John Eves, a native of Ireland living in Mill Creek Hundred, Delaware, is thought to have been one of the men to visit the Greenwood Valley and Little Fishing Creek area in 1770. (One account of this visit indicates that he purchased a sizable portion of the land he explored in the area from the Indians who had served as his guides on his journey.) Although he returned to Delaware after this initial visit, he returned the following year with his son Thomas and built a log cabin on the property. The entire Eves family arrived the next year, in 1772, and began tilling the fields adjacent to the cabin as soon as they could be cleared.
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A history of Columbia County, Pennsylvania1883 · page 44Read the page →
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the state road at llobbins' mill to the end of the lane leading from the said road to John Kinney's house, thence by a straight line to John Townsend's, near the German meeting house, thence to Henry Johnston's near Millville, thence by a straight line to a post in the Lycoming county line near the road leading to Ciawfcrd's saw mill, together with that part of Roaringcieek township lying south and w(St of a line beginning at the south-eastern corner of Franklin township, thence eastward by the southern boundary line
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