When Abel Stevens was born on 12 September 1746, in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, John Stevens, was 25 and his mother, Experience Wheeler Coit, was 20. He married Ruth Spaulding on 12 May 1771, in Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1816, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 70.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
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