The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol 4, pg 71, 3 Serial: 12259; Vol.: 4
Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pg 42-43
George Steel/Steele was born on 23 August 1736 in Lambsheim, in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis District of Germany,
His qualifying service recorded is as a Private in the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia, First Battalion, Fifth, and in paying the supply tax in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1780.
George married Margaret Dalman, who was born in 1740 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She died in 1823 in Saxton, Pennsylvania. There are three children recorded on Ancestry.com:
Philip was born in 1756.
Jacob was born in 1772.
Abraham was born in 1763.
The Patriot died sometime before 31 August 1801 in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Sources::
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004.
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 4, pg 71 3 Serial: 12259; Volume: 4
Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission, RG 4.61, Roll 342, pages 42-43
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