William Hays Steen

A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A108339

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William was a descendant of a Scotch Minister. He was probably born in Vow Antrim Province of Ulster, Ireland. He cane to America with his family to the British Colonies about 1755. They landed in New York and traveled to Lancaster Co Pennsylvania. William located permanently to the Union District South Carolina Where he met and married Nancy Lusk, about 1772, they brought up a family of 11 Children. William was a farmer by occupation and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Kings Mountain, Oct 7, 1780. He was rescued from the British by a band of American soldiers, among whom was Jacob Neely, who's granddaughter Margaret married Williams grandson Carroll J. Steen, years later. When William Steen was wounded his wife and three of their children were in a fort for safety, sixty miles away. One of the children had just died. When Nancy heard of her husbands wounds, she procured a horse, leaving her dead child with friends. She rode all night and did not reach his side till after daylight the next day. Several years after the close of the war William and his family left South Carolina heading for Mississippi. They stopped in Carroll County Tenn. to farm and restock for the last leg of the trip to Mississippi. William Steen took sick and died. (The legend says that he went to look for a lost mule and was ambushed and killed by Indians.) Shortly after this time his wife Nancy and all of her children except 3 resumed their journey to Lawrence County Mississippi. The three who did not go to Mississippi are, John who returned to South Carolina, Sarah who married Thompson Enochs and remained in Tennessee and Jane who married Levi Noble and moved to Texas. Coppied from The Rev. Moses Steen Book page 142

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Denne anen har jeg har fått DNA-match med etterkommerne av Steen, som bekrefter grenen.