Individual Details
Roger STEVENS
(1761 - 7 Jun 1841)
Roger's Revolutionary War papers indicate he enlisted in January or February 1778. Place is not stated. He enlisted into the First New Hampshire Continental Regiment under Captain Isaac Farwell's Company and Colonel Cilley's Regiment. He certified that his enlistment was for the term of the war and at the end of the war he was honorably discharged.
Roger's Pension Records indicate in April 1818 he lived in Jerico, Chittenden County, Vermont. Within those documents his son Joel certifies the validity of the Bible information which shows vital dates of some family. Originally the information was kept on separate paper that Joel certifies was in his father's writing. One of Joel's cousins, Roxena Nash, transcribed what Roger had written on those papers to the family Bible.
Most of the below was obtained from a query by M. B. Knowles (indicated by MBK) on the internet, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/1998c.htm and Stan Morgan (indicated by SM) at http://genforum.genealogy.com/stevens. This writer was unable to contact M. B. Knowles or Stan Morgan in 2007.
During the war he suffered extremely cold exposures while on active duty, and contracted rheumatism in both his legs which caused him to be a cripple the rest of his life (MBK, SM). In Revolutionary War and Pension records he is listed as 'disabled while in service.' He received an $8 monthly pensio. Listed in the U. S. Pensioners of 1818-1872 he received a pension starting in March 1833 until April 1841, the pension office was in St. Johnsburg, Vermont, widow's name was Esther Stevens and year range was 1848 - 1862. The Vermont Pensions, 1835, lists his age as 73, receiving an annual allowance of $96.00, sums received as $1525.83, and placed on the pension roll on 17 October 1818 with commencement of pension 11 April 1818.
After the Revolutionary War he lived in Wells, Rutland County, Vermont where he owned a sawmill with a wartime friend, Amos Snow (MBK). The History of Rutland County indicates a "John Sutherland erected a grist mill at the lower falls of Sutherland Falls where Roger Stevens had previously built a saw mill which Indians destroyed in 1779."
This writer cannot find a Roger Stevens in the 1790, or 1830 Census reports that can be confirmed as this Roger. There is a good possibility that in 1830 he is the Roger Stevens living in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
In the 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1840 Census reports, the family is in Jerico.
The family moved to Wells, Rutland County, Vermont in 1792 and then to Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont about 1800 (MBK).
The 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services lists 79 year-old Roger as living in Jericho.
Events
| Birth | 1761 | Killingworth, New London County (presently Middlesex County), Connecticut |  |  | |
| Marriage | 10 Jan 1792 | Granville, Washington County, New York - Esther SNOW | | ||
| Death | 7 Jun 1841 | of a lung complaint - Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont | | ||
| Burial | Jun 1841 | Jericho Center Cemetery, Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont. | | |
Families
| Spouse | Esther SNOW (1779 - 1855) |
| Child | Prudence STEVENS (1795 - 1795) |
| Child | Henry STEVENS (1798 - 1855) |
| Child | Milda STEVENS (1801 - 1854) |
| Child | Abigail STEVENS (1804 - 1885) |
| Child | Tamerson (Tamsy) STEVENS (1807 - 1815) |
| Child | Joel STEVENS (1810 - 1898) |
| Child | Melissa (Malissa) STEVENS (1813 - ) |
| Child | Artemus C. STEVENS (1816 - 1863) |
| Child | Jonas George STEVENS (1819 - 1863) |
| Child | Lydia Snow STEVENS (1820 - 1820) |
| Child | Tamerson (Tamsy) STEVENS (1822 - 1896) |
| Father | Eliakim STEVENS (1743 - 1806) |
| Mother | Prudence Chittenden (1738 - 1832) |
Notes
Birth
The Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 for Killingworth, New London County (presently Middlesex County), Connecticut has his baptism as 19 April 1761, son of Eliakim.
Marriage
In the Revolutionary War Pension request forms, Esther certifies that she was not married to Roger before his leaving the war service but was married to him previous to 1 January 1794. She indicated that the marriage was performed by a Baptist minister, Jordan Dodge. Her sons Joel and Jonas also certified in the same papers that her mother and father were married in 1792. They certified that they always understood from both parents that they were married when she was not quite 13 years of age. Joel also understood from his parents that Prudence was their first child to have lived which leaves strong indications there was at least one stillborn before 1795.
Death
8 January 1841, age 80 years, buried Jericho Center, attest E. B. Jordon Town Clerk, from Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008. The lettering on his tombstone appears to be 7 or 8 June. Certifications from his sons Joel and Jonas are that his death date as 7 June 1841 and that they were present during death. As of August 2016 the death date of 8 January is not understood.
Burial
Picture of headstone in findagrave.com.
Endnotes
1. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 .
2. Stan Morgan, Roger Stevens Descendant.