Abel Stevens

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2007

Plaque Location

The United Counties of Leeds & Grenville
The Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley
At the cemetery at Bellamy's Lake on the south side of Road 8
just west of its intersection with Lake Eloida Road
about 3 km west of the town of Toledo

Coordinates: N 44 43.509 W 76 01.595

Plaque Text

Born at Quaker Hill, New York, about 1750, Stevens served as a British agent during the Revolutionary War despite being enrolled in the rebel militia. After the war he lived in Vermont where, as an ardent Baptist, he became a deacon in 1786. Attracted by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe's offer of land in Upper Canada, he moved to the province and settled in this area in 1796. A vigorous colonizer, Stevens within two years of his arrival had encouraged some 100 families, many of them Baptists, to locate in Kitley and Bastard Townships. He built mills and laid the foundation for the establishment of ironworks at present-day Lyndhurst. Stevens remained a leader in the Baptist Church in which he had been ordained a minister in 1804.

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Posted November 21, 2010
Is there a "list" of settlers who came with Abel Stevens?

Posted May 31, 2010
Those of you who put this site together are to be commended for a job well done. I am very thankful to have an opportunity to view this plaque as I am descended from Abel Stevens and I think it serves his memory very well. I had no idea of his story until today. Linda Pearson, Missouri

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