Hon. George Stevenson, LL.D. and Mary Thompson

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Husband Hon. George Stevenson, LL.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1718 - Dublin, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1783 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 4
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Wife Mary Thompson ⁵

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           Died: 1791 6
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         Father: [Father] Thompson (      -      )
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Thomas Cookson (      -1753) 6 7

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Children

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1 M Dr. George Stevenson ^{2 3 8}

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           Born: 1759 - York, York Co, PA 9
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           Died: 1829 - Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE 10
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         Spouse: Maria Barker (      -      ) 11

         Spouse: Mary Holmes (      -      ) 2 3

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2 F Nancy Stevenson ⁶

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         Spouse: John Holmes (      -      ) 6

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3 F Catharine Stevenson ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: Gen. John Wilkins (1761-1816) 6 12

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4 F Mary Stevenson ¹³

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         Spouse: Dr. James Armstrong (1749-1828) 14 15
           Marr: Abt 1789

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. George Stevenson, LL.D.

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He belonged to a distinguished family in Ireland and was educated for the ministry at Trinity College, Dublin, but not taking kindly to an ecclesiastical life selected for him by his parents, he ran away from home and came to America, locating in York, Pennsylvania.

He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated to America near the middle of the 1700s. He had previously graduated at Trinity College, in his native city, and being an excellent classical scholar opened a school at New Castle, Delaware, where he contributed to the education of those who became more or less prominent in the active scenes of life. He was a practical surveyor, then an important character, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Surveyor General under Nicholas Scull, for the three lower counties on the Delaware called "the territories of Pennsylvania," the right to which William Penn obtained from James, Duke of York, in 1682. Afterwards Mr. Stevenson moved from New Castle to York, Pennsylvania, and there commenced the practice of the law, which he successfully pursued. He was commissioned a judge of the counties of York and Cumberland; his commission bearing date of 1765, and issued in the reign of George the Second. He had become a very large landholder, and engaged in the manufacture of iron. He, with William Thompson, afterwards General Thompson, and George Ross, afterwards a signer of the Declaration of Independence, erected and owned what was called Mary Ann Furnace, in York County, as early as 1764, as well as Spring Forge, a few miles distant from the former. In 1769 Mr. Stevenson moved to Carlisle and embarked as a pioneer in the iron business at a place called Mount Holly, about seven miles south of town. In this enterprise, however, owing to the dishonesty of another, he became greatly reduced, and returned to the practice of the law. He was a decided and earnest patriot, fully identified with the cause of liberty, and some of his correspondence may be seen in the Colonial Records and the Pennsylvania Archives. [HCC 1879, 159]

1 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 89, 159, 183.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 2.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 246.

4 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 89, 160.

5 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 160, 183.

6 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 160.

7 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 362.

8 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 160, 182.

9 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 182.

10 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 184.

11 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 382.

12 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 588.

13 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 160, 185.

14 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 99, 160, 185.

15 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 19.