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John Stevens the 1st Emigrates to New York City in 1699

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John Stevens the 1st Emigrates to New York City in 1699

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Age 17, John Stevens moves from England to NYC to be an Indentured servant for seven years to a crown official. Interested in Land and Mining, he moved to Jersey where he found profit in Copper.

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John Stevens Strikes Gold In Copper in 1714

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John Stevens Strikes Gold In Copper in 1714

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After striking Gold In Copper in the Rocky Hills, he married Ann Campbell, whose Father was a Shareholder and Proxy for Proprietors.
After Marriage he joined her father's land business, which he passed to his kids after his death in 1737.

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Honorable John Stevens the 2nd (1716 – 1792)

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Honorable John Stevens the 2nd (1716 – 1792)

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A Renowned Merchant, serving New Jersey’s Royal Governor’s Council.

Resigned to support Independence. Married to a Surveyor General’s daughter named Elizabeth Alexander. With her he fathered two kids. He also only owned slaves for part of his life.
(Surveyor General is an official who has responsibility of surveying an area of land)

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He was born in NYC with a family of wealth. Graduated in 1768 at King's College and studied Law and Became an Attorney in NY in 1771.
As the only son, it was his job to continue to build upon their growing name as an American Family supporting Independence and Public Servitude.
He married Rachel Cox, daughter of Colonel John Cox, in 1782.

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Serving in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary war, he attained his Colonel title. In 1776, for 3 years he served as NJ’s treasurer, aiding in the states finances and funding militia. All the while the War was fought right on Jersey’s turf, his duties required he navigate the state on horseback, dodging British and Tory troops.

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Robert R. Livingston Marries into the Family

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Robert R. Livingston Marries into the Family

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John and his sister had close relationships with the Livingston Family. In 1771, Mary Stevens married Robert Livingston Jr. Robert Livingston (1746 – 1813) was a lawyer also, who claimed himself as part of the Whig Party. But was also was one of the five founding fathers, however he had left before signing the final revolution.

In 1789 he joined the Jefferson Republicans (which later became the Democratic Republicans); in 1801, he was minister of France and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.

During his time as minister, he met Robert Fulton, who he worked with to invent the 1st steam boat.

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John Stevens was an advocate for steam-powered technology in the 1790’s after witnessing John Flitch’s steamboat in 1788. He petitioned NYC Legislature for exclusive privilege of steam navigation, but was denied. In 1797 he partnered with Nicholas I. Roosevelt and Robert Livingston to build Steamboats, but their different opinions led to the disband of the group before any real design was made.

In 1804 he created a small Steamboat named Little Juliana, and begun a larger boat called the Phoenix in 1806, however Robert Fulton beat him in 1807 with the Claremont.

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In 1810, John Stevens begun his pursuit of Steam Engines being used for Railroads. Majority of America highly believed that Canals were the future of the Country’s ever increasing necessity for transportation. His brother in law’s influence would not benefit him, his pursuit would put him at opposite sides and in dispute in the 1800’s.

When he became known of proposals to link the Hudson River with Lake Erie through new canals, he argued the superiority of railroads over canals, and in doing this he published a pamphlet that became the first publication in the U.S. devoted to the railroads.

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Contributing towards the First U.S. Patent Act of 1790

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Contributing towards the First U.S. Patent Act of 1790

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It was through his inventions that he worked closely to members of Congress, which thusly led him to helping in drafting and passing the first U.S. Patent Act of 1790. A large part of his push for creating the Patent law was frustration to get patents for inventions in several states.

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A Noteworthy Point to Ponder

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Founder of Hoboken, The Backyard to His Invention

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Founder of Hoboken, The Backyard to His Invention

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His main home resided in Hoboken, until in 1784, when the land was confiscated by the former owner due to his espoused Tory Cause. However, it was bough back at a public auction, and it was this estate in Hoboken he would build in 1825 the first locomotive.

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Since 1811, when he first applied to NJ to build a railroad in the state and received approval in 1815, there had been no further steps taken. Facing tremendous strain in gaining financial backing with the still existing objections to chartering a railroad when any sort of locomotive had yet to be tried. To prove it was practical, he constructed a circular track for a miniature steam-powered railway, and even allowed rides on the locomotive to the access.

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While his initiative proved his point, it wouldn't be until 1830 that action would be taken. The Camden & Amboy Railroad would finally be chartering a plan to construct across New Jersey a rail line.

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John Cox Stevens: Founder of the New York Yacht Club, and sailed America to victory in the race known as America's Cup.
Robert Livingston Stevens: Large number of Advances for railroads and ships.
Edwin Augustus Stevens: Assisted Robert and founded the Stevens Institute, the U.S.'s first college devoted to mechanical Engineering.
Martha Bayard Stevens married Edwin, but was a proud civic leader.
Caroline Bayard Stevens: Her civic work was so highly viewed that she was mourned at the White House when she passed.

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Do you think It was money or their family that inspired them to make the difference_

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There's Always More to Learn To Apply to Everything You Know.

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Hopkins, C. (2013). Pompe Stevens, Enslaved Artisan. Object Lesson, 13.3
“Robert Livingston.” Revolutionary War, 2020, https://www.revolutionary-war.net/robert-livingston/

Kratz, J., Ryan M., Parkinson H. (2015). Investing in Congress: Patent Law since 1790. Pieces of History

Turnbull, A. (1928). John Stevens, an American Record. Internet Archives.

“Stevens Family.” Hoboken Historical Museum, 2020, https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/explore-hoboken/historic-highlights/stevens-family/

“John Stevens Steam-Powered Transportation.” Invent, National Inventors Hall Of Fame, 2006, https://www.invent.org/inductees/john-stevens

“Col. John Stevens.” nrrhof, National Railroad Hall Of Fame, 2020, https://www.nrrhof.org/col-john-stevens

Colonel John Stevens’ 1825 Experimental Locomotive Model.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, 1898, https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1827972#:~:text=This%20is%20a%201-1%2F2%20inch%20scale%20model%20of,the%20middle%20of%20the%20carriage%20and%20extending%20underneath

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project. (1940). Calendars of manuscript collections in New Jersey: Calendar of the Stevens family papers, Stevens institute of technology library, Lieb memorial room, Hoboken, New Jersey. Newark, N. J.: The Historical Records Survey.