Re: Stevens /Hagadorn Cuzzins Connection
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Stevens /Hagadorn Cuzzins Connection
3/19/01
There's an intriguing possible convergence with the name Leah, appearing in the family you describe, and Leah Groesbeck, chr 11 Feb 1680, who married Johannes Van Sandt in 1702.According to some, Leah's paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Stevens - seemingly not a Dutch name, yet supposedly Elizabeth married Nicolaas Jacobse Groesbeck 10 May 1648 in Amstelveen, Holland.Others have them marrying in Albany.I have not found the original source to verify this one way or the other.
The given name Dinah, which also appears in your post, is thought to have been used by Leah as an alternate given name.The Groesbeck & VanSant descendants of the people I am alluding to mostly ended up in the Delaware Valley (Bucks County) and points west.
Anyway, since everyone seems totally clueless about Jonathan Steves I am wondering whether he might have been related to this very early Elizabeth (Stevens) Groesbeck somehow.Nicolas & Elizabeth (Stevens) Groesbeck named a son Stephanus (1662-1744).This suggests that the name as attached to Elizabeth may simply have been a straight patronymic, such that Stephanus would have been named for his mother's father.If there is anything to this at all, even without the patronymic conceivably Elizabeth (Stevens) Groesbeck might have been an aunt of Jonathan Stevens.
It is interesting that Jonathan Stevens named his oldest son Nicholas ... possibly for Nicholas Groesbeck???
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Re: Stevens /Hagadorn Cuzzins Connection
Lissa 8/10/03