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    • Art in the Blue River Quaker Settlement
    • Blue River Quakers move West
    • Quaker Settlement Residents
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Overman Family

John and William Overman came to America from England more than two centuries ago and settled in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. From John Overman comes the line of descendants Benjamin Overman, son of Elizabeth Overman, was born in Pasquotank county. North Carolina, in 1790. Living here until his father's death and his mother's remarriage, Benjamin, then grown to manhood, and his sister, Miriam, came to Indiana Territory in the year 1815, like many others of the Quaker faith to leave the land of slavery and build anew in this land of promise, which afterward became Washington county. Miriam was married to Zebdiahl Macy at Old Blue River Friends church and settled near what is familiarly known as the Keyes Mills, a short distance east of the present town of Campbellsburg, on eighty acres of land, entered by the young woman with the proceeds of the labor of her own hands. Benjamin, her brother, was also married at the same church, August 17, 1816, to Abigail Coffin. To this union were born ten children, Eunice being the youngest.

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