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"The property later passed through several hands, and an early free settler Thomas Harvey, who arrived in the colony in about 1852, leased 100 acres for thirty years. He is thought to have been a Quaker - certainly several Quakers did receive grants and settle here - and to have been the reason for the suburb's name".

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