John Jacob Mickley (1737–1808) was a farmer and soldier from Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, known for transporting the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia in September, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.

He was born on December 17, 1737, to John Jacob Mickley (1697–1769) and Elizabeth Barbara Burkhalter (1719–1769) at their family homestead near Egypt in Whitehall Township.

[1] On October 8, 1763, several settlers, including two of his siblings, Henry and Barbara, were killed in an Indian attack.

In 1913, a granite marker was erected by the Lehigh County Historical Society commemorating this event.

The bell was then transferred to the wagon of Frederick Leaser, who delivered it on September 24 to the Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, where it was hidden until June 1778 when the British departed Philadelphia.