Eliza (1807-8 Dec 1893) — m. Nathaniel S. Hill III on 11 Apr 1829
two unknown girls
Levi, Jr. (1811-5 Jun 1893) — m. Livonia Cook on 25 May 1835
Amasa T. (~1814-15 Dec 1856) — m. Almira Lancaster in 1837; m. Judith Rowe on 24 Sep 1854
Levi STEVENS, Sr. (~178x-182x) +
Hannah MANN (~1792-2 Jul 1881)
Timothy (7 Apr 1816-22 May 1845) — m. Saphronia Robinson on 16 Mar 1840
Mary (6 Dec 1818-27 Nov 1869) — m. Nathaniel Caverly on 10 Feb 1840
Sarah Currier “Sally” (6 Aug 1821-7 Jan 1904) — m. Jonathan Brown on 10 Dec 1843
Amos Mann (6 May 1823-9 Oct 1846)
Levi was said by three of his children to have been born in New Hampshire – either in Sanders or in Barnstable, neither of which seems to exist. Maybe they meant Barnstead, which is in Belknap County, or maybe they were thinking of Barnstable County, Massachusetts. His parents are unknown. He was a millwright. Wikipedia credits him with building the first mill in Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine in 1813, a claim echoed by many other sites. The town was named for Exeter in southeastern New Hampshire, where many of the early settlers came from.
Mary was reportedly born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, which is on the coast southeast of Bangor. Her parents were almost certainly Amos Mann from Massachusetts and Mary Blagdon from Maine, who lived in what’s now Kenduskeag Township, Penobscot County northwest of Bangor.
Levi and Mary married on Christmas day, 25 Dec 1806, in Bangor. The marriage was performed by Joseph Carr. The 1810 census showed a Levi Stevens household in Bangor, consisting of a young couple with three girls – very likely them. I don’t know who the other two girls were. By 1813, if not earlier, the family had settled in the newly incorporated town of Exeter, which is definitely a real place northwest of Bangor.
Mary apparently died before 1815. Place of burial is unknown, although the best bet is Exeter Center Cemetery, also called Exeter Corners or Townhouse Cemetery, which was in operation at the time. It’s on Stetson Road just south of its intersection with Exeter Road.
Levi married Hannah Mann, who was probably Mary’s sister, on 5 Feb 1815 in Exeter. Records show they had four children born in Exeter over the next eight years.
The 1820 census for Exeter listed Levi Stevens, age between 26 and 45, with a wife in the same rather broad age range. There were nine other people in their household: two young men age 16-26, three girls and one boy age 10-16, and two boys and a girl under 10. The two young men were almost certainly hired hands. The three older girls fit with the 1810 Bangor census, although Eliza is the only one for whom I have a name. The older boy was presumably Levi Jr. with his age slightly exaggerated. The three younger children would have been Amasa, Timothy, and Mary. Three members of the household were “engaged in agriculture”, as the census put it. One assumes that was the three men.
Levi Sr. apparently died between 1822 and 1830. One source claims Feb 1825 but provides no evidence. In the 1830 census, Hannah, in her thirties, was heading a household containing a boy age 15-19, a boy and girl age 10-14, and a boy and girl age 5-9. That accounts for her four children and her stepson/probable nephew Amasa. Her stepdaughter/probable niece Eliza was recently married and out of the house. Levi Jr. was probably working for another local family, so the census didn’t list him by name.
On 18 Dec 1831, Hannah married Thomas Wentworth (1784-Dec 1874) from New Hampshire. They remained in Exeter. The 1840 census listed them as a couple in their forties with five children: two boys age 10-14, two girls 5-9, and a boy under 5. The two older boys were probably Thomas’s sons from his previous marriage.
The 1850 census, which listed Hannah’s age as 54, gave names to the three younger children, who were Hannah’s as well:
Betsey (1833-16 Dec 1920) — m. David Peavey
Abigail (1835-31 Jul 1911) — m. ??? Perkins; m. F. A. H. Stackpole
Tristram (1837-?185x?) — m. Martha Jane Blaisdell on 7 Jul 1856
By 1860, Hannah (67) and Thomas (78) were living with Thomas’s son Nathaniel S. Wentworth and family in Exeter. In 1870, they were next door to Nathaniel and family, but back to being heads of household, sharing a place with the Robinson family (relation unknown, but most likely Mary Robinson was Thomas’s daughter). Thomas died in 1874 and is buried in Clarks Hill Cemetery, Stetson, Penobscot County.
In 1880, Hannah (88) was living with her grand-daughter Mary Caverly Graffam and family in Newport. Hannah died in 1881 and is buried with Thomas.
