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Clean-up Thomas McKee and son Col. Alexander McKee, and their wives
Wives of Alexander McKeee are:
and the wife of his father Thomas is:
Thomas McKee son of Alexander
- no profile for a wife
This project is being started as a result of a message received:
Ok folks, here's the deal. All the information that most of us have about Thomas McKee and his son Colonel McKee is completely incorrect.
Alexander was the son of Thomas Mckee and his Shawnee Wife, possible a captive woman named Charlotte Brown.(this name being found as a notation not verified in the McKee Genealogical Chart at Fort Malden, Ontario, Canada.
This marriage made Thomas McKee related to the Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket,
Alexander McKee's wife's name was Mary.
Everyone, I highly encourage you to obtain a cope of the following book: Alexander McKee The Great White Elk British Indian Agent on the Colonial Frontier by Frederick Wulff published in 2013.
Professor Wulff began to have an interest in Alexander and began to study him with led him to years of research, culminating in his Doctoral Thesis on Alexander McKee. This book is unbelievably, and thoroughly researched.
I have never seen such source material presented in any historical text. His footnotes at the end of each chapter are fascinating in themselves.
The other book I have gotten information from is the following: A Man of Distinction Among Them by Larry L Nelson written in 1999 He takes a more negative look at Alexander than Professor Wulff does.
These books are going to be such a help to all of us researching these men. The history is amazing, violent, interactions with very famous names, like Daniel Boone, George Washington, etc. The founding of Pittsburgh, PA and on and on.
So whatever we think we know about Thomas McKee and Alexander McKee, I can pretty much guarantee that we are incorrect. Please go to Wikipedia and do a search for Alexander McKee and scroll clear to the bottom and you will see that Professor Wulff's book was used as a reference.
Good Luck to all of us who now have to delete delete delete!!
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I highly recommend that all passages that related to the genealogical heritage of these men and their wives be put into their respective profiles and the full title, author publisher and publication date be stated be quoted concerning these men be put into the profiles on top with a dividing line of ========= between each entry please do no destroy or edit any of the old about me documentation at present time
About the book Alexander McKee - The Great White Elk: British Indian Agent On The Colonial Frontier
Per Wikipedia:
Colonel Alexander McKee (ca. 1735 – 15 January 1799) was an agent in the British Indian Department during the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, and the Northwest Indian War
His father Thomas was an Irish immigrant and his mother Mary was from a North Carolina settler's family who had been captured and adopted by the Shawnee tribe. It was through his mother's tutelage that Alexander learned the customs and language of the Indians and came to develop a lifetime relationship with the Ohio Indian tribes.
Per Wikipedia:
Capt. Thomas McKee son of Alexander McKee ...
Thomas McKee, like his father, may have had a Shawnee mother, and so Thomas McKee may have been three-quarters Shawnee. According to one family tradition, his grandmother was Tecumseh's sister. And if so, "Red Tail Hawk" would have been his great uncle murdered alongside Cornstalk at Fort Randolph (Fort Blair, Arbuckle) in 1777. This could have, therefore, explained the decisions to remain a British subject in the following years. The local Shawnee were known for their large families....
Read online or Download: A Man of Distinction Among Them : Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1801 by Larry L. Nelson
TRYING TO MAKE HIM FATHER OF THE VA & KY McKees
SHAWNEE CONNECTION - WRONGFULLY MADE
There are some who are trying to connect the McKees of Kentucky & Virginia to that of the McKee line who has Shawnee ancestry - but they are found in accounts to be two VERY SEPARATE McKee branches as documented thus far as follows:
Found in in Alexander's the biography is: 'This would date the arrival of Alexander McKee and his son Thomas McKee [Husband of “Mary McKee” of Shawnee ancestry ] in America circa 1707 (in the year 1707 three McKee brothers landed at Boston from Ireland. Note thus this definitely sets him apart from the Kentucky & Virginia McKee's as their ancestry is stated as such:
Of the McKees of Kentucky & Virginia their ancestry is stated as: Ten or eleven brothers named Mckee came from Ireland to America in 1738, and settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Three of these- Robert McKee, William McKee and John McKee -- came to Augusta County, but at what date is uncertain, Their descendants state that it was about 1760, but the records of the county show that John McKee purchased a tract of land in the forks of the James River on August 16, 1752 ,