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"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. GOV. SAMUEL STEVENS, also a Captain, b. ca 1629 in Jamestown colony wascommissioned governor of the N. C. colony (then Albemarle) in 1667 whichoffice he retained till his death in 1670. The date 1674 in somehistories is an error as shown by the probate date of his will. He wasone of the few really good governors the colony had. "He ruled wisely andwell" (Chambers' Annals, p. 523). He retained the good will of the Indians and some immigrants came fromMass. and the Barbadoes. The earliest recorded legislation was during his term in 1669. One billforbade the collection of debts which had been contracted abroad bysettlers before their emigration to the colony. (Of course, this was toattract settlers). Homesteads were granted for two years. To sue in courtcost 30 lbs. of tobacco which went toward Gov. Stevens' salary. Therewere no clergymen till George Fox, the Quaker, came in 1672 and at thefirst meeting, the Indians shocked the Quakers by smoking their pipesduring the service. -(Moore_. It has been said that in England smokinghad been discontinued because of the noise of the flintlocks used then bypeople to light their pipes. (Since I have only a few descendants of 6) Richard I am putting them hererather than in the tables farther on in the book.) From the Jamestown settlement in May 1607 till 1775 scarcely a generationin the American colonies reached manhood without knowing the horrors ofwar. I have given some biography of Gov. Samuel Stevens in the precedingchapter so I need only to mention that he held also the rank of Captain.I have no record of his military service but probably he was in theaction of Holy Thursday, 1644 in which some 500 white settlers werekilled by the Indians in Virginia. However, the Indians were disbursedand their chief captured and shot, and their villages destroyed. I think we can claim Capt. Richard Stephens (or Stevens) immigrant in theGeorge to Jamestown Colony in 1623, just three years after the landingfrom the Mayflower at Plymouth. He arrived with two servants so heevidently was a man of some means. Under his name is the oldest remainingland grant record from the Jamestown Colony. With the possible exceptionof some which may remain from the early Plymouth records, that isdoubtless the oldest English land grant in the United States. He wascollaterly related to practically all of the Stevens lines listed in thisbook. He was the father of Samuel Stevens, the second colonial governorof the North Carolina Colony. -----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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