James Stephenson (abt. 1765 - abt. 1836)

Descendants

Died about 1 Jul 1836 at about age 71 in Wateree Creek, Fairfield County, South Carolina [uncertain]

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Biography

James Stephenson and Elizabeth Judith Brown likely lived on the banks of the LIttle Wateree River at the Old Camden Road in Fairfield District. Here they raised one daughter and nine sons, five of which are named in the 1840 Final Distribution of his estate in Fairfield County, SC. Letters of Administration were issued July 1836 to his son Jesse R Stevenson. James was literate as his estate inventory contained books. Further proof can be found in his deeds recorded in Fairfield County Court House as the Clerk Ordinary indicated a LS.

Interesting to me is that three of his seven sons who survived to adulthood became physicians. We have only detailed information on youngest son William Joel Stevenson who practiced in Rossville, Rocky Creek area of Chester County. Oldest son Dr Thos D B Stevenson practiced in Newberry District and died at age 33 without issue. Dr Charles Martin Stevenson is lost to us as far as documentation. He was living in Fairfield Dist as late as 1835 when father James Stephenson died, but according to a nephew Chas A Stevenson b 1869 (son of Daniel R Stevenson and second wife Nancy Beaty) , he "moved West" and no death date is known.

A popular history of the descendants of William "Little Gabriel" Stevenson d 1809 Rowan Co NC by Saml Harris Stevenson was probably the source of the unproved father of James to be John Stevenson, brother of Wm Little Gabriel Stevenson. As James Stevenson and his male descendants are yDNA Haplogroup I-M253 (I1), it is unlikely that James is related to the Wm "Little Gabriel" Stevenson line as they appear to be R-M269 (R1b) Haplogroup. I have not proved this however.

Curry Kidd Walker Litchfield, CT

Sources

• Family information from notes of Charles A Stevenson 1869-1958. Interviews with descendants of Wm Joel Stevenson living in Chester Co. SC.

• Public records and Deeds found at SC Dept of Archives and History, Columbia SC for land on the Wateree River and Old Camden Road.

Deed abstract by cousin C Malak Reference: Fairfield District, South Carolina, Deed Book LL, pages 79, 80 Grantor: James Stevenson Grantee: sons Charles M. Stevenson, Daniel R. Stevenson, William J. Stevenson Date of Deed: 26 November 1833 Date Recorded: 26 November 1833 Property: 200 acres and 4 slaves Cost: In consideration of the natural love & affection which I Bear towards my sons Charles M. Stevenson Daniel R. Stevenson and William J. Stevenson & in further consideration of one dollar Witnesses: John B. McCall, Jno McMaster

A certain negro woman named Peggy & her three children Liza, Mary, & Albert together with their future increase. And also all that plantation or tract of land situate. . .on the water of the Wateree Creek containing about two hundred acres more or less lying on both sides of the road leading from Winnsborough to Camden, bounded on the north by lands of John Rosborough & Col. Wm Moore, on the east by lands of John Ford, on the South by lands of Major Benni Robertson, & on the West by lands of James Young.

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• Fairfield County, SC Probate and Estate Records FamilySearch

• A History and Genealogical Record of the Stevenson Family, 1738 to 1926, second edition. Rev Saml Harris Stevenson et al. 1926

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