1671 On 1 August, Edward Stevenson was aged 19 years. [1]
1671 On 14 October, Edward Stevenson, perhaps this one, witnessed a deed between Thomas Wandell and Henry Barnsmith in Newtown. [2]
1676 On 12 January, Edward Stevenson witnessed the will of Ralph Hunt, of Newtown. [3]
1683 On 11 October, Edward Stevenson was on a rates list for Newtown for 1 heads, 40 land, 1 horse, 3 ox, 6 cows, 12 sheep, and 1 swine. [4] [5]
Edward Stevenson married Charity Field. [6]
1684 On 26 July, Thomas Barker and wife Katharine conveyed 50 acres of land and 3 acres of meadow to Edward Stevenson of Newtown. [7]
1687 On 5 November, Thomas Hicks of Cornbury and Mary, his wife, to Edward Stevenson of Newtown. Land on Cow Neck, 100 acres. Bounded as by pattent of Coll. Thomas Dungan November 25 1686. [8]
1688 On 2 November, John Tuder and wife Elizabeth of New York, sold land on Hellgate Neck to Edward Stevenson of Newtown. [9]
1690 On 9 March, Thomas Stevenson sold a lot to Wm Albertus, both of Newtown. Witnessed by Edward and Charitie Stevenson. [10]
1691 On day 30 of month 9, Edward and Charity Stevenson witnessed the marriage of Benjamin Field and Hannah Bowne at Flushing, Long Island, New York. [11]
1693 On 26 of month 4, Edward and Charity Stevenson witnessed the marriage of John Bowne and Mary Cock at Flushing, Long Island, New York. [12]
1695 Bernardus Smith, cordwainer, of New York City [sold land to] Edwd [Edward] Stevenson of Newtown, adjoining other land of Edward Stevenson. [13] [14]
1698/99 In February, Johannes Covart sold his interest in a mill in the town of Boshwyck to Edward Stevenson and Charity his wife, of Newtown. [15]
1698 Edward Stevenson was listed as an inhabitant of Newtown, Long Island with a family of 17 persons and 4 negros in a census taken in August. [16]
1700 Isaac Marriott and Susannah Field were married 1699/1700 on 2nd February (twelfth month) in Newtown, Long Island. Witnessed by Charity and Edward Stevenson (signatures appear twice, once as a pair) and others. [17]
1700 Edward Stevenson died on October 12 at Newtown, Long Island, New York, according to Quaker records. [18] [19]
1701 On 14 November, Deed. Benjamin Field of Chesterfield, to widow Charity Stevenson of Newtown, L. I. for 1000 acres, half of the 2000 acres bought of the W. J. Society May 19, 1701. [20]
[1] George E. McCracken, "The Fields of Flushing, Long Island," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 113 (1959), 197-216, 267-289 at 208, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 121, [HathiTrust].
[3] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 1, 1665-1707 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1893), 41, Will 1-2.153, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[4] Christopher Morgan and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (1850), 512, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].
[5] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), [AncestryImage].
[6] George E. McCracken, "The Fields of Flushing, Long Island," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 113 (1959), 197-216, 267-289 at 208, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_313, citing QR224, Liber B1 p 11, [AncestryImage].
[8] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_398, QR267, Liber B1-111, [AncestryImage].
[9] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_400, citing QR284, Liber B1-150, [AncestryImage].
[10] Henry B. Hoff, Long Island Source Records from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987), 124, citing page 43, [AncestryImage], [GoogleBooks].
[11] Quaker Meetings, Flushing, Long Island, Vol 2031, FHL film 17274, item 1, 34-35, [FHLCatalog].
[12] Quaker Meetings, Flushing, Long Island, Vol 2031, FHL film 17274, item 1, 37-38, [FHLCatalog].
[13] William Applebie Eardeley, Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York 1680-1781. Wills and Administrations Guardians and inventories, Volume 1 (Brooklyn, New York: 1918), 55, citing Jamaica Deeds liber C, page 297, [AncestryImage].
[14] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 2_562, Queens County Deed B1-262, [AncestryImage].
[15] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), [AncestryImage].
[16] Charles Caroll Gardner, "Census of Newtown, Long Island, August, 1698," The American Genealogist 24 (1948), at 134, [AmericanAncestors].
[17] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[18] U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[19] Abraham S. Underhill, "Records of the Society of Friends of the city of New York and vicinity, Deaths" New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 7 (1876), 39-43, 85-90 at 41, [GoogleBooks].
[20] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 532, citing West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2, p 702, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].