Editing McKeesport, Pennsylvania (section)

===Early history===
David McKee emigrated from Scotland and was the first permanent white settler at the forks of the [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] and [[Youghiogheny River|Youghiogheny]] Rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport, in 1755. Around the time of the [[French and Indian Wars]], [[George Washington]] often came to McKeesport to visit his friend, [[Queen Alliquippa]], a [[Seneca people|Seneca]] Indian ruler. The Colonial Government granted David McKee exclusive right of ferrage over those rivers on April 3, 1769, called "McKee's Port".<ref>{{cite web | title =David McKee 1710–1795| work =hmdb.org| url =https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=29962  | access-date =October 23, 2018}}</ref>

His son, John McKee, an original settler of [[Philadelphia]], built a log cabin at this location. After taking over his father's local river [[ferry]] business, he devised a plan for a city to be called McKee's Port in 1795.<ref>{{cite web | title =The Founding of McKeesport| work =familytreetracer.com| url =http://www.familytreetracer.com/McKFounding.htm| access-date =October 23, 2018}}</ref> John set out his proposal in the ''[[Pittsburgh Gazette]]'', as part of a program under which new residents could purchase plots of land for $20.00. A lottery was used to distribute the plots to avoid complaints from new land owners concerning "inferior" locations.