Two Everett Families of Northampton County

Two Everett Families of Northampton County ALICE ALLEN EVERETT T HE John Everett family of Lynn Township and "The Frederick Everett Branch" of Moore Township were among several Ebert-Everett families in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, prior to the American Revolution.' John Everett of Lynn is rather well known to genealogists and historians as a frontiersman because of Fort Everett, one of a chain of forts along the Blue Mountains, whereas the family in Moore Township had no such reason to be known during the early generations. However, descendants of the two families have shared a mutual claim to distinction as traditional descendants of the famous Everett family of Dedham, Massachusetts. 9 Richard Everett, the American progenitor of the Dedham Everett family, and his wife Mary are purported to have come to America in the same ship with the original John Dwight, 1634/5, but there is no documentation for this claim.' This same Richard Everett is credited with being in Agawam (Springfield), Massachusetts, with William Pynchon, 15 July 1636, when "Richard Everet . .. made his mark as one of the white witnesses to the Indian deed, transferring the land to William Pynchon, Henry Smith and Jehu Burr." 4 Only a month later, 18 August 1636, we find Richard back in Watertown, attending the first recorded meetings of the proprietors of the new town, which the General Court later ordered to be called "Dedham," and his name — usually spelled "Euered" — appears in the town records from that day forth until 1670. 5 Concurrently, from 15 July 1636 until 29 April 1643, the name of Richard Everit-Everet appears in the records of Springfield — as land owner, as town officer, and as "Mr. Pynchon's trader, who by the way belonged to the family of Edward Everett." ° On 29 April 1643, Richard Everett married in Springfield, Mary Winch.' Most family genealogists have assumed that this was a second marriage for Richard Everett of Dedham, having accepted the premise that Richard of Dedham and Richard of Springfield were identical. This assumption, however, would seem to be open to question. 5 Especially so, since no record of the death of the "first wife Mary" appears to have been uncovered in Dedham, although there is a record there of the birth of a son, James, born 14 January 1643, who died 21 April 1643. 9 This death occurred only 8 141 142 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine days prior to the Everett-Winch marriage in Springfield, 29 April 1643. A very important aspect of this study is the fact that there were also Everitt families on Long Island, New York, who were among the first settlers of Jamaica, but who were not mentioned at all by Richard Franklin Everett in his genealogy of the Dedham Everetts, and who have been completely by-passed by many a descendant of the Northampton County Everett families, in an effort to establish an immigrant ancestor in Dtdham, Massachusetts. A Richard Everett was one of the signers of the certificate of purchase of Jamaica from the Indians, 25 November 1656. Abraham Smith and Nicholas Tanner, original freeholders in 1647, in the Town of Hempstead, Long Island, were also witnesses to the Jamaica purchase." And, in a division and allotment of lands in the Town of Jamaica, 1660, the names of John and Nicholas Everitt appear in a list of forty additional freeholders." Nicholas Tanner of Jamaica, in his will drawn 2 September 1658, left legacies "to Richard Everard's children," without naming the children. Ten years later, Richard Everitt of Jamaica died intestate, and on 4 September 1668 Abraham Smith was appointed administrator of the estate. Children were mentioned but again not named." Numerous descendants of the Long Island Everitts (as well as of Pennsylvania Everetts) are "hung up" on the Dedham tradition, believing that "all roads lead to Rome," having "heard that the original Richard came first to Watertown or Dedham, on to Springfield, on to be a patentee of Jamaica, then — at some time — home to Dedham, where he died at an advanced age." '3 H. M. M. Richards, writing on the Pennsylvania Germans in the French and Indian War, states that the Everett Stockade, a quarter mile above Lynn. port, Pennsylvania, "was a block-house . . . erected on the property of John Everett, a man of prominence at the time, and of the same family as Edward Everett of Massachusetts, whence he came." " And, in the Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, there is a detailed account of Fort Everett, one reference being in a report of Colonel Conrad Weiser, stating that he ordered the garrison of Fort Franklin to evacuate and retire to the house of "John Eberts, Esq.", 24 November 1756. This account accepts as proven that John Everett came from Dedham and was of the same family as Edward Everett (1794-1865)." And herein lies the fallacy of "the Dedham tradition," for John Everett of Fort Everett, Pennsylvania, did not come from Dedham nor was he born there 1 May 1701 (son of John, b. 1676, son of John, b. 1636, son of Richard of Dedham, d. 1682), as believed by a number of investigators. Two Everett Families 143 THE EVERETTS O' LYNN TOWNSHIP We come close to the truth about the origin of the Everett family of Lynn Township, Northampton County, in a private record, wherein the "lineage of Miss Merle Greene of Wisconsin" is cited "from her great-great-greatgrandfather, Thomas Everett to herself," and wherein the author states that "Thomas, John and another brother Everetts came from England to Rhode Island in 1740 or 1750. Thomas and John went to Lehigh (then Northampton) County, Pennsylvania, and the other brother went to Massachusetts and became the grandfather of Edward Everett, the great statesman." " The author of these statements was essentially correct in certain details, but 1740 was approximately a century after the reputed arrival in New England of Richard Everett of Dedham who, incidentally, was the great-great-greatgrandfather of Edward Everett, the statesman.' By 1740, John Everett of Lynn Township, Northampton County, actually had come to Pennsylvania (with his father Thomas) from Long Island, not Rhode Island." Several researchers have stated that John was the son of Thomas Everett and his wife Bathsheba Sands, who was born at Sands Point, Long Island, daughter of James and Mary (Cornell) Sands, and that Thomas and Bathsheba had issue "John, Thomas, Sarah, and Elizabeth."" No vital statistics have been discovered by this compiler for Bathsheba or for any of these children but there is a baptismal record, in Jamaica, Long Island, 24 January 1723, for James Everett son of Thomas and Bathsheba." When his will was drawn, 21 September 1730, James Sands named sons Othniel, James, John and Abijah, "my daughters Mary, Zerviah, Jerusha and Sarah" and willed "£10 to my granddaughter Sarah Everett." Since there is no mention of Bathsheba, she was presumably deceased at that time." Abijah and John Sands, brothers of Bathsheba, "removed to Montgomery County (adjoining Amity, Berks County), Pennsylvania, ca. 1732." " Thomas Everett's only known record in Pennsylvania was 12 November 1740, when Thomas Everett of Amity, Philadelphia (now Berks) County, yeoman, "in consideration of £110, mortgaged to John Banfield of the same place, carpenter, a tract in Amity (near Douglasville), . .. containing 136 acres." Satisfaction of the above deed was entered at Philadelphia, 17 November 1743, with no name of wife mentioned." A 1734 tax list of Amity Township does not include the name of Everett nor does the next extant list, dated 1752-53." And the name of Everett does not appear on early cemetery inscriptions of the Amity Lutheran Church." 