Summary of Information From John Hatch

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Henry Harvie (abt. 1648 – ?)

Henry Harvie was of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. He was a Quaker and married Elizabeth Burbeck on 18 August 1669 at the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. Elizabeth Burbeck probably was a sister to Thomas Burbeck, Sr. She was born in 1640 and died in 1690 in England.

Children of Henry Harvie and Elizabeth Burbeck:
1. Job Harvey, Sr.
2. Joseph Harvey
3. one or two unknown daughters

Source: Glenn, T. A. (1912). Lloyd manuscripts. Genealogies of the families of (many families listed). Welsh records from the collection of the late Howard Williams Lloyd. New Era Printing Co.: Lancaster, PA.
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Job Harvey, Sr. (perhaps abt. 1677 – 1750)

Job Harvey, Sr. of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England came to America in April of 1702 , and settled in Darby, Chester, Pennsylvania. Another source states that he was from the town of Derby in Derbyshire and that he came in 1697. So, the similarity of the names Darby in Pennsylvania and Derby in Derbyshire, England may not be coincidental. He was received by the Monthly Meeting at Darby on 23 April 1702, from the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. His brother, Joseph, preceded him by about a month, being received at Darby from the Tupton Monthly Meeting on 26 March 1702. Provincial Governor William Penn had arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682, and many Quaker immigrants followed him from England. Many of these immigrants had purchased their land from Penn’s agents while still in England; however, when they arrived in America they still were required to purchase their land again from the Indian inhabitants. Job was born perhaps about 1677, assuming he was a young man when he emigrated. His occupation in England was fuller or cloth finisher, and he continued in that trade in America. His first wife, who was born in England, was Mary Bethel, daughter of John Bethel and Frances ____. Mary Bethel died 20 September 1727.
Job married second, Martha Parker of Darby on 20 May 1741. She was a member and Elder of the Darby Monthly Meeting. She was described as ‘a sober, religious woman, and one that demonstrated by various parts of her life to have the fear of the Lord, by which she became a serviceable member in the church.’ Martha died 4 April 1745.
Job married third, Rebecca Minshall of Philadelphia at the Darby Meeting House, Chester, PA on 14 September 1748. Rebecca Minchall was received at the Chester Monthly Meeting from Philadelphia on 23 February 1707/08. The 25 June 1739 minutes of the Chester Monthly Meeting show that Rebecca Minshall, described as a minister, requested a certificate to Philadelphia, with the notation that she had gone there to reside. Therefore, it seems that she moved from Chester to Philadelphia and then to Darby, where she married Job Harvey.
John Bethel, the father of Job Harvey’s first wife, owned several mills in Darby, collectively called the Darby mills, including fulling mills and corn mills. These were said to be distinctly marked and located on Darby Creek and along the Queen’s road that ran between Chester and Darby. John Bethel worked these mills until his death prior to 1708, when they passed to his son, John, Jr. Job Harvey, operated one of the fulling mills and lived on the mill property prior to 1705. The mill property comprised one tract of 100 acres and another of 9 acres plus the mill races that were rented for 12 shillings per year from John Blunston. Before he died, John Bethel, Sr. sold a ¼ share of the mills to Job Harvey , for £200 and confirmed this in his will dated 26 February 1707/08. John Bethel, Sr. died a few days later, and John Bethel, Jr. then sold a ¾ share of the mills to Job Harvey along with the 1¼ acres where Job Harvey lived for 5 shillings. The property was bounded by Darby Creek and the King’s Road. On 26 August 1715, Job Harvey purchased at Middletown ‘all those water-mill or grist and fulling mills’ from Richard and John Crosby. About 1725, he purchased another fulling mill on Ridley Creek in Darby. On 10 April 1729, Job Harvey sold his mill at Middletown, comprising three tracts totaling sixty-three and one half acres, to his son, Josiah (or possibly Joseph), who on 10 November 1731, sold the property to William Pennell and Frederick Engle.