Although her burial record and gravestone indicate Hannah was born in 1787, I doubt this. Her age in census records places her birth between 1791 and 1796, and her last child was born about 1837. It’s not impossible that she had a child at age 50, but it’s unlikely.
Eliza has her own entry in the family tree.
Levi, Jr. remained in Exeter. In 1835 he married Livonia Cook (Jul 1816-28 Oct 1881) from New Hampshire. Their children:
Aaron Wesley (10 Sep 1836-22 May 1867)
Calista Ann (5 Jun 1838-10 Dec 1884) — m. James N. Prescott on 9 Jan 1862
Keziah Cook (9 Apr 1840-31 Mar 1916) — m. Erastus F. Mitchell on 17 Dec 1863
Asa Morrell (8 Aug 1841-2 Mar 1920) — m. Frances E.
Levi Fisher (1843-????)
Lucius P. (1846-????) — m. Caroline McInnis
Charles L. (1849-21 Aug 1909) — m. Marietta Proctor on 8 Feb 1874
Ada E. (1856-10 Jan 1874)
Herbert L. (1861-????)
The 1840 census listed the household as a man in his thirties and a woman in her twenties, with five children: a boy age 15-19, a boy 10-14, and two girls and a boy under 5. Unknown who the two older boys were, although one could have been Levi’s younger half-brother Amos.
The family remained in Exeter. Livonia died in 1881 and is buried in Exeter Center Cemetery, also called Townhouse Cemetery, where other members of the family are buried including her children Aaron and Ada. Levi died in 1893 and is buried with her. His burial record says that his father was from Sanders, New Hampshire (can’t find any such place), and his mother from Ellsworth, Maine. Note that the Levi Stevens who lived in Eddington, Penobscot County and died there in 1921 was not this family’s Levi Fisher Stevens.
There’s only circumstantial evidence that Amasa was the son of Levi and Polly, but it fits. He married Almira Lancaster (1822-184x) in 1837. They lived in Hudson and later Kirkland, Penobscot County. Their children:
Edward (19 Feb 1838-17 Oct 1908) — m. Annie Victoria Wilson on 14 Jun 1860; m. Sophrona A. Reeves
Emily (1839-????)
Caroline (1842-????)
Rufus Abbott (11 Oct 1843-2 Nov 1899) — m. Anastasia Gertrude Paul on 26 Mar 1860
Charles W. (1845-13 Jan 1917) — m. Henrietta C. Meader on 10 Jan 1864
The 1840 census showed the Amasa Stephens household in Hudson as a man in his twenties, a woman in her late teens, and a boy and girl under 5. Their neighbors included several Mann households.
By the 1850 census, Almira had died. In addition to the four older children but no Charles, the 1850 household in Kirkland included Amasa’s grandmother Mary Blagdon Mann (89) and maiden aunt Sylvia Mann (46). There was a Charles Stevens (4) in the household of one Wheelwright Stevens in Etna, Penobscot County – probably this family’s Charles, fostered out to a relative who had a wife in residence (and who was likely named in honor of Rev. John Wheelwright, the 17th-century founder of Exeter, New Hampshire).
Amasa married Judith Rowe Jones (9 Feb 1816-14 Oct 1900) in 1854. There’s no record of children. He died two years later, and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Bangor. His tombstone places his date of birth in early 1816, after his presumed mother’s presumed year of death. When Judith died in 1900, she was buried in Pine Grove as well.
Timothy married Saphronia Robinson (Feb 1822-19 Apr 1906) on 16 Mar 1840 in Exeter. They had three children:
Jenette (May 1842-27 Feb 1867) — m. (or not) Joel F. Harthorn in 186x
Francina Ann (5 Dec 1843-16 Jun 1919) — m. Mark T. Scott in 1863
Timothy F., Jr. (25 Aug 1845-????) — prob. died young
Timothy died in Exeter on 22 May 1845, three months before the birth of his son and namesake. He’s buried in Townhouse Cemetery. Saphronia remarried to Thomas Estes (Jun 1820-29 Apr 1895) in 1848. They had six more children: John (15 Dec 1848), Charles F. (4 Jan 1851), Julia Ann (16 May 1853), George (~1855), Albion (~1860), and Noah (~1863). The 1850 census showed them in Corinna, Penobscot County with Saphronia’s daughters Janette B. (8) and Francena A. (6), as well as their half-brother John Estes (1).
The family moved to Bloomfield, Essex County, Vermont in the 1870s. Timothy’s daughter Francina moved to the same town, and is buried in the same place as her mother, Bloomfield Cemetery, which is on the Vermont side of the river between Bloomfield, Vermont and Colebrook, New Hampshire.
