John Stevenson (abt. 1706 - aft. 1749)

Born about 1706 in Ireland

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Died after 1749 after about age 43 in Augusta, Virginia [uncertain]

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John Stevenson was born about 1706 in Ireland, son of Alexander Stevenson ( –~1729) and Unknown Unknown .

Married Martha Warwick about 1725 in Virginia.

Child: John Stevenson

Notes

• Major John Stevenson, whose father was in the siege of Londonderry, was born in Ireland, emigrated to Warwick County, Va., thence to "Calf Pasture" river in Augusta County/ He received a grant of 5,332 acres of land for services as Major in the Revolution and married Martha Warwick, who was killed by the Indians in Augusta County, Va., upon a return from church services. All of his sons were famous Indian fighters.

• The eldest son, John, Jr., came to Lexington in 1779, when there were only four cabins and a blockhouse there.

• The Stevensons, the Gays and the Dunlaps are credited with bringing the first thoroughbred race horses into Kentucky. It is known positively that Captain James Gay, of "Mound Hill", Clark County, assisted by his brothers-in-law, brought to Kentucky the first improved cattle. It is also a matter of record that John Stevenson, as early as 1779, brought out to Kentucky an "English filly," the name then given a thoroughbred filly or race.

• Illustrative of land and equine values at that time, Captain (Buck) William McConnell offered to trade 500 acres of land adjoining McConnells Station, now a part of Lexington, for this fine filly. At another time, according to the account left by his son, John Stevenson arranged to trade one of his horses with one of the Bryants, at Bryants Station, for 1,000 acres of land between the station and Lexington, but Col. John Morrison, believing the pioneers could not hold the country, prevailed upon John Stevenson not to make the trade.

• This John Stevenson was a sergeant in Captain Robert Patterson's company in the expedition against the Shawnees in 1781, and was in some of George Roger Clark's campaigns. He and his family lived at McConnells Station and Lexington from 1779 to 1784, when he planted a crop in Woodford County and they moved down to the vicinity of Pisgah, March 5, 1784.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ William E. Railey, History of Woodford County, Kentucky, 1938, reprinted by the Woodford Improvement League, Thoroughbred Press, Lexington, Kentucky, pages 157-159

• Title: International Genealogical Index(R): Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Publication: Copyright (c) 1980, 2002: Date: 10 Nov 2010

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