Soon after making these acquisitions, the Harvey family must have fallen on hard times for in 1743/44, Job Harvey filed an insolvent debtors petition in Chester County. He probably was required to surrender some of his property for the payment of debts. He also had some apparent success in the milling business, and from time to time took on some apprentices or indentured servants. Court records reveal that occasionally these servants caused him some trouble. For instance in 1733, Job complained against his servant, Joseph Hister, for marrying without his consent. Another servant, Mary Jones, was particularly problematic, as Job complained against her at least three times. On 27 February 1738/39 and again later in the same year Job Harvey filed a complaint against her for running away, , and on 26 February 1739/40 he complained against her for bearing a bastard child. As punishment for the last offense the Court extended her term of service to Job Harvey. On 22 October 1741, Job Harvey and Llewellin Davis (possibly a business partner) offered a reward of thirty shillings for the return of two Irish servants, named Andrew Sullivan and Edward Looney, who had run away from Charlestown, on 19 October 1741. Edward Looney apparently was apprehended and returned because in February 1742/43, Job was in Court to prosecute Edward Luney (sic) for running away. [For these I have only looked at the online Index. I have not consulted the case files to know the details of each case.]
In March of 1744, Job Harvey, Sr. tried to let or sell one of his fulling mills. The property was described as follows: A Very good Fulling Mill, with a large Stone House, Tenter Yard, Press Shop, and a very good Stone Dye House, with two large Furnaces and one Led Blue Fat all fixed, with other very good Conveniences, for carrying on the Trade of Fulling, Dying, Shearing and Pressing of Cloths or Stuffs.
Soon after Job Harvey, Sr. died in 1750/51, several notices concerning the sale of his estate appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette. On 17 April 1752, 459 acres in Robinson Township, Lancaster County were offered for sale at public vendue. On 22 February 1753, the fulling mill of Job Harvey deceased was offered for sale. The property was described as a fulling mill “with all the utensils thereunto belonging, two good furnaces, and a good blue fat, all set in a good stone house, a good press, two pair of shears, all in good order for carrying on the business: Also a large stone house, a good stable, and other out houses: Likewise a lot of ground, lying near Darby, containing ten acres of land, all in good fence, the most part thereof may be made good meadow; also a fine lot of land, lying about a mile and a half from Darby, containing 60 acres and a half of good land, about ten acres of good meadow, within good fence, about one half thereof clear; there is a stream of water runs thro'it, which may be brought over the greatest part thereof. Likewise about 18 acres of corn land clear, and 8 acres thereof now sown with corn; also a new log house, almost finished, and a fine young orchard; the woodland is all well timber’d, there being a large quantity of large timber fit for ship plank or staves, and lying within a mile of a saw mill, and about a quarter of a mile from the highway that leads from Darby to Chester.” Another sale was held on 12 March 1760, in Darby to sell another part of Job Harvey’s estate in order to pay legacies mentioned in his will. The property comprised two tracts of land, each of about 80 acres, which were being subdivided and sold as eight separate lots. Four of these lots were cleared land within Darby, one containing a good barn, an orchard, and six acres of meadow, and the remaining four were woodland lying about a half a mile from the others. Another portion of Job’s estate was offered for sale on 14 April 1761, again to pay legacies. This property comprised 150 acres in Charlestown, Chester County, Pa.

Some longitudinal insight into Job Harvey can be gained by examining tax lists. The following summary is given. The designation “Inmate” in 1770 indicates a landless person, either married or widowed (contract labor).
Year Township Status Notes
1715 Upper Province Landowner
1715 Darby Landowner
1718 Middletown Landowner Mill
1719/20 Darby Landowner
1720/21 Lower Darby
1721 Darby Land in Middletown
1722 Darby
1724/25 Darby Land in Middletown
1725 Lower Darby
1727 Lower Darby
1729 Lower Darby
1730 Lower Darby
1740 Charlestown This may be Job, Jr.
1750 Lower Darby
1750 Charlestown This may be Job, Jr.
1753 Charlestown
1765 Charlestown Job, Sr. is dead; this probably Job, Jr.
1770 Charlestown Inmate Job, Jr.?; no servants or slaves
1775 No Job Harvey is listed in Chester County This may be abt. the time Job, Jr. moved to Pencader Hundred


Incidental events and timeline
In 1715 a Job Harvey was taxed in Upper Province Township, Delaware County, PA.