Daughter Jenette had a child, Sophronia Harthorn (22 Jan 1865-19 Feb 1933), with a younger man named Joel Harthorn (7 May 1848-17 Jun 1866), but there’s no record of their marrying. They died less than a year apart and are buried in West Broadway Cemetery, Lincoln, Penobscot County. Sophronia accompanied her namesake grandmother to Vermont, where she married one Orlando A. Buzzell (1861-1946) and had at least four children.
Mary married Nathaniel Caverly (7 Sep 1811-17 Apr 1904) from New Hampshire on 10 Feb 1840 in Exeter, Penobscot County. It appears the marriage wasn’t registered until October of that year. Known children:
Sarah (1841-3 Feb 1855)
Mary F. (1842-1929) — m. Samuel G. Graffam on 6 Oct 1864
Amos (1845-1927) — m. Laura Ann Young on 8 Apr 1867; m. Ella Sexton
Frank Eugene (1853-15 Jun 1916) — m. Rose Anna Benway in 1875
Mary died in Newport, Penobscot County in 1869, and is buried in North Newport Cemetery. The 1870 census listed Nathaniel and son Eugene sharing the house with Nathaniel’s sister-in-law Nancy C. Grant Roberts Caverly (1824-20 Feb 1895), widow of his brother Tobias (and before that of Thomas W. Roberts), and his niece Ada (13) and nephew Wilford (8). Nathaniel married Nancy in 1873. Mary’s surviving daughter remained in Maine, and her sons both moved to Minnesota.
Nancy died in 1895. Nathaniel died in 1904, and is buried with both wives.
Sarah has her own entry in the family tree.
There’s no indication that Amos married before his death in Exeter, Penobscot County in 1846. Like his brother Timothy, he’s buried in Townhouse Cemetery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter,_Maine -- Mentions Levi
http://history.rays-place.com/me/exeter-me.htm -- More detailed history of Exeter written in 1886
http://www.me-roots.org/index.php/counties/penobscot-county/54-bangor-marriages-1796-1814 -- 1806 wedding
http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2008/04/marriages-in-bangor-1796-1814.html -- Ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2W-JBN -- 1810 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4X4-L6B -- 1815 wedding
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-BMB -- 1816-1823 births of Hannah’s four children; see image 27
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-CMX -- 1816 birth of Timothy
https://www.myheritage.com/names/timothy_stevens -- includes Timothy
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-BMT -- 1818 birth of Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGN-2QV -- 1820 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-BM1 -- 1821 birth of Sarah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-CMJ -- 1823 birth of Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH55-99J -- 1830 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-34P2 -- 1831 wedding of Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XK-935 -- 1835 wedding of Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-Q6L -- 1836 birth of Aaron Wesley
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-PFD -- 1838 birth of Calista Ann
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-DHP -- 1840 census, Hannah and husband #2 Thomas Wentworth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-WQZ -- 1840 census, Amasa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-Q65 -- 1840 birth of Keziah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-DWB -- 1840 census, Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4X4-R7M -- 1840 wedding of Timothy
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4X4-RQ8 -- 1840 wedding of Mary Stevens
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-Q6Y -- 1841 birth of Asa M.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-BMJ -- 1842 birth of Timothy’s daughter Jenette
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-QXM -- 1843 birth of Levi Fisher
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-V81 -- 1843 birth of Timothy’s daughter Francina
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-9D7X -- 1845 death of Timothy
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-BYR -- 1845 birth of Timothy’s son Timothy Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-9Z2B -- 1846 death of Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4X4-T9J -- 1848 remarriage of Timothy’s widow
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47J-FV4 -- 1848 birth of John Estes
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V7-XYV -- 1850 census, Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V7-MM8 -- 1850 census, Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VQ-M3Y -- 1850 census, Timothy’s wife Saphronia, daughters
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V3-V6D -- 1850 census, Mary Stevens Caverly
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V7-KLM -- 1850 census, Amasa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47J-FVZ -- 1851 birth of Charles Estes
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47J-FV6 -- 1853 birth of Julia Estes
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-54N -- 1856 wedding of Hannah’s son Tristram
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39540172/amasa-t.-stevens -- 1856 grave of Amasa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-Q5V -- 1860 census, Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-3B2 -- 1860 census, Eliza
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-QJJ -- 1860 census, Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDC3-WXQ -- 1860 census, Mary Stevens Caverly
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDC4-Y87 -- 1860 census, Timothy’s wife Saphronia and daughter Francina (“Francis”)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4X4-P3K -- 1862 wedding of Calista
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NW-4Y9 -- 1863 wedding of Keziah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4DN-HCW -- 1864 wedding of Mary Caverly
