Everitt

Anne Everitt Many 1746–1822

Seventh Great Grandmother

Anne Everitt was born in 1746 in New York. Anne married Barnabas Wines Many in 1760 in New York. She passed away on Oct. 10, 1822 in New York.

United States. Census. 1820. Web.
State: New York
County: Orange
Town: Cornwall
Head of Family: Ann Manney
Males: 0
Females: 2
10 to 16: Unidentified
Over 45: Anne Many, 1746

Robert Everitt

Eighth Great Grandfather

Robert Everitt married Esther Butterfield in 1743 in New York. Robert passed away in 1785 in New York.

I am not sure if Robert Everitt was born in England or New York.

DAR #A037896 Service: New York Description: Patriotic Service

"Abstracts of Wills." Collections of the New-York Historical Society. Vol. XXXVII. 1905. 179-80. Web.
In the name of God, Amen. I, Robert Everitt, of Precinct of New Marlborough, Ulster County, N. Y., farmer, seriously considering the uncertainty of human life in the best and more particularly of my own in my declining state of health. I leave to my wife Esther, for life or while my widow one good beadstead, etc., two good cows and six sheep to be kept by my son Daniel for her use; Also flax ground which said son is to sow and dress for her not exceeding one bushell of seed to be sown yearly, full priviledge of my house to live in with my son Daniel, six apple trees, and a decent maintenance out of my estate; Also my negro wench Bell. To my son John, £2, "if paradventure it should so happen that he live in this place again." To son Daniel, the farm I live on, two yoke of good working oxen, "one note of hand of £100 from Barnabas Maney dated Dec. 17th, 1776, and one of £20 from William Brown dated the sixth of March, 1777," also my silver watch and my gun. To my daughters, Nancy, Francis, Patty, Esther and Jane, my moveable estate, equally divided "except as is hereafter excepted": To my daughter Sarah, £5; to my daughter Francis, £5, above that already given her "in consideration of her being an infirm and weakly woman"; to my daughter Jane, £50 and a cow, above her equal share of estate, in consideration of her having lived with and served me longer than any of my daughters. I order my son Daniel to teach my grandson, John Manna, the trade of shoemaking or weaving, and if he remain with him till of age £30, two suits of good clothes, and a horse.
Executors, wife, sons, John and Daniel, and son-in-law Elezer Freer.
Dated Sept. 28, 1781. Witnesses, William Car, Jehiel Semour, Benjamin Ely. Proved, Ulster County, June 28, 1785. Confirmed, New York, July 26, 1785.

Deyo, R. E. Historical Papers. Newburgh: Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, 1906. 193. Web.
One of the most important events of the year 1775 was the signing of the Articles of Association. Those who signed thereby committed themselves to the cause of the colonies, and the absence of a signature was strong presumptive evidence that its owner sympathized with the mother country.