William Kelly, shopkeeper of Philadelphia in a will dated 14 Jan 1716/17, probated 19 Oct 1719, names children of Job Harvey of Darby (not named) and names Job Harvey as executor (renounced).

1722 Job Harvey was taxed in Darby on real estate valued at £64. He is not listed with Freemen.

1729 - Job Harvey appears on a tax roll for Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, PA. Job Harvey is not listed among the Freemen.

1729 - Job Harvey (also Joseph Harvey (brother or son?) abt. Age 22) appears on a tax roll for Lower Darby Township, Chester/Delaware County, PA.

1731 – About this time Job Harvey, Jr. would have turned 21 and may be confused with his father in the following documents. I assume references are to Job, Sr., unless junior or younger are specified.

22 Jan 1731/32 – Job Harvey witnessed the marriage of Joseph Hibbard & Elizabeth Garrat at Darby Mm.

24 Dec 1731 Job Harvey witnessed the second codicil to the will of Michael Blunston of Darby. In his will, Blunston leaves 5 pounds to Rebecca widow of Isaac Minshall deceased. This possibly is the lady whom Job Harvey married in 1748.

31 May 1732 – Job Harvey witnessed the marriage of Moses Hibbard & Sarah Bradshaw at Darby MM.

12 May 1735 – Job Harvey signed a petition to King George II requesting that the border difficulties between Maryland and Pennsylvania be settled. This was a petition by Quakers living in Chester County, PA and in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware. They say they have been living peacefully with the Swedes, Dutch, and English who settled the area before William Penn arrived. However, there is a dispute with some people living along the Maryland boarder they are asking the King to settle.

27 Sep 1738 – Job Harvey witnessed the marriage of Solomon Humphrey and Mary Parker at Darby Mm. Also a witness to this marriage was Martha Parker, probably the lady who married Job Harvey in 1741.

20 February 1740 – Job Harvey placed a notice in The Pennsylvania Gazette offering a reward of fifty shillings for the capture of a man named John Hay whom was suspected of stealing a horse and some other things from Job Harvey and William Hay. [I do not know if there is a relationship between John and William Hay.] The horse was described as “a bright Bay Gelding, about 13 Hands high, with a large Star in his Forehead, a small Snip, a Scar upon the off Hip bone, a natural Pacer and can Trot a little.” The suspect was described as a native Irishman with a hair mole on his right cheek, small of stature, who sometimes wears a gray wig.

22d, 4m called June 1742 – Job Harvey witnessed the marriage of David Reese & Mary Garratt.

1743 Rev. John Rowland began preaching to the ‘new side”, having been disbarred by the ‘old side’ in a church upon land donated by Job Harvey, a Friend. Charlestown Presbyterian Church.

19 September 1746 – A horse owned by Job Harvey strayed or was stolen from a pasture at his fulling mill at Darby. The horse was described as “a dark brown horse, can pace well, about 14 hands high, branded on the near shoulder C, and on the near Buttock B; has a patch with the hair off on his right side, which looks as if it had been scalded, and has something of the scratches.”

1747 – Job Harvey signed a petition to Council requesting construction of a road from Cobs Creek bridge to Chester bridge, the old record being lost13 Aug 1747.

1747 – Job Harvey signed a petition to survey for a road from Philadelphia to Chester.

