Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell - (PDF ... - Adkinshorton.net

EVERTSJohn Everts the first of the Everts family in this country was one of theearly settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As early as 1638 recordsshow his name in Concord. About 1649 he removed with his family to Guilford,Connecticut and in 1651 purchased there what was known as his "homelot" near the Guilford Green. This piece of land was John Mephane's Guilfordallotment and in 1881 was owned by John Benton.If one goes to Guilford now, some 300 years after its settlement, one willfind still standing some of the first frame houses built on the home lots of theGuilford families. Bordering the Green and the nearby streets, many ofthese homes display their original erection dates (usually some year in the18th century); these dates being painted in small numerals on white paintedsidings or over doorways.Four generations of the Everts family lived in Guilford before another JohnEverts (1708-1786) and his brother Nathaniel moved into northwest Connecticutto the town of Salisbury. The mother of these men was a very well educatedwoman for the period. She was Margaret Hastings, daughter of Dr. ThomasHastings of Hatfield, Mass, before she married Nathaniel Everts, Sr. Dr.Hastings was the only physician for the towns of Hatfield, Hadley, Northamptonand Deerfield. He was also the schoolmaster of the Hatfield school,the first in New England, (it is claimed.) known to have taught girls the samesubjects in classes with boy students; a custom not adopted in other placesuntil later.John Everts who went from Guilford to Salisbury was born 21 Sept. 1708and his brother Nathaniel in 1719, and the removal was made about 1750.John became very active in the public life of Salisbury. He was one of twomen who were the first regular representatives to the General Assembly,being elected to that office twelve times. In 1761 he was deputed by thegrantees of the land to'go to uncharted territory in New Hampshire (now inVermont) to make exact surveys in order to obtain charters for two new townships.Finding there was sufficient land in the tract he laid out three townscalling them New Haven, Middlebury and Salisbury, named from his own State.He himself never lived on this tract but he had sons who moved to these places.One of them at the time of the Revolution was a Loyalist.However John Everts (called Sr. as he had a son John) was an active participantin the movement for the Colonies' freedom from Great Britain. In1774 when the town of Salisbury held a town meeting which named resolutionsagainst "the Infringement of Liberty" due to the blocking of Boston Harbor,John Everts was Moderator of the meeting. During the War he served eightyears on the small but important Committee of Inspection of Provisions. Thetown of Salisbury had iron ore and one of the few foundries controlled by theColonies. Also it was ill-famed among the Tories for its prisoner-of-warcamp.Salisbury, the township, includes what is now known as Lakeville. Herea few blocks from the center of the village on a site overlooking a cold, springfedlittle lake called by its Indian name Wononskopomuc, John Everts and his