Excerpt from The Stevens Genealogy: Embracing Branches of the Family Descended From Puritan Ancestry, New England Families Not Traceable, to Puritan Ancestry and Miscellaneous Branches Wherever Found President Eliot, of Harvard university, during a short visit to Utah in 1892, said that his mind involuntarily went back to the first jour ney across the wilderness by civilized men and women, to the planting of this superb colony by a Christian church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.