The Stevenson Family History

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Samuel Stevenson who was born ca. 1675 in Scotland. He left Scotland and migrated to Ireland ca. 1701. By the year 1703 Samuel immigrated to America and settled in Snow Hill (now Worcester) Somerset Co., Maryland. He was the father of three known children. Descendants lived primarily in Maryland, Kentucky and Indiana.

Joseph Stevenson (1787-1832) married Elizabeth Stevens and immigrated (after a stay at Gibraltar) in 1828 from England to Brooklyn, New York, moving later to Albany, New York and then to land near Detroit, Michigan. A son, Edward Stevenson (1820-1897), became a Mormon convert (together with his mother) in 1833, and lived in Missouri and Illinois before moving to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847. Descendants lived in Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere.

William Stevenson emigrated from Northern Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania in 1748. He married Mary McLelland and eventually settled in North Carolina in 1763. Also includes information on the family of James and Prudence (Roddy) Hall who migrated from Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1752 to North Carolina.

Presents a portrait of four generations of the Stevenson family in America, from the first Scotch-Irish immigrants to the life and career of the noted liberal politician Adlai Stevenson.