I'm looking for someone with more information about the Rhodes Stevens family of Providence, Johnston, RI (late 1700s) and later CT and MA. (Worcester,MA is a possible location). Rhodes Stevens was married to an Abigail Kimball. He may have been married to someone else before her, but that is speculation. Known children of Rhodes Stevens: John Stevens (b about 1790 of Johnston, RI and possibly Trumbull Co OH 1820?) Peleg/aka Pelick Stevens (of Kalamazoo, MI) Henry Kimball Stevens (of Kalamazoo, MI, Porter Co, IN, LaSalle Co, IL and Joliet, IL) married Mary Ann Bissell in Kalamazoo in 1834. (she was the sister of my gg grandfather) Lorena Stevens (married at least two times...once to a George Landerking (location unknown) but lived in Michigan...evidently divorced and another time to a Rufus Park at Huron Co, Ohio in 1853). After that, she had several more kids and disappeared. Oren Stevens (of Kalamazoo, MI, Porter Co, IN, Rock Island Co, IL and Joliet, IL William James Monroe Stevens of Rock Island Co, IL and Joliet, IL Nathaniel Stevens of Rock Island Co, IL and Joliet, IL There was one other sister mentioned in an obit for Henry K. Stevens, but she wasn't named. There were other indications that there might be more sibblings for the above Stevens family. A bio for Peleg Stevens gave obviously incorrect information saying that his brother, John, had started the New York Yacht Club, but it was another John Stevens from New Jersey who did that who is totally unrelated. It also said that both his parents died back East, when it is also documented in cemetery records that his mother, Abigail Kimball Stevens is buried in the family plot in MI along with some of Peleg's children who died young. Peleg and Henry appear in early St. Joseph and Kalamazoo Co history as early settlers to the Brady Twp area in 1830. In an early Govt land record, they said they were of Worcester, MA. Peleg's bio also stated that he went back home after first settling in MI and then returned to MI again shortly after. We suspect that was to retrieve his mother, Abigail Kimball Stevens. Somewhere, there is also a Stevens family Bible that had been in the family for about 200 years as of the early 1900s death of Henry Kimball Stevens. It was in the hands of the children of Henry Kimball Stevens after his death according to the obit. Henry and Peleg were both very successful and weathy land brokers/capitalists in their respective towns of Kalamzoo and Joliet. Does this sound familiar to anyone out there? There is at least one other researcher of this family besides myself. We are very interested in finding/seeing the family bible which would answer a lot of our questions for both of us. We'd like to confirm the parentage of Rhodes Stevens, find the marriage info on Rhodes and Abigail, see if the Bible info says who Mary Ann Bissell's parents were, and obtain any info on John Stevens and the ~other~ sister. I'd appreciate any info, no matter how small...or suggestions. Julie Bissell Tupker