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- From website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stelly/d41.htm#P174
STEELMAN, MATTHIAS DAR Ancestor #: A108330
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: (CIRCA) 1723 NEW JERSEY
Death: 10- -1793 SURRY CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: WELLS, SURRY CO NC LAND ENTRIES, 1778-1781, P 31
Service Description: 1) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND ENTRY, SURRY CO, 29 JULY 1778
The Swedish Colonial Society, Anders Anderson the Finn , by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig.
1. John Andersson, the younger son, married by 1676 Catharina, the daughter of Hendrick Jacobsson and Gertrude his wife.
.... In 1681, he was granted 390 acres on the east side of Red Clay Creek, which he sold to Peter Stalcop and John Hansson Steelman in 1689.
256. Mathias STEELMAN was born in 1723 in Kent County, Delaware.
He died in 1793 in Surry County, North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------
Mathias Steelman's Ancestry:
Earliest ancestor of Mathias is thought to be John Hance Steelman, b. in "New Sweden" in 1655. John Hance's parents came over on the same ship, in 1641; his mother was 7 years old at the time. "Steelman" seems to be a combination of the name "Stille", surname of Olaf Stille, grandfather of John Hance Steelman and "Mansson", from Hans Mansson, second husband (m. 1654) of Ella Olafsdotter Stille, the 7 year old who came with her parents in 1641 to New Sweden. She died 1718 in Gloucester County, NJ. Ella's brother kept the family name STILLE and the son of her first husband ended up as a YOCUM instead of JOACHIMSON.
New Sweden was established in 1638, when Peter Minuit, rebuffed by the Dutch West India Company, for whom he had earlier established a colony, cooperated with the members of the government of King Gustaf of Sweden, to establish a colony on behalf of that government.
New Sweden was, between 1638 and 1655, Philadelphia, Lower Delaware Co, PA
and Wilmington, DE.
John Hance was a fur trader, respected by William Penn and by the commissioners of the colony of Maryland as well. He was quite helpful to William Penn in obtaining from England a judgement against Lord Baltimore involving the "lower counties", which both colonial managers claimed as their territory. John Hance was one of the signers of the William Penn Pact with many Indian chieftains. Certain Maryland Commissioners had met with the chieftains and in John Hance Steelman's home.
John Hance built a home on "Little Elk Creek" in Maryland in 1697; the stone structure still stands as of 1988.
Mathias is thought to have migrated from Kent County, DE to Surry County, NC in the 1770's.
Residence: Aug 16 1770 Kent County, Delaware, British America
Residence: Yeoman-farmer, growing tobacco & grains.1778 Surry County, North Carolina
Residence: Apr 3 1780 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
Residence: 1790 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
Death: Oct 16 1793 Dobson, Surry, North Carolina, United States
Burial: Surry County, North Carolina, United States
The following is from "The Year of the Swedes (and the Finns) by Dr. Ralph K.Turp; South Jersey Magazine, Spring 1988 issue, pp.8-12 & Summer 1988 issue, pp.15-19:
"Hans Mansson arrived in 1641 aboard "The Charitas" in company with Eric Mollicka, a Finn who was described as being a wealthy young man of 15 years. Also on board was Olaf (William) Stille who had two daughters...One story to account for his [Hans] presence in New Sweden, was that he was arrested for stealing apples from the orchard of the abbey at Varnhem and for which crime he was sent to New Sweden. In Varnhem (the author) was the guest of Arne Strang, head genealogist, Berit Hange Persson and Sven Axel Hallback, an historian. They produced records which verified the tale.... "
The name Steelman, at least in this family, happened after Hans died around 1692 and his sons and wife englicized their name, as was common in that era, by taking his wife's maiden name, Stille and Mansson and making Steelman.
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He was married to Ruth in 1748.
257. Ruth. Children were:
i. William STEELMAN was born in Jan 1750 in Kent County, Delaware. He died on 7 Mar 1836 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
ii. George STEELMAN was born in 1753 in Kent County, Delaware. He died in 1799 in Surry County, North Carolina.
iii. John STEELMAN was born in 1754 in Kent County, Delaware. He died in 1778.
128 iv. Charles STEELMAN.
v. James STEELMAN was born in 1765. He died in 1828.
vi. Rachel STEELMAN was born in 1760 in Surry County, North Carolina. She died in 1838 in Tennessee.
vii. Sealah (Celia) STEELMAN was born in 1747 in Delaware. She died on 9 Sep 1827 in Howard County, Missouri.
viii. Elizabeth STEELMAN was born in 1753 in Surry County, North Carolina. She died in 1853.
ix. Mathias STEELMAN Jr. was born in 1757. He died in 1782 in Surry County, North Carolina.
x. Ruth STEELMAN.
Surry County, Book 3, Page 12: In the name of God Amen. I Matthias Steelman being weak of body but of sound and perfect sence and memory thanks be to the Almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament.
First and foremost I recommend my soul into the hand of the Almighty God who gave it me and my body to the earth to be decently buried after the discrection of my Executors hereafter mentioned as for what wordly goods it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and bequeath as follows my will and desire is that all my debts and funeral expenses be first paid and dischared. Item I leave to my beloved wife Ruth Steelman two hundred & thirty acres of land on Turners Creek beginning at a White Oake saplin on the East side of Battens branch runs North thirty-five chains to a black oak thence West fifty-seven chains & twenty links to a pine thence South thirty-five chains to a post Oak thence East to said creek thence down the same as it meanders to the mouth of Green branch & thence North til an East course go to the begining. I also leave to my beloved wife Ruth Steelman all my stock and household furniture during her widowhood or natural life and when she either marries or dies then to return to my beloved son James Steelman all the said two hundred and thirty acres and all the good & chattles before mentioned and if my son James Steelman should die without issue, then the whole of my land and estate to be sold at public auction & the money to be equally divided between my son William Steelman, Sealah Cain, John Steelman, Ruth Spear, Rachel Creson, Charles Steelman, George Steelman, and Elizabeth Spear. I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloving sons William Steelman and James Steelman hole and sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do hereby revoke and disallow and make void all former wills by me heretofore made or spoken. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of Feb 1789. Mathias (HIs X mark) Steelman.
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Abt 1723 - 1793 (70 years)