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XG-JJV -- 1867 wedding of Amos Caverly
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104157670 -- 1867 grave of poss. Timothy’s daughter Jenette
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-1WB5 -- 1869 burial of Mary Stevens Caverly
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125024676 -- 1869 grave of Mary Stevens Caverly; links to children
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DT-X9H -- 1870 census, Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DT-2J5 -- 1870 census, Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DZ-KH5 -- 1870 census, Eliza
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DY-7GM -- 1870 census, Francina
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DY-DY3 -- 1870 census, Nathaniel Caverly and Mary’s son Eugene
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DY-7P4 -- 1870 census, Timothy’s wife Saphronia and grand-daughter Saphronia Harthorn
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-SWRJ -- 1874 burial of Thomas Wentworth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N443-KS6 -- 1874 wedding of Levi, Jr.’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-TS1 -- 1880 census, Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-4XC -- 1880 census, Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-F2B -- 1880 census, Eliza
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-4X4 -- 1880 census, Levi Jr.’s daughter Calista
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136733236/hannah-wentworth -- 1881 grave of Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLX1-DRK -- 1881 wedding of Julia Estes
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196454939/calista-ann-prescott -- 1884 grave of Levi Jr.’s daughter Calista
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCD5-QZW -- 1893 death of Levi Jr. (82)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-98VV -- 1893 burial of Levi Jr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136509044 -- 1893 grave of Levi Jr.; link to Livonia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQX-FJ7 -- 1893 death of Eliza Stevens Hill (86)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMG1-6TZ -- 1900 census, Francina Stevens Scott
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMLB-39Y -- 1900 census, Mary’s daughter Mary Caverly Graffam
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9S2-698 -- 1900 census, Mary’s son Frank Caverly in Minnesota
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSJ4-FQ1 -- 1906 death of Timothy’s wife Saphronia
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162651729/saphronia-estes -- 1906 grave of Timothy’s wife Saphronia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQQ-ZDX -- 1906 death of Levi, Jr.’s grand-daughter
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW1M-BYZ -- 1909 death of Charles L. Stevens, son of Levi Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPFD-1JG -- 1910 census, Francina Stevens Scott
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-7B53 -- 1911 death of Hannah’s daughter Abbie
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94126745 -- 1916 grave of Keziah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-3513 -- 1917 death of Eliza’s son Nathaniel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KN9V-NLS -- 1919 death of Francina Stevens Scott
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162729924 -- 1919 grave of Francina Ann Stevens Scott
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-5JCP -- 1920 death of Hannah’s daughter Betsey
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136556290 -- 1920 grave of Asa M. Stevens
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91201413/amos-caverly -- 1927 grave of Amos Caverly
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125106290 -- 1929 grave of Mary Caverly Graffam
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL5M-4QS -- 1776 birth of poss. our Levi; parents Timothy Stevens & Elizabeth House
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDJ6-XH2 -- ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDJR-7RH -- ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44X-19P -- 1785 birth of poss. our Polly in Castine; parents Oliver Mann & Lucy Adams
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101758366 -- Father of the 1785 Polly Mann
http://kinseyclan.com/mann/ef_52.htm -- Lists Oliver Mann family of 18th century Castine; no daughter Hannah
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.stjoseph/2078.1.1.1/mb.ashx -- David Mann and Sarah Tibbetts, m. 1788 in Bangor
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JS-VFH -- 1756 birth of that Daniel Mann
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138451362 -- 1834 grave of that Daniel Mann
http://www.fgs-project.com/maine/groups/m/mann-david-.html -- David Mann (1756-1834) was apparently not the right Mann
http://www.three-systems.com/Gen/tibbetts/d0006/g0000680.html#I51 -- Ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HVV-DJG -- 1795 birth of prob. not our Hannah in Cumberland County; parents Daniel Mann & Hannah Phinney
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4M6-HJ3 -- ditto
Born in Newbury, Orange County, Vermont, son of Simeon Stevens (29 Apr 1735-1788) and Sarah Hadley (13 Feb 1737-1779) from Essex County, MA. Had a brother named Otho (1765-1820) who married Sarah Bailey. Died in Orleans County, Vermont.
Born in Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, son of Amos Stevens and Mary Whiting. Married Anna in 1811. Many children. Died in Abbot, Piscataquis County, Maine.
Born in Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts to Levi Stevens and Anna Snow. Lived and died in Truro.
Born in Windsor, Vermont to Levi Stevens and Anna Norton. Died in Nova Scotia.