Andrew McKee (abt. 1691 - 1765)

Born about 1691 in Ireland

Husband of Jerusha (Vose) McKee — married 26 Mar 1723 (to 22 May 1732) in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Unknown) McKee — married about 1734 in Hartford, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 24 Sep 1765 at about age 74 in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Andrew McKee migrated from Ireland to New England.

Andrew McKee is believed to have arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in about 1707 as the youngest of three Presbyterian brothers from the north of Ireland. He was a weaver by trade^[1].

Andrew married Jerusha Vose on 26 March 1723 in nearby Milton. Andrew must have been a promising young man as Jerusha's father was a prominent and successful local farmer, Captain Nathaniel Vose^[2].

They moved to Manchester in Connecticut and had six children together before Jerusha died in 1732, probably in childbirth with Betty. At the time of her death they were living in Elbow Neck in what would later become Palmer, Massachusetts^[1]. Their children were:

1. Mary (McKee) Pelton (1724 - 1749)
2. Deacon Robert McKee (1726 - 1797)
3. Nathaniel McKee (1727 - 1815)
4. Joseph McKee (1729 - 1808)
5. Jerusha McKee (~1730 - >1765)
6. Betty (McKee) Hollister (1731 - 1791).

Andrew remarried to a lady named Mary probably in about 1736 when he sold the land in Palmer^[1]. He and Mary went on to have at least four more children together^[3]. Their known children were:

1. Miriam McKee (~1737 - >1765)
2. Margaret McKee (1738 - 1741)
3. John McKee (1740 - 1826)
4. Margaret McKee (~1742 - >1765).

His will was dated on 21 January 1765 in Manchester. It lists all his surviving children and two of his grandchildren^[4]. He left five shillings to his eldest three sons, his married daughter, Betty, and to the children of his deceased daughter, Mary. He left five pounds to his three unmarried daughters and the remainder to his wife and son, John.

Andrew died on 24 September 1765 in Manchester^[5] and was buried in the East Cemetery there^[6].

Research Notes

Last Will and Testament

(see attached image)

Julius McKee

America circa 1707 (in the year 1707 three McKee brothers landed at Boston from Ireland. The descendants of one of them, Andrew McKee, who settled near Hartford, Connecticut, are detailed in the chapter McKee Septs and their Brief Genealogy herein. What is known of their arrival was written by a decendant Julius C. McKee, as follows:

“ My pedigree, as near as I know it, according to the traditions in our family, four generations back, as I have been informed by my father and Uncle Jason McKee. There were three brothers as my father says; two as Uncle Jason thinks. I think father is correct, as he was 16 or 17 years older and his memory very good. They came to America and landed at Boston.

The youngest, 16 years old, named Andrew McKee, or MacKee as it used to be written, settled in East Hartford, east of old Hartford City, in the state of Connecticut, about five miles from the city, and became a farmer, in 1707. It is supposed that the other brothers settled one in Virginia, the other in Kentucky. Andrew was born in the North of Ireland in 1691. His father was Scotch, a chief among them, my father says: his mother Irish. He lived in America 58 years. He died September 24, 1765, aged 74 years, and was interred at Manchester Center, Connecticut. Andrew had a first wife and a second wife and had children by both. I can only speak of three, Nathaniel and Joseph by first wife, John second wife.”)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Board, Trenchard, Wilsey, McKee, and kindred families by Frances Board Rose. Publication date 1961; Page 49; https://archive.org/details/boardtrenchardwi00rose/page/91/mode/2up
2. ↑ Milton records : births, marriages and deaths, 1662-1843, alphabetically and chronologically arranged. Publisher: A. Mudge & Son, printers, 1900; page 150. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89065996878&view=1up&seq=164&skin=2021
3. ↑ Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89VP-5QY6?cc=2448940&wc=Q8RL-B2V%3A1589605372 : 12 May 2016), 007615715 > image 114 of 288; Connecticut State Library, Hartford.
4. ↑ Probate Records, 1649-1932; Author: Connecticut. Probate Court (Hartford District); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut: Probate Records, Vol 20-21, 1764-1774
5. ↑ "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7XW-9PD : 16 September 2020), Andrew McKee, 1765.
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62953471/andrew-mackee : accessed 20 May 2022), memorial page for Andrew Mackee (unknown–24 Sep 1765), Find A Grave: Memorial #62953471, citing East Cemetery, Manchester, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Sue (contributor 47067682) .

See Also:

• https://mckeefamiliesfromdonegal.com/mckee-family-from-donegal/exploring-mckee-roots-in-galloway/the-book-of-mckee-r-mckee-1959/
• Vose, Ellen. Robert Vose and His Descendants (Boston, Mass., 1932) Page 23.