"...Born in Frederick Co., Va, about 1755, and came Montgomery County, Virginia....Peter Stephens, Jr. and Anna Maria Chrisman were his parents. His grandparents were Peter Stephens, Sr. and Maria Christina (surname unknown).

"Peter Stephens built the first home in Stephens City in 1732. In 1758, his son Lewis applied to the Virginia General Assembly to establish the town as Stephensburg. As the town grew, it became known as Newtown. The name was officially changed to Stephens City in April 1880. The town was settled mostly by Germans. One of the main trades of the town was wagon making." source: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society

Lawrence Stephens married Joanna Herbert. "After the war, he and his brother Joseph Stephens went to Wythe County where, in 1787, he married Joanna Herbert and located on a 600 acre tract of land, on Little Reed Island Creek, which he acquired August 17, 1793.  He built for his residence, a small two room log house, in which he lived until he could build a larger one, which he built about the year 1795, the ruins of which are still standing, and lived there until his death May 3, 1847, at over 90 years of age."