Dear Harvey List Members, Hello! In the course of my personal Harvey research I have become more and more aware of an on-going relationship between the Harveys and the Comb(e)s families through Virginia and into Kentucky in the 18th and 19th centuries. Certainly there must be more of us (Harvey Researchers) that have Harvey/Combes marriages in your lines...perhaps this will be of use to one of you! Warmest Regards, (and Happy Holidays) Annie ------------- Re HARVEY and COMBS (chronologically): 30 Jan 1711/12 (Essex Co, Wills and Deeds, 1711-1714, p. 21) Power of Atty. "William COMBES and Mary my Wife of St. Maries parish in the County of Richmond Planters" to Timorthy ATKINSON to ack. deed. Dated 30 Jan 1711/1712. Signed Wm COMBES, Mary COMBES. Wit: John x COMBES, Thomas x HARVEY, Jno SKEY. Rec. 14 Feb 1711/1712. [Note: St. Mary's Parish was in Essex County and also in Richmond County. B.F.] (Fleet, Vol III, p.6) CH: This William COMBS was born ca 1660s, d 1718/9, Richmond Co, VA, son of Archdale and Elizabeth ______(Underwood) (Underwood) Combs. Caleb HARVEY not identified as yet. However, when John COMBS (son of Archdale, father of Mason) signed his will Dec 1716 in Richmond VA, he named his wife, Hannah and John ANDERSON co-executors. (Richmond WB3:300) When John ANDERSON signed his own will 2 Nov 1721, in King George VA (created from Richmond in 1720), he wrote; ..."I do give and bequeath unto Mary HARVEY who now liveth with me my own Riding Horse called Prince and formerly belonging to John COMBES and my saddle and bridle and one young cow of a red coulor (sic) and six pewter plates and one bill of Thomas HARVEY's for two hundred pounds of Tobacco payable to me and three pewter dishes and the rents of my plantation for the term and space of three whole years thence next ensuing the date hereof and to be fully completed and ended and also one Carolina hatt..." Also, the will was witnessed by a William HARVEY. (King George WBA-1:1-3) (Westmoreland D&W8, p. 68) 27 Sep 1726, William KENDALL, Co of Stafford, planter, to MURDOCK and William HARVEY. (Researcher Denise Mortorff) CH: The above Wm. KENDALL md. before 1716, Elizabeth COMBS, dau of John COMBS who d. Richmond VA 1716/17, and sister of Mason COMBS, b. 1714, Richmond VA, d 1785, Surry Co NC 1783 (Surry Co NC List of Confiscated Estates) (Tories) John HARVIES, (Surry Co NC) (Orange Co, NC Wills, 1752-1800) Will of William COMB of Orange Co NC, dtd 2 Aug 1781, prv. Aug 1781. wife Ann; sons: James (under 21), John. Daus: Mary COMB, Betty MITCHELL, Ellender TRICE. Grdau: Sarah MILLER, Execs: Wife, Ann; sons, James and John, daus Mary and Nancy COMB. Wits: John TURRENTINE, Caleb HARVEY. (Abstrs of Orange Co, NC Wills, 1752-1800 & 202 early marriages, Ruth Herdon Shields, 1966) In 1825, when Revolutionary War John COMBS of Perry Co, KY, made his declaration, he mentioned that his eidowed daughter, Sally (COMBS Hundley), was living with him as was her child, HARVEY (HUNDLEY) (Rev. War Pension File S35851) CH: The given name Harvey, could indicate a mother's maiden name. Any chance that Margaret, wife of the Rev. War John COMBS (1761) was nee HARVEY? (Unless, of course, JP Downard and Linda Manlove are correct in believing she was Biddy NANCE) (Grayson VA Wills) Prv. Aug 1827. Will of George STANFIELD. named: Jane and spouse William COMBS and their son, Zedediah; nephew, William HARVEY; brother, Wm STANFIELD; sisters: Lydia HIETT, Mary HARVEY. (Overthe Mountain Men, Anne Lowry Worrell) -- Ann Harvey Lahtinen, Steward <[email protected]> The Harvey Genealogist The Harvey Surname Association http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6575/