Job Harvey died in the winter of 1750. His will was dated 4 January 1750, and it was proved on 26 February 1750/51. His will, reproduced below, provides some interesting insight into Job. Notably, he was a devout Quaker. All four of his living children (Joseph deceased) had left the Quaker faith, and this stood as a huge disappointment. He offered a fifty pound legacy to any of them who would make amends and have a reformation, but only 20 shillings to those who refused to do so before his death. Still, he described his love for them and left property and personal belongings to his children and grandchildren. He also left a thirty pound endowment to the Darby Monthly Meeting. He even thought to leave a little extra to son Joseph because he had a lame son. He seems to have had no ill will towards other denominations, and mentioned that he had sold land to the Presbyterians for their meeting house. Finally, his will reveals a high respect for education and hints that he was well educated and perhaps a sort of scholar. He provided that all his books were to be distributed among his children and grandchildren. He mentioned two special books in particular, one of which he shared with his brother, Joseph, whom he indicated was still living. The one book mentioned by title, Lexicon Technicum, is a scholarly book. His generosity and love of education were further revealed in his offer to pay for the schooling of any of his grandchildren that wanted an education, with the only condition being that their parents approve of it.


Will of Job Harvey

[Provides for wife Rebecca including all grants, privileges mentioned in certain deeds made before our marriage]

(lines missing) remain? my widow and whereas I have formerly advanced my son __ah and done considerably for him and proved? him several times, in hopes of reformation. Yet to my grief little hopes of amendment hath appeared hitherto yet is my affection towards him, that if he reform his ways within the time herein and hereafter appointed for ye division of my estate, then I give him the sum of fifty pounds money of the province, but if no such reformation appear, I give him but twenty shillings. And I have also formerly settled and portioned my son Joseph who hath made no better use of my kindness than his brother, yet such is my care and father affection that if he amend his ways and course of life within the term as limited to his brother aforesaid, then I give him the sum of fifty pounds money aforesaid, but if no such amendment appear, then he shall have but twenty shillings and I give the said sum of fifty pounds to his children to be equally divided amongst them, and to be paid them when they attain to of twenty one years of age respectively. I give and bequeath to my son Job fifty pounds money aforesaid. Nevertheless this my gift and bequest is expressly on the same terms and conditions and under the same restrictions, as those legacies left to this brothers aforesaid, otherwise I give him only twenty shillings. Likewise I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Hunt the sum of six pounds p annum to be paid her yearly and every year by my Executors until my grandson job Harvey son of Benjamin Harvey deceased attain to twenty three years of age or until the decease of my wife Rebecca, which shall happen last, and if my said daughter within the said time come to a reformation and behave orderly it is my will that at ye expiration thereof my executors pay unto her, out of my estate the sum of fifty pounds money aforesaid. I give and bequeath unto my grandson Job Harvey afsd the sum of one hundred pounds, money aforesaid to be paid him when he attains to twenty years of age. I give unto his brother Isaac Harvey and sisters Elizabeth and Margaret Harvey to each of them fifty pounds to be paid to them when they attain to their respective ages of twenty one years. I give and bequeath unto the Monthly Meeting of the people called Quakers in Darby aforesaid, to be paid into such hands as the said Meeting shall appoint to receive ye same, the sum of thirty pounds to be appropriated towards ye building of a brick wall about (several words cut off and illegible but believed to say wall about the graveyard) belonging to ye said Meeting and to no other use intent


the nsque? of ye said Meeting put out ye same to interest on good securities from time to time forever, and the interest arising therefrom to be paid by my said trustees to the said Monthly Meeting to be employed by them towards ye repairs of the meeting house or any other necessary uses of the meeting from time to time forever, and when one of my trustees dies the said Meeting is hereby empowered to choose another in the same trust ans so from time to time forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter in law Mary Harvey widow the sum of five pounds. I give to my son Joseph Harvey aforesaid all my wearing apparel. I give to my son Job Harvey the South West part of my tract of land in Charles Town in the County of Chester aforesaid, to be devided from the other part of my said tract by a line. Beginning at the South East corner of that lott of land, which I sold to the Presbyterians to erect a Meeting house upon, thence to runn South twenty degrees East the breadth of the said tract until it intersect the the North East line of the said tract. Provided the said line so extended include the fulling mill and tenters, as they now stand otherwise the line to be so run so as to include them improvements. To the use and behofe (behalf?) of my said son Job Harvey during the term of his natural life and at his decease I give and devise ye same to his two eldest sons, my grand children, to them their heirs and assigns forever to be divided between them after an equal and amicable manner, but if my said son dies before his sons be twenty one years of age, then I give the yearly income and profits of the same to their mother during their nonage towards bringing them up. And whereas my son Joseph hath a son that is lame I give unto him the sum of thirty pounds above his dividend of a grand childs share, of the overplus and remainder of my estate as herein and hereafter mentioned. It is my will and mind that all my books be divided amongst my children, and grand children according to the discretion of my Executors and I will my Executors to demand and receive the moiety or half value of that book called Lexicon Technicom , and another book sent to my brother Joseph and myself by our brother in law Isaac Kirk which I presume I have a right to, though I should die before my said brother. And I do hereby give and grant unto my said executors and ye survivors of them full and discretional power, lawful and absolute authority to all said dispose in fee simple or otherwise of all my messuages, plantations, lotts and (some lines missing)

