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Virginia People Muster of the inhabitants of Virginia settlements, February 16, 1623/4 Source: "Hotten's Lists" (Use browser "Bookmark" or "Back" to return tothis page.) Other information is available at the main page for Virginia Settlers living at "James Cittye" in Virginia, February 16, 1623/4 Stephens, Richard Source from STEPHENS / STEVENS Genealogy Club--Tom Stephens (I-2)John's brother, (IIII) Richard Stephens who's spouse was ElizabethPiercy born in 1600 is called a paynter-stayner and the worshipfulcompany of paynters-stayners is named in the first London Company'sCharter of Virginia with many others. (a painter of arms and a glassstainer - an artist) (IIII) Richard's children were Richard, Samuel, William and JohnStephens. (IIII)Richard Stephens had the dubious honor of fighting the first duelon American soil and another duel was not recorded for 100 years. The colony's prospects improved when the demand for tobacco, firstcultivated in 1612, grew. The governor, Sir George Yeardley, convened thefirst legislative assembly in America at Jamestown in 1619. That same year a Dutch ship brought the first blacks, most of whom wereindentured servants, and toward the end of the century slavery became acharacteristic feature of the economy. (IIII) Richard Stephens built a block house in James City (Jamestown). Weknow through the manuscript and of the incorporation of James City, Capt.Richard Stephens was given Patent No. 1, that others might be encouragedby his example to enclose ground and plant trees. "Stevens - Stephens Genealogy and Family History" Author: Clarence Perry Stevens Call Number: CS71.S844 This book contains the history and genealogy of the Stevens-Stephensfamily of North Carolina. Bibliographic Information: Stevens, Clarence Perry. Stevens-StephensGenealogy and Family History. Privately Published. 1968. CAPT. RICHARD STEVENS came in the George to Jamestown Colony in 1623. Ibelieve that this is the first official record of a Stevens (Stephens)settler in a permanent colony in America, kin to us. It appears that hewas the eldest son of our ancestor B) Anthony Stephens, b. ca 1560 ofWiltshire, England. The official Visitation of London1 in 1634 lists onlyone A) Thomas as the son of said B) Anthony but the two crescents on hiscoat of arms shows that he was a second son and so had an older brother. A son of 6) Capt. Richard Stevens was Governor Samuel Stevens. After hisdeath in July of 1670 a meeting of the General Court was held in thesettlement of his estate2 and among thos listed as present was NicholasStevens and Capt. William Crawford who had been a fellow officer withNicholas under Cromwell in England. Since usually only the legal officials and the relatives attend such ameeting it would appear that 1) Nicholas Stevens was related to Gov.Samuel Stevens and thus was related to 6) Capt. Richard Stevens. If thisis correct, then 1) Nicholas was the nephew of 6) Richard and a firstcousin to Gov. Samuel Stevens.. Furthermore, it is a matter of the N. C. family record that Isaac5Stevens (Stephens), b. 1793 in North Carolina, was related to a SamuelStevens although some of the details are not very clear. In 1877 said Isaac, who had an older brother named Sam, dictated somedata to his grandson Isaac and Dr. Arnold, author of the Rush CountyAtlas of 1879. He gave his parents as James and Cebra (Seaberry) who hadmigrated from in or near Fayetteville, N. C., which I found to be truewhen I found the will of John Stevens, probated in 1779 there namingJames as a son. This is, I believe, the oldest will still on recordthere. Isaac said that we had an early colonial relative named Sam Stevens inthe Carolina Colony who kept a lot of his money in gold in an iron kettleunder his bed and often guarded by two big black slaves (I suppose whenhe was away). He wanted very much to own a thousand slaves but neverquite succeeded for as fast as he would buy a slave one would die or belost in some other way. For over forty years I suspected that this was fiction or muchexaggerated. Now I find that it is a well documented fact that SamuelStevens, the 2nd colonial governor of the colony owned over 4500 acres ofland and was for that time a very rich man. So it appears that he couldhave had that many slaves and, considering the size of the colony then,he must have been the only Sam Stevens, or probably anyone else, whocould have had that many then in the colony. This tends to prove that 1)Nicholas Stevens was related to 7) Samuel Stevens and was probably afirst cousin. 1 Harlein Pub. Visit. of London in 1634, Vol. 2, p. 262. 2 Ray's "Old Albemarle". p. 568 (referring to Hathway). CAPT. RICHARD STEVENS, although unmarried, arrived in 1623 at Jamestownwith four servants and later paid for the importation of many settlers;forty in one instance, so he was probably an eldest son who had inheritedassets due to the English law of primogeniture, which characteristicwould seem to fit the eldest son of B) Anthony Stephens in England. In 1623, he had the doubtful distinction of fighting the first duel inthe English colonies with George Harrison, whom he wounded so severely inthe knee that he later died, although it was said that death was notcaused by the wound. Capt. Stevens also received the first land grantpreserved on record at the Virginia Land Patent Office which, sinceJamestown was the first colony, is probably tantamount to saying that itis the oldest English land grant in the U. S. A. today. This grantcomprised sixty "roods" at Jamestown adjoining a house he already owned,"so that others may be encouraged by his example to enclose some groundsfor gardens. 2 He was a burgess and a member of the governor's councilunder Gov. Harvey, who had become cordially detested by the colonists. Ina personal altercation with Capt. Stephens, the governor suddenlyattacked Stephens and knocked out several of his teeth with a cane orcudgel. Soon after when the governor had a fist fight with his council,they deposed the old rascal and sent him to England regardless of theirlegal inability to do so. At his death about 1636 Capt. Stephens ownedover 2000 acres of land in the colony. 6) Capt. Richard Stephens, b. ca 1585 probably in Wiltshire, England d.ca 1636. He -m- Elizabeth Piersey, b. 1609 (dau. of Abraham and ElizabethPiersey), a great heiress (for the time) on her arrival at Jamestown in1623. Issue: 1. 7) Gov. Samuel Stevens, ca 1629-1670, b. Jamestown Colony, Va. -m-Frances Culpeper, who after his death married Gov. Berkeley; no issue. 2. 8) William Stevens, b. ca 1631 - d. 1657 aged 26; -m- ca 1650 MargaretVaulx (also spelled Vox in records). Issue: 1. Mary Stephens b. ca 1650 2. William Jr. b. ca 1652. He d. a minor 1668. 9) Mary Stephens b. ca 1650 -m- 1st Gerard (Jarret) Hawthorne of York Co.-m- 2nd Richard Barnes - no issue -m- 3rd Capt. Wm Hartwell, bodyguard ofGov. Berkeley in Bacon's rebellion. Issue of 1st marriage: 1. Anne Hawthorne 2. Elizabeth (d. before 1675) 3. Robert Hawthrone 4. Mary Hawthorne (It is possible that the last two may have been of oneof the other marriages.) No more data. More About RICHARD STEPHENS, CAPT.: Fact 1: Immigrant to Jamestown Colony in 1623 Fact 2: Source obtained from WFT, Volume 13 -----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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