Thomas Stevenson III

   FamilySearch ID: LFYX-PB7. Find a Grave ID: 174973456.

  Events

• Marriage. ¹⁶⁰³

• Land: 1000 acres from Thomas Revell for 500 pounds, 20 Jan 1700/01, Pennsylvania. ¹⁶⁰⁴ This land was on the south side of Neshaminy Creed in Bensalem Township, a short distance from the present (sic: 1901) line of the City of Philadelphia near to the Delaware River. The following year he added 2500 acres on the southwest bank of the same stream.

• Certificate: two certificates, 2 Feb 1701/02, Flushing, Long Island. ¹⁶⁰⁴

• Politics: Elected a member of the Pennslyvannia Assembly, 1710. ¹⁶⁰³ Served continuously until his death in 1719. He was likewise one of eight Justices of the Peace for Bucks County. In 1712 he was elected a member of the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey. He was one of the great land owners of the time buying large tracts in Pennslyvannia, New Jersey and Maryland.

• Land. ¹⁶⁰⁵

• Will: dated, 8 Nov 1717, Bucks Co., PA. ^1606,1607

• Probate, 9 Oct 1719, Bucks Co., PA. ¹⁶⁰⁶ Executors were his wife Sarah and Joesph Kirkbride. Witnesses were Anna Marriott, John Axford and Benjamin Field.

• Biography. ¹⁶⁰⁸ In the Jennings book

Thomas married Sarah Jennings, daughter of Samuel Jennings and Ann Ollife, in Feb 1703/04.¹⁶⁰¹ (Sarah Jennings was born 10 Feb 1678/79,¹⁶⁰⁹ died in Feb 1732/33 ¹⁶⁰⁹ and was buried in Middletown, Bucks Co., PA ¹⁶⁰⁹.)