This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1V.2ADE/697.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Seeking ancestors of Thomas Steel Thomas Steel(e) b. 5-May-1786, ?NC? m. 22-Dec-1808, Chatham CO NC, Jane Moor(e). Thomas died 11 Feb-1862 in Saline Co. AK. Thomas, Jane and family moved to Henderson Co, TN in 1820’s. There was a Thomas Steele listed in the 1830 Henderson Co., TN Census. From TN they moved to AK. Thomas Steel is listed as purchasing 40 acres in 1844 in the Saline CO ARK Federal Land Records of 1850. Their son, Samuel B. Steele, was executor of Thomas Steel's estate in Saline County, AK. 1862. His son David E. Steel is my gr. grandfather.