Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 4 November 2005

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WILSON HARVEY, farmer; P. O. Harveysburg. Among the early settlers of Massie Township, and the founders of Harveysburg, were the Harvey family, and we are able to trace them to the original progenitor of this name in America. William Harvey, who was born in Worcester in the Parish Lyd, England, Sept. 5, 1678, and emigrated to America in 1712, and located in Pennsylvania, where he purchased 300 acres of land from a party who obtained his title direct from the State, for which he paid £75 English money; this land was in the tract known as "The woods the Kennet," now Pennsbury Township, situated on the Brandywine, beginning at Chadd's Dam. A part of this tract is still in possession of descendants of the family, on which still stands one of the quaint old houses of the early times. In 1814 [sic], about two years after Mr. Harvey's arrival in Pennsylvania, he married Mrs. Judith Osborne, who was born in Bilson, Co. of Stafford, England, in 1683; she died May 1, 1750. Mr. Harvey died June 20, 1754. Their children were—Hannah, who married Jacob Way; William, married Ann Evitt; Isaac, married Martha Newlin; Amos, married Kesiah Wright, and James who died unmarried. Three of these brothers it is said emigrated to Virginia and North Carolina, and from whom have descended the now numerous families of the name scattered over the various Western States. Isaac Harvey, the eldest child of William Harvey, emigrated to North Carolina when a young man, and there married, and of his children William is the great-grandfather of our subject; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Carter, a native of Dublin, Ireland. William and Elizabeth had seven children—Eli, Isaac, Caleb, William, Joshua, Martha and Lydia, of whom Isaac, the second son, is the grandfather of our subject; he married Lydia, a daughter of Zachariah and Ruth Dicks. Isaac became very much dissatisfied with the institution of slavery in the South, and as he was raising and educating a large family of children, he determined to find a country and a home where he could be free from the pernicious influences of that baneful institution. In the fall of 1804, he crossed the mountains on horseback, entered Ohio and though Indiana, making quite an extended prospecting tour, and it appears decided upon his location, and retuned home, and in the fall of 1806, with three of his brothers, Eli Caleb and Joshua, and their families, came to Ohio, and located in Clinton Co., bringing with them their aged widowed mother, who lived to see her fourth generation. She was born in Pennsylvania, Aug. 16, 1736, and died Feb. 16, 1832, in her 96th year of age. Isaac's wife died Jan. 2, 1813, and was the first person buried in the