Dear Gordon and Jane, I, too, am working on a John Harvey. Let me tell you my facts that I know already. I have a John Vincent Harvey born 16 Jan 1841 in Searsburg, VT. His parents were Edwin Winfred Harvey (b. 10 October 1815 in Bernardston, Franklin Co., MA) who married Arathusa Amanda Torrey (b. 1 March 1820 in Vernon, Windham Co., VT) on 1 Jan 1835 in Guilford, Windham Co., VT. I have the Torrey line back for many generations. But my Harvey line ends there. Now Edwin W. Harvey was living in Searsburg, VT in the 1850 census and he had a John Harvey (father, uncle ?) living with him at the time. In that census that John Harvey was 73 years old (Edwin W. Harvey was 35 years old) and it stated that he was born in MA. Since Bernardston/Guilford/Vernon are in the tri-state area (MA-VT-NH), I was wondering if you had heard of this branch of the Harvey family ? Family history has it that Edwin W. Harvey's mother was Native American from NY state but I have no leads out there either. Let me know if I can be of any help to you. Lin