Samuel
Stevens
Born in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Stevens
and Prudence (Rice) Stevens
Brother of
Phineas Stevens, Azubah (Stevens) Heywood, Mindwell (Stevens) Stone, Joseph Stevens, Isaac Stevens, Dorothy (Stevens) Leonard, Joseph Stevens, Luce (Stevens) Bullard and Mary Stevens
Died
at age 11
in Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Biography
Samuel Stevens died young.
Samuel was a son of Joseph Stevens and Prudence Rice, born September 1711 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1][2]
On August 14, 1723, after family devotions and breakfast Joseph Sr. and his four sons, Samuel, Joseph, Phineas, and Isaac went to meeting and was ambushed by five hostile Indians. While the older Joseph escaped in the bushes his two sons Joseph and Samuel were killed and scalped. Killed by Gray Lock with a party of four Indians
He is buried in Old Burial Ground, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Sources
- ↑ Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to 1850, page 137: Stevens, Samuel, s. Joseph and Prudence, Sept. [torn] 1711.
- ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4DJ-NXJ : 4 December 2014), Samuel Stevens, 25 Sep 1711; citing Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, yrs 1663-1829 p 26; FHL microfilm 185,454.
- History of Rutland, Massachusetts, and Temple & Sheldon's History of Northfield, Massachusetts
- Reynolds, Cuyler, editor. Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 257-260. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911. Published online by Schenectady County (N.Y.) Public Library.
- Reed, Jonas, and Daniel Bartlett. A History of Rutland: Worcester County, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement, with a Biography of Its First Settlers. First publication 1836; reprinted in 1879 with additions.
- Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. (Reed's History of Rutland, Mass., pp. 103-105. Hudson's History of Sudbury, Mass., pp. 171-172. Blake's History of Rutland, Mass., and the Indian Troubles of 1723-30, pp. 45-46-47 Also Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 51, p. 399. Nourse's History of Lancaster, Mass., p. 318.)
- Find A Grave: Memorial #57099860, Samuel Stevens, 1723; Burial, Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Old Burial Ground.
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