Stephen, youngest son of Joseph and Abigail (Beecher) Roe, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 31, 1758, died in 1835. He served in Job Wright's company. Colonel G. Vandscaick's regiment, during the revolutionary war and was at the battle of Fort Montgomery, and later drew a pension from the government. "Rebecca Roe drew a pension for services and food given the soldiers" runs a statement in one of the papers in the pension bureau at Washington, D. C. Stephen Roe and his wife were both recognized by the continental congress for services rendered the government during the war of the revolution.
After the war Stephen Roe taught school and was called ".Mr." Roe as a mark of distinction, such a title being a distinction in those days. He married Rebecca Lewis. She was presumably the daughter of Leonard and Hannah (Perkins) Lewis. Leonard Lewis served in King Phillip's war in Cortland's regiment as private in 1778, and died in 1817, about seventy-five years old.
His father was Johannes Lewis, who married, in 1737, Sarah, daughter of Roger Ailing, who was treasurer of the colony of Connecticut from 1661 to 1664. His father, Leonard Lewis, married Elizabeth Hardenburgh, of Ulster county, New York, in 1688. He was captain of the Foot Company, 1700, and was later called colonel. He was a member of the assembly from 1699 to 1706, from New York and Dutchess county. The father of Elizabeth Hardenburgh was Gerrit Ganse Hardenburgh, who was commissioned July 8, 1690, by Governor Leisler as commander of the sloop "Royal" to fight against the French.[1]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Stephen by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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