James Steele and Elizabeth McMasters

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Husband James Steele ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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            AKA: James Steel 6 7
           Born: 1741 - Ireland 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Sep 1823 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 4 9 10 11 12
         Buried:  - Middle Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] Steele (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Donaldson (      -      ) 4 6 8 12 13 - Abt 1782

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Wife Elizabeth McMasters ^{4 5 6 9}

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            AKA: Elizabeth MacMasters 13
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1782
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Father] McMasters (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Joseph Steele ^{4 5 9 14}

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            AKA: Joseph Steel 13
           Born: Abt 1780 - Westmoreland Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:  - Old Tent U. P. Cemetery, Export, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Barbara Blystone (      -      ) 4 5 13 15

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2 F Jane Steele ^{4 9 12}

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            AKA: Jane Steel 6 13
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Hunter (      -      ) 6 9 12

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General Notes: Husband - James Steele

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The Steele family of Franklin, Pennsylvania, descend from James Steel, of Carrickmacross, Ireland, whose descendants are found spelling the name both with and without the final "e."

He was born in Castle Blaney, near Carrick Macross, Ireland, and emigrated to America after the Steel Boy insurrection (1772), landing in Philadelphia, stopped on the eastern side of the mountains at that Scotch-Irish hive in Cumberland, now Franklin County, and moved westward, about 1773, settling on land in Sewickley manor, now Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, about the time of the formation of Westmoreland County. Here he bought land from the Penns, and became an important land owner in his day - land that became part of the Connellsville coking coal region. He became an agitator for freedom, was a member of Mount Pleasant Association formed to protect this western country, was three years in the Revolutionary army, took the oath of allegiance required by all foreign born citizens, before Hugh Martin, a justice of Westmoreland County, March 3, 1777, and served with his brothers-in-law, Robert and Andrew Donaldson (who were both killed in battle), in the campaign of the Jerseys. [HWC 1906 II, 23]

He was a native of Belfast, Ireland, who immigrated to America about 1778 and settled on the Sewickley creek, in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he took up five hundred acres of land and where he remained until his death. He was a whig and belonged to the Presbyterian church. [HBCWC, 699]

Four hundred fifty acres of his original purchase were handed down through successive generations and in 1911 were owned by a great-grandson, Joseph W. Steel.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth McMasters

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from Westmoreland Co, PA

She died while her husband was absent fighting in the Revolutionary War.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 168, 516.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 23.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 650.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 910.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 733.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 368.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 160.

8 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 516.

9 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 169.

10 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 24, 369.

11 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 162.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 734.

13 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 161.

14 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 368, 624.

15 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 624.