Alexander McKee ¹

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?Facts and Events
NameAlexander McKee
GenderMale
Birth[2]abt 1735
MarriageBEF 1742Pennsylvania, USA
to Sewatha Sarah Straighttail
Death[2]15 Jan 1799
Reference Number?
Q4719608?
Military[2]
Colonel Citation needed

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Colonel Alexander McKee (ca. 1735 \endash 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.

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?References
Nelson, Larry L. A Man of Distinction Among Them: Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs Along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799. (Ohio, USA: Kent State University Press).
"Half ShawneeN1 and fathered by a white trader, McKee played a pivotal go-between role in Great Lakes Indian affairs for nearly fifty years."

? 2.0 2.1 2.2 Alexander McKee, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, last accessed Nov 2016.
Alexander McKee (ca. 1735 \endash 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. He achieved the rank of colonel. ...

Researchers vary, his mother may have been born a Shawnee or she was an adopted captive of the Shawnee.

Alexander married Nonhelema "Kate" "Grenadier Squaw" Cornstalk, daughter of Chief Okowellos Paxinosa "Hard-Striker" Cornstalk and Katee "Bird" Mekoche. (Nonhelema "Kate" "Grenadier Squaw" Cornstalk was born in 1718 in West Virginia, USA and died in Dec 1786 in Ohio, USA.)

Alexander next married Sewatha Sarah Straightail before 1742 in Pennsylvania, USA. (Sewatha Sarah Straightail was born about 1727 in Possibly Maryland, USA and died after 1750.)