Peter Stephens (March 3, 1687 – December 6, 1757) was the son of Gabriel Steffen and of Barbara (née Bar).
[2] Besides his birth in Swabia, little is known about Stephens before 1699 when he and his parents emigrated to America on William Penn's second shipload of families for the purpose of populating the then Colony of Pennsylvania.
[5] It would be later chartered by the Virginia General Assembly at the request of his son Lewis and called "Stephensburgh".
[6] His wife, Maria Christina, would have seven children, four sons and three daughters, six of whom would be born in Frederick County, Virginia.
Stephens died at the age of 70 in December 6, 1757, just under a year before the town he founded would become chartered in October 1758.