Person:Isaac Harvey (2)

Registered at Cane Creek, NC 12/03/1774.

Isaac Harvey was the second son of the children of William and Judith Harvey. He married Martha Newlin in 1740 at the Concord Meeting, a Quaker group organized by her great-grandfather and named by William Penn himself. They were the parents of nine children.

For many years, Isaac managed a large shipping business from a busy wharf in Wilmington, which at that time was apart of Pennsylvania, not Delaware. Originally, in 1638, Swedish settlers had founded the colony of New Sweden in that region. It was they who brought the construction of log cabins to the new world. But the governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, believed the settlement was Dutch territory and drove them out in 1654, only to have the English take over the territory ten years later. England gave it to William Penn, and what is now Delaware became the "three lower counties" of his Pennsylvania colony. Although the Swedish settlement was short-lived, the log cabin they introduced was especially suitable to conditions in the densely forested new country, was widely adopted by the colonists and became the typical form of frontier dwelling.

Isaac Harvey's tenure in the shipping business at Wilmington was interrupted by war. According to the Pennsylvania Archives, he served with the "Associators and Militia" in the War of the American Revolution.

The shipping trade having been negatively affected by the war, Isaac moved with his family to North Carolina where fine homesteads on running streams could be entered. Many of their friends had already settled there in the growing community of Quakers at Cane Creek in Orange County. It was to be home for the remainder of his life of 89 years. (Taken from A Family History, by Donovan Faust)

Isaac was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, though he was born in 1718. His name is included in the list of white male inhabitants of the Township of Upper and Lower Chichester in the proper classes. (That is) Newlin Township, 6th class, Pennsylvania Archives, 5th series, Vol. 5, page 792. This record was accepted by the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), on June 20, 1933 as a supplemental record. The DAR number of the author Ethel Jones McEwen, is 256,026 on the service of Daniel Bonine. The record of George Madden, wife Edith (Harvey) Reynolds, widow of John Reynolds, was accepted Feb. 14, 1934. From Indiana Magazine of History, Vol.33, 1937, page 243.

FOURTH DAY, FOURTH MONTH, 1800

I, Isaac Harvey of the County of Orange and the State of North Carolina (Malster). Being in usual health of body and perfect mind and memory for which great favour I desire to be Thankful to the great Author thereof. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament. Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul to God that gave it, and my body to be decently Buried. Secondly I order all my just Debts to be paid. Thirdly I give to my beloved wife Martha Harvey my House where I now live with all my household Goods and sufficient Maintenance out of the produce and Income of my Land, with sufficient of firewood to be cut and brought to the Door during her Natural Life. Fourthly I give and bequeth one English Shilling or the value thereof, to be paid by my Executor, to each of his Brothers and Sisters (to wit) Isaac, Caleb, Hannah, Rachel, Martha and Ruth. Also five Shillings equally divided among my Deceased son William Harvey's Children, also five Shillings equally divided among my Deceased Daughter Edith Madden's Children. Lastly it is my will and Desire at the Decease of my Wife Martha I give and bequeath to my son Nathan Harvey all my Houses and Household goods and furniture (he paying all my just Debts). I also give and bequeath to my said son Nathan all and every of my Land and plantation to him, his heir and assigns forever. Also I make and ordain my Said son Nathan Harvey my whole and Sole Executor to this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year above Written.

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the said Isaac Harvey as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers.

James Newlin J C Hastings Jurst Isaac Harvey Seal

                        Exr. qualified

1.   CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING, in Hinshaw, William Wade; Thomas Worth Marshall; and John Cox. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States: Edwards Brothers, 1936-1950)
   1:393.

   
HARVEY.
1773, 1, 2. Nathan roc.
1773, 1, 2. Martha, w Isaac, & dt Ruth, rocf Concord MM, Pa., dated 1772, 8, 5.
1774,12, 3. Isaac roc.
1774,12, 3. Martha rocf Concord MM, Pa., dated 1774, 9, 7.
1775, 4, 1. Isaac, Jr. gc.
1775,11, 4. Ruth (Harvy) dis.
1776,11, 2. Isaac rocf Bradford MM, Chester Co., Pa. dated 1776, 8,29.
...
1779, 4, 3. Isaac gct Bradford MM, Pa.
...
1791, 1, 1. Isaac rocf Concord MM, Pa., dated 1790,10, 6.


2.   William H. Work, Chief Division of Archives & Manuscripts. Certificate of military record, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, November 17, 1966.
3.   Harvey History "Book", by N. E. Almond, 12/99..
4.   A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
5.   Dorothy Madden Luther. Madden Genealogy, Volume I.