William Magee married Mary Margaret James Magee son of Lewis and Elizabeth Magee. The grandson of Elizabeth and William Magee III.
William Magee was the son of Lewis Magee and his wife Elizabeth. Lewis and Elizabeth appear to have been the parents of only two sons, William and Jonathan Magee.

I am unaware of any daughters, at this time. We may estimate William Magee's birth at roughly 1765, based upon his 2 Oct 1786 petition for 200 acres of land in Richmond County, Georgia (Richmond County, Georgia Land Court Minutes 1784-1787, 124), and also from various territorial and federal census data. He was possibly born in the area of present Richmond County. Lewis Magee, his father, died while William was in his mid-late teens, and his mother remarried to John Smith.

The 1795 tax digest for Richmond County, digitized at Georgia's Virtual Vault http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/, shows that Smith was paying taxes on the land of both William Magee and Jonathan Magee in Richmond County in that year.
-Richard Burch and Jonathan Magee (wife Rebecca JAMES Magee) on 1802 Adams County Mississippi Tax List
-Will Magee, and Richard Burch on 1805 Tax List Adams County Mississippi
-The 1810 territorial census of Franklin County, Mississippi Territory, shows Richard Burch, Jon Magee, Will Magee in 1810 living in Franklin County Mississippi. Part of Adams County Mississippi was broken off in the early 1800s to form Franklin County Mississippi.
-William Magee appear in various tax and census records of Adams County from 1802 to about 1812.…and the fact that Richard and his wife Priscilla JAMES Burch of Richmond County Georgia also appeared in the same records in Mississippi and then Louisiana.
Records list William moved south from
Mississippi in Louisiana around 1809.

Once the Spanish had been driven from Spanish Florida (South Louisiana) many of the American settlers moved south from Mississippi into the land on the North side of Lake Pontchartrain.
"MAGEE HISTORIES: THE PROGENITORS AND DESCENDENTS OF JACOB MAGEE AND MARY SCOTT, by Bevin Creel"
After Mississippi became a territory in 1798, both Jonathan Magee and William Magee removed to Adams County, Mississippi into that part that would become Franklin County in 1809. Specifically, they lived on Dry Creek, which empties into the Homochitto River in the area of present-day Bude, Mississippi. Jonathan "McGee" was assessed in the Adams County return of 1802 with no acreage, 1 poll. The early Mississippi tax lists can be viewed in the "Mississippi State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951" familysearch.org.
William In records is listed with Salem Baptist Church Jefferson County Mississippi.

The first extant return in which William "McGee" appears in Mississippi Territory is the Adams County return of 1805, in which he was assessed with 240 acres on "Dry Bayou," 2 horses, 20 cattle. Jonathan was assessed in 1805 with no acreage, 2 horses, 14 cattle. Evans James and John James were both assessed "nearby." In 1810, William's land had fallen into the newly formed Franklin County. He was again shown on Dry Creek with 230 acres (slight variation on the 240 acres above), and his land is described as a Spanish Patent, although I have not found William in the Private Land Claims for Mississippi. Jonathan was assessed with 1 poll, no land. It is worth stating here that I have read Adams County deed books A-F, covering the years roughly 1780-1810, and have found neither William nor Jonathan as a grantor/grantee. The extant Franklin County deeds, to my knowledge, begin about 1840. The 1810 territorial census of Franklin County, Mississippi Territory, shows William "McGhee" with 1M +21, 6M -21, 1F +21, 2 F -21, no slaves. Jonathan McGhee was "2 doors" removed with 1M +21, 3M -21, 1F +21, 3F -21, no slaves. John James was "5 doors" from William with 1M +21, 1F +21 and 6 F -21, 1 slave. The last tax assessment on which William Magee appears is the 1811 Franklin County assessment, in which he was taxed on his 230 acres on Dry Creek, waters of Homochitto River, described as a "donation," 1 poll. Jonathan Magee had finally acquired land in the area by this time, and he was taxed "next door" to William on 100 acres on Dry Creek. John James was taxed on 120 acres on Homochitto River. Jonathan Magee is taxed in Franklin County for several years after 1811. Jonathan would join William in Louisiana several years later.
William Magee with his father-in-law Evans James before they moved to the Hayes Creek Church area. They settled on Dry Creek and Magee Creek in what is now Walthall County. William operated a grist mill and also the mill was used for lumber.

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 initiated a rush of settlers into what would become St Tammany and Washington Parishes. Many of these settlers were little more than squatters, but they suspected that the acquisition of Louisiana by the United States would eventually lead to the acquisition of neighboring West Florida from Spain, and that their residence upon and cultivation of the land would inevitably lead to American recognition of their rights to the land (often referred to as pre-emption). They were correct. An 1819 act passed by Congress provided the means by which settlers in the Florida Parishes could legally confirm titles to land which they possessed during previous years of political uncertainty.
Family listed as first settlers in Washington Parish - William Hays and William McGeehee in 1809 and Jonathan McGeehee in 1812.
According to researchers in 1811 about 200 males in the area of Half -Moon Bluff Baptist Church signed a petition asking Congress that their area be added to Mississippi. Louisiana had be part of Louisiana therefore settlers were largely French. But most of our ancestors came from the Carolinas and Georgia. As English descent therefore preferred to be part of Mississippi.

