Both the Stephens and Chrisman families were descendants of German immigrants who settled the Shenandoah Valley ca 1730 along with Jost Hite. The Stephens family married into the Chrisman family and the Mullens family.

 Isaac Stephens served in the Revolutionary War and was at the in the battle of Guilford and Camden and Siege of 96. His brother Peter was killed at the battle of Camden. In 1799, the family moved to the area which became Wayne County, Kentucky. He became a prosperous farmer and, later, a Baptist minister.

Isaac Stephens
Parents: Peter Stephens and Mary Joanna Chrisman
b. 25 Dec 1760, Winchester, Frederick County, VA
d. 28 Jun 1833, Wayne County, KY
m. Rebecca Haven, 16 Dec 1782, Montgomery County, VA
   Parents: John Haven, Jr. and Mary Henderson
   b. 19 Oct 1765, Montgomery County, VA
   d. 29 Jun 1843 Wayne County, KY
Children:
   i. Elizabeth Stephens
      b. 01 Oct 1783, Montgomery County, VA
      d. 27 Aug 1867, Wayne County, KY
      m. Isaac Chrisman, Sr., 1799 Pulaski County, KY
         Parents: Abraham Chrisman and Keziah Stephens
         b. 11 Apr 1766, Montgomery County, VA
         d. 15 Apr 1829, Wayne County, VA
  ii. James Stephens
      b. cir 1785
      d. aft 1851
      m. Sally Oatts, 30 Aug 1815, Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Possibly Roger Oatts and Mary Jones
 iii. Rhoda Stephens
      b. 22 Apr 1787, Montgomery County, VA
      d. Jun 1869, Wayne County, KY
      m. John Haden, 15 Mar 1807, Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Unknown- related to Bartholomew and Mary Haden?
         d. bef 1830
  iv. Rebecca Stephens (possible child)
      b. cir 1787
      d. bef 1851
      m. John Mills, Jr., 24 Mar 1805, Wayne County, KY
         Parents: John Mills, Sr.
   v. William Stephens
      b. cir 1790
      d. 28 Feb 1837, Mt. Pleasant, Miller County, MO
      m. Jane Cordelia Mullen, 14 Apr 1814, Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Isaac Mullen and Mary Cocke
         b. 1795, Lee County, VA
         d. 1859, Miller County, MO
  vi. Nancy Stephens
      b. 1792, Montgomery County, VA
      m. John Anderson, 10 Feb 1814, Wayne County, KY
         b. 1792
 vii. Zilpha Stephens
      b. 1794, Montgomery County, VA
      d. aft 1851
      m. George Catron, 5 Aug 1813, Wayne County, KY
 viii.Gordon Charles Stephens
      b. 6 Jun 1796, Montgomery County, VA
      d. 8 Jul 1853
      m. Sally Crockett, 7 Feb 1822, Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Samuel Crockett and Elizabeth Carter

Pension Application

State of Kentucky
Wayne County

On this 27th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the County Court of this County of Wayne and State of Kentucky Isaac Stephens, a Resident of Wayne County, in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky. Isaac Stephens aged seventy two years about next Christmas 1832 who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June the 4th 1832 that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Fall of the Year 1780 under a certain Daniel Trigg in Montgomery County in the State of Virginia and served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Haws of Virginia the name of the Regiment not recollected, in the line, under the following officers. My Captains name I served under, was Bently his christian name not recollected. My Col name was Col Haws, his christian name not recollected. My Captain Buntly was later taken prisoner at Ninety Six, I then served under Capt. Barbony? his christian name not recollected. I the said Isaac Stephens engaged to serve 18 months, the precise time of my Enlistment not recollected but some months before the Battle of Guilford and served actually Twenty months before I could get my discharge. I joined or enlisted in Montgomery County west of New River in the State of Virginia, was marched to Chesterfield Court House + joined our Regiment under said Col Haws where we were exercised for some time. We then marched to North Carolina I was at the Battle of Guilford. Thence I was marched to and ?? ?? Battle of Campden, where I had a Brother killed. Thence I was marched to and at ninety Six, which we besieged about one month or more at which place my Captain Bently was taken Prisoner. + I was after commanded by Captain Barbary, General Green was our Commander. We were frequently engaged in smaller skirmishing parties of British and Tories thru North Carolina South Carolina + Georgia. The place not sufficiently recollected was regularly discharged I think in North Carolina in writing by my Major his name not recollected and this discharge now lost I was born in the State of Virginia near Winchester + was after two years raised in Montgomery County, Virginia + removed from Virginia to the County of Wayne, where I now live I the said Isaac Stephens hereby relinquish every claim whatsovere to a pension or annuity except the Present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of agency on any State.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid

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