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obert, m. Jan. 3, 1745, Mary Hathaway. Mrs. Mary L. Paige of Taunton, Mass., a descendantof Richard Stephens of Taunton, and his son Nicholas,writes: “As is well known, our Richard was son ofThomas, who came later, but it is not thought stayed ordied here.” Mrs. Paige furnished the following affi-davit : “Jonathan Lincoln of Norton, in ye County of Bristol,in ye province of ye Mass Bay, in New England, beingin ye eighty second year of my age, testifies and says,that he well remembers one Richard Stephens of Taun-ton, in said County, and he appeared to be an old manwhen I was young, and that it was always said that hecame from Plymouth, in old England, and that he wasa Cloather and worsted comber by trade, and that sometime after ye said Richard came, his father, whose namewas Thomas, and mother, and sister Catharine, and sometime, others of ye family came over to Taunton, ye saidRichard married a person whose maiden name was MaryLinkon, and had by her four sons, to wit, Richard, Nich-olas, Thomas, and Nathaniel, and two daughters, to wit,Mary and Tamsin, all these I knew except Richard, Ithen understood, died young and unmarried, the otherthree, Nicholas, Thomas and Nathaniel are deceased andleft children; the said Nicholas had six sons, to wit,Richard and Nicholas (who are both now deceased) andJoseph, Isaac and Josiah, who are now living, and Rob- oe
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