Sarah Stevens/Stephens 1742-1815 wife of Henry Moss 1736-1812
There are dozens and dozens of Internet Trees that say the parents of Sarah Stevens/Stephens 1742 Loudoun Co VA – 1815 Rutherford Co NC are James Stephens/Stevens b.1716 Rutherford Co NC (and many say Mother is Mary Jane Craig) and all of them are wrong!At 1716 Rutherford Co NC did not exist and no person of European Descent lived far enough west in NC to be what was later Rutherford Co., NC.The most western settlement in what was later the US in 1740 was Rowan Co NC near what today is Salisbury NC.This is documented by NC History Professor Robert W Ramsey in his “Carolina Cradle”.The origin information of James Stephens/Stevens is merely a mistake by some researcher and others who have proliferated the error over and over in various Family Trees by people copying others Trees without researching the accuracy.I can find no Sourced origin that James Stephens was the Father of Sarah Stevens married to Henry Ross.I am in no way saying that is wrong, just saying I can find no listing in “on the ground records” and definitely saying he was not born in 1716 in Rutherford NC nor born in NC in what was later to be Rutherford NC.