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Author: Ivan V. Dooley, Jr
Isaac Stephens, the eldest son of Peter Stephens, Jr. and Ana Marie Chrisman, was born around Christmas 1760 near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. In 1762 at age two, he moved to Montgomery County with his parents.
In June of 1780, still living in Montgomery County, he enlisted in Captain Bentley's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hawes Fifth Regiment of Virginia Continentals. This is the same regiment as his father. He fought at Guilford Court House and Camden. He lost a brother at Camden but does not name him. He then marched to lay siege to the Fort at Ninety Six, which lasted for forty-one days ending 19 June 1781. Captain Bentley was captured and Captain Barbary took command. He served twenty months and was discharged in North Carolina February 1782. He returned to Montgomery County where he married Rebecca Haven, daughter of John, Jr. and Mary, on the New River, Montgomery County, Virginia on 16 December 1782. In 1799, he moved to Wayne County, Kentucky near Monticello where he bought three surveys totaling three hundred acres that he sold and moved to another large farm near Steubenville, Kentucky. He was also a Baptist minister of the church in Steubenville. Here he prospered and raised a large family of nine children, Isaac, Elizabeth, Rhoda, William, James, Rebecca, Nancy, Zilpha, and Gordon Crockett Stephens. A pension for Revolutionary War Service was issued to Isaac Stephens at the rate of $66.66 per annum on 5 December 1832. Isaac Stephens died 28 June 1833 in Wayne County, Kentucky. On 5 September 1840 a Certificate of Pension was awarded to his wife Rebecca at the same rate. Rebecca died in June 1843
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