Lt. Asa Stevens

STEVENS, ASA Ancestor #: A108733

• Service: CONNECTICUT Rank: LIEUTENANT
• Birth: 5-3-1734 PLAINFIELD WINDHAM CO CONNECTICUT
• Death: 7-3-1778 WESTMORELAND TWP WESTMORELAND CO CONNECTICUT
• Service Source: HEITMAN, HIST REG OF OFFICERS OF THE CONT ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REV 1775-1783, P 518
• Service Description: 1) KILLED AT BATTLE OF WYOMING VALLEY
• 2) CT MILITIA

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he following is copied from the Stevens record prepared for their family reunion: The first Stevens of which I could find any record was beheaded by the order of Cromwell for the part he took in the English Revolution. His three sons, thinking that discretion was the better part of valor came to America. Their names were Simon, Cyprian and Stephen. They settled in Lancaster, Mass. Cyprian had two sons, Simon and Joseph. The third son of Simon was Jonathan, and his third son was Asa who was born May, 1734 and came to Wyoming, Pa. in 1774, living the first year at the mouth of Mill Creek; afterward moved to where the city of Wilkes-Barre now stands and at that time there were only four house there. Asa Stevens was a lieutenant in the Wilkes-Barre Company. He was killed at the Battle of Wyoming, leaving a wife and 10 children who fled with the other fugitives to Connecticut. One child dying on the march through the wilderness a grave was made and the body left alone.

Lieutenant Asa Stevens

A. Biographical notes:

Born 2/3 May 1734 at Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut. In October 1772 moved his family from Canterbury, Windham County, Massachusetts to Luzerne County (Wyoming Valley), Pennsylvania and lived approximately one year at the mouth of Mill Creek. In April 1773 settled on the town plot of what is now the City of Wilkes-Barre, but at that time had only four houses. Was a Lieutenant in the Wilkes-Barre Company of militia and was active in that capacity until the Battle of Wyoming. On 10 December 1777/78 was in command of an 11-person search party that marched to Meshoppen in quest of Tories and disaffected people. On 20 December 1777/78 (10 days later) Asa commanded another, larger party that marched for the same purpose as far as Sheshequin. Died 3 July 1778, at “the Wyalusing massacre” during the Revolutionary War. An invading army of Indians and Tories killed most of the male inhabitants.

Slain in the Battle of Wyoming, which was in Wyoming Valley, Westmoreland County, Connecticut at the time of his death.

Spouse:

 Sarah Ann Adams Stevens (1737 - 1793)*

Children:

 Jonathan Stevens (1764 - 1850)*

 Asa Stevens, Esq. (1768 - 1846)*

 Simon Stevens (1776 - 1841)*

 Mary E Stevens Dana (1778 - 1860)*

*Calculated relationship