McVeytown is a borough in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the west bank of the Juniata River.

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.

They moved later to Conococheague in what is now Franklin County, and John removed to Path Valley, where he lived and died.

In early 1775, Samuel Holliday and Andrew Bratton, just after the 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.

[6] The unincorporated settlement Mattawana Village lies across the Juniata River, on its east bank.