144 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Issue of Thomas Everett and his wife Bathsheba:" 1. I. JOHN EVERETT, b. 25 January 1717, Long Island. New York, of whom further. 2. _h. THOMAS EVERETT, 1). ca. 1720, of whom further. Hi. JAMES EVERETT, bapt. 24 January 1723, supra. iv. SARAH EVERETT, mentioned in the will of James Sands, 1730. V. ELIZABETH EVERETT. 1. JOHN EVERETT, son of Thomas, the Pennsylvanian progenitor, was born on Long Island, New York, 25 January 1717, and "came with his father, his mother deceased," first to Manatawny, Pennsylvania, and then to Lynn where he was a first settler. He was married to MARY HOLDER, 26 March 1742." This marriage record implies the presence of 1. John in Lynn Township, Bucks County, by 1742 and his first land warrant definitely places him there by 1748. Other warrants issued to I. John and 2. Thomas in Bucks and Northampton Counties identify them as men of property in Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolution. Whether their father, Thomas Everett, Sr., was also in Lynn Township is to date unestablished but seemingly possible. On 13 April 1748, a warrant was issued to I. John for 200 acres of land "lying on Maiden Creek," Bucks County, previously surveyed 18 August 1739 and confirmed by patent 2 May 1748." Two years later, in a deed executed in Bucks County 16 May 1750, recorded in Easton 7 May 1764, 1. John and his wife Mary granted 75 acres of land on Maiden Creek — part of 200 acres confirmed unto 1. John 2 May 1748 — to "Thomas Everett, Junr." which suggests that Thomas, Sr. may have been living at the time." Furthermore, in the previous year, on 18 October 1749, a warrant had been issued to a Thomas Everard for 100 acres in Linn Township, Bucks County; but lacking any record of the death of Thomas Everett, Sr. it is impossible to establish whether this warrant was in favor of Thomas, Sr. or 2. Thomas. A transcript of data pertaining to this transaction states that the survey date for these 100 acres "is obliterated"; but a survey must have been returned to the patent office within the next 15 years for, on 2 March 1764, 134 acres were patented to Thomas Everett — not called Junior." On that same day, 2 March 1764, a second patent was granted to 2. Thomas containing 40 acres 8 perches bounded by John Everett's land and by Thomas Everett's other land, which was a return on a warrant issued 29 February 1764, on which a re-survey was made 10 October 1750." And in an indenture made 6 March 1764, recorded in Easton 30 April 1764, 2. Thomas Everett and his wife Catherine sold the patent of 40 acres 8 Two Everett Families 145 perches recited above to 1. John Everett for the sum of £40." On the following day, 7 March 1764, 1. John of Lynn and his wife sold to Joseph Holder of Lynn, for the sum of £170, 113 acres 84 perches more or less, of which about 64 acres 122 perches were out of the 200 acre tract, 31 acres 17 perches more or less were part of the 40 acres 8 perches, and 17 acres 105 perches, the residue thereof, were part of a 47 acre tract granted to I. John 4 May 1762." It is evident from a recitation of only these data that there was some wheeling and dealing by the Everett brothers of Lynn Township during this period. The name of 1. John Everett appears on the tax lists of Lynn Township 1761-1768 inclusive, prior to his removal in 1769 to Penns Township where he died, at Gnadenhutten, 20 March 1777. His obituary, written in beautiful German, covers over two pages in the Allemangel Church Book. All data are recorded in detail. The obituary of Mary Everett, widow of John, states that she was born 10 January 1723 in Unity Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Barbara (Vokk) Holder, that the Holder family moved to Oley Hills (near Colebrookdale) about 1731, that she came with her family to Lynn Township, Northampton County, in 1735 and married John Everett 26 March 1742. Mary died 30 September 1785.' John and Mary Everett had 13 children, 4 of whom died in childhood. John's widow Mary, 3 sons and 6 daughters survived him Court records prove that the 3 sons living in 1777 were Joseph, John and Thomas. Joseph Everett, Penns Township, and John Hossey, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, administrators of 1. John Everett's estate, were bonded for £5000, 8 December 1779.. That the estate was settled outside of court is indicated by an item dated 14 December 1779 concerning two contiguous tracts of land Which "by settlement between the heirs of the said John Everett became the legal property of Joseph Everett." 0 Orphans Court records show that John and Thomas Everett, over age 14 and sons of 1. John deceased, petitioned the court for a guardian and that John Hossey was appointed 1 September 1780." Issue of I. John Everett and his wife Mary" i. CATHERINE EvERErr, b. co. 1744; named in obituary of John Everett as "his daughter"; m. DANIEL OSWALD, son of Henry and Elizabeth Oswald. ii. SARAH EVERETT, b. 22 October 1749; in-, 17 Sept. 1744, JONATHON NATHAN WERNER. BARBARA EVERETT, b. 20 August 1751; listed as single at communion in 1776. iv. JOHN EVERETT, b. 27 March 1753; d. young. V- GEORGE EVERETT, b. 20 September 1755, d. 25 January 1763. DANIEL EvErtErr, b. 1756; "bap. by Brother Schumich [Schumacher] —gone to the Savior"; d, 1756- 146 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine b. 1 November 1757: d. after 1820; m. 18 April, 1779, SARAH ELIZABETH DAVIS; migrated to Ohio. MARIE (Posy) EVERETT, b. 7 November 1759: M. One GREER. ix. HANNAH ()OMAHA) EVERETT, b. 11 October 1761; d. Bethlehem, 1815, bur. Old Moravian Cemetery, Bethlehem.. Johana named brothers Joseph, John and Thomas and sisters Catherine Oswald, Sarah Werner and Polly Greer in her will dated 4 September 1815.. X. JOHN EVERETT, b. 14 December 1763; residing Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1816. XI. THOMAS EVERETT, b. 6 August 1766; d. Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 2 February, 1847. ae. 80 yrs., 6 mos.; m. at Moravian Church of Emmaus, 21 September 1791, ROSINA VII. JOSEPH EVERETT, viii. As to the two children missing from the above enumeration, one was a daughter living in 1777 and the other a child, name unknown, who died in childhood. 