Levi Stephens of Bucks County was a government surveyor who in 1769 assisted in surveying southwestern Pennsylvania. He was so well pleased with the land lying along the southern border of what is now Washington township that he made a purchase thre of a large land tract and there concluded to make his home. Although after that busily engaged on his land, he found opportunities to do considerable surveying from time to time as his services were called for. The compass used by Mr Stephens is still in the possession of his descendants.
His sons were four in number and named: Nathaniel Stephens; John Stephens; Levi Stephens Jr; and Thomas Stephens. Of Nathaniel Stephens' sons, Nathaniel Stephens Jr, Levi Stephens and Joshua Stephens are living. Of Levi Stephens Jr's sons the living are: Jehu Stephens; Israel Stephens; Johnson Stephens; and James Stephens. David Stephens is the only living son of Thomas Stephens. The widow of Levi Stephens Jr now resides in Washington township aged eighty five years. Nathaniel Stephens, the eldest son of Levi Stephens the surveyor, was a noted river trader. The Stephens were long lived. Levi Stephens the surveyor died in 1808 aged sixty four, two years after the death of his father, John Stephens, who lived to be ninety one. Levi Stephens Jr was eighty seven at his death in 1878; and Nathaniel Stephens eighty seven when he died in 1869. All those names were buried in the cemetery at the Little Redstone Methodist Episcopal Church.