Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. p. 62. [Jessamine county]. 3. Samuel, the colonel's oldest son [James McDowell], who was sergeant in Captain Trotter's company, and shot the Indian at Mississinewa, married Polly Chrisman, of Jessamine. She was the daughter of Joseph Chrisman, Sr., of Jessamine county, whose mother was a sister of Colonel Joe and General Charles McDowell, of North Carolina, and who was himself a brother of Hugh Chrisman, whose daughter, Betsy, married Major John McDowell's son, Samuel. William McDowell, son of Samuel and Polly Chrisman, is a farmer in Jessamine. One of the daughters of Samuel McDowell and Polly Chrisman, Sarah, married William Steele, and was the mother of John Steele, a substantial farmer of Jessamine, and of William L. Steele, a successful merchant of Nicholasville, where his good sense and high moral character have won for him respect, esteem, and confidence, and who is recognized as possessing the cool, deliberate courage which have been for centuries the McDowell characteristic. McDowell Trotter Chrisman Steele = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/mcdowell.s.txt