Individual Details
Peter Stevens
(6 May 1759 - 7 Jul 1838)
Events
| Birth | 6 May 1759 | Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut | |||
| Marriage | 7 Mar 1784 | Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut - Mercy House |  |  | |
| Residence | 4 Mar 1831 | Rutland, Vermont | | ||
| Residence | 1833 | Vermont | | ||
| Death | 7 Jul 1838 | Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont | | ||
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Families
| Spouse | Mercy House (1763 - 1833) |
| Child | Jared Stevens (1784 - 1850) |
| Child | Jonathan Stevens (1787 - 1865) |
| Child | Sector Stevens (1789 - 1859) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Betsey" Stevens (1794 - 1875) |
| Child | Joel Stevens (1800 - 1882) |
| Child | Hoel Stevens (1800 - 1844) |
| Father | Joseph Stevens (1711 - 1801) |
| Mother | Jerusha Stowe (1719 - 1793) |
| Sibling | John Stevens (1737 - 1826) |
| Sibling | Thomas Stevens (1739 - 1820) |
| Sibling | Jerusha Stevens (1741 - 1741) |
| Sibling | Mary Stevens (1741 - 1741) |
| Sibling | Samuel Stevens (1742 - 1818) |
| Sibling | Elijah Stevens (1744 - 1816) |
| Sibling | Mary Stevens (1746 - ) |
| Sibling | Elisha Stevens (1748 - 1813) |
| Sibling | David Stevens (1750 - ) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Stevens (1752 - ) |
| Sibling | Jerusha Stevens (1754 - 1784) |
| Sibling | James Stevens (1757 - 1847) |
| Sibling | Ashbel Stevens (1761 - 1776) |
Notes
Marriage
p 349https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066151523&view=1up&seq=371&q1=stevens
Military
On 14 August 1832, Peter Stevens of Pawlet aged seventy-three provided a statement related to his service. He enlisted from Glastonbury in June 1776 in the company of Capt. Samuel Welles in Col. Gay’s regiment. They embarked on a sloop at Wethersfield and sailed to NewYork where the regiment was formed. The troops went to Long Island, White Plains,and North Castle where he was discharged 25 December 1776. In September 1777,he was drafted for two months in the militia in the regiment of Col. Newbury of Windsor. In August 1779, he was drafted for two months in the company of Capt.Smith. In 1780, he went to Pawlet, Vermont to work in his trade as a joiner,and from there he volunteered in the company of Capt. John Stark and served about fourteen days. In his statement, he reported he was born in Glastonbury on 6 May 1759. He reported removing to Pawlet in 1792. Peter was awarded a pension of $38.20 per annum. On 13 April 1850, Joel Stevens, heir-at-law of Peter Stevens, made application for bounty land.[1][1] U. S.Revolutionary War Pension and bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Case S19109
Biography
Stevensfamily in Pawlet starts on page 243https://books.google.com/books?id=8SLhIDrPMogC&q=stevens#v=snippet&q=stevens&f=false
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Early Connecticut Marriages (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
2. Ancestry.com, U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
3. Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).
4. Ancestry.com, Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013).
5. Ancestry.com, Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013).