from Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County Virginia by John Walter Wayland

Joseph Steer, son of Joseph and Grace Steer of Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia, and Grace Lupton, Daughter of John Lupton in the County and Colony afforesaid; 11th day of 4th month, 1776 at Hopewell.

Witnesses who signed this Marriage Certificate:

Rees Caldwallader, Nathan Lupton, Joshua Lupton, Sarah Pickering, John Hodgson, Deborah Hodgson, Josiah Jackson, Ruth Jackson, Mary Lupton, Isaac Parkins, Isaac Brown, Samuel Jackson, Jesse Lupton, Sarah Lupton, Sarah Pickering, Mary Walker, Isaac Lupton, Richard Ridgway, Abel Walker, Jonathan Parkins, Samuel Pickering, Samuel Pickering, Asa Lupton, Mary Parkins, Hannah Saxton, Lydia Pickering, Ruth Wright, Sary Lupton, Jacob Pickering, David Pickering David Lupton, Rachel Lupton, Isaac Steer, Jane Pickering, Massy Lupton, Joseph Steer, Sen. Grace Ster, John Lupton, William Lupton, Joseph Lupton, James Ster, Edmond Jolliff, Isaac Nevitt, Elisabeth Nervitt, Aaron Grigg, Elisabeth Grigg, Jonathan Lupton, Mesach Saxton, Samuel Lupton

Joseph Steer was a miller on Short Creek. His mill and residence was five miles above the mouth of that stream at the Ohio River. This distance places his mill at Mt. Pleasant, where he resided in 1820. He had previously lived at Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his land adjoined that of James Gibbons. He sold that land in 1768 and moved to Virginia from which state he had come to Ohio. In 1820 another Joseph Steer, possibly a son, was a near neighbor of John Gibbons in Belmont County.