2. THOMAS EVERETT, son of Thomas Everett and Bathsheba, was presumably born Long Island, New York, by 1722. While the obituary of 1. John Everett, 1717-1777, mentions no brothers who came to Manatawny with him and his father, we do know that Thomas Jr. was in Lynn Township in 1750." By the Fall of 1755, the whole area north and south of the Blue Mountains was beset with Indian incursions and some kind of an established military organization became a necessity. It was about this time that Fort Everett became one of several frontier forts built along the Blue Mountains for the protection of the settlers. Things apparently went from bad to worse for. in February 1756, forty-two men, women and children fled to Bethlehem from Lynn Township and the adjacent township of Albany in Berks County. On 5 February 1758, Sergeant E. Matthews and a scouting party were sent to "Thomas Everet's plantation in Allemengel," later reporting that their party "had lodged at Everet's;" " and by 1764, Lieutenant John Nice, 1 sergeant and 18 men were stationed at "Thomas Everitt's, Linn Township," presumably at Fort Everett.' 2. Thomas Everett was taxed in Lynn Township 1761-1768 inclusive, and in 1770, 1772 and 1776. In 1772 he was asgessed £6 13s 10d. — the second highest assessment in the township that year." While there appears to be no record as to when 2. Thomas Everett married his wife CATHERINE, surname unknown, their eldest son Samuel was born about 1745." Certain data suggest that Catherine was born an 2. Thomas and Catherine were still living 17 November ALBRECHT." 1786, when they acknowledged an indenture of 15 October 1784 before one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Northampton. In this indenture, Thomas Everitt and wife Catherine of Lynn Township, for the sum of £200, granted 2 certain tracts of land containing Two Everett Families 147 together 209 acres to "his son John" . . . 75 acres of which is "the same that John Everitt (brother of the said Thomas Everitt) and Mary his wife • . . 16 May 1750, granted to Thomas Everitt" . . . the 134 acre tract is the . . . "same as the patent bearing date 2 March 1764 ... containing 134 acres." " The two deeds of 1750 and 1784, citing Thomas Everett, Jr. and John Everitt, brother of Thomas, prove beyond any question of doubt that 1. John Everett had a brother 2. Thomas, all traditions to the contrary which have confused I- John's son Thomas, born 6 August 1766, with his brother 2. Thomas born about 1720. Issue of 2. Thomas Everett and his wife Catherine:" b. ca., 1745 Lynn Township (now Lehigh County); d. Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, 1808; m. in Pennsylvania, MARY BARBARA MOSSER, 1745-1811, daughter of Philip Mosser. 51 ii. JOHN EVERML, b. 1761, Lynn Township; d. Lynn Township 1810; m. MARIA MAGDALENA (MARY) MILLER, b. probably Albany Township, Berks County 1766; d. Lynn Township 1836. PETER EVERETT, ID. CATHERINE MILLER. IV. MAGDALENA EVERETT, m. Ca., 1773 LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL BROBST, b., ca., 1751; d. Albany Township, Berks County, 1814, bur. "near the boundary line of Berks and Lehigh Counties, the dates on his gravestone are obliterated." 02 V. CATHERINE EVERETT. M. REVEREND JOHN ROTH: bur- Jacob's Church. vi. A daughter, name unknown, m. DANIEL WANNEMACHER. i. SAMUEL EVERETT, THE EVERETTS OF MOORE TOWNSHIP "The Everett Family and the Frederick Everett Branch of Northampton county" — title of the first part of the Everett-Heiney record " — is an ambiguous title inasmuch as there were 13 Eberts-Everetts, variously spelled, on the assessment lists of Northampton County in 1772, ranging from Mt. Bethel and Easton on the border of New Jersey, across Plainfield Township to Heidelberg and Lynn Townships (now Lehigh County) to Penns Town. ship (now Carbon County), down to Upper Milford and Lower Saucon Townships, bordering on Bucks County.. These 13 men did not have a common Everett progenitor in America, for some were of English and some were of German descent. In exploring the parentage of Frederick Everett (1787-1849) of Moore, traditionally linked to the Dedham Everett family, the revealing factor is that the data lead not to Dedham but elsewhere, as in the case of John Everett of Lynn." While it is known that the father of Frederick (1787-1849) was Jacob Eberet of Moore Township, there is only admissible supportive evidence, at present, that Frederick's grandfather was Jost (Yost) Ebert-Event- How- 148 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ever, this evidence is of such nature as to warrant presentation of certain facts gleaned from surveys of wills, deeds, administrations and Orphans Courts records for all Ebert-Everett-Everhart persons in Berks, Bucks, Northampton and Philadelphia Counties, as well as in New Jersey. The church records of these same areas have also been thoroughly examined. Yost Ebert-Everet is possibly the man who qualified at Philadelphia. on 15 September 1748, as Johann Just Eberth, with Jonas Eberth, on the ship Two Brothers, Thomas Arnot, Master, and who took the usual Oath to the Government as Johan Just Eberth, 15 September 1749." A John Ebert was "late of Plainfield Township (adjoining Moore Township) but now of Easton," 20 June 1757," and a Yost John Everd was one of the customers listed on the ledger of the John Peter Nitzer store, German Valley, New Jersey, in 1763, the year of Nitzer's demise./' John Everets reappears in Plainfield on the 1772 assessment lists, and Yost Everts, laborer, is assessed the same year, in Plainfield, for the land [he] lives on. '" John Eberd of Plainfield Township had his will drawn on 10 March 1777, in which he named his children, Philip, George, Adam, Lisa Barbara, Mary Margred and Margred. His will was proved 15 April 1778." There is no further record of Yost Everts in Plainfield Township and no Everett of any spelling is named on the tax list of Moore Township in 1772; but it is significant that the widow of John Dieter of Moore was married to an Everett, by 1774. When John Dieter of Moore had his will drawn on 12 May 1772, he gave his plantation to his "beloved son John Dieter" and made special provision for an unborn child. He mentioned eight other children, without naming them, to whom, as executor, John, Jr. was to give — "to every one of my children that is to say eight children — 10 pounds lawful money that is every year ten pounds to pay beginning from the oldest, on their coming of age." John Dieter further made provision for his "beloved wife Elizabeth to live and remain on the plantation" — which he had willed to his son John — "for 5 years" and directed John to "build her a house to dweel in . .. and give her every year 20 bushel of grain that is 5 bushel wheat and 15 bushel rye and John Dieter shall