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There were two unrelated Harvey Families at Nottingham.

#1 Harvey Family

Tradition says that all the Harveys in the U.S. descended from the Earl of Bristol in England, whose name was Harvey. His son came to this country, with other young noblemen, and purchased a tract of land embracing Taunton and Rehoboth in Mass. This young Harvey married an American girl, and so was disinherited by this aristocratic father in England, It is also said tha tFrench and Scotch blood has been in fused into the English stock. It is said that the Harveys have, generally, blue eyes, but occasionally the black eye of the French may be met with.

Thomas Harvey came to this country between 1640 and 1656 (our first one was William). It is easy to trace the branch of the Harvey family, to which Jonathan belonged, to South Hampton thence to Amesbury and Newburyport Mass. Jonathan Harvey was born in Newburyport about 1734. He married Susan George of South Hampton, and, a few years after, settled in Nottingham, on a sixteen-acre lot in the mountain district, where he built a log house, and died in 1764, the first person tha tdied in that district, and was buried in a corner of the Maloon field. He had been a soldier in the french war, and was at Ticonderoga NY. The children of Jonathan Harvey and Susan George were (1) Levi, who settled in Sutton; (2) Matthew, who also lived in Sutton, became wealthy and influential as a business man and politician, frequently representing his town in the House, and afterwards became a memeber of the Senate; (3) Joseph moved into one of the Western States; (4) Johanthan settled in the same district with his father; (5)James setteld in deering, and was in the war of 1812, and died in Western New York; (6) Susan married Thomas Robinson of Deerfield; (7) Gerturde became the wife of Nathan Philbrick of Deerfield; (8) Miriam married Benjamin Critchett, and settled in deering; he was a soldier of the Revolution; (9) Dolly died about 1834, on the homestead, unmarried.

Jonathan, the fourth child of Jonathan the first settler, maarried Susan Hedlock of South Hampton, and settled farther up between the mountains, where he buildt a log house with a stone chimney, and there he died, April, 1845; his children were: (1) James, who married Lois Ladd, and lived in Epping, moving htere in 1810, and died in January , 1854, leaving three children, Dudley L, Nathanial G. and Matthew J., who lived on the old Ladd place, while Nathaniel resides in Illinois, and Dudley L. in Epping, near the homestead; (Jonathan married Betsey Burnham and removed to Atkinson ME about 1807, and there died, leaving one son, Sargent L, and perhaps others; (3) Nathaniel married Sally Burnham of Nottingham, and moved into Maine, and afterwards into Wisconsin kwhere he died a Baptist preacher, leaving several children, one of whom was the late Dr. William Harevy of Chicago; (4) David went to Dover Maine and married a Miss Snow, and died about 1855; (5) Thomas married a Miss Giles of Deerfield and moved into the western county some 60 years ago; (6) John married Polly Brown of Deerfield, and was burned in a coal-camp in Nottingham, about 1815, laving two children: one, the wife of John Rowe of Deerfield, who moved to Pittsfield; (7) Levi first married Hannah Young of Deerfield, who died, leaving three children: John S., who lived near Janesville Wisconsin; Mary, who is a widow of Dr. Sanborn of South Berwick ME; and Hannah, who married B. Goodrich, and resides in Brentwood; the second wife of Levi Harvey was Huldah Maloon of Deerfield, who had one son, Moses B., living near Manchester; (8) Nathan was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia, married Polly Weeks, and died at St. Josephs, Mich., leaving one son; (9) Matthew married Linda Noyes of Nottingham, and died in deerfield, in 1854, leaving two sons and one daughter: Paul Ladd was killed in the battle of Fredericksbury, Virginia; and the other son lives in Deerfield.

Besides these sons of Jonathan Harvey, there were several daughters: Sally, who married and died in 1857; Betsy, who married Jesse Burnham of maine, and moved into Wisconsin; Hannah married Asa Burnha, lived in Maine, and then went West; Judith married a Mr. Greeley, in Maine; Susan became teh wife of William Chase and died some years since, leaving one son, E.H. Chase, residing in Nottingham, and one daughter, Sabrina, the wife of Jacob Harvey of Nottingham; Lydia married Gilman Goodrich of Nottingham,and is now living in Janesville Wisconsin; Miriam married Colcord Winslow, and resides on the old Harvey Homestead, having two sons, John H., who resides in Deerfield, and Jonathan, who resides in Dover; Mary , who married Paul Gerrish of Newmarket; one lives in Deerfield; another married a Rollins of Nottingham; and another, a Savage of Manchester.

This Jonathan Harvey, first named, was a cousin to the father of the late Hon. John Harvey of Northwood.

Many thanks to J.D. Hesketh for contributing a copy of this book.