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Not the same as Samuel Stevens of Andover who married Elizabeth Barker.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-23364
Samuel was born about 1680. He passed away about 1751. Samuel is perhaps the son of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Colcord) Stevens of Salisbury.
The will of Samuel Stevens who married Rachel Heath has been uploaded. He is the only spouse of Rachel Heath.
Samuel Stevens and Rachel Heath had eleven children whose births are recorded at Amesbury. All eleven children are named in Samuel's will written in 1748.
He married Rachel Heath, of Hampton, (now New Hampshire). After his marriage, he settled in Amesbury, Mass. In 1708 he was called "snowshoe man."
'Samuel gave away his fairly extensive lands in what is now Rockingham Co., to his many sons in the 1740s. There is also a will naming all the children. This branch is originally from Amesbury, and my co-researcher Rob Welsch found birth or baptismal records for Samuel's children there.
When they moved to Haverhill, Mass., they were living at the north end of town before the boundary between Mass. and NH was firmly established. Their church was literally on the state line (now a mortgage company, not a church.)
The line was drawn in 1741 and Samuel Stevens and his sons - John, Nehemiah, Samuel, Jr. William - are listed among those on the north or NH side of the line in a survey done in Dec 1741. There were also many Heaths on the list as well.
Children, all born Amesbury, MA:
(Source: Bartholomew Heath of Haverhill, MA and Some of His Descendants, Valerie Giorgi, 1994)
Possible birth record: https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salisbury/aBirthsS.shtml "(STEVENS (Steevens)) Samuell, s. twin, Nathaniell and Mehetable, Jan. 18, 1680."
https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salisbury/aMarriagesS.shtml "(STEEVENS (Stevens)) Samuell, of Amesbury, and Rachill Heath of Hampton, 16: 9m: 1704. NCTBK"
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1680
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Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
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1705 |
September 9, 1705
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Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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1707 |
January 26, 1707
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Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
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1709 |
March 1, 1709
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Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
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1710 |
November 28, 1710
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Amesbury, Essex County, MA, United States
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1713 |
January 24, 1713
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Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States
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1714 |
March 11, 1714
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Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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1716 |
May 19, 1716
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Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine Colony, British Colonial America
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1717 |
May 2, 1717
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Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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