10/3/02 Attachment
Noted from a website: Militia, Trained Bands -consult H.A.C. records Finsbury
Square, London: Guildhall Library. [I have not yet looked up these records.]
p.49 Elizabeth Starkey's birth is said to have been at "Lypiat Park, Little
Sodbury". This is a contradiction! Lypiatt House is in the parish of Bisley
several miles to the NE of Little Sodbury with many parishes in between. Bisley
is next to Stroud. (Chavenage House is in the parish of Horsley roughly halfway
between,& Eastington parish adjoins Stonehouse parish a few miles W.of Bisley
parish.)
p.50 A website by Bob Young (bob.youngl@home.com , though this seems not be
valid any more) states Nicholas Stephens married Elizabeth Starkey on 9
Sept.1641 at Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire (!!!). Source? Assumed perhaps?
p.61 Dr.Barlow in his book "John Steevens of Guilford,
Connecticut",publ.1976(which also emphasises that the origin of this person in
old England is unknown & not the same as the descent given by C.Ellis Stevens)
states that Henry Kingsnorth & Mary Stephens had no children. The same book
records that Henry Kingsnorth ,born Staplehurst, Kent came to Guilford with the
first shipload of planters in July 1639.His marriage is more likely to have been
in Guilford than anywhere in old England. Henry was buried Guilford 30 July
1668.If a child WAS born to Mary in Feb.1668/9 then this would have been after
Henry's death. Henry gave all his estate to nephews in England, provided one of
them came to America to claim it. This his nephew James Kingsnorth did, coming
from Staplehurst. James died in 1682.The real estate was conveyed to John
Collins in 1686.
Many, if not all, of the 17th & 18th Century descendants of John Steevens of
Guilford CT are well recorded in Dr. Barlow's book (Library of Congress Catalog
Card Number 75-39127).
[John himself could have been born before 1600.]
For instance:
p.61-3 John's son William is said to have been born in England about 1630 & died
in Killingworth on 26 Feb.1703/4(date from inventory) .He married
1) 3 March 1653 Mary Meigs (born at Weymouth,1633)She died, as stated, in April
1703.
Children-John born 3 March 1654,said to have been killed in King Philip's war,
but no record has been found, save the service of his cousin (also John).
Samuel born March 1656(Barbour)or 1 March 1657(Holmes Genealogy)
Nathaniel born 10 May 1659,died young
Nathaniel born 29 oct.1661
Daniel probably died unmarried between 1695 & 1704(see Guilford LR book 2 of
Terriers, page 78 referred to in Dr. Barlow's book,p.14)
Judith born 1 Oct.1668
Josiah born 19 Dec.1670(Barbour)or 8 Dec. (Gen.& Talcott)
Mary (or Marcy in Barbour 2 Nov.1677
2)24 Nov.1703 at New London, Sarah (Hough) Carpenter.
Dr. Barlow points out that the birth record of the youngest daughter Mary in
1677 & the 2nd marriage in 1703 show that Mrs. Holmes was wrong( in her work
publ.1906)when she stated that William's youngest child Mary was by his 2nd
wife.
Three deeds survive of William's & so does his will (New London probate
#5155,recorded in book A, page 238).It was dated 23 February 1704 & received 30
March 1704.The date of death is given as 26 Feb 1703/4.
[I give the above just as an example-some things match up with earlier work,
others do not. Note that the stated dates of his death-variously 1700/01,1710 &
1712 can all be shown to be incorrect by consultation with a surviving primary
source.]