Original research has not revealed the parents of James Stevenson.

The book, A History and Genealogical Record of the Stevenson Family From 1748 to 1979, suggests that James’ father was Henry STEVENSON “who was living in Roxburgshire in Scotland in 1698 and is the earliest ancestor who can be identified.” The book focuses on James’ supposed brother William and suggests that William was born in the County of Antrium in the Irish Province of Ulster in 1725. William was apprenticed to a tailor for seven years and this commitment prevented him from traveling to America with his widowed mother and siblings (including James) during the 1740s. William followed the family to current Washington County, Pennsylvania after he completed his apprenticeship in 1748. The book proposes that the family moved to Iredell in North Carolina in 1762.[1]

An un-located book White Family History, referred to in the un-located Stevenson manuscript by Marvin A. McLain (1996), purportedly suggests that Henry Stevenson died while the family was still in Ireland and that his wife remarried to a man with the last name White.[2]

Footnotes for Henry Stevenson

Ancestors of Arthur Dwight "Buck" Lackey--Stevenson Family Branch