The Steen Family in Europe and America, Volume I, Page 142-146. William St
een probably came to America around 1755 with his brothers, and possibly m
ore of his family. After landing in New York, they moved to Lancaster Coun
ty, Pennsylvania, where they resided for a short while. William later mov
ed permanently to the Union District of South Carolina, near the Great Bro
ad River. There he married and raised a family of eleven children.

He was a farmer by occupation, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and w
as wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of Kings Mountain, Octob
er 7, 1780. He was soon afterward rescued from the British by a band of Am
erican soldiers. Several years after the close of the Revolutionary War, W
illiam started to move his family from South Carolina to Mississippi. Th
ey stopped for a short time in Carroll County, Tennessee, where he took si
ck and died. Not long after his death, his wife Nancy took their eight chi
ldren and continued on the Lawrence County, Mississippi, where they reside
d.