John McVey and Sarah Wakefield

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Husband John McVey ¹

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           Born: Abt 1747 - near Philadelphia, PA
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           Died: Abt 1824 - McVeytown, Mifflin Co, PA
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         Father: [Father] McVey (      -      )
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Wife Sarah Wakefield ²

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            AKA: Mary Wakefield 1
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           Died:  - Wayne Twp, Mifflin Co, PA
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         Father: Matthew Wakefield (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M William McVey ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Rebecca Mitchell (      -      ) 2

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2 M John McVey, Jr. ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1826 - McVeytown, Mifflin Co, PA
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         Spouse: Margaret Walters (      -      ) 2

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3 F Rachel McVey ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Joseph Jacobs (      -      ) 2

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4 F Sarah McVey ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Maj. Lewis Bond (      -      ) 1 2

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5 M Eliel McVey ^{1 2}

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6 M Elijah McVey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1799 - McVeytown, Mifflin Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1865 - Wayne Twp, Mifflin Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary Yost (Abt 1798-1871) 1

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7 F Mary McVey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1799 2
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           Died: Aft 1886
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         Spouse: Royal Humphrey (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - John McVey

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The site of McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, was taken up by John McVey, who received a warrant for two hundred acres of land, dated July 9, 1787, on the Juniata River, adjoining Samuel Holliday. In 1790 he was assessed on two hundred and fifty acres and his brother Enoch on one hundred acres, his son William on fifty acres. The place is mentioned as Waynesburg in road and other records as early as 1795. In 1797 Enoch McVey bought of his brother a lot in "Wayneburg" which John bought again, August 18, 1800, for six hundred dollars. The village plot was laid out about 1795, and the lot Enoch bought was on the Diamond and the house he built was the south part of the stone house now occupied as a grocery and dwelling, long known as the Swanzey property. Enoch, soon after the sale, went west.

Of a Quaker family, he was a teamster with the Revolutionary army. He came to Mifflin, then Cumberland, county, Pennsylvania, when a young man, and settled where McVeytown was later located, owning all the land in that vicinity. He was an extensive farmer and stock-raiser. He was an old-line Whig, and a member of the Presbyterian church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 535.

2 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 602.