keep to my wife a cow and feed for same and shall sow 1/4 acre of flax for my wife Elizabeth and plow 1/2 acre Indian corn and land for potatoes to plant and garden sufficient for her . . . and apples out of the orchard . . and 1/3 of the money from a public venue held with the moveables and creatures," — no strings attached.' Elizabeth obviously had a certain charm, for she had been married to Christian Kollumbach before she married John Dieter. Christian Kollumbach (Calembagh) died intestate, Moore Township in 1765." Two Everett Families 149 John Dieter's will was proved 4 June 1773. Less than one year later, 23 April 1774, "Elizabeth Everet, late Elizabeth Dieter, late widow of John Dieter," made a petition to the Orphans Court for a guardian of 4 children under 14 years of age — Elizabeth, Margaret, Susanna and Henry. The court appointed Simon Driesbach of Allen Township." Twenty years later, on 14 March 1794. John Dieter, Jr. made the final settlement on his father's estate — no details. Since the children were usually listed in order of age, this would indicate that the child born 1772/3 to John and Elizabeth Dieter lived and was the Henry mentioned in the guardian petition. Otherwise, legally, John Dieter would not have had to keep the estate open for 21 years, in order to carry out the terms of the will of his father. If the inter pretation of the Orphans Court Office is correct, the 4 minor children, named in the above petition, were Elizabeth and John Dieter's children and guardianship was to insure payment of their legacies in the event of Elizabeth's death, before all reached the age of 21. The name of Yost Everet appears on the original tax lists for Moore Township, Northampton County, in 1776 when he was taxed for the land he lived on — 20 acres cleared and 80 acres uncleared — " and the names of Jost Eberts and Elizabeth as parents appear on the Lutheran register of Stone Church, Allen Township, Northampton County, 5 Oct. 1777, when a son John, b. 18 August 1777, was baptized. John Dieter and M. Barbara Bachman were the sponsors." We may only presume that this Elizabeth Eberts was Elizabeth Everet of the Orphans Court petition recited above but it is a fairly logical presumption, since there was no other known adult by the name of Everett in Moore Township at that time. The name of Yost Everet under any spelling does not appear on the Militia Rolls of Northampton County during the American Revolution, even though Pennsylvania established a draft law for the first time on 17 March 1777, under an act of the Pennsylvania Assembly known as the Militia Act. Under this draft law, all males between the ages of 18 and 53, capable of bearing arms, were to serve 2 months of active duty. Those men who refused to turn out when regularly called were subject to fines of stated amounts or required to provide substitutes. " The names of Jacob and Godfrey Everet appear on the militia rolls, but since the name of Yost does not appear, it would suggest that he was either over the age of 53 or incapable of bearing arms, On June 13, 1777, by another act of the Pennsylvania Assembly, all males above the age of 18 were obliged to take the "Oath of Allegiance." A photostat of the original card issued to each person taking the oath in Northampton County is in the Easton Public Library and, while there is 150 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine some phonetic spelling, all entries are in excellent English • Among those appearing before William McNair. Justice of the Peace for Moore and Allen Townships, 5 August 1777, were Jacob Everet #114 and Yost Event #148." As Godfrey Everet was not listed, it is evident he was born after 1759. Elizabeth Kollumbach Dieter Everet, under specific provisions in the will of her former husband, John Dieter, had supposedly lived 5 years, between 1773 and 1779, on the Dieter plantation: and it is quite probable that Yost Everet was living with her, in the house that John Dieter, Jr. built "for her to dweel in." In 1779, Jost Everth was taxed in Moore Township on 70 acres," and it is conceivable that this was the same land on which Elizabeth had lived during her period of grace, for Jost Everth owned no land of record. And while no record of his decease has been discovered in the court or church records of Northampton County, Jost Everth probably died prior to 1790. There is hearsay evidence that "Elizabeth lived with a son Jacob after the death of her husband;" and there were four females. three of whom are unaccounted for, living in the household of Jacob Ebert, in Moore Township, in 1790 when the census was taken." Presumably, Jost had been married before he married Elizabeth Dieter — assuming he did marry her — and had had sons Jacob and Godfrey, and possibly Peter. Jacob Everct of Moore — not to be confused with Jacob Everett, Jr., 1761-1830 of Chestnut Hill Township (now Monroe County) — was born probably about 1758. His first record in Moore Township is on 5 August 1777. when he took the Oath of Allegiance." The name of Jacob Everet of Moore Township appears on the "Tax Lists of Northampton County Court House, 1774-1806," as follows: 1779-Jacob Ewert, single; 1781-Jacob Everet; I783-Jacob Ebert; 1784-Jacob Eberth; and 1786-Jacob Eweret, with Godfrid Evered, single." A Jacob Evered and Godfried Evered, in Captain John Ritter's Company under Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Kern, are listed as privates 8 July to 9 September 1781, with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Company, Northampton County. A Jacob Everet, in Captain Griggory's (Gregory's) Company under Colonel Nicholas Cam, is listed as "Dromer" 25 September 1780." This Jacob was Jacob Everet, Jr., 1761-1830, of Chestnut Hill Township, now Monroe County, with whom Jacob of Moore Township, ca. 1758-1807, has been confused. Jacob Evert-Everet-Everhart and Godfrey Ebert-Everet-Everhart are listed as privates on six lists, between 1780 and 1784 — with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Company — preserved at Harrisburg. In the words of the State Records Officer. "The records documenting the Revolutionary service of a Two Everett Families 151 man named Jacob Everett or something very close to that name is established beyond a doubt . • • but the records are in such delicate condition, falling into fragments, with the ink badly faded and the handwriting and spelling so crude that we cannot provide photostats. These are mere chits, extremely fragile . .. too tender to be handled by the photostater . . Jacob Everet or Everhart (both spellings are used in the records of this transaction) was enrolled in Captain Ritter's Company, made up of residents of Moore Township, and also performed a tour of active duty in 1780." The notation on this list observed at Harrisburg specifies, "The hole class exempted for their being on the frontiers." " Jacob, Godfrey and Peter Everet, prr vales, are listed as Soldiers of the Revolution. 