Brief Life History of Phineas
When Phineas Stevens was born on 7 March 1731, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathan Stevens Jr., was 37 and his mother, Hannah Robinson, was 37.
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Sources (2)
- Will of Nathan Stevens of Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
- Early Records of the Stevens Family of Andover [pdf] by C. H. Abbott
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Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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