to twenty three years of age or upon the disease of my wife Rebecca, which shall fall at last, that then my said Executors shall sell and dispose of all my estate real and personal remaining in their hands and not before disposed off (dispose of) my North East end of my tract of land in Charlestown not disposed of nor devised in this my last will hitherto, is to be sold, and my tract of land in Lancaster County, if not sold before, are to be sold and whatsoever else of my estate remains to this time is to be sold and the sum of money arising from such sales after my just debts, legacies and contingent charges are paid and discharged Together with all other sums remaining in the hands of my Executors, more than their legal commissions are, as the remainder, surplusage, and overplus of my estate to be divided between my daughter Mary Hunt and all my grand children, then living and born before ye time of my disease, to each of them share and share alike (excepting those two sons of my son Job who being before provided for in this my will are exempted from having any further share in this last dividend of my estate). And Likewise it is my will and mind that if my death happen before my grandson Job be of a sutable age to be put out apprentice to some trade, that in such case, he shall be brought up and maintained and have what learning is necessary, till such time as he be of age to be put out apprentice and the charge thereof to be paid out of my estate, and if any if any of my grand children want learning to read write or arithmetic as far as may be necessary the charges thereof shall be paid out of my estate, if their parents will accept thereof. And lastly I do hereby revoke, disannul and make void, all and every other will, or wills by me at any other time or times heretofore and declair and confirm this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said Job Harvey have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written,

Job Harvey
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Job Harvey to be his lat Will and Testament in the presence of us
Thos Pearson
James Barry
William Linvill



Children of Job Harvey and Mary Bethel:
1. Josiah Harvey was b. 12 Jun 1705. He settled in Middletown and was a cloth worker.
2. Joseph Harvey was b. 2 May 1707.
3. Job Harvey, Jr. was b. 24 March 1711.
4. Benjamin Harvey was b. 25 May 1713.
5. Mary Harvey was b. 29 September 1715; she m. Joseph Hunt of Kingsess, Philadelphia, PA.


Sources:
The Quakers considered the names of the days of the week and the months of the year to be vulgar because many of these names were derived from pagan gods or ancient rulers. Therefore, they referred to dates with a number system. Before and including 31 October 1751, the Julian calendar was in force, and the year began on March, which was the first month. After 31 October 1751, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, and January became the first month.
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Fulling involves scouring of fabric, particularly wool, to remove dirt and oils and then processing it to make it fuller and denser. The process involved causing the scales on the hair fibers to lock and mat together to form a strong waterproof felt.
Marriage record of Job Harvey and Rebecca Minshall Darby Monthly Meeting, Darby, Chester, PA.
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A tenter is a frame on which milled cloth is stretched to dry without shrinkage. A tenter-yard is an area or space devoted to the tenters.
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Job Harvey, Jr. (1710/11 – 1766)