1778-1783, Northampton County.' Jacob Everet of Moore Township married about 1780/81 CATHERINE, surname unknown. While no documents have been uncovered which prove that Catherine was a Dieter — a sister of Elizabeth and Susanna Dieter, who were sponsors for two of her children — a descendant of John Dieter and his first wife has stated, "I have no record of which Eberts the widow Elizabeth Dieter married . . . one would naturally assume that these Dieter sponsors were of one family . . • I could well believe that John Dieter, Sr., who died in 1773, had a daughter named Catherine, because his first wife's name was 'Anna Catharine.' But I have no absolute proof."" Jacob Everet died in 1807. Papers of administration were granted to his widow Catherine Everitt, 8 June 1807. Casper Mersch and Nicholas Schlegel were named bondsman under bond of £200. The inventory and appraisal, 2 July 1807, is filed with the administration papers and an Adam Dieter is named one of the debtors to the estate. Jacob Everet owned no land of record and there are no final settlement papers in his file.' Issue of Jacob Everet and his wife Catherine:" I. JOHANNES EBBERT, b. 1 July 1783; bapt. at Stone Lutheran and Reformed Church, 17 August 1783; sponsors, Johannes Heynect and Elizabeth Dieter. ii. JOHANN JACOB EBERET, b. 30 September 1784; bapt. at Emmanuel Union Church of Moore, 5 December 1784; sponsors, Paul Miller and Elizabeth Schlagel. 1iii. FREDRIG EBERIT, b. 13 July 1787, of whom further. iv. BALTHASER EBBERT, b. ca. 1791; cont. at Emmanuel Union Church, 9 April 1808. v. ELIZABETH EBBERIT, b. 20 June 1793; conf. at Emmanuel Union Church, 9 April 1808. vi. CATIIERINE EBBERIT, b. 1 July 1796; bapt. at Stone Church, 23 October 1796; sponsors, Johannes Habenbuch and wife Magdalene (Driesbach); m., Stone Church, by the Reverend Fredrig William Mendsen, 14 October 1825, Ions SCHWENK, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Trout!) Schwenk, b. 17 April 1797. d. 1853, 152 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine vii. J. PETER EBERIT, b. 24 February 1802; bapt. at Stone Church 16 April 1802; sponsors, Henrich Miller and wife Elizabeth; m. ELIZABETH, surname unknown. A GEORGE EVERETTS and wife MARIA were sponsors at Stone Church for HARRISON EVERETT, bapt. 30 September 1834, son of 1. Peter and Elizabeth Everett George may also have been a son of Jacob and Catherine Everitt. Jacob. Frederic and BaIsar were living in Lehigh Township in 1820 when the fourth census was taken.. l• FREDRIG ERERIT, third son of Jacob Everet and his wife, Catherine, was baptized at Stone Church by the Reverend Fredrig William Mendsen, 26 August 1787; sponsors, Gottfried Eberet and Susanna Dieter. He married, 13 April 1817, at Emmanuel Union Church, SUSANNA ROETHLINE, probably daughter of John and Susanna Rateline, born 25 December 1790. John Redline age over 45, was living in Lehigh Township, Northampton County, in 1810 and in 1820 when the census enumerations were taken." On 26 September 1823, Frederick Everet and wife Susanna, of Lehigh Township, for a consideration of $210, deeded 5 acres 37 perches of land in Moore Township to Michael Rateline. "being the same land John Rateline and wife Susanna granted to Frederick Everett in 1818." "' Apparently, Frederick Everett disposed of his land in Moore Township soon after the Lehigh River Canal was built, and about 1818 moved to the first lock at Siegfrieds (near Laurys Station) where he was drowned in the performance of his duties on 13 August 1849. Frederick Everett was buried at Stone Church, Kreidersville, in the vicinity of Triechlers, Allen Township. On 16 April 1855, Susanah Event, Lehigh Township, "duly sworn widow of Frederick Everett," personally appeared before Abraham Lerch, Justice of the Peace of Lehigh Township, and declared that Frederick Event, deceased, was in the 97th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia . . . that her husband was drafted at Allentown, September 1814, for the term of 3 months • - . She further stated that she was married to said Frederick Event • . . on 13 April 1812, by one Reverend William Mendsen (the Reverend Mendsen's pastoral records at Stone Church give the year as 1817 which corroborates the tombstone reading), and that her name before her marriage was Susanah Rateline; that her said husband died at Allen Township 13 August 1849 • • She further stated that their furniture, books and papers, with their house, were swept away by a flood in 1841 and that the family record of their mar riage was lost. /S/ Susannah (X) Event. Mr. Lerch stated that he could swear that Frederick Everett's home and furniture were all swept away "by the high freshet in the River Lehigh in the year AD 1841." " Susana Everett died 24 October 1867 and was buried at Fairview Cemetery. Catasauqua, Northampton County. Two Everett Families 153 Issue of 1. Frederick Everett and his wife Susana Ratline:" i. Jour., Eveae-Tr, b. 18 April 1821; d. 30 January 1876; bur. Egypt Reformed Church; m. DELILAH ZELLNER of Laurel Hill, near Cementon, Lehigh County, b. 25 December 18231 d. 11 March 1884. John was a lock-tender and carpenter. He served three years in the Civil War H. SARAH EVERETT, b. 5 February 1825; d. 2 April 1891; m. PETER PAUL, b. 20 November 1822, Paris, France; d. 20 December 1856; bur. Old Methodist Cemetery, Honesdale, Wayne County. iii. WILLIAM JOHN EvertErr, R 21 March 1830; bapt. Stone Church, 2 May 1830; sponsors, John Schwenk and wife Catherine; d. 1 December 1905, Rockdale, near Laurys Station; bur. Millers Church, near Laurys Station; m., Stone Church, 11 November 1852, REBECCA ANN HEINEY, b. 8 January 1831, daughter of Joseph, 1804-1872, and Elizabeth (Beer) Heiney, 1808-1836, of Moore Township; bur. Stone Church; bapt. Stone church 13 March 1831; sponsors, John Heyne and wife Margaret; d. 25 January 1905; bur. Millers Church. iv. JULIA Evoterr, b. 1833; d. Towanda, Bradford County, 4 December 1903; m. ELIAS DIETRICK. V. SAMUEL EVERETT, b. 20 September 1835; d. 9 January 1904; bur. Fairview Cemetery, Catasauqua; M. CATHERINE CHRIST, b. 10 September 1837; d. 22 December 1915; bur. Fairview Cemetery, Catasauqua. Vi. ADAM EVERETT, b. 16 October 1837; d. 17 August 1890; bur. Fairview Cemetery, Catasauqua; m. MARY PETERS, daughter of Daniel and Mary Peters, who lived near Rockdale; b. 7 November 1847; d. 25 December 1896; bur. Fairview Cemetery, Catasauqua. In concluding this study of the Everetts of Lynn and Moore Townships, Northampton County, it may be well to return to Jost Everth, last of Moore Township in 1779." In default of court records or land evidences to support the thesis that he was the father of Jacob Everett, there is nonetheless admissible evidence by elimination of other Everett predecessors in Northampton County that Jost was the father of Jacob; for John of Lynn, John of Plainfield, Jacob of Easton and