[3] The question of proprietarial fees was to cause considerable discontent among Marylanders during the years immediately preceding the American Revolution.

His father George H. Steuart was a Loyalist politician who, as an ally of the ruling Calvert family, had benefited from substantial political patronage.

He was a founder member of the Maryland Jockey Club, re-established after the war's end on Saturday, March 1, 1783, at Mr Mann's tavern in Annapolis.

[7] William Steuart died unmarried, leaving a substantial estate in land and slaves which was apportioned among his surviving family members.

According to the memoirs of his nephew Richard Sprigg Steuart "The fifth of my grandfather's children was William, also a bachelor, [who] left a very large landed property and numerous slaves.