Biographical Sketch (1954):1340, Krebs cites as his source the Census of the Electoral Oberamt of Simmern for the year 1750 in the State Archives of Coblenz (Abt. 4, Nr. 3310). "Stiehl, Abraham — of Steinbach (Kreis Simmern), 'has made up his mind to go to Pennsylvania;' is, with wife and four children, freed from vassalage on payment of 32 florins for manumission and 29 florins for tithe. (Johann Abraham Stiehl, Ship Patience, August 11, 1750)." In August 2001 librarians at the Family History library provided this information on the location of Steinbach: Steinbach, Kreis Simmern, Rheinland, Germany Lutheran church in Rieganroth; Catholic Church in Rayerschied.

Biographical Sketch (undated):885 "My research on the Steel family suggests that Christopher was the son of Abraham Stihl who arrived in Philadelphia 11 Aug 1750 aboard the Patience. Abraham was dead by 12 Dec 1751 when his widow, Anna Margaretha (then married to a second husband) filed proceedings on his estate. You state that Christopher was ‘once a staunch Lutheran.’ In my research I have never found him in any church records in Bucks Co. I do find other Stihls (Steeles) in the Reformed Church in Bucks County who I think are related to Christopher — brothers perhaps. There was a George Steele who settled in Frederick County, Maryland, "west of the Catoctin Mountains," by 1784 who was also from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where some of his children were baptized in a Reformed Church as were some of the children of one Abraham Steele, his brother. I am inclined to think that Christopher, Abraham, and George were brothers. Coincidentally, each named his first born son, Abraham."

1750 Immigration:103, v. 1, list 146, p. 426-428. Johann Abraham Stiehl arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, on August 11, 1750, on the ship Patience, with Captain Hugh Steel. Of the 266 passengers, Johann Abraham Stiehl and 123 others took the Oath of Allegiance.

1750 Notice in The Pennsylvania Gazette:901 16 August 1750, "For Charles Town, South Carolina, directly, the ship Patience, Hugh Steel, commander; will certainly sail by the middle of September. For freight or passage, apply to Charles and Alexander Stedman, or said master, N. B. She has good accommodations for passengers."