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"The first government trading house for the Choctaws was established under an act of 1796 when John McKee was Indian agent for the eastern part of that nation...George S. Gaines wrote: 'If our Indian agents were all as patriotic, able and indefatigable in the discharge of their duties as the late Col. Silas Dinsmore and Col. John McKee, they would rarely attain to as much influence with the Indians as respectable private traders....'"

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Poplar Grove was first occupied by the Jacksons (Andrew and Rachel) not later than May 16, 1794, for a letter bearing that date was written from there by Jackson to John McKee and is still preserved. Jackson referred to his estate also as "Poplar Flat" as indicated by a letter he wrote to John Overton, headed "Poplar Flat, June 10, 1795.

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Publisher University of Tennessee Special Collections Library Format Text/html Title [Letter] 1815 Jan. 20, Choctaw Agency [to] James Winchester / John McKee : a machine readable transcription of an image Date 1815-01-20 Description Document ID: sl552 Description This is a letter dated January 20, 1815 from John McKee to General James Winchester. McKee reports on the business of recruitment service, specifically, that during the winter season most Choctaw gun-owners are currently engaged in hunting food for their families, and therefore, that his quarter should not be relied upon until their return. He also mentions the recent victory of General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans against the British, and as a result, the Choctaw Indians will probably not be needed there. Contributor University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville Contributor Tennessee State Library and Archives (Nashville, Tenn.) Language en Creator McKee, John Identifier http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200300000001205 Rights This work is the property of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. For all other use contact the Tennessee State Library and Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243-0312. (615) 741-2764. Type Text Subject Choctaw Agency (U.S.) Subject Letters Subject Tennessee -- History Description Tennessee Documentary History Collection

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Letter  in TN State archives

McKee, John (Colonel) 1796 from  Knoxville, TN...Gives information on an incident between white settlers and Indians but warns to perserve the peace

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GREENE COUNTY’S FIRST TOWNS & LANDMARKS

Boligee (1816): Col. Jon McKee (1771-1833) the Indian Agent, frontier Statesman and local Congressman, built the first house in this town, Hill of Howth, in 1816. In 1825, Col George Hays encouraged settlers from VA, NC and SC to join a new planters’ culture in this new township. The Bethsalem Presbyterian Church was built on land donated by Col. Hays in 1835. The church cemetery is the resting place of many County notables, including Col. McKee and Revolutionary War Soldier, Mordecai, Barbour of VA. The Friendship Baptist Church came to Boligee from the Forkland Burton Plantation. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church was also moved in 1880.

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Grizzard: Construction of UVA: 1996: Jefferson and His Colleagues ...
... General George Matthews and Colonel John McKee, on one ... General Matthews and Colonel
McKee had betaken ... border, had heard that General Andrew Jackson in pursuit ...
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(Note:  this is an account of Col. McKees activities in Spanish Florida with Andrew Jackson.  References follow—M. Shargel)

...Congress had responded with alacrity and empowered the President to occupy East Florida in case the local authorities should consent or a foreign power should attempt to occupy it...With equal dispatch the President had sent two agents, General George Matthews and Colonel John McKee, on one of the strangest missions in the border history of the United States...To this No Man's Land—fertile recruiting ground for all manner of filibustering expeditions—General Matthews and Colonel McKee had betaken themselves in the spring of 1811, bearing some explicit instructions from President Madison but also some very pronounced convictions as to what they were expected to accomplish....

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Native American Discontent in Alabama in the Early 1800s
... Creek Indians massacre colonists at Fort Mims. ... Andrew Jackson at the battle of Horseshoe
Bend in 1814 ... John McKee, the Choctaw agent, convened the conference at ...
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In 1813, U.S. Gen. James Wilkinson seized Mobile from the Spaniards. Creek Indians massacre colonists at Fort Mims. The Creeks were defeated by Gen. Andrew Jackson at the battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. In October 1816, an important treaty, the treaty of Fort Confederation, was signed at Gaines's outpost on the Tombigbee River. John McKee, the Choctaw agent, convened the conference at the trading house under the instruction of Secretary of War John C. Calhoun. John Rhea and John Coffee joined McKee as commissioners for the United States. Choctaws from three districts gathered to participate in the treaty conference. Pushmataha and Puckshenubbee were in attendance at the treaty signing.

The Choctaw agent John McKee (1771-1832) a native of Virginia, was appointed in 1792 by Governor William Blount (1749-1800) of the Southwest Territory to negotiate a boundary settlement with the Cherokee. He served as temporary agent to the Cherokee in 1794 and as Choctaw agent from 1799 until Silas Dinsmoor's appointment in 1802. McKee and Gaines negotiated a cessation agreement with the Choctaw in December 1815 to locate a new federal trading house near the site of the Old Spanish Fort Confederation. He replaced Dinsmoor in 1814 as Choctaw agent and resigned in 1821 to enter politics, serving three consecutive terms (1823-29) as U.S. congressman from the Tuscaloosa District. McKee's plantation, Hill of Hoath, was in present-day Boligee, Green County, Alabama.