. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. U<yU-4iytr Z^M / GEORGE H. STEPHENS. George H. Stephens was born in Canisteo, on the place where he now resides, June 19, 1803. His grandfather, Uriah Stephens, was a native of Litchfield County, town of Canaan, Conn. ; married Martha Eathbun, a native of Stonington, Conn. Of this union were born before leaving that State: Benjamin, died in the Eevolutionary war ; Mrs. Solomon Ben- nett, Mrs.
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. U<yU-4iytr Z^M / GEORGE H. STEPHENS. George H. Stephens was born in Canisteo, on the place where he now resides, June 19, 1803. His grandfather, Uriah Stephens, was a native of Litchfield County, town of Canaan, Conn. ; married Martha Eathbun, a native of Stonington, Conn. Of this union were born before leaving that State: Benjamin, died in the Eevolutionary war ; Mrs. Solomon Ben- nett, Mrs. Daniel McHenry, Uriah, Jr., John, Mrs. Judge George Hornell, Phineas, Elias, Elijah, William, and Benja- min (2d). The family left Connecticut in 1766, and settled in Stillwater, N. Y.; afterwards in ^NTorthumberland Co., Pa.; thence to Tioga Point; thence to Newtown, now Elmira, and in 1789 the father and his sons, Uriah and John, explored the Canisteo Valley, accompanied by his son-in-law, Solomon Bennett, and James Hadley. That year, with others, they purchased the upper and lower Canisteo, now Canisteo and Hornellsville, and the same year Uriah Stephens, Sr., settled here with his family ; the others settled the following year. Uriah Stephens, Sr., was a soldier of the Erench and Indian war, and in the Eevolutionary war his son Uriah, Jr., took his place, and served through the entire war on the Indian frontier in Pennsylvania. Phineas Stephens was in the war of 1812, and ranked as major. Uriah Stephens, Sr., settled on the place now owned by Thomas Hallett, which remained in the family about eighty years, and on which he died, as also did his wife, and they were buried on the farm. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, his wife a member of the Baptist Church, and both assisted in the or- ganization of the first church and school in the town. This family, whose posterity has become so numerous in the county, was the first to settle and begin the various enterprises of
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