Individual Details

John Stevens

(Bef 7 Jul 1605 - 11 Apr 1662)

Not to be confused with John Stevens of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who died in February 1688/1689 and was buried there. This John Stevens was an early settler of Andover, Massachusetts who died in 1662. He was a farmer ("husbandman") from Caversham, England who immigrated on board "The Confidence" in 1638 with wife, Elizabeth, brother William, mother Alice and indentured servants, John and Grace Lovejoy (brother and sister). They initially came to Newbury, Massachusetts but was one of the first settlers of Andover (as was John Lovejoy). He was a prominent citizen and a sergeant in the militia. See, Abiel Abbott's 1829 "History of Andover", p. 15.

John's servant Grace Lovejoy is also one of our ancestors.

Events

BirthBef 7 Jul 1605Caversham, Oxfordshire, England
Baptism7 Jul 1605Caversham, Oxfordshire, England
MarriageBef Apr 1638England - Elizabeth Parker
ImmigrationApr 1638Newbury, Massachusetts Bay
Death11 Apr 1662Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Occupationfarmer
Property
Probate
Biography

Families

SpouseElizabeth Parker (1611 - 1694)
ChildJohn Stevens (1639 - 1688)
ChildTimothy Stevens (1641 - 1708)
ChildNathan Stevens (1643 - 1718)
ChildElizabeth Stevens (1645 - 1714)
ChildEphraim Stevens (1649 - 1718)
ChildMary Stevens (1649 - 1703)
ChildJoseph Stevens (1654 - 1742)
ChildBenjamin Stevens (1656 - 1730)
FatherJohn Stevens (1575 - 1627)
MotherAlice Atkins (1580 - 1650)
SiblingSusan Stevens (1601 - 1617)
SiblingJane Stevens (1602 - )
SiblingBarbara Stevens (1611 - 1681)
SiblingWilliam Stevens (1616 - 1653)

Notes

Immigration

1638 Confidence passenger list – John, his brotherWilliam, Eliza wife, Alice Mother, John Lowgie, Grace Lowgie servants
His sister Barbara (wife of John Ilsley is also on the boat listed this way
· John Ilshel Shoemaker
· Barbara Ilshel Wife
JosephParker age 24 tanner of Newbury is also on the boat
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/confidence1638.shtml
another version of the list
https://immigrantships.net/v4/1600v4/confidence16380424.html
 
from the transcribers guild
https://immigrantships.net/1600/confidence380424.html

Property

1688 recorded 1696 sons Joseph and Benjamin sell land that was part of the estate – 11:223
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZZ-B9J7?i=459&wc=MCBG-S68%3A361613201%2C361856001&cc=2106411

Probate

Probate – there is no daughter Elizabeth in the probate – so must be an error in the transcription but cannot find the original source
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/essex-county-ma-early-probate-records-1635-1681/image?volumeId=33911&pageName=377&rId=891370631

Biography

NEHGR article
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image/?pageName=396&volumeId=11698
 
admitted freeman at Newbury 18 Mary 1642 – NEHGRarticle, p 399
 
 
Essex genealogist article
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/essex-genealogist-the/image?volumeId=13119&pageName=35
 
Some references to the Stevens family in the FuessAndover book – which seems a not very good book
 
In Historical Sketches of Andover
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=%22john%20stevens%22;id=hvd.32044005540414;view=1up;seq=9;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0
 
A Stevens genealogy that does not seem to coverJohn Stevens of Andover but should look through
https://archive.org/details/stevensgenealogy00barnrich/page/n11/mode/2up
 
except maybe this William Stevens supposedlydescended from John that I do not seem to have
https://archive.org/details/stevensgenealogy00barnrich/page/120/mode/2up?q=andover
 
 
The Stevens family seven generations has somebackground information
 
John Stevens in the History of Newbury
https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewbury1902curr/historyofnewbury1902curr_djvu.txt
https://archive.org/details/historyofnewbury1902curr/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22john+stevens%22
 
 
look in the Greven book

Endnotes

1. , For , , Massachusetts Vital Records Project; http://ma-vitalrecords.org/. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), death record, Essex County, Andover.