John McKee papers, 1793-1829 [manuscript].

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John McKee papers, 1793-1829 [manuscript].

Diary, 1804-1805, of McKee, frontiersman, U.S. agent to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in eastern Mississippi, and U.S. representative from Alabama (1823-1829), and eight letters, 1793-1829, concerning Indian affairs and lands belonging to Gen. Lafayette. The diary was written while McKee was U.S. Indian agent, and deals chiefly with travels and contacts with Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians.

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

McKee, John, 1771-1832

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Indian agent and U.S. representative from Alabama. From the description of Papers of John McKee, circa 1792-1825. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132201 Epithet: of Glasgow? BA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x0000f5 McKee was a Choctaw Indian agent, and served on treaty conventions with the Choctaws, Cherokees, and Chickasaws, and was a native of Va. He was in the Choctaw nation a...