Samuel Stevens of Hampstead

Not the same as Samuel Stevens of Andover who married Elizabeth Barker.

Biography

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:

1. Sarah, born 9 Sep 1705
2. John, born 26 Jan 1706-1707
3. Rachel, born 1 Mar 1708-09
4. Samuel, Jr., born 28 Nov 1710; married 9 Jul 1736, Jerusha Dow
5. Nehemiah, born 24 Jan 1713
6. William, born 11 Mar 1714-1715
7. Jonathan, born 2 May 1717
8. Joseph, born 28 April 1719
9. Benjamin, born 23 April 1721
10. David, born 3 May 1724
11. Abigail, born 1 April 1726

(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"

• GEDCOM Note Information from the book Bartholomew Heath of Haverhill, Massachusetts compiled by Valerie Dyer Georgi, published in 1994. Her address in 1994 was 4168 Woodland Street in Santa Maria, California 93455-3356. Her e-mail in May of 2001 was &ltvgeorgi@gte.net&gt. This note added 24 July 2001. The information was on page 13. DATE 3 Mar 2007 TIME 00:00:00
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 17 2017, 18:00:10 UTC