| Name: James Stephenson State: KY County: Nicholas County Township: No Township Listed Year: 1800 Record Type: Tax list Database: KY Early Census Index |
| Name: James Stephenson State: KY County: Bourbon County Township: No Township Listed Year: 1800 Record Type: Tax list Database: KY Early Census Index |
| Name: James Stephenson OSPage: 160 County: Nicholas Kentucky Wills Index Volume I Nicholas County, Kentucky Index to Will Book A 1800-1815 Settlements were not made in Carlisle Precinct as early as in some other portions of the county. The early settlers are all long since gone, and 'Squire Stephenson and 'Squire Powell are about all there are left of the second generation. The father of 'Squire Stephenson, James Stephenson, came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Paris, Kentucky, in 1788, where he remained a short time, and then came to what is now Carlisle Precinct, and settled on the farm owned at present by Henry Parker, four miles from Carlisle, between the two branches of Somerset Creek. He had served three years in the Revolutionary war, and soon after its close he followed the tide of immigration to the Western country. He broke the first land ever cultivated on the waters of Somerset Creek. Here he cleared five acres of ground, and while thus engaged, he lived in camp. Ilis vife was'El'zabeth Caldwell, born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1761, and died in 1848 ; he was born in 1749 and died in 1810. At the time of his settlement here, his only neighbors were John Blair, on Taylor's Creek, at the mouth of the Concord Spring branch, and a Mr. Bushfield, who died on the farm now owned by Benjamin Gore. |
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