Chestnut Hill (now Monroe County), Michael of Heidelberg and Moses of Mt. Bethel all did leave records, not one of which contains a reference to the Jacob Everet family of Moore." It was to prove or disprove the broader presumption, that there was a lineal relationship between the Everetts of Northampton County and the Everetts of Dedham, Massachusetts, that this study was originally undertaken in depth. The end result of the investigation indicates that no lineal descent, per stirpes, has been established between the Everett family of Dedham and the several Everett families of Northampton County prior to the American Revo 154 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine NOTES Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIX, 5.78. Hereinafter the name Everett will be spelled as it appears in the record and, unless otherwise stated all land records and estate settlements hereinafter cited are from Northampton County records. For the greater part of the documentation of said records, I am deeply grateful to my good friend Mildred (Mrs. T. DeWitt) Moulsdale, of Easton, Pa. 2 Alexander D. Everett, The William J. Everett Branch of the Everett and Heiney Families in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, (Slatington, 1946), typescript, 2, 3. 8. Mr. Everett quotes the "Dedham tradition" regarding John Everett of Lynn Township and cites "James Everett the brother of John" as progenitor of the William J. Everett Branch of the Everett Family. See also Mason Arnold Green, Springfield, 1636-1886, (Springfield, 1888) 25ff; the Reverend Charles Everett Cartwright Oswald, Descendants of Henry Oswald, (New York, 1907), 95, Appendix, Part I, xis; Charles R. Roberts, The Anniversary History of Lehigh County, (Allentown, 1914), Vol. II, 292, 324; Frederick A. Virkus, The Compendium of American Genealogy, (Chicago, 1942), Vol. VII, 510. Richard Franklin Everett, Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts, (Boston, 1902), 9. John Dwight signed the Dedham Covenant in 1636. See New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, XLII (1911), 445. 4 See Everett, 10, cited in Note 3. -5 Ibid., 15, 16. °See Green, as cited in Note 2. "The name of William Pynchon, the father of Springfield, is familiar to all who are in the least acquainted with the early history of New England. He came over on the Jewel in the company with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and was treasurer of the colony" ... and one of the original founders of Roxbury. "He was the leader of the band who boldly struck off to the valley of the Connecticut, in 1636, one hundred miles distant frorn civilized man." See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XIII, Na. 4 (1859), 290-97. 7 William and John Pynchon, Hampshire Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 16381696, one volume, privately kept, photostat copy, (Hartford, Connecticut State Library, 1933), 55. See also Charles H. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650, (Baltimore, 1965), 158. Richard Franklin Everett records this date erroneously as 29 June 1643. See Everett, 12, cited in Note 3- Mary Winch came to America at age 15. with the family of Roland Stebbins in April 1638. See John Camden Hutton, The Hotten Lists- of Emigrants to America, (Baltimore, 1962), 280. 8 Sr. Nicholas Society Genealogical Record, Vol. II (1916), 90ff. o See Everett, 20, cited in Note 3. The whole idea of a man shuttling back and forth through the wilderness to attend town meetings in Springfield, "where life was only tolerable by an infusion of Christian faith and stoic endurance"— and where there were less than 20 males of assessment age, including Richard Event, in 1639— seems rather fanciful. See Green, 44, 45, cited in Note 2. In the light of admissible evidence, surmise though it may be, it seems quite probable that Richard Evered of Dedham and Richard Everit-Everct of Springfield were not identical. w Jamaica Town Records, Long Island, 1656-1751, Vol. I, 97( o Benjamin F. Thompson, The History of Long Island, 2nd ed., (New York, 18431, Vol. II, 6, 96, 97, 98. William Pynchon published an heretical book in 1650 in which he expressed religious views and opinions incompatible with some of the orthodox views of his day. His book was "pronounced seditious and burned by law, in Boston market, in the presence of the faithful." Mr. Pynchon was induced to recant, whereupon he returned to England in 1652 and "died at Wyrardisbury, on the Thames. October. 1662, aged about 72 years." See NEHGR, as cited in Note 6. It is easy to believe, under these circumstances, that Richard Event of Springfield may have repaired to Long Island sometime antecedently. It is also quite possible that Richard Event was related either directly or indirectly to William Pynchon, whose greatgrandfather, William Pinchon, of Writtle, Essex, England, married a "daughter of Richard Stephen, and sister of Richard Everard's wife." In his will, 1552, William Pinchon "calls Richard Everard. brother." See Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings its England. (Salem, 1892). Vol. 11, OK Two Everett Families 155 New York Historical Society Collections, Abstracts of Wills, I, 1665-1707, (New York, 1892), 466, will of Nicholas Tanner; ibid., 9, administration of Richard Everitt of 12 See Jamaica. 1 . Richard Evered of Dedham had his will drawn 12 March 1680, "being aged and thereby put in mind of my Great Change." He died 3 July 1682. See Everett, II, cited in Note 3. 1 am greatly indebted to Constance (Mrs. Robert G.) Bowen of Mountain Lakes, N.J., for valuable assistance with Long Island records and for introductions to other descendants of Long bland Everetts. (Norristown, 1905), XV, 372. 11 In The Pennsylvania German Society, Proceedings. • 111 Thomas L. Montgomery, ed., Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, 2nd ed. (Harrisburg, 1916), Vol. I, 141ff. Credited with this information is Mr. Charles Everett "75 years old (1894) residing near the spot, wh.e great.grandfather was a brother of John Everett" of Lynn. "He was told all about the fort by his father, Jacob, who died 25 years ago, 80 years old; also by his grandmother, Mary Miller, who died 60 years ago, aged about 70 years." at Memorandum Book, calendar years 1887 and 1888. For sale by J. H. Hippie, Druggist, Andover. Ohio, (Herald Print, Erie, Pa.), "January." On each page of the notebook is the maxim, "What is dotted down here will be useful in after years." Loaned to this compiler in 1959, through the courtesy of Miss Esther Lomas, Jonesville, Wisconsin and Mrs. Donna (Greene) Kincannon, Boscobel, Wisconsin. Mrs. Kincannon had received the notebook "from a descendant of Samuel Everett" who was believed to have been a son of Thomas the son of I. John of Lynn. Actually, he was the son of 2. Thomas, the brother of I. John of Lynn, all family traditions to the contrary which maintain John did not have a brother Thomas. 