Page 773, Benjamin Stevens came from Falmouth and settled in Gorham before the French and Indian war. He had a daughter, Sarah, born in Gorham, 1744. It is probable, though by no means certain, that he moved to Falmouth in 1745. If so, he had returned to Gorham before 1750. He was a scout among Captain George Berry’s men in 1747. He sold to Simon Huston in 1759 the hundred acre lot, 106, in Gorham, drawn for the right 98. He also owned the hundred acre lot, 115, and in September, 1760, sold the remainder (the eastern half) to James LOWE. Benjamin Stevens, with the help of the slave Limbo, took care of the Gorham cattle on the “Great Meadows” in the winter of 1760. He was one of the town’s first board of selectman, chosen in 1764.25
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