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Hardy County TaxpayersThe following table summarizes days and weeks of research by Lyle Iman to take note of all information on local tax rolls for Hardy and Pendleton Counties of West Virginia. As usual in Eyman research, there are a variety of name spellings on record. The number of tithables (men in household over age of majority -- usually 16 or 21) is provided here only for Christian, who is thought to be the ancestor of Imans emerging after 1810. More specific documentation is available, but this summary presentation may help to focus attention on relationships. Implications of this table are not fully understood but will be briefly discussed below.
Christian Iman is first noted on tax rolls in 1787. Tax data from prior periods is very scant, though he does not appear on a census for 1784 which is thought to be relatively complete. A Christian Eimanhout with cattle does appear in 1781 and is nowhere else discoverable. Note the 2 tithables for Christian in 1787. One of those is himself, while the other suggests that while there were no children in the household, there was a man over the age of 21. We don't know if he was married and had younger children at this time, though best estimates are that he had a son Henry as of about 1780. Note that Peter Iman appears on tax rolls in the very next year. He's have been 25 or so and a veteran of the Revolutionary War. This makes one suspect that he had appeared in the household of Christian in the prior year. In Upper Paxtang, a Christian Eyeman had served in the militia under Captain James Murray as early as 1775, while a Peter Eyeman served under the same officer in 1781. This suggests that the two came from the same neighborhood, that Peter was not of age to serve earlier. There is a possibility that these were brothers. Peter married Hannah Whetstone in 1789 and acquired land from her father in 1797. The Jacob here is rather clearly the Jacob Eyman who married Barbara Jones at the First Reformed Church in Lancaster in 1787 as the name of these two appear in many deeds both locally and in other areas of Pennsylvania during their years of residency in Hardy. This Jacob was described in the church marriage records as having resided in Upper Paxtang, and is likely one of the Jacobs who served in the Upper Paxtang militia under Captain James Murray. We know that Jacob later migrated to Westmoreland, and from there into Ohio at a later date. Jacob purchased lands adjoining those of his possible brother Christian. He also took on lands in the form of an unrecorded gift or purchase from an Anthony Badgley, father of a local preacher who was to become a founder of perhaps the first Baptist congregation in the mid-West. Abraham appears for only a few short years on tax rolls of Hardy County, though he was a signatory to Christian Eyman deeds as early as 1791. He had to have been in the area earlier since he married Susanna Whetstone of Hardy in 1792. This couple was married by Valentine Powers, a Brethren preacher whose congregation was excommunicated from the church around this time for taking rather liberal positions on issues relating to slavery and military service. By 1796, Abraham was exploring as far away as the Mississippi River before the Louisiana purchase. He took a Virginia territorial grant for 100 acres or so near American Bottom -- an area just south of today's St. Louis Missouri. At the time, this was a land of lakes and streams whose character changed vastly as a consequence of engineering efforts to make the river more suitable for commercial navigation. |
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| Steve Iman's foolerie -- August 13, 2002 |
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