Job Harvey, Jr. was born on 24 March 1710/11, at Darby, Chester, PA. Like his father he was a cloth worker or fuller. He married Hannah Edwards, daughter of John Edwards and Mary Ingram, in 1739. On 30 April 1739, at the Chester Monthly Meeting Hannah Harvey acknowledged marrying by a priest. This indicates marriage by a “hireling priest”, i.e., a minister of another faith or a civil official. To have an “orderly marriage” within the Quaker faith required the intent of marriage to be announced at several meetings and usually required at least five weeks to complete the process. That Hannah attended the Chester Monthly Meeting and made this confession suggests that she still was an active Quaker at this time. At some later time Job Harvey, Jr., and presumably Hannah as well, left the Friends. Or possibly Job had already left the Quakers and this was the reason that Hannah could not marry him in an orderly Friends marriage.

A Job Harvey placed an advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette on 31 May 1764 offering a reward for the return of a horse that had strayed or was stolen from his home in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, West New Jersey on 11 March 1764. I do not know if Job Harvey, Jr. was living in West New Jersey. I think this was another person.


On 2 October 1758, Job Harvey, Jr. of Charlestown was considered for a discount on his provincial taxes on the basis of being poor. [Index gives no details]

At some time before 1797 he moved to Pencader Hundred, New Castle, Delaware.

Job Harvey, Jr. signed his will on 6 September 1766, and it was probated on 20 September 1766, in New Castle County, DE. The will mentions a wife named Elizabeth whom he named as his executor. , The will mentions son, Josiah Harvey, leaving him a tract of land in Pencader Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware. Also mentioned are two daughters, Elizabeth and Susannah, who were to receive 25 pounds at the age of 18. I have not located a birth record for these girls. They were under the age of 18, suggesting they were his youngest children, and so they probably were daughters by wife Elizabeth. The will also mentions beloved sons Joseph, Samuel, Job, John and William and daughters Jemima and Keziah Harvey. The fact that daughters Elizabeth and Susannah are mentioned separately from the other children also suggests that there were two families.
On 11 November 1767, Robert Evans won a judgment in the New Castle County Court of Common Pleas against Elizabeth Harvey, Executrix of Job Harvey, for £40 and damages over a moiety of a larger tract of land. Shortly thereafter, on 24 December 1767, a moiety of 200 acres on the south side of Christiana Creek in Pencader Hundred, New Castle County was seized for a Sheriff’s sale by a writ of Venditioni Exponas. This parcel was described as the “property of Job Harvey, late of New Castle county deceased, and Job Harvey the younger, now of Chester County.” The property was further described as “a certain messuage and plantation, or tract of land, with the appurtenances.” The term messuage indicates a dwelling house and plantation indicates a farm, suggesting that this probably was Job Harvey’s homestead. Examination of the indexes to mortgage and land sales records do not reveal any transactions between the Harveys and Robert Evans, so we do not know the source of this debt. We do not know what became of Elizabeth after Job died, nor do we know her age or how long she lived after Job died, however, it is noteworthy that a lady named Elizabeth Harvey of Pennsbury came under the care of the Chester County Poorhouse between 1819 and 1823 when she died. In 1818, Susanna Harvey (her daughter?) of Pennsbury was listed as a caretaker, and in 1823, Isaac Harvey (grandfather) was listed. Caretakers were people who received money to care for the pauper outside the poorhouse.


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Will of Job Harvey of Pencadur Hundred, New Castle County, DE. The copy I have is missing some lines, blurred, and very difficult to read. However, I can make out the names and relationships of wife and children.
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I believe Job Harvey late of Newcastle deceased is Job Harvey, Jr., and Job Harvey the younger is his son.
The Pennsylvania Gazette. 3 December 1767.

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Samuel Harvey (abt. 1744 – 1778)

Samuel Harvey was born perhaps about 1740 in Chester County, PA.
He died about 1778
Samuel Harvey married Martha Martin.

