Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

JOHN STEELE is a son of William M. and Sarah Kay (McDowell) Steele, natives
of Jessamine County.  The father was born August 14, 1814, and died August
16, 1845.  The mother was born June 3, 1822, and died October, 1862.
Samuel C. Steele, grandfather of John, was also a native of Jessamine
County, Ky., was born in 1790, and married in 1812 to Elizabeth Mitchum, a
native of Woodford County, Ky.  He had nine children: William M., Julian,
Susan (Mrs. Hamilton Halleck), Helen (Mrs. Milton Singleton), David M.,
Samuel C., John M., James and Johanna (Mrs. Edward Rogers).  The great
grandfather, David Steele, a native of Virginia, married a third cousin,
Miss Mary Steele, and died in 1785.  He had four children: Thomas, Samuel
C., David (a soldier of 1812) and William, killed in the war of 1812, in
Illinois, by Indians.  On the maternal side the grandfather was Samuel
McDowell, a native of Fayette County, born in 1792, a son of James McDowell
of Fayette County, a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and father to James
McDowell, who was a captain of a company from Fayette County in the war of
1812.  His father was also an officer of the Revolution. His grandfather
fought a Braddock's defeat, and was a Revolutionary officer.  His
great-grandfather fell in Indian warfare (Foote, in this "Annals" says he
was the first white man killed in the valley of Virginia); while his
great-grandfather, a descendant of the ancient and warlike clan of the
McDowells, of Galloway, was a soldier in the siege of Londonderry.  Samuel
McDowell married Mary Chrisman, of Jessamine County, Ky.  John Steele was
born in 1845, and was reared by his grandfather, Samuel McDowell; at the
age of fourteen years Mr. Steele engaged in dealing in stock, and at the
age of twenty he had owned and sold two farms.  His present place of
residence is on the Harrodsburg and Lexington Pike, about eight miles from
Lexington.  He is the owner of several farms in that vicinity of his
residence, containing 800 acres.  Among them is the celebrated "Chaumiere
Place" on the pike connecting the two pikes of Harrodsburg and
Nicholasville and Lexington pike.  Following is a history of the "Place":
Andrew Meade, an Irish Catholic, born in the county of Kerry, left his
native county in the seventeenth century, resided some years in New York,
and there married Mary Latham, of Quaker parentage; subsequently he removed
to Virginia, and settled at the head of navigation on the Nansemond River,
he was for many years a representative of his county in the House of
Burgesses, judge of the court and senior colonel of the militia.  His
education was said to have been received in France or Flanders. In the year
1745 he died, having had the generous soubriquet connected with his name of
"the Honest".  His uncle and patron was Col. Meade, of the Irish brigade, a
man of much interest at the court of Versailles.  His unfriendly feeling to
William III's successor to the throne of England was the circumstance which
forced him out of his country.  He left a son, David, and a daughter,
Priscilla, who married William Curle, of Hampton.  David Meade, the son,
inherited the paternal estate, and about the year 1729 or 1730, married
Susan Everard, daughter of Sir Richard Everard, Bart., of Broomfield Hall,
Much Waltham Parish, County Essex, England, and Susannah Kidder, his wife,
daughter of Dr. Richard Kidder, bishop of Barth and Wells.  Sir Richard
Everard was for a few years proprietary governor of North Carolina, and it
was at Edenton, the then seat of the government of North Carolina, that
David Meade met his wife.  He died in 1757.  David Meade, grandson of
Andrew, and eldest son of David, was born July 29, 1744; at the age of
seven years he was sent to England for his health, and with a view to his
education.  In 1761 he returned to his native Virginia, and found two
sisters: Mary, married to George Walker, and Anne, married to Richard
Randolph, from whom are now descended a numerous progeny.  He left behind
him at Dalfon school two brothers, Richard Kidder, who afterward became
aid [sic]-de-camp to Gen. Lincoln, was afterward raised to the rank of
general, and found two at his paternal mansion, born since he left
Virginia.  On the 12th day of May, 1768, he married Sarah Waters, the
daughter of William Waters, of the city of Williamsburg.  In 1769 he was
elected first burgess of the General Assembly from Nansemond County;
toward the last of 1774 he removed to a seat previously purchased on the
James River, with his wife and son, David, selling the patrimonial seat
of 2,000 acres to this brother, Andrew.  David Meade, the subject of this
record, having resided at Mayeaux, in Prince George County for twenty-two
years, removed in 1796 to the new State of Kentucky, and permanently
settled on a small tract of land previously purchased by his eldest son.
David, at the head of the Jessamine Creek, then Fayette County, now
Jessamine, and built the place known as "Chaumier des Prairies", where he
died in 1830.

Steele McDowell Mitchum Halleck Singleton Rogers Chrisman Latham
Curle Everard Kidder Walker Randolph Waters
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Woodford-KY Fayette-KY Prince_George-VA NY NC IL England Ireland

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