McKee, Alexander

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McKee
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Alexander McKee was born about 1735, the second son of Thomas McKee an Irish immigrant who worked as fur trader and Indian agent from his trading post on the Susquehanna River near Paxtang, Pennsylvania. McKee developed a lifelong relationship with the Ohio Indian tribes. As a young man, Alexander McKee began working with traders who did business with Indians in the Ohio Country. He soon established his own trading business. Because of his good relations and relatives within the Ohio tribes, the Indian agent George Croghan enlisted McKee to join the Indian Department. Around 1764, McKee settled in what is now McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, and built a large log house on a 1,200 acre land grant awarded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. George Washington visited him there in 1770, and mentioned it in his diary. Around 1768 or 1769, McKee married Sewatha Sarah Opessa in a Shawnee village on the Scioto River in Ohio. He also had a son, Thomas McKee with Nonhelema Hokolesqua, the Shawnee Chief. Later in life he married Edna Yellow Britches Rising Sun.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=15854
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