The Stephens Family: a Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens (Dodo Press)

Joshua Stephens, Jr. (1733-1823) the ancestor of this Stephens Family, was born, according to the family tradition, in what is now the County of Berkes, in the State of Pennsylvania, of Welsh parents, A. D. 1733. According to the recollection of C. C. Stephens, his grandfather, E. D. Stephens, son of this Joshua Stephens, stated to him in an interview at Hardin, Ohio, about 1860, that Joshua Stephens's father's name was also Joshua Stephens, which would make him the senior, that Joshua Stephens, Senior, with two brothers, David, and Ebenezer, came over from Wales. Of these three last named persons nothing further is known at the present writing, than the foregoing statement. That there was a large Welsh immigration into the present territory of Berkes County prior to 1733, the birth year of Joshua Stephens, Jr., is a fact well corroborated by the history of Pennsylvania.