Person:Caleb Harvey (2)

Moved from Chester Co., PA to Cane Creek, NC. Registered 5/2/1778.

    Caleb Harvey, born in 1754 as the fifth child of Isaac and Martha Harvey, would grown up in Pennsylvania, marry in North Carolina and, later bring his family to Indiana.
    He was married in 1779 at the Cane Creek Quaker Meeting to Mary Mooney. She also had been born in Chester County, Pennsylvania and came with her family to Orange County, North Carolina. They were the parents of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. All reached adulthood and married except one who died at 18. Little more is recorded of their life in North Carolina.
    Sometime in the early 1800's, the family relocated to Indiana, perhaps drawn by the opportunity for homesteading provided to their many sons. A treaty had been signed with the Indians in 1811 after their defeats by General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and territorial governor William Henry Harrison, making the area relatively safe for white settlers and opening a very desirable strip of land in eastern Indiana. It was to this region of great fertility, abundant streams and springs, magnificent forests, plentiful game and dedication to independence and human liberty that the Harvey clan came and settled in Wayne County near present-day Richmond. The attributes of the area drew many others from North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
    Caleb lived to be 69 years old, his wife Mary to only 57. (Taken from A Family History, by Donovan Faust)

-Died before 1824 at Whitewater MM, IN per his son John's marriage record

there of 22 Dec 1824 calling him dec'd

-Concord MM, Chester co, PA on 8 Jan 1772 Caleb Hervey granted certificate

to Chester MM

-Cane Creek MM, Orange co, NC on 2 May 1778 Caleb received on certificate

from Providence MM, Chester co, PA, dated 29 Dec 1777

-Spring MM set off from Cane Creek MM,NC in 1793 -Spring MM, Orange co, NC in 1809 Caleb granted certificate to Center MM,OH

but no record; Men's Minutes prior to 1815 are not extant

-Center MM, Clinton co, OH on 6 Jan 1810 certificate received for Caleb from

Spring MM, NC; endorsed to White Water MM,IN [based on son's marriage data
its probable that Caleb & Mary & family came to Clinton co, OH ca.1807]

-Whitewater MM, Wayne co, IN on 24 Feb 1810 Caleb & 6 sons received on

certificate from Spring MM, NC [endorsed by Center MM, OH]

-Whitewater MM on 2 Apr 1817 Caleb Harvey, son of Isaac & Martha, both

dec'd, of Wayne co, IN, marries at Whitewater MH, Rachel Lewis, dau of
Isaac & Charity Cook, of Clinton co, OH

From the family files of Jerry Richmond, 8/2001.

1. ↑ A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
2. ↑ Harvey History "Book", by N. E. Almond, 12/99..
3. ↑ The Quaker Collection; Jerry Richmond Files, 1999. (<invalid link - 12 May 2017>).