11 See Everett, 126ff, cited in Note 3 , Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. II, 1886, 402-405, concerning Gnadenhutten, Penns Township. John Everit, who joined the Moravians in 1760, moved with his family into the deserted Fort Allen Barracks in 1769 and John Holder and his family soon followed. In an early petition preserved at Harrisburg, with 41 signatures asking for troops for protection against the Indians, ". • . all but the first name, the second. the fifth, and seventh (John Everett, Thomas Everett, John Holder and Joseph Holder) were written in German." See Oswald, as coed in Note 2. 39 Malcolm Sands Wilson, The Sands Family, (New York, 1949), 58. See also William A. D. Eardeley, Manuscript Notes, in the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, and Charles H. Sandy, Dawn to Twilight in American Colonization (New York, 1962), with an Appendix on the Sandy Genealogy from 1379-1960, "New England Strains of the Family." so H. 0. Ladd, Grace Church of Jamaica, (New York, 1914), 277. See also Dr. John R. Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson of London, England and His Descendants, (Flemington, NJ., 19021, 131. 111 See New York Historical Society Collections, Abstracts of Wills, 111, 1730-1744, (New York, 1894), 135, 136, will of Jam. Sands. See Wilson, II, 12, cited in Note 19. See also Berks County Deed Book A-3, 80: 14 August 1733. Thomas Banfield and Mary of Oley Township, to Abijah Sands of Amity 150 acres in Amity. It Philadelphia Deed Book G-1, 287: 12 November 1740, Thomas Everett to John Banfield. "In a deed of mortgage between Peter Yarnall of Oley, Philadelphia County, and the above John Banfield of Amity, dated 17 November 1740. Yarnall mortgages a tract of 106 acres in Amity Township one of the bounds being by land of John Allbright. This item is interesting because Thomas Everett (brother of John of Lynn) married perhaps Catherine Albrecht." The Reverend Carl T. Smith. personal corr.pondence, 1958. . 1 The Reverend Carl T. Smith, as cited in Note 23. 1111 W. H. Egle, ed. Notes and Queries, Annual Volume, 1897, 207-209; the oldest inscription is that of Mary Sands, 1741-1742. as See Wlson as cited in Note 19 and Sandy as cited in Note 19. See also Stevenson as coed in Note 20. It Allemangel Church Book, manuscript, in the Moravian Historical Society, Bethlehem, 396-397. 401- See also Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, cited in Note 18. 156 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Oc Bureau of Land Records, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Commission Book A-2, 19, 20, 21, 22. 13 April 1748, warrant #44 issued to John Everett. .9 Northampton County Deed Book A-1, 333, 334, 335: 16 May 1750, John Everett et ux to Thomas Everett. See Bureau of Land Records, Patent Book AA-5, 486, 487, 488. 18 October 1749. warrant #55 issued to Thomas Everard, cited in Note 28. nt Ibid., under date of 29 February 1764, warrant #17 issued to Thomas Everitt. 59 Northampton County Deed Book A-I, 327, 328: 6 March 1764, Thomas Everett to John Everett. nt Ibid., Deed Book A-1, 328, 329, 330: 7 March 1764, John Everett to Joseph Holder. .1 Film of the Original Tax Lists of Northampton County, The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. 9 . Allemangel Church Book, as cited in Note 27, 396, 397, obituary of John Everett; ibid., 401, obituary of Mary Everett. 95 Northampton County Register of Wills, Administration #88131 1779. estate of John Everett. St Northampton County Deed Book 11-2, 364, 365: 28 August 1788, Joseph Everitt to John Edmonds. Ot Northampton County Orphans Court File 33-2055. 99 As cited in Notes 18 and 27. "Augustus Schultze, Guide to Old Moravian Cemetery, 1742-1810, (Lancaster, Pa., 1912), p. 93. Her grave is Section D, Number 21. 11 Northampton County Will Book 4, 498, #3038: . 4 September 1815, will of Johana Everett; II December 1815, probate of will. as Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seri., IX, 157. at As cited in Note 29. "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XXXIX (1915), 187. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, II, 615. Conrad Weiser made reference to Justice Thomas Everitt in a letter to Richard Peters, 17 November 1757. See Paul A. W. Wallace, Conrad Weiser. 1696-1760, (Philadelphia, 1945), 499. Possibly another reference to 2. Thomas Everett appears n i Saur's German newspaper, Pens-ylvanische Berichto 29 October 1757. "Johannes S.hler of Allemangel ...one mile from Justice Eberth." 19 As cited in Note 34. 4, DAR Lineage Book 67. #66304. 50 Thomas Everith and wife Catharina Barbara were sponsors 13 November 1757, for Catharina Barbara, daughter of Michaell and Maria Elisabeth Allbrecht; Thomas Everith and wife were sponsors 2 September 1764, for Thomas, son of Michaell and Maria Elisabeth Albrecht. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, I (1968), 240, 303. See also Note 23. Northampton County Deed Book E-2, 349, 350, 351: 15 October 1784, Thomas Everitt to John Everitt. Tracing this deed establishes proof that it descended to "son John's" sonsr John, Jr., Jacob and Peter —all over or. 21 in 1812— and Samuel, Daniel, and Stephen, minors in 1812. See Northampton County Orphans Court Book 8, 465: 21 August 1812. See also Montgomery as cited in Note 15, Jacob Everett. "Calendar notebook, "March", cited in Note 16, children of 2. Thomas, 91 Cited in Note 47. See also National Genealogical Society Quarterly, XXXVII (1949). 47; DAR Patriot Index, 0966), 225. According to Oswald, Appendix, Part I, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, cited in Note 2, there was an unidentified Samuel Everett of record in Allemangel in 1769. That Samuel was apparently Samuel son of 2. Thomas Everett as evidenced by this record. St DAR Lineage Book, 35, #34785: See also records of the New Tripoli, Pennsylvania, Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1768-1862. Film No. 71, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: "Michael Probst, Jr., and his wife Magdalena (Everett) don. Thomas, Jr.—son Valentin, bap. Feb. 27, 1774." 9 . See Everett, 8, cited in Note 2. vs Pennsylvania Archives, as cited in Note I. Two Everett Families 157 Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, as cited in Note 27. 56 William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers', (Norristown, 1934), I, 379, 381. Lists 120-It-C. Abraham Kieffer, a shipmate, settled in Dryland, Bethlehem Township, not far from Moorestown. He was the immigrant ancestor of Miss Elizabeth Kieffer, formerly of the Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1959. Schlegels and MilHers, family names closely associated with the Everett family of Moore, were also on the Two Brothers. Although no apparent connection, in any one instance, with the Everetts of Northampton County has as yet been established, the name Jost-Yost, with variations of the spelling of the surname Ebert-Everd, does appear in other available records which should be mentioned. To wit: A Yost Everhard was a member, 10 May 1756, of an Independent (military) Company, in St. Vincent Township, Chester County, formed by Quakers in self defense against the Indians. See I. