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Abraham EYMAN, his wife Susannah WHETSTONE, and the first two of their children (Jacob and Daniel) came from VA to St Clair CO IL in 1797. It is disputed whether they traveled with the party of 154 settlers led by Reverend David Badgley or went independently in their own flatboat (EYMAN/IMAN family story retains convincing and vivid detail in support of the latter version). Sources agree that Abraham Eyman was one of the scouting party that in 1796 accompanied Badgley when he reconnoitered Illinois as a possible place of settlement (another was George Whetstone, Susannah's father). Portrait and Biographical Record of St Clair County Illinois (1892) says that on the 1796 trip Abraham Eyman staked out land for himself in Illinois then returned to Virginia to collect his family. Abraham's name also appears on a list made in November, 1798 of persons receiving land grants: he received 100 acres of "Virginia Improvement Rights" land (History of St Clair County Illinois, p. 75).
I have Abraham and Susannah's total list of children as Jacob, Daniel, Nancy, Abraham, Catherine, Susannah, Mary "Polly", John, and Isaac. Recently I happened to come across Daniel's son John b St Clair CO IL 1-1-1839 living in Bond CO IL, undated.
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