Re: Sallee Family
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In reply to:
Sallee Family
Janice Gruen Gross 8/13/10
Janice - please look at this page on my website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sallee/sallee/d127.htm#P362http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sallee/sallee/d127.htm#P362
Your Grandfather was right in that if you are a Missouri Sallee you are probably related to this immigrant ancestor.He is wrong about the pirates, though. Sorry. The confusion stems from a port in North Africa: Salé (Berber: Sla / Sala, Arabic: ????; from the Berber word asla, meaning "rock") is the twin city to Rabat, the capital of Morocco.The city's name is sometimes transliterated as Salli or Sallee. In the 17th century, Salé became a haven for Moriscos-turned-Barbary pirates. Salé pirates (the well-known "Salè Rovers") roamed the seas as far as the shores of the Americas, bringing back loot and slaves. They formed the Republic of Salè. There is an American family, van Salee, descended from a Salé Rover, Jan Janszoon.