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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Robert Harvey Starrett
Henry Harvey was born between 1722-1726 in Upper Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and died 1805 in the original Harvye House of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. While his exact birth date in unknown, it is known that in 1779 he was over the age of 53 and he paid a double tax because he did not have a son of military age. This is documented in the Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vol XIII, Pg. 102, 574, 747.
Henry Harvey’s home was on the banks of the Delaware River in Bucks County and Continental troops were stationed on the third floor to watch for Hessian troops coming up the Delaware River before General Washington’s Christmas Night Crossing in 1776 on his march to Trenton, New Jersey to engage the Hessian troops. The home built in 1699 by Matthias Harvye still stands today on the banks of the Delaware River near Washington’s Crossing Park, at 928 Taylorsville Road, Washington Crossing, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 2015.
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