Editing McVeytown, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The [[Human settlement|settlement]] of what is now McVeytown was begun by Samuel Holliday in 1755,  but it was only in 1762 that he settled in permanently and not until 1795 that the town of Waynesburg (present day McVeytown) was laid out. John McVey owned the land and was the founder of McVeytown.

Samuel, Adam, John and William Holliday, and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Nancy, the latter of whom would become the wife of Andrew Bratton, immigrated to the U.S. in 1745 and located on the “manor” of [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County]]. They moved later to [[Conococheague, Pennsylvania|Conococheague]] in what is now [[Franklin County, Pennsylvania|Franklin County]], and John removed to [[Path Valley, Pennsylvania|Path Valley]], where he lived and died. Adam and William took up land at [[Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania|Hollidaysburg]], and it was from him that the borough took its name. In early 1775, Samuel Holliday and Andrew Bratton, just after the [[New Purchase (1768)|New Purchase]] of the Indians, went out into that region in search for land to settle. After they made a decision on the land, they went to the land-office, at the time located in [[Philadelphia]], and in 1775 received their warrants. Bratton was in what is now [[Bratton Township, Pennsylvania|Bratton Township]], and Holliday at what is now McVeytown and vicinity.<ref name="rootsweb.ancestry.com"/>