"Families living within 4 miles of the church during the period from 1811 through the early 1820's were as follows: James Gwin, John Magee, Joseph Erwin (Pastor 1816 and 1819), William Magee, Benj. Magee, Zadok Barrow, Richard Albritton, Gideon Yarborough, James Hays, William Hays, and Joseph Lewis, Sr. Most of these families are known to have been active in the church. John Magee and Benjamin Magee were sons of William Magee who lived at Hays Creek. Half-Moon Bluff Baptist Church was located on the headright of Joseph Erwin. James Gwin settled the headright just north of Joseph Erwin which is the present site of Clifton. In the early 1820's, John Magee bought the James Gwin headright and moved there.
"HISTORY OF FRANKLINTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH By Daunton Gibbs 1976-1977

Rev William Magee may have been one of the organizer of the first Louisiana Baptist Church. He was one of the pastors of the original Half-Moon Bluff an active member during it's less than 20 years of existences. Willie Magee represented the Church as a delegate with Pastor Nathan Morris. Mississippi Baptist Association meeting October 14, 1815 at Serepta Baptist Church Jefferson County Mississippi; Pearl River Association a 4 day meeting November 4 1820 and Fair River Baptist Lawerence County Mississippi and September 10-13 1825 Hebron Baptist Church Lawerence County Mississippi.

Some of the ministers who preached at Half-Moon Bluff Baptist Church were Jesse Crawford (married Willie's son Benjamin's widow) Nathan Morris and Joseph Lewis, Sr.(both are buried in Pinebluff Cemetery, located at Dentville, Copiah County Mississippi).(Note Lewis and Burch family connection)

Private, War of 1812; 12 and 13 Cons. Reg't Louisiana Military

William Magee "put in" his claim to the Greensburg Land Office, which was responsible for confirming titles in the area in which Washington Parish fell. Greensburg Land Claim Papers, Abstract "B," Volume 15, #1034 includes testimony by William Magee's neighbor Henry Day, given 1 March 1820, that William Magee began cultivating his first piece of land in Washington Parish in May 1808. By certificate numbers 40, 598, 693 and 802 dated 1819-1820, granted from the Greensburg Land Office, William Magee was granted tracts of land (640 acres each) in sections 39, 40, 41 and 42 of Twp 1 South Range 10 E (St Helena Meridian). This land includes the traditional home site of William Magee (between present-day Hays Creek Baptist Church and the actual Hays Creek) and the cemetery in which he was buried (present Hays Creek Baptist Church Cemetery). One of these sections was purchased of Thomas Roberts, the other sections being land "as an actual settler on which he [Magee] now resides." The land purchased of Roberts was ordered to be surveyed for William Magee on 27 March 1825. See Greensburg Claim Papers, T1S R10E, accessible at http://wwwslodms.doa.la.gov.
William Magee's brother Jonathan was also granted land in T1S R10E, Jonathan's piece of land being in section 58. Although it is not known when William converted to the Baptist faith, he was an ardent member of that denomination in the years leading up to his death. He was among the earliest members of the Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church, which was the first Baptist church formed within the present boundaries of the state of Louisiana. Although the church was in Louisiana, it was a member of the Mississippi Baptist Association. The associational minutes show that William was a messenger from Half Moon Bluff Church to the associational meeting in 1815 (Casey, "Amite County, Mississippi," vol 2, 115). The location of Half Moon Bluff Church was on Bogue Chitto River, a few miles to the southwest of William Magee's home. The faith of this man is probably reflected in the naming of his children, all of whom (with the exception of William) received Biblical names.

A map of William Magee surrounding land was recorded on April 10 1820. William made claims to other land in the area which acquired during the Spanish Rule. At the time of his death he had acquired over 2000 of land in what is now Washington Parish Louisiana.
Since his land was surveyed in 1825, the traditional death year for William Magee "1827" is entirely plausible, coupled with the fact that his widow Mary was a head of household in the 1830 federal census for Washington Parish.

There is little evidence at this time to show that William Magee was closely related to the Jacob Magee/John Magee/Solomon Magee/ Phillip Magee in nearby Marion and Pike Counties, Mississippi. They were the son of William McGee (before 1700-after 1764). William McGee who is found in the Edgecombe precinct of North Carolina in 1733. William McGee was deeded land there along Fishing Creek on 22 August 1733.
We may also insert Phillip Magee and his brother Willis Magee of Franklin County, Mississippi. They were the son of Ann Moore and William MaGee.

Mary Magee head of household. The 1827 death date was placed on a tombstone erected over the grave of William Magee by his last surviving great-grandchildren in the 1950s. While it is not possible to "prove" the date, it is commensurate with the census data.
William Magee Biography, Bevin Creel:

William Magee and his father in law Evan James and family came as group circa. 1800. Before immigrating into Washington Parish they originally settled in what is now Walthall County Mississippi.

"William Magee and Mary Margaret James and their Descendants 1770-1993. William Magee Committee in Louisiana"

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