Individual Details
Benjamin Stevens
(20 Jan 1747/48 - 22 Sep 1826)
Events
| Birth | 20 Jan 1747/48 | Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 10 Jun 1784 | Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts - Mehitable Harris | |||
| Residence | 2 Aug 1790 | Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Residence | 1800 | Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts | | ||
| Residence | 1820 | Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts | | ||
| Death | 22 Sep 1826 | Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Mehitable Harris (1757 - 1828) |
| Child | Jonathan Stevens (1785 - 1847) |
| Child | Benjamin Stevens (1790 - 1848) |
| Child | Elizabeth Stevens (1790 - 1813) |
| Child | Mehitable Stevens (1792 - 1857) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Crafts Stevens (1794 - 1873) |
| Child | Rebekah Hunt Stevens (1797 - 1857) |
| Child | Artemas Stevens (1799 - 1877) |
| Father | Benjamin Stevens (1721 - 1799) |
| Mother | Rebecca Hunt (1724 - 1777) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Stevens (1746 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Martha Stevens (1749 - 1799) |
| Sibling | Annis Stevens (1751 - ) |
| Sibling | Phebe Stevens (1753 - ) |
| Sibling | Jeremiah Stevens (1755 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Chloe Stevens (1757 - 1809) |
| Sibling | Simeon Stevens (1759 - 1809) |
| Sibling | Sarah Stevens (1761 - 1809) |
| Sibling | David Stevens (1763 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Stevens (1763 - 1779) |
| Sibling | Abner Stevens (1766 - 1833) |
Notes
Probate
Probate – will written 1814 – wife Mehitable, daughter Mehitable Davis, daughter Polly C. Smith, daughter Rebecca Stevens,sons Jonathan, Benjamin, Artemas – further on there is information that includes spouses of the daughtershttps://www.americanancestors.org/databases/middlesex-county-ma-probate-file-papers-1648-1871/image/?volumeId=14467&pageName=21380:1&rId=264012632
Property
On 12 July 1780, Benjamin Stevens (then known as Benjamin,Jr.) and his brother Jeremiah purchased from their father Benjamin one-half of his real estate in Methuen for payment of fifteen thousand pounds.[1] On 15 April 1783, Benjamin Stevens, Jr. carpenter of Methuen and Jeremiah Stevens yeoman of Methuen, for payment of £295, purchased an 87-acre tract of land in Dracut with house and barn from Benjamin Varnum and his wife Molly.[2][1] Massachusetts Land Records, Essex County, 138:127
[2] Massachusetts Land Records, Middlesex County, 85:363
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Series: M637; Roll: 4; Page: 186; Family History Library Film: 0568144.
2. Ancestry.com, 1800 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Year: 1800; Census Place: Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Series: M32; Roll: 17; Page: 1233; Image: 53; Family History Library Film: 205615.
3. Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Page: 524; NARA Roll: M33_51; Image: 329.