From Genealogy.com. Family of William Stephenson, 1733 from Ireland.
Captain John Stephenson, Mills Stephenson's grandfather, was a Revolutionary War soldier from Delaware. He went to Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh, Pa.) after the war. In 1795, he moved to Adams County, Ohio (now part of Brown County) where he had a grant for his Revolutionary War service, on Eagle Creek. He is buried in Brown County near Ripley, Ohio.
He had a son named William Stevenson, born 1733, died 1798. He had a son named Mils (Mills) Stephenson, born 1777 [1771, born in Delaware according to IGI]. He died in 1822.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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