1765 Samuel Harvey was on the tax list for Charlestown.

1770 Samuel Harvey was on the tax list of Charlestown, and was taxed on 270 acres and a fulling mill.

1774 Samuel Harvey, f. m. was rated in Chester County for 58 acres. 2 horses, 3 cattle, 6 sheep and 0 servants

1774 Samuel Harvey listed among the landowners in Charlestown.

1775 Samuel Harvey appears on the tax list of Charlestown

1766 Samuel Harvey rated in Chester County for 54 acres, 1 horse, 1 cattle, 0 sheep, 0 servants.

On 12 March 1767 Samuel Harvey’s property in Charlestown, Chester County is mentioned as a boundary for another parcel of land.

In 1768 Samuel Harvey, f. m., fuller was rated in Chester Co. for 200 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle, 0 sheep, 0 servants.

13 October 1768 Samuel Harvey’s property in Charlestown, Chester County is mentioned as a boundary for another parcel of land.

On 11 October 1770 Samuel Harvey placed an advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering to sell a parcel of property described as follows:
TO be sold by way of public vendue, on the 6th day of November next, on the premises, a valuable plantation, situate in Charlestown township, Chester county, containing 150 acres, or thereabouts, of excellent good land for wheat or other grain, 60 acres of upland cleared, some meadow made, and 15 acres more may be made at a small expence of the very best kind, and the remainder extremely well timbered, and the whole remarkably well watered by many streams and springs, that never fail in the driest seasons; there is also erected thereon a good new stone house, two stories high, two rooms on each floor, with a fire place in each room, and a cellar underneath, with sundry other valuable out houses. The purchaser may have a considerable quantity of wheat and rye in the ground with the premises; the above premises lie contiguous to sundry merchant mills, and places of worship of several denominations. The conditions of sale, which will be made easy, will be made known on the day of sale, by Samuel Harvey.

In the same advertisement, he also sought to acquire an apprentice to work in his fulling mill at Charlestown. “N.B. The subscriber carries on the fulling and dressing cloth in all its branches, and wants immediately an Apprentice who has about 5 years to serve.” A few months later on 14 February 1771, he advertised for a journeyman fuller and an apprentice lad about 16 years of age. On 14 September 1774, he again advertised for a journeyman fuller.



Samuel died intestate sometime before 22 May 1778, when his wife, Martha, was appointed administrator of his estate. Martha took over the operation of his fulling mill, and in 1784 petitioned Orphan’s Court concerning this. It was unusual for a woman to run a business of this type, and the 1782 and 1799 tax lists show only two women, Martha Harvey and Margaret Filson, both widows, owned fulling mills.

Sources
Futhey & Cope. (1881). The history of Chester County, PA. Vol. 1. Reprinted in 1999 by Heritage Books.
Tax list of Chester County 1768. Family Line Publications: Westminister, MD.
The Pennsylvania Gazette. 11 October 1770.
The Pennsylvania Gazette. 11 October 1770.
The Pennsylvania Gazette. 14 February 1771.
The Pennsylvania Gazette. 14 September 1774.
Extracted record of the Samuel Harvey estate. Abstract of wills and administrations, Chester County, PA. #3117.
Hood, A. D. (2003). The weaver’s craft: cloth, commerce, and industry in early Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.

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Elizabeth Harvey (1777 – 1850)

Little information has been discovered about Elizabeth Harvey. Her birth date has been given as 1777 and her birth place as Philadelphia County, PA. She married John Fredericks in 1796. She died 10 February 1850 in Bald Eagle Township, Clinton, PA.

Children of Elizabeth Harvey and John Fredericks:
1. Susanna Fredericks
2. John Fredericks
3. Martha Fredericks
4. Eliza Fredericks
5. George Washington Fredericks
6. Benjamin Harvey Fredericks
7. John Fredericks
8. Henrietta F. Fredericks
9. Sarah Ann Fredericks
10. Samuel Harvey Fredericks
11. Newton Wollerton Fredericks
12. Eliza Lewis Fredericks


Sources

Fredericks, H. S., Fredericks, S. F., Kauderman, L. F., and Lenhardt, S. A. K. (1982). Direct ancestors of the Fredericks – Hay, Hay(e)s and Glossner – Shaw – Bechdel and Montgomery – White families. Privately published. Copy in the Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA.