Col. Hugh Stephenson

Colonel Hugh Stephenson

• Born about 1735 in Virginia
• Died Aug 1776 at about age 41 in Virginia
• Son of Richard Stephenson Sr. and Eleanor Honora (Grimes) Stephenson
• Husband of Nancy (Whaley) Stephenson — married about 1760

Remembering Col. Hugh Stephenson, who led the Bee Line March to join George Washington near Boston at the start of the Revolutionary War.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stephenson-4474

1776 Project

Colonel Hugh Stephenson served with Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment (1776), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Daughters of the American Revolution

Hugh Stephenson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A109224.

Hugh was awarded (evidently posthumously) a warrant for a total of 6,666⅔ acres of land "lying north-west of the River Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota" in the Northwest Territory (later the state of Ohio). These Land Warrants were purchased by Lucas Sullivant (5,816+ acres as assignee, 14 May 1800) and Abraham Shepherd (1,000 acres as assignee, 12 June 1798). The Warrants show lineage from Hugh Stephenson, to his heir-at-law Richard Stephenson, to HIS heir-at-law John Stephenson, to the respective Assignees. NOTE that the total acreage exceeds the original land warrant.[1]

GEDCOM Note

3/10/1828. Yohogania created by VA Assembly 1773, Started at mouth of Cross Cr along ridge SE to Ohio R. and Monongalia R. ALong dividning ridge to Ten-Mile Cr, then E to Catfish Camp and Redstone Old Fort. Then along road to Monongahela R. Then across road to Fort, along Braddock's Road to Meridian with Potomac River.

Virginia Letter Box [genealogical inquiries column]

References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stephenson-4474
   1. DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=ful...
   2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143728591/hugh-stephenson
   3. Hugh's will from the book Pioneers on the Bullskin by Mignon Larche
   4. "General Land Office Records": Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior; Warrants of Hugh Stephenson, deceased; Warrant numbers 244—249, 268 Listing
   5. Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, 5 August 1906, p. 14 [Extract of longer "Stephenson" letter] [Courtesy of _Newspaperarchive]