675. In spite of all vigilance & precautions, they attacked on April 8, 1676. The town was never safe from Indians. In winter they came on snowshoes, and in summer, by the rivers, plundering and killing and then disappearing as suddenly as they had come.

John Stevens was in active military service. He was Sergeant as early as 1674, Ensign in 1685, and Lieutenant in 1689, when he was serving in the Indian wars at Casco Bay, where he died on March 4th or 5th, 1688/89. The inventory of his estate amounted to

John married Hannah Barnard on 13 Jun 1662 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Robert Barnard and Joan Harvey) was born in 1646 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; died on 13 Mar 1675 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried in Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15954699/timothy-stevens

Family/Spouse: Sarah Davis. Sarah (daughter of Tobias Davis and Sarah Morrill) was born on 10 Feb 1647 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 5 Apr 1695 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was buried in Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ruth Poore on 20 Dec 1689 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Daniel Poore, Jr. and Mary Farnum) was born on 16 Feb 1665 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 19 Feb 1739 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61030480/samuel-stevens

Family/Spouse: Mary Calef. Mary was born in 1685 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 8 Nov 1764 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was buried in Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Lovejoy on 23 Apr 1717 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of William Lovejoy and Mary Farnum) was born on 10 Apr 1693 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 3 Dec 1749 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried in South Church Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61028934/mary-warren

Family/Spouse: Joseph Warren, II. Joseph was born on 2 Feb 1696 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Oct 1755 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married John Mansur on 31 Dec 1732 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106320651/deborah-phelps

Deborah married John Phelps, Jr. on 16 Dec 1740 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. John (son of John Phelps and Sarah Andrews) was born on 12 May 1718 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Sep 1788 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Physician, Revolutionary War General, and Early American Patriot Leader. He was the son of Joseph Warren and Mary (Stevens) Warren. Dr. Warren's father, Joseph Warren, Sr., was a respected farmer, who died while climbing a tree gathering apples in October 1755. Joseph Warren, Jr. graduated from Harvard in 1759, then studied medicine with James Lloyd, and opened his own practice in 1764. On September 6, 1764, he married Elizabeth Hooten; they would have five children: Joseph III, H.C., Richard, Elizabeth, and Mary. His beloved wife, Elizabeth, died on February 28, 1773, leaving him with five children. In the early 1770s, Dr. Warren developed a close relationship with patriots Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, and he was one of the original members of the patriotic organization, the Sons of Liberty. After the Boston Massacre in 1771, he was at every town meeting, arguing for the rights of Americans. In 1772, Dr. Warren made a speech for the second anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Warren wrote the Suffolk Resolves, which said that the citizens of Massachusetts would create a militia to protect the citizens, and, that if General Thomas Gage (then Royal Military Governor of Massachusetts) was to arrest anyone for political reasons, the citizens' militia would retaliate by seizing crown officials as hostages. The First Continental Congress approved the Suffolk Resolves, and directed the Colonies to support Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, Warren sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, as well as call out the citizens' militia, that the British Army was marching from Boston to the towns of Lexington and Concord to seize arms and the rebels. Warren was chosen the Provincial President, and, on June 14, was chosen as the second Major General of the Massachusetts Militia. At the Battle of Bunker Hill, he led the militia, and, while rallying them during one of the British advances on the hill, he was killed instantly when a musket ball hit him in the back of the head. After the battle when the British took the hill, his body was returned to his family for burial.

Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3066/joseph-warren

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131030452/joseph-warren

Joseph married Elizabeth Hooten on 20 Aug 1764 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 10 Jan 1746 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Apr 1773 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Service: Jan 1776, Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; American Revolution (US) New Hampshire Militia Capt Daniel Wilkins Co., Bedel's Regt

John married Mary Lakin on 24 Dec 1772 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Simeon Lakin and Mary Lovejoy) was born on 31 May 1752 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 7 Oct 1822 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Service: 18 Aug 1777, Grafton, Grafton County, New Hampshire; American Revolution (US) Ensign - Capt John Sloan's Company of Volunteers raised at Oxford, Lyme, Peirmont, Cohoss, and Embodied in Col. Joseph Marsh's Regt. of Militia, belonging to the State of New York, Otherwise called Vermont, which Company marched to reinforce General Starks, but on their march to Bennington was Ordered by General Lincoln to Mount Independence (Orwell,VT) September 1777 through end of October 1777. On roll at Exeter - January 26, 1778

Samuel married Margaret Nevins on 6 Jan 1781 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Margaret (daughter of David Nevins and Lois Patch) was born on 3 Feb 1751/1752 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died on 07 Jan 1839 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Thomas Whitney on 14 Oct 1799 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Thomas was born about 1770; died before 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Ebenezer Ferrin on 26 Nov 1801 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Ebenezer (son of Deacon Enos Ferrin and Mary Currier) was born on 04 Sep 1777 in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died on 09 Mar 1852 in Concord, Erie County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]