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 said he was a young man of much promise. Three of his daughters died in maidenhood. Much attention was given by the parents to the education of the children. They reared a family highly respected for integrity and worth.

Daniel Green Stephenson (called "Stinson") was a fine local historian. He rendered invaluable services to Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet, in writing the third volume of "The Women of the American Revolution." He also wrote, by request of Lyman C. Draper, the history of the Battle of King's Mountain, so far as it was participated in by South Carolinians. He also wrote the "History of Presbyterianism in South Carolina," for Dr. Howe. He has left on record in the Yorkville (South Carolina) Enquirer, of October 2, 1879, a biographical sketch from which we learn much of his history. I, especially, and as for that, all the descendants of the Four, are under lasting obligations to his memory for the family history he has left on record, without which thousands of us would be in total darkness as to our genealogical history. While we observe some errors into which he has fallen, we respect his memory the more highly for his effort in that direction, knowing that he did his best for us. He did so much better than any one else did that we can readily excuse any apparent error in his writings. He was for many years a faithful and efficient public officer in Chester County, South Carolina. He was a farmer of large means, always kind and lenient to his slaves. He kept a bill of sale for some negroes his father bought in the year 1797. This paper was lost about the time the negroes were freed—1865.

Jane Stephenson, daughter of Daniel Green Stephenson and his wife, Esther Gaston, married Rev.