Roswel
(Roswell)
Stevens
Born in Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of [father unknown] and Ama (Fellows) Stevens
Brother of
Lois (Stevens) Pierce [half], Anna Stevens, Ruth Stevens [half], Ruth (Stevens) Lee [half], Thomas Stevens IV [half], Nehemiah Stevens, Elias Stevens, William Stevens [half] and Jeduchan Stevens
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Roswel Stevens was born December 3, 1733 in Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, to Thomas Stevens 3rd, and Amey Stevens.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Plainfileld Page 127.
- "Find A Grave," Roswell Stevens, 1989; Burial, Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States of America, Old Plainfield Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #177884222, http://www.findagrave.com.
- "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F747-26X : 3 December 2014), Roswel Steavens, 03 Dec 1733; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
Research Notes
See Barbour, Page 128 regarding father Thomas 3rd. Quite confusing. No Thomas Sr is mentioned. Thomas Jr married Mary Hall May 26, 1702, and then married Amy Ffellows November 18, 1716, and THEN Thomas and Mary had son Zebulon June 25, 1717. Mary, wife of Thomas, Jr. died May 30, 1719. Thomas 3rd is not mentioned at all except as father of Roswell. The presumption is that the Thomas Jr. who married Amy Ffellows is Thomas 3rd whose wife was Amey.
Further information in the Find A Grave Memorial of Capt. Thomas Stevens III [1] is an excerpt from "The Stevens family: Descendants of the brothers, Thomas and Cyprian Stevens," compiled by Edwin Henry Stevens and edited by Elizabeth Stevens Polk. pg. 16 (E.S. Polk, Windsor, VT, 1941), which book is available only through the LDS Family Search: This Thomas Stevens was often called Thomas Stevens 3rd to distinguish him from his uncle, Thomas Stevens of Stonington, Connecticut, who married his maternal aunt, Mary Hall. He was born 7 August 1689 in Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts to Thomas Stevens Jr. and Ruth (Hall) Stevens. The excerpt also recites that Thomas 3rd did marry Amy Ffellows, as presumed in paragraph above.
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Since there's only one record of a Thomas Stevens marrying wife Amy, and the births of children to Thomas and Amy are spaced as would be expected, it's reasonable to treat them as one family. For the births of his first four children, it appears that Roswell's father was the second oldest Thomas Stevens in Plainfield, so he was "Jr." For child number 5 (Elias, 1728), there is no such notation (an oversight?), but for children 6 and 7 (1733 and 1736) he was denoted "3rd," presumably because an additional older Thomas Stevens had moved into Plainfield.