Ens. Otho Stevens

Otho Stevens was born about 1702. He died on 4 April 1771 at Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Parents: John Stevens and Mary Chase. Spouse: Abigail Kent. Otho Stevens and Abigail Kent were married on 21 March 1722/23 in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts.

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From another source....Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Volume 3:

Otho Stevens, probably born about 1695, was in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about 1720, and is supposed to have been a son of William and Abigail Sargent Stevens. It is claimed by some of his descendants that he was an emigrant from Wales. After 1726, he settled in Hampstead, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer and highly respected citizen, and died May 21, 1758. He was married in Gloucester, March 21, 1723, to Abigail Kent, who was born July 9, 1697, in that town, daughter of Josiah and Mary Lufkin Kent and an aunt of Hon. Jacob Kent of Newbury, Vermont. Their children were: Samuel of Hampstead; Josiah of Enfield; Simeon of Newbury, Vermont; Daniel of Haverhill; Otho, Archelaus, Abigail and Susan. Five of the sons were soldiers in the French and Indian War.

SOURCE: https://books.google.com/books?id=EthxO9RvKw8C&pg=PA1316&lpg=PA1316...

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Ancestry of the children of Robert Croll Stevens & Jane Eleanor (Knauss) Stevens, Vol. I, The Genealogy of Otho Stevens, 1702-1771, Robert Croll Stevens, 1982. [1.9] "parentage and birthplace unknown, b. probably in Great Britain, circa 1702." It is believed he emigrated in 1710 or 1715 from Wales with his brother Simeon, and arrived in Plymouth. Simeon is supposed to have gone to New York and settled between New York City and Albany. He lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, from at least March 1723 to Apr 1732, when he presumably went to Strathan, New Hampshire, but did not remain there, for in 1733 he and his family were warned from Exeter, New Hampshire.

He remained in New Hampshire for a few years, being a tenant in Hampton and having a son recorded in Hampton Falls, returning to Massachusetts before March 1737, where he lived in the North Parish of Haverhill, then known as Haverhill District, which section, after various vicissitudes became Hampstead, New Hampshire, in 1749. During this uncertain period for that locality, he was called of Haverhill where he had purchased some 90 acres in 1745.

A tailor by trade, he is later called, as a land owner, yeoman. A legal resident of Hampstead, he held an interest in Unity, named for the harmonious settlement of a land the squabble between Kingston and Hampstead, which he sold. He was moderately active in various Hampstead affairs, from the incorporation of that town in 1749 until a few years before his death in 1771. He died there at age 69, intestate.

Ancestors of American Presidents, Boyd, 1989: p. 39: ancestors of Chester Alan Arthur. probably born in England or Wales, circa 1702-Hampstead, New Hampshire.

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