Individual Details
Gen John Steele
(16 Nov 1764 - 14 Aug 1815)
Events
| Birth | 16 Nov 1764 | Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, British America |  | ||
| Military | 1777 | enlisted in Revolutionary War - North Carolina | | ||
| Occupation | 1780 | Mercantile business - Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 9 Feb 1783 | Mary 'Dolly' Nessfield | | ||
| Occupation | 4 May 1784 | chosen Assessor the the Town of Salisbury - Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 12 Mar 1787 | qualified as Town Commissioner and held the office of Justice of the County Court of Rowan - Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Picture | 1791 | portrait by James Peale | | ||
| Occupation | 1 Jul 1796 - 1802 | Comptroller of the U.S. - Washington D.C | |||
| Residence | 1810 | Mansion House, Near Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census | 1810 | Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, British America | | ||
| Will | 8 Sep 1810 | the Mansion House, Near Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1815 | Mansion House, Near Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Will | 24 Feb 1815 | at The Mansion House, Near Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Death | 14 Aug 1815 | about 9pm on Monday - Salisbury, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 14 Aug 1815 | Thyatira Presbyterian Church Rowan Co, North, Carolina | | ||
| Miscellaneous |
Families
| Spouse | Mary 'Dolly' Nessfield (1762 - 1843) |
| Child | Anne Nessfield Steele (1784 - 1804) |
| Child | Margaret Gillespie Steele (1790 - 1824) |
| Child | William Steele (1793 - 1794) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Eliza" Steele (1795 - 1836) |
| Child | Infant son Steele (1798 - 1798) |
| Father | WILLIAM STEELE (1733 - 1773) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Maxwell (1733 - 1790) |
Endnotes
1. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
2. edith m clark, Rowan Co, NC National Register Houses John Steel website.
3. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .
4. Archibald Henderson, "John Steele," The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, 18, No. 3 (January 1919): 123-133.
5. Archibald Henderson, "John Steele," The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, 18, No. 3 (January 1919): 123-133.
6. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
7. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .
8. John H Wheeler, Historical Sketches of NC from 1584-1851: Vol I (Philadelpha, : Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1851), 381-383.
9. Archibald Henderson, "John Steele," The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, 18, No. 3 (January 1919): 123-133.
10. Archibald Henderson, "John Steele," The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, 18, No. 3 (January 1919): 123-133.
11. Compiled by Laura MacMillan, North Carolina Portrait Index, 1700-1860 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1963), 222.
12. North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Rowan, Wills, 1797-1918, Vol G: p376 or image 390 John Steele; , .
13. 1810 U.S. census, Rowan County, North Carolina, population schedule, Salisbury, p. p. 340, dwelling na, John Steel household; digital images, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com : downloaded 7 February 2019); citing FHL microfilm 337916.
14. North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Rowan, Wills, 1797-1918, Vol G: p376 or image 390 John Steele; , .
15. North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Rowan, Wills, 1797-1918, Vol G: p376 or image 390 John Steele; , .
16. North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Rowan, Wills, 1797-1918, Vol G: p376 or image 390 John Steele; , .
17. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
18. John Steele Papers, 1716-1846, 00689 UNC - The Southern Histoical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library.
19. Family Bible Record of Steele Family Bible (n.p.: n.p., n.d.).
20. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .
21. North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970, Rowan, Wills, 1797-1918, Vol G: p376 or image 390 John Steele; , .
22. Family Bible Record of Steele Family Bible (n.p.: n.p., n.d.).
23. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .