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Stephen Dodge was born ABT 1748, Oyster Bay, Nassau Co., Long Island, NY and died 6 Jun 1808, Wilmot, Nova Scotia, Canada. He married Blanche Shadwin who was born 1752, New York and died Wilmot, Nova Scotia, Canada. They married 17 Feb 1771, New York. They had 9 children. Stephen's parents were: Tristram Dodge III, and Sarah Hawxhurst. Stephen was, of course, a descendent of Tristram who settled on Block Island, RI in 1660/1661. Following are notes on Stephen.

Died Wilmot, N. S. ( Novia Scotia ).
Pages 102-104 of book: Dodge Genealogy Descendants of Tristram Dodge - by Theron Royal Woodward.
"New York in the Revolution, p. 49, says he was in Col. James Holmes' regiment, N. Y. Line, 4th Regiment, Capt. James Rosekrans' Company. Service Aug. 3 to Oct 17, 1775. (These troops were regiments in the United States service under General Washington.) The same work gives the following military service of Stephen Dodge, but it is thought that the second item (p. 83) refers to another Stephen.
Page 145: Stephen Dodge was a soldier in the Duthcess County Militia, 6th Regt., Col. Morris Graham. (The militia could not be called out of the state for more than three months. At the beginning of the war they volunterred, but later they were called out by the Convention.)
Page 83: Stephen Dodge was in Col. Albert Pawling's Regiment of The Levies. Service in 1781. (These troops were drafts from the different militia regiments and sometimes from the people direct as well.)
After the above service in the Continental Army, it seems that Stephen Dodge changed his mind as to ther prospects of the result or as to the merits of the war.
Page 254 (Supplement): The Commissioners of Sequestrations of New York reported, July, 1781, that the property of Stephen Dodge had been sold.
Page 270: ( Supplement): The Commissioners of Forfeitures of New York listed the estate of Stephen Dodge among those forfeited. These commisssioners sold the real estate of Tories or others who had eigher gone over to the enemy or were suspected of not being friendly to the American cause. They did not begin work until late in the war, and were more systematic in their accounts than the Committee of Sequestration, who dealt for the most part with personal property. Samuel Dodge was a commissioner for the counties of Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster, and as such he probably sold the estate of his kinsman, Stephen Dodge.
The comptroller of the state of New York writes as follows concerning the confiscation of the estate of Stephen Dodge:
"The name of Stephen Dodge mentioned in New York in the Revolution (Supplement) among those whose estates were forfeited and confiscated, appears on the original documents as follows:
"List of farms and houses sold by the commissioners of Sequestration in Dutchess County state that the house and small lot of Stephen Dodge of Charlotte was sold to Gilbert Worden May, 1779, and that in March, 1780, he paid eight pounds.
"Alphabetical list of forfeited estates contains the name of Stephen Dodge. Name also appears on a list of forfeitures. No additional information.
"On a statement of Sales of forfeited estates sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures in the Middle District there appears the name of Stephen Dodge, opposite which is set the amount, one hundred and thirty pounds.
"A claim of Joseph Mabbett appears for thirty-four pounds fourteen shillings and seven pence against the forfeited estate of Stephen Dodge, and states the indebtedness was incurred previous to forfeiting the estate."
In Smith's History of Butchess County, N. Y., p.49 (small, old edition), it is stated that Charlotte Precinct, just previous to the Revolution, was composed of the present towns of Clinton, Stanford, and Washington, in Dutchess County, a dozen miles or more northeast of Poughkeepsie. It was settled about 1750. Mabbettsville O. O. is in Washington. Joseph Mabbett had a claim against the forfeited estate of Stephen Dodge of Charlotte, and the P. O. name is a corroboration.
It seems probable that two of this name served in the Revolutionary War, and which of them suffered confiscation may not be certain, but all authorities seem to agree that Stephen Dodge, son of Tristram, emigrated Oct, 1783, with wife and five children, to Nova Scotia and settled there pursuant to conditions of treaty of peace. Judge Savary, in his History of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, calls him a "worthy Loyalist.," and says that he settled first at Granville but afterwards in Wilmot, where he obtained a grant to the rear of the river grants, north of Middleton West. In a list or "muster roll" of discharged officers and disbanded soldiers and Loyalists taken in the County of Annapolis in June, 1784, the name of Stephen Dodge appears, "1 man, 1 woman, 3 children over 10, 3 children under 10, eight in all." Another reference to Stephen Dodge is made in the sketch of his grandfather Jeremiah on a preceding page."

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