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, 1881), 52. And a Yost Ebert from Pikeland made affirmation of faith as a Moravian, at Philadelphia, 26 September 1765. See Montague Giuseppi, Naturalization Of Foreign Protestants In The American and West Indian Colonies, (Baltimore, 1964). 147. This man may have been the Yost Everd, inmate, Pikeland, Chester County Rates, 1765. See Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XI, 94- Then there was the John Jos Eberst who contributed 1 shilling to the Wentz Reformed Church, Skippack, Worcester Township, Montgomery County, 20 October 1763. See Film #141, Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lastly, there is the Jost Ebert who appears in Philadelphia City tax lists, from 1769 through 1782, in Mulberry Ward, who in 1769 is listed as Joseph Everts, innholder, and for other years as Jost Ebert or Eberth. Ibid., XIV, 205, 283, 820; XV, 344, 643; XVI, 494. See also Philadelphia Will Book U, 248. 1789, will of Jost Ebert, wherein 6 children are named. Jost Eberth was buried 13 March 1789, ae. 64. See First or German Reformed Church Records, Philadelphia, transcript in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. vt See deposition made 20 June 1757, at Easton, by George Ebert, age 16 —"the son of John Ebert"— concerning his capture by the Indians. Pennsylvania Colonial Records- VII, 620, 621, 5 s Theodore F. Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey, (Baltimore, 1969), 636. See also New Jersey Genesis (January 1957), 129. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIX, 63. 66 Northampton County Will Book I, 150, #735: 1777-78, will of John Eberd. s' Northampton County Will Book 1, 110, #606: 1772-94, will of John Dieter. ss Northampton County Register Index Book K. 31. Administration #395: 1765-70, estate of Christian Kollumbach (Calembagh). Valentine Waldman, Lehigh Township, was appointed administrator of the Kollumbach estate under bond of £80, by the court. The inventory, taken 2 March 1765, by Nicholas Nelig and Valentine Waldman, was exhibited on 15 March 1770, at which time the widow of Christian Kollumbach was specifically referred to as "Elizabeth Deeder late Elizabeth Kollumbach now the wife of John Deedeo Moore Township, yeoman." 6 s Northampton County Orphans Court Book D, 205: 23 April 1774. as Film of the Original Tax Lists for Northampton County. The Geneaolgical Society of Pennsylvania. 65 Lutheran Register of Stone Church record, 1772-1822, Bethlehem Public Library transcript, 56. 66 Hannah Benner Roach, DAR Magazine, October 1964, 796. tt Oaths of Allegiance, photostat copies, Easton Public Library. an Tax Lists of Northampton County Court House, 1774-1806, translated by the Reverend A. S. Lieby (a typed manuscript), Easton Public Library. Heads' Of Families At The First Census ... 1790, Pennsylvania, (Washington, D.C., 1908). 177. Godfrey Everett probably emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, about 1788-89, together with other emigrants from Moore Township. Ibid., 26715 As cited in Note 67at As cited in Note 68. See also Transcripts, Bethlehem Public Library. 0 Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, VIII, 259, 260, 575. ss Harry Howard Eddy, States Records Officer. Division of Public Records, Harrisburg, 158 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 22 May, 18 September 1957, personal correspondence. See also Pennsylvania Archives., 5th Series, VIII, 245. Under the Militia Act of 1777, "the names of all the men in each battalion were listed by company in a permanent roll',. usually called 'General Returns of the Bat" talion.'" On these permanent billet rolls, the men in each company were listed by class and after the name of, the private, it was noted if he had served his tour of duty himself. See Roach, 797, cited in Note 66. 7.. Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, IV, 650. 55 Esther E. Dieter (Mrs. Eldon P.) Gundry, Flint, Mich., personal correspondence, 1958. .Northampton County Register Index Book E, 94, #2488, 1807, estate of Jacob Everitt. Apparently, there was a direct or indirect relationship between the John Miller family and the Jacob Everett family of Moore. John and Anna Maria (Fabian) Miller, were married by the Reverend John E. Hecker. 2 June 1761. See William J. Hinke, ed., History of Tohickon Union Church, 1745 - 1854, (Meadville, 1825), 215. Nicholas Schlegal, one of the bondsmen for lapob Everitt, 1807, died intestate in 1815 and his wife Anna Maria, who was named administratrix of his estate, renounced to "friend and relative, Henry Miller and John Dieter The settlement papers mention "a note payable after the decease of Maria Miller, the mother in-law of Nicholas Schlegal." Caspar Mersch, the other bondsman, a nephew of John Dieter d. 1773, married Maria Barbara Miller, sister of Anna Maria (Miller) Schlegal; and Paul Miller and Henry Miller, brothers of Maria Barbara and Anna Maria, appear in the baptismal records of Stone Church as sponsors for children of Jacob and Catherine Eberet. John and Anna Maria Miller also had children John Frederick, John Peter, Catherine and John. See Stone Church records and Emmanuel Church records. 01 Translated from the original German by John H. Borger, Northampton, for the Reverend Henry E. Eisenhart, Pastor Stone Church, 24 August 1957. See also transcripts of Stone Church and Emmanuel Church records, Easton Public Library. DAR Patriot Index, 293, cited in Note 51. Fourth Census of the United States, 1820, Pennsylvania, Northampton County, Lehigh Township, Film #104, 248. "Ibid. Also 1810 Census, Film #51, Lehigh Township, 85 , 81 Northampton Deed Book A-5, 379: 26 September 1823, Frederick Everet and wife Susanna to Michael Rateline. to Suspended Bounty Land Claim No. 177388 Re-examined, Treasury Department, Third Auditors Office, 27 January 1857, Commissioner of Pensions, Department of the Interior so See Everett, 9, 10, cited in Note 2, for children of Frederick and Susanna Everett. 84 See Note 68. St Northampton County Administration #880, as cited in Note 36; Will Book I. 150, #735, as cited in Note 60; Will Book 4, 164, #2225: 1796-1804. will of Jacob Eberit of Chestnut Hill Township; Administration #120: 1757, estate of Michael Ebert of Heidelberg Township; Administration #468: 1768-1770, estate of Moses Everitt of Nu Bethel Township. 8 . This apparently refutes the claims in Notes 24 15 and 16 regarding Dedham kinships and demonstrates how an assumptmn can become, after a period of years, a petrified tradition. 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