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.
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 jo.urney.) Although he returned to Delaware after this initial visit, he returned the following year with his son Thomas and built a log cabi,n on the property. The entire Eve.s family arrived the next year, in 1772, and began tilling the fields adjacent to the cabin as soon as they could be cleared.