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He was born about 1575 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England.
John Stevens married Alice Atkins on 27 Feb 1596 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England.
He was taxed in Caversham in subsidies of 1576-77, 1580-81, 1593-94, and 1598-99.
He died and was buried on 21 Sep 1627 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England.
This ancestor John Stevens is the father of the John Stevens who settled first at Newbury and later went to Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. (The John Stevens from Salisbury does not belong to this family). Alice, the wife of John Sr., stayed at Newbury.
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In "Stevens of Newbury and Andover, Mass." [NEHGR LXXXV], G. Andrews Moriarty wrote that this John Stevens was . . .
"probably a son either of the John Stevens of Caversham . . . presumably . . . buried there 11 Jan. 1617/18 . . . "
"of the William Stevens of the same parish . . . whose wife, Cecily, was buried there 20 Feb 1601/2 . . . "
Moriarty goes on to say that this John "was born perhaps about 1575, and was probably the John Stevens who was buried at Caversham 21 Sept. 1627."