John Megie

1699 - 1741  (42 years)

• Name	John Megie  [1]
  Birth	1699	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  	Based on age on gravestone
  Gender	Male
  Death	Dec 1741	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [2, 3]
  	Date of transcription in Ogden in error Without children
  Will	14 Dec 1741	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  	Executors: friends Stephen Crane, Elijah Davis and brother Joseph Megie
  Probate	22 Jun 1742	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I46217	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	John McGhie,   b. 1659, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 3 Feb 1734/35, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne (McGhie),   b. 1674   d. 3 Jun 1735, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha (Megie)
  Family ID	F31685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1699 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Death - Dec 1741 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Will - Executors: friends Stephen Crane, Elijah Davis and brother Joseph Megie - 14 Dec 1741 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA Probate - 22 Jun 1742 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3730] Bennett, Inez Ruth Moore, Genealogical Record of the MacGhie Family in America, p xxiii. [S3729] Wheeler, William Ogden, Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St. Johns Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey. 1664-1892, p178. [S3700] Honeyman, A. Van Doren, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume 2, 1730-1750, p331.