• Born: 1799, Chatham NC
• Died: 11 Nov 1833

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark. ²⁵

• Alternate Mark. ²⁵

• Partnership: John Y. Savage, on 19 Mar 1819-7 Jun 1820, in Raleigh NC. As SAVAGE & STEDMAN ²⁵

• Advertised: Raleigh Register, on 6 Apr 1821, in Raleigh NC. Offering his services as an auctioneer and general commission merchant. He also ran a similar ad in the Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald on April 18th. ²⁵

• Advertised: Raleigh Register, on 14 Aug 1822, in Raleigh NC. That he had re-commenced the watchmaking and silversmithing business and desired apprentices. ²⁵

• Appointed: Constable, in 1823-May 1824, in Wake County Court. ²⁵

• Appointed: Justice of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, in 1829, in Wake County Court.

• Master: James Gorman, in Feb 1829, in Raleigh NC.
  Gorman was an orphan and Stedman was appointed his guardian in May 1832.

• He appeared on the census in 1830 in , Wake, NC. Listed as a jeweler, silversmith and watchmaker.

• His obituary was published in the Western Methodist on 22 Nov 1833. "Close to the publishing date of this issue, J. C. STEADMAN was killed when looking out a window of the passenger car he was riding, of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, northeast United States, when the train stopped very suddenly, lurching, causing him traumatic injury. Steadman had been a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina."
  Stedman was returning from a buying trip to New York City.