James McKee, Jr. and Susan Nesbit

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Husband James McKee, Jr. ¹

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           Born: Abt 1740 - McKee's Half Falls, Snyder Co, PA
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           Died: 1810 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Congruity (Presbyterian) Church, Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Thomas McKee (      -1772) 2
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Wife Susan Nesbit ¹

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         Buried:  - near Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH

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         Father: Thomas Nesbit (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Thomas McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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2 F Polly McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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3 M Hugh McKee ^{1 3}

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           Born: Abt 1761 - Antrim Twp, Cumberland (later Franklin) Co, PA
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           Died: 21 Mar 1812 1 3
         Buried:  - Punxsutawney Cemetery, Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co, PA

         Spouse: Jane Thompson (1764-1847) 3

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4 F Martha McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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5 F Rachel McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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6 M William McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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7 M James McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Cumberland Valley, Franklin Co, PA
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8 F Abbie McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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9 M Andrew McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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10 F Ruhaminah McKee ¹

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - James McKee, Jr.

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He was born about 1740, at McKee's Half Falls, on the Susquehanna River, in what is now Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and like his father became a trapper and fur trader. After his marriage he moved into the Cumberland Valley, where he purchased land at several places and where eight of his children were born. In 1773 he purchased land between Congruity and West Apollo, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to which place he was about to remove when the Revolutionary War broke out. He and his two sons, Thomas and Hugh, enlisted in a company of Frontier Riflemen, a part of a regiment commanded by Colonel Chambers. They participated in the New Jersey campaign and wintered at Valley Forge. At the close of the war in 1783, he and his family of eight children removed to the Westmoreland County property. He and his sons had visited the Westmoreland County home several times before this, and had erected a cabin and cleared the land but on their arrival for final settlement they found their cabin had been burned down. This had taken place when the Indians burned Hannastown and devastated the Westmoreland frontier.
In 1809, while preparing to remove to the "Ohio" country, he was taken sick, which illness resulted in his death in 1810. He was buried in Congruity Presbyterian Church-yard, Congruity, Pennsylvania. His widow went to Ohio in 1811 and a few years later died at Andrew McKee's farm near Zanesville, Ohio, where she was buried.

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General Notes: Wife - Susan Nesbit

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She married McKee, and they settled, until after the Revolution, near the present Greencastle, in Antrim Township, Cumberland (later Franklin) County, Pennsylvania, near her father.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 84.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 83.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 447.