James Peebles

James Peebles (sometimes Peoples) suddenly appears on "165th Jubilee McKeesport 1960.pdf" page 9, just after Mary's brother Thomas McKee dies of "disease".

Mary's father, David McKee, a farmer, had his original cabin "near the northeasterly corner of Second Avenue and Water Street", in today's McKeesport PA.

As has been before stated, MARY McKEE, sister of MARGARET McKEE, married JAMES PEEBLES and settled on the THOMAS McKEE tract of land.MR. PEEBLES, like his father-in-law, was a farmer, and

Pg. 10 LANDMARKES - “Turn of the Century”

PICTURES of: Washington’s Spring Old Fawcett Farm, Walnut Street At Sixth Avenue, and Fifth Avenue At Market Street

(pg. 11) with aid of the McKEE boys he built a modest cabin in the neighborhood of Walnut and Eleventh Streets, wherein his wife, MARY McKEE PEEBLES, raised a brood of six little PEEBLES with loving care, seasoned with a dash of frugality, thrift and discipline.MR. PEEPLES had a 253 acre farm.He made a path through the fields of his father-in-law to Market St., which came to an abrupt end at Ninth Avenue.As time passed, this path widened into a lane, and was used not only by the PEEPLES family, but also by their neighbors in McKeesport.After MR. PEEPLES’ death in 1794, when the McKEES were selling their outlots, being those parts of the farm not included in the plan of McKeesport, they were careful to preserve intact the little lane, then called “Widow PEEPLES’ Lane,” and it is so mentioned in all the deeds for outlots adjoining that lane.(pg. 11) Later on it became Berlin St., and after that it changed to French St.

Early History of McKeESPORT Early History of McKeesport: Part 1 By Walter L. RiggS

The place of Thomas McKee in the community was soon taken by James Peebles, some times spelled Peoples. However, instead of making application for a new tract of land, he promptly married Mary McKee, daughter of David McKee and sister of the deceased Thomas McKee, and together they took possession of the Thomas McKee tract of land. Later, on Feb. 19, 1779, the brothers and sisters of Thomas McKee conveyed all their interest in said land to James Peebles, and received therefore the sum of 400 lbs.
The deed conveys a "tract of land on the east side of the Youghiogheny River about one mile from the mouth of said river and adjoining David McKee's land on the north and John Whitticor's land on the south, and is located in Thomas McKee's name." The deed is recorded in Deed Book Vol B-16 in the Recorder's Office of Westmoreland County.

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James Peeples

• MyHeritage Family Trees
• Limon Web Site, managed by Cynthia Limon (Contact)
• Birth: 1760
• Death: 1794 - McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
• Wife: Mary Mckee
• Son: Robert Peeples

James Peeples (Pebbles)

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• DALE FAMILY TREE in DALE Web Site, managed by Tony Dale (Contact)
• Birth: 1760 - Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland
• Death: 1794 - McKeesport, Pennsylvania
• Parents: David Kirk, Helen Kirk (born Gilmore)
• Siblings: John Kirk, Isabel Kirk, Bessie Kirk, Jean Kirk, Andrew Malcolme Kirk, William Kirk
• Wife: Mary Mckee, Miss (born Mckee (Mckie))
• Wife: Unknown Kirk (born Jean)
• Children: Samuel Peebles, Robert Peeples, John Peebles, George Peebles, Margaret Crawford (born Mckee (Mckie)), Mary Peebles

This seems to be an "Input error" as where if Maes ded marry Jean Kirk her parents were inadvertently put in as her husbands parent - a common error made by a lot of users or a merging error that was not corrected and infromation keeps getting passed along and copied into other sites "as is" :-( The abstraction of the data there is:

David Kirk 1694 - 1723

• Birth: Oct 1694 Scotland, UK
• Christening: Oct 21 1694 Kinglassie, Fife, Scotland
• Marriage: Marriage to: Helen Kirk (born Gilmore) Circa 1720 Scotland
• Death: 1723 Scotland, UK
• * Helen Kirk (born Gilmore) 1694 - 1783
• * Birth: Jan 1694 Kinglassie, Fife, Scotland
• * Christening: Jan 9 1694 Kinglassie,Fife,Scotland
• * Death: Aug 18 1783 Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland
• * * Chidlren:
• * * Jean Kirk Birth: Jan 1728 Leslie, Fife, Scotland Christening: Jan 14 1728 Leslie,Fife,Scotland
• * * John Kirk1721 - ?
• * * Bessie Kirk1725 - ?
• * * William Kirk1735 - 1821
• * * Isabel Kirk1723 - ?
• * * Andrew Malcolme Kirk1732 - 1786
• NOTE ALSO notice that Jean's birth is given as Jan 1786 and her father's death as 1723!!!!!!

There are 10 trees on Ancestry - none gives a place of birth, a second wife or parents.