This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0lJBAIB/3749.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Terry, I don't think your William or John Stephens is the same as the John Stevens I have in mind. I believe that by the 1790s John Stevens (and it is definitely this spelling as I have an example of his signature) was a substantial farmer in Benson. I think he would have been in his mid-thirties. Best wishes, Nick Fielding