Individual Details

Silas Stevens

( - )

Of Brookfield

Events

Marriage	20 Jun 1765	Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America - Lydia Prouty
Military	American Revolution
Birth		Massachusetts, British America

Families

Spouse	Lydia Prouty (1747 - 1781)
Child	Permelia / Pamela Stevens (1766 - )

Notes

Marriage

Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800
Worchester County
Spencer
page 63
Silas Stevens of Brookfield & Lydia Prouty, June 20, 1765

Military

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 48
page 295

Mrs. Minnie Olds Fay.
DAR ID Number: 47633
Born in Albany, Ill.
Wife of Clarence A. Fay.
Descendant of Silas Stevens.
Daughter of Walker Olds and Susan Park, his wife.
Granddaughter of Cheney Olds, Jr., and Amma Olds, his wife.
Gr-granddaughter of Cheney Olds and Lydia Stevens, his wife.
Gr-gr-granddaughter of Silas Stevens and Lydia Prouty, his 1st wife, m. 1765.
Silas Stevens (1733-1825) served several enlistments as private under different commands, Massachusetts service. Was engaged in the battles of White Plains, Ridgefield, Fairfield and Saratoga. In 1818 he applied for a pension, which was allowed. He was born in Massachusetts.

Endnotes

1. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 237.

2. William Richard Cutter, Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Volume 4 (New York: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908), p 1790; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed .

3. Bailey, Frederic William (ed), Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 . As found in the records of Worcester County (New Haven, CT: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1897), p 63.

4. , Vital records of Spencer, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1909), 195 p; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 8 October 2009.