This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Steele Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YdJBAIB/447.1169 Message Board Post: I cannot prove, but strongly suspect that my gggrandfather Richard Steele was a descendent of that line. Richard was born in New York [Herkimer or German Flatts?] in about 1800, moved to Michigan and purchased land there in Macomb County in 1837, and ultimately died in Michigan. I would be willing to share my descendency information from Richard down, but I do need some help establishing that he is in face a descendent of that line. He may have been a son of Nicholas Steele and Eva Meyer.