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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant Colonel
Author: Kevin L. Waldroup
Service: James F. Steen served as a Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Spartan Regiment, South Carolina Militia. Killed in the Battle of King’s Mountain. Born: abt. 1734 County Antim, Ireland Died: 07 Oct 1780 Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co, NC Buried:
Married: Eleanor Bogan - abt. 1762 in South Carolina
Children: William Steen Richard Steen Sarah Steen James Steen Jr.
Bio: James Steen, son of John Steen, was born in (County Antim) Ireland about 1734, came to America with his brothers, other relatives and perhaps his father's family about 1755. James Steen was a successful planter, after a temporary residence in Pennsylvania he removed to the South, and located permanently in the Thicketty Creek area of what was once the northern part of Union County (formed in 1785) and is now part of Cherokee County, South Carolina(formed 1897). He was a man of great energy, a staunch Presbyterian in faith, and an enthusiastic patriot. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he joined the Colonial Army as a soldier. He led a company during the Snow Campaign, a company against the Cherokee, was commander of Prince's Fort in 1777, in 1779 served in Georgia at Stono Ferry and at the Seige of Savannah, served in Charleston until 1780, at which by this time was a Lieutenant Colonel; was in the Battles of Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, and Kings Mountain. He was killed in the battle of Kings Mountain, NC (Kings Mountain and it's Heroes, Draper, Lyman, 1881, pages 103-104 and 469-470) and is recorded as such on a monument at the battlefield. Other sources state died in Rowan County, NC being stabbed to death while attempting to arrest a Tory. (South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, Bobby Gilmer Moss, 1983.)
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