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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church 

 •of Doylcstown. Mr. Newell married, 27 

 April 1880, Sarah Rex Harvey, daughter 

 of Dr. George T. and Mary L. Rex Harvey, 

 of Doylestovvn, who is a descendant of one 

 of the oldest families in Bucks county. 



Mathias Plarvye, the great-great-great- 

 grandfather of Mrs. Newell, came from 

 England and settled in Flushing, Long 

 Island, where he was a justice of Kings 

 county. New York, commissioned October, 



1, i6go. On January i, 1697, he purchased 

 1050 acres in Upper Makefield, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, and settled thereon. 

 By his will dated April 5, 1699, his land was 

 devised to his three sons Mathias, Thomas 

 and Benjamin, Mathias, the eldest, get- 

 ting the dwelling house and four hundred 

 acres, and Thomas and Benjamin each three 

 hundred acres. All three of the sons reared 

 large families and left numerous descend- 

 ants in Bucks county. Mathias married 

 Elizabeth Margerum and died in 1742. 

 Benjamin died in 1730. Mathias, the father, 

 was twice married, the three sons above 

 named being by the second marriage, June 



2, 1689, to Sarah Harrington. 



Thomas Plarvye, the second son of ]\Ia- 

 thias and Sarah (Harrington) Harvye, 

 torn at Flushing, Long Island, October 22, 

 1692, came with his parents to Makefield 

 when a child. As above stated he inherited 

 from his father three hundred acres of 

 land in Upper Makefield, on which he lived 

 and died, his death occurring in January, 



1759. He married Tamar , and had 



•eleven children, five sons: Thomas, who 

 died in 1749: Benjamin, who also died be- 

 fore his father; Joseph, Mathias and 

 William; and six daughters: Hannah, 

 who married John Milnor in 1741; Ann, 

 who married Edward Bailey; Elizabeth, 

 married a Coryell; Mary, married Rich- 

 ard Plolcomb; Letitia, married Nathan- 

 iel Ellicott; and Sarah. 



Joseph Harvey, son of Thomas and Ta- 

 mar, was born in Upper Makefield, Bucks 

 county, February 8, 1734, and died there 

 February, 1779. He inherited from his 

 father one-half of the homestead in Make- 

 field, and lived there all his life. He was 

 twice married, his second wife Margaret, 

 surviving him. By his first wife, Mary, he 

 "had six children : Thomas, Joseph, Letitia, 

 William, Enoch and Jo.shua. 



Enoch Harvey, son of Joseph and ]\Iar}% 

 was born in Upper Makefield in 1767, and 

 -came to Doylestown about 1790, where he 

 followed the trade of a saddler for a few 

 years and was later the proprietor of the 

 inn now known as the Fountain House for 

 a few years. He was a large landowner 

 and an influential citizen, and took an active 

 part in the improvement of Doylestown as 

 it grew from a cross-road village into a 

 town and borough. He died July 15, 1831, 

 in his sixty-fifth year. He married. March 

 20, T792, Sarah Stewart, daughter of 

 Ch.-irles Stewart, of Doylestown, of Scotch- 

 Irish ancestry, a granddaughter of Captain 

 'Charles Stewart, a soldier in both the pro- 



vincial and revolutionary wars. Sarah died 

 February 16, 1847, aged seventy-three. The 

 children of Enoch and Sarah (Stewart) 

 Harvey, were : Joseph, Charles, Mary, 

 Pleasant, Letitia, Sarah and George T. 

 Harvey. 



George T. Harvey, youngest child of 

 Enoch and Sarah (Stewart) Harvey, was 

 born at Doylestown, February 27, 1813. He 

 was educated at a school kept at Bridge 

 Point by Samuel Aaron, and at the Doyles- 

 town Academy. At the age of twenty years 

 he began the study of medicine with Dr. 

 Abraham Stout, of Bethlehem, and, enter- 

 ing the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, graduated in 1835. 

 He then removed to Missouri, where he 

 practiced medicine until 1840, when he re- 

 turned to Dojdestown and erected a drug 

 store on the site of the present Hart build- 

 ing at Court and Main streets, where he 

 kept a drug store for nearly half a century. 

 He was a prominent and influential citizen, 

 was three times postmaster of the town and 

 several years a member of town council, be- 

 ing a member of that body when water was 

 first introduced into the borough in 1869. 

 He was second lieutenant of the Doyles- 

 town Guards, the first company organized 

 in Bucks county for the civil war, and later 

 served three years and three months as 

 captain of Company E, 104th Regiment 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dr. Harvey 

 married (first) June 27, 1842, Mary K. 

 LaRue, of Philadelphia, by whom he had 

 two children, Emma and Edward, the latter 

 judge of the Northampton county courts. 

 Dr. Harvey married (second) in 1856, 

 Mary L. Rex, of Montgomery county, by 

 whom he had three daughters : Mary, 

 Sarah, (Mrs. Newell) and Emily. 



The children of William Clayton and 

 Sarah (Harvey) Newell are: George Har- 

 vey, born June 25, 1881. died July 28, 1881 ; 

 William Clayton, born September 16, 1883; 

 Edward Harvey, born September 4, 1885 ; 

 Louis H. F., born November 16, 1887; Mary 

 Louise, born April 4, 1890; and Margaret, 

 born September 10, 1891, died October 5, 

 1891. 



"ANDALUSIA." This place has been 

 hande^d down in uninterrupted succes- 

 sion to the members of the same family 

 since its acquisition in the year 1795. 

 It was purchased at that time by Mr. 

 John Craig, a well known and disting- 

 uished merchant of Philadelphia, and, 

 through his eldest daughter's marriage 

 in 181 1 to Mr. Nicholas Biddle, has de- 

 scended to their issue, and is occupied 

 by them and their descendants at the 

 present time. 



The Biddle family has been prominent 

 in Pennsylvania since a very early day; 

 William Biddle (3d) married in 1730 the 

 daughter of Nicholas Scull, surveyor-gen- 

 eral of the province of Pennsylvania, 

 and, dying in 1756, left a numerous fam- 

 ily. His son Charles was an active pa- 



