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- A Territorial Arkansas Pioneer: Joseph Stillwell
by Robert W. Dhonau, Little Rock, Arkansas
Joseph Stillwell came from far away New Jersey and made two other stops before coming to the frontier country in Arkansas about 1798. It was truly in frontier country then because it was part of the Louisiana Purchase obtained from France in 1803. All travel was by steamboat or horseback and communication was very slow. A census of 1798 showed only 368 people in Arkansas.
The fourth generation of his family in America, he was born March 3, 1752 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, at Middletown. His parents were Sarah Shepherd and Joseph Stillwell, whose forefathers came from Surrey County, England, to Virginia about 1638.
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 10 Sep 1822, Arkansas