Col. W. A. Magee

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Husband Col. W. A. Magee ^{1 2 3}

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1 M William Magee ^{2 3 4}

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General Notes: Husband - Col. W. A. Magee

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Though of Scotch origin this family had been established for some time in Ireland, where they had moved in the wave of emigration that took place in the latter part of the seventeenth century, carrying large numbers of Scotch Covenanters to northern Ireland to escape religious persecution. Between 1720 and 1800 they and their descendants sought the freedom which America offered, and among these was Col. W. A. Magee, an officer of the English army, who settled in Philadelphia supposedly about 1750-60. The family had been in Ireland for several generations, being found about the middle of the eighteenth century at Rathmullen, in the most northern section of County Donegal, just southwest of Scotland, whence their forbears had emigrated less than a century before. One branch of the family was founded in Philadelphia by Michael Magee, who settled there in 1795, and who was a native of Rathmullen, where in 1785 he married Frances McAdoo. They came to Philadelphia in 1795. [HVC 1919, 485]

He was an officer in the English army who settled in Philadelphia at a date unknown, but supposed to be about 1750 or 1760.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 485.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 620.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 111.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 486.