BIO:  The McConkey Family, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 164

THE McCONKEY FAMILY.  About the middle of the last century Hugh and James McConkey, two 
brothers of pure Scotch-Irish origin, emigrated from north Ireland to America.  Hugh purchased 
land and located in Lancaster County, Penn., and James went to Baltimore.  John McConkey, 
probably a brother, came to America soon afterward, and during the Revolutionary war enlisted 
in Capt. Matthew Smith’s company of Lancaster County Volunteers, in 1775, and endured all the 
perils and hardships of the famous march to Canada and the attack on Quebec.  Judge John Joseph 
Henry, of the Lancaster and York courts, in his personal reminiscences of this battle, speaks 
in glowing terms of the endurance and bravery of his comrade in arms, John McConkey.  Hugh 
McConkey, the ancestor of the family in this county, was born March 14, 1757, and on May 13, 
1783, was married to Jane Neeper, of Lancaster County, who was born September 5, 1760.  Their 
children were Jesse, James, Anne, Andrew, Margaret, Janetta and Hugh J.  The father, Hugh 
McConkey, who was a Revolutionary soldier, died at Peach Bottom, August 11, 1839.