Individual Details
Abiel Stevens
(16 Sep 1720 - 9 Jun 1807)
Events
| Birth | 16 Sep 1720 | Andover, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 7 Jun 1750 | Andover, Essex, Massachusetts - Dorothy Martin | |||
| Death | 9 Jun 1807 | Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Dorothy Martin (1728 - 1796) |
| Child | Dorothy Stevens (1751 - 1821) |
| Child | Martha Stevens (1752 - 1824) |
| Child | David Stevens (1755 - 1819) |
| Child | Deborah Stevens (1757 - ) |
| Child | Mary Stevens (1760 - 1847) |
| Child | John Stevens (1766 - ) |
| Father | Abiel Stevens (1681 - 1768) |
| Mother | Deborah Barker (1684 - ) |
| Sibling | Deborah Stevens (1709 - 1796) |
| Sibling | John Stevens (1711 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Mary Stevens (1712 - ) |
| Sibling | Nathan Stevens (1716 - 1763) |
| Sibling | Susanna Stevens (1718 - 1797) |
| Sibling | Phebe Stevens (1722 - ) |
| Sibling | David Stevens (1723 - 1752) |
Notes
Property
Here four of the children sell some property in 1811 – David, Martha and Aaron Gage, Dorothy and Joshua Wilson, Daniel and Mary Kimball –https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZZ-BYS3?i=630&wc=MCBP-D38%3A361613201%2C362040101&cc=2106411
1778 Abiel buys a farm in Bedford NH
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-NSYT-8?i=410&cat=428923
1782 Abiel sells half the farm to David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRH-XW97?i=249&cat=428923
On 1 May 1778, Abiel Stevens with his wife Dorothy sold to Joseph Lee for £240 a tract of upland, meadow, and orchard containing seven acres.[1]On 6 October 1778 (recorded 4 July 1781), Abiel Stevens of Merrimac, New Hampshire, yeoman, purchased of David McCleary and William McCleary of Bedford a 146-acre farm part in Bedford and part in Merrimac for payment of £810. On 2 February 1782, Abiel of Bedford with his wife Dorothy sold to David Stevens of Bedford for £10 one-half of the 146-acre farm in Bedford with half of the buildings. On 20 September 1796 (recorded 21 February 1804), Abiel sold his entire estate, real and personal, including all his land in Bedford and Merrimac that he obtained from David McCleary to his son David Stevens for payment of$500. This transaction included the stock animals, farming utensils, household furniture, and wearing apparel.[2]
[1]Massachusetts Land Records, Essex County, 138:61. It is possible they have a further transaction recorded in 1783 to Samuel Carlton, but that deed is in volume 140 which is missing.
[2] New Hampshire Land Records, Hillsborough County Deeds, 10:190, 27:481, 61:123