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m. Abt 1786
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[edit] BiographyJOHN VEECH, born in Ulster, Ireland, in 1747, emigrated in his early manhood to settle in Pennsylvania. He was a surveyor by profession, and colonial records show that he was making surveys in what is now Jefferson county as early as December 21, 1785, on a permit from William and Mary College, signed by Thomas Jefferson. On his arrival in the colonies, John Veech joined a Scotch Presbyterian settlement at Uniontown, Pa., and it was there that he married Agnes (Nancy) Weir. They came to Kentucky shortly after the Revolution, down the Ohio river, it is understood, on flat boats to Falls of the Ohio. Their first child, Alexander Veech, was born January 27, 1787, in Dutch Station, one of the historic forts which were refuge for the pioneers. The first Veech farm was on the Shelbyville road about a mile above St. Matthews, and some two miles from the old station and from "Indian Hill," which was the home of Alexander Veech, and has never passed out of the family, now being occupied by James Nichols Veech and his family. John Veech bought "Indian Hill" (of 324 acres, the old deed states) on December 1, 1806, from Richard Taylor. The Veech family kept the property until 1814, when they sold to Zachary Taylor, son of Richard Taylor, founder of the Kentucky family. There is a tradition that when John Veech offered the Indian Hill farm to Alexander Veech, the son refused it because he said it was too far from his parents' home. It seems that a dense forest stood between the two farms. However, in 1833, Alexander Veech purchased the Indian Hill farm which was to be his lifelong home. John and Agnes Veech had five children, three of whom left descendants, but only two had families which figure in Louisville life-Alexander Veech and his sister, Sarah Veech, who married William Garvin. Agnes Veech died in 1811, John Veech in 1817.[2] References
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