HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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ably been residents for two -or three 

 generations. The lirst of the name of 

 whom we have any record was Edward 

 Everett, "of St. Saviour's, Southwark, 

 Surrey, England, Shipper," who came 

 to New Jersey and purchased on July 

 23, 1681, a tract of land in Gloucester 

 county, East Jersey, opposite Philadel- 

 phia, a part of which he and his wife 

 Mary conveyed to Richard Wall, Decem- 

 ber 9, 1681. No probate record is found 

 on his estate, and there is no proof that 

 he was the ancestor of the family of 

 Everitt who later settled in Middlesex 

 and Hunterdon counties. New Jersey, 

 and were the direct ancestors of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch. Nicholas Everitt, of 

 Hopewell, Hunterdon county, died in 

 1723, intestate, and letters of adminis- 

 tration were granted on his estate to his 

 widow Phebe. He was probably the 

 father of Benjamin, who died at Maiden- 

 head in 1760; William, of Kingwood; 

 John, of Bethlehem, who died 1756; and 

 possibly also of Ezekiel Everitt, who 

 died in Middlesex county, in 1795. Will- 

 iam Everitt purchased land in Hunter- 

 don county in 1753, and died there in 

 1782, letters of administration being 

 granted to his son Samuel, who died in 

 December, 1783. The similarity of the 

 names of the children of the Everitts 

 above named indicates that they were 

 all of the family. 



The first record we have of Ezekiel 

 Everitt, the ancestor of the Bucks county 

 family, is in 1784 when, with Benjamin 

 Doughty, of Hunterdon county, he ad- 

 vertises for information in reference to a 

 span of horses stolen from his late resi- 

 dence in Ulster county. New York. At 

 about this date he came to Bucks county, 

 and was engaged in the milling business 

 on the Neshaminy in Middletown, and 

 in 1789 purchased lots in the present 

 limits of the borough of Langhorne. He 

 later purchased a farm of eighty acres 

 on Core Creek near Jenks' Mill, and sev- 

 eral other tracts of land in Middletown. 

 About 1810 he removed to Tinicum town- 

 ship, Bucks county, where he purchased 

 a farm of ninety-eight acres, but soon 

 after removed to Amwell township, 

 Hunterdon county. New Jersey, where he 

 lived until his death, about May i, 1829. 

 He was twice married ; his first wife and 

 the mother of his children was Mary. 

 About the time of his removal to New 

 Jersey he married a second wife, Abigail, 

 who survived him. His children were: 

 Jacob, Epenetes; Aaron; Moses; Will- 

 iam; David; Ezekiel; Rachel, wife of 

 William Tomlinson, of Middletown; 

 Mary Quick, and Elizabeth Bonham ; 

 Jacob died in Middletown, in 1832, on 

 land devised to him by his father. 



Aaron, the great-grandfather of the 

 subject, was the third son of Ezekiel ana 

 Mary Everitt, and was probably a native 

 of New Jersey. In 1809 he purchased 

 of his father, a home in Middletown, 



and three years later purchased of the 

 heirs of John Van Horn a farm of 93V2 

 acres in iMiddletown, on which he lived 

 until his death in 1852. In the year 1829 

 he purchased a farm of seventy-eight 

 acres which, on March 31, 1830, he con- 

 veyed to his son Samuel. Aaron Everitt 



married Mary , and their children were : 



David, who inherited the homestead in 

 Middletown; Samuel; and Rachel, who 

 married Ridgway Longshore. 



Samuel Everitt, son of Aaron and 

 Mary, was born in Middletown township, 

 Bucks county. As before stated, he pur- 

 chased a farm in Middletown of his 

 father in 1830 on which he lived the 

 greater part of his life, dying about 1874. 

 He was a leading man in the commun- 

 ity, taking an active part in local afTairs. 

 He was at one time engaged in milling 

 at Hulmeville. He married Sarah Ben- 

 nett, and was the father of five children : 

 Christiana, wife of Jesse Cabe of Middle- 

 town; Leila, wife of Joseph Hammer, of 

 Bakersfield, California; Mary, widow of 

 Burtis Magill, of Hulmeville;' David P.; 

 and Clara, wife of James M. Boileau, of 

 Bridesburg, Philadelphia. 



David Everitt, only son of Samuel and 

 Sarah (Bennett) Everitt, was born on 

 the old homestead in Middletown, No- 

 vember 20. 1839. He was educated at 

 the Bellevue Academy at Langhorne, and 

 on attaining manhood engaged in farm- 

 ing in Middletown for eight years. In 

 1872 he engaged in the mercantile busi- 

 ness at Newportville, Bristol township, 

 Bucks county, which he continued until 

 his death. May 18, 1893, serving as post- 

 master for four years during Cleveland's 

 administration. He was a Democrat in 

 politics, and religiously was a member 

 of the Methodist Episcopal church, of 

 which he was a trustee. He was a mem- 

 ber of Neshamin}' Lodge, No. 422, I. O. 

 O. F., of Hulmeville. He married Han- 

 nah M. Vandegrift, daughter of Jona- 

 than and Martha Vandegrift, of Middle- 

 town, where she was born, March 17, 

 1842. She now resides with her son, 

 Jesse C, of Newportville. David P. and 

 Hannah M. (Vandegrift) Everitt were 

 the parents of nine children: Camilla and 

 Samuel, who died young; Jesse C. ; Stan- 

 ley, who died young; Etta, wife cf Sam- 

 uel G. Davis, of Eddington; Edward, who 

 married Nellie Rudolph, and died Janu- 

 ary 9. 1903; Gertrude S., wife of James 

 J. Dugan, of Bristol; and Nellie D.. wife 

 of loseph Y. Severns of Newportville. 



Jesse C. Everitt obtained his early ed- 

 ucation at the public school at Newport- 

 ville. At an earlj' age he entered his 

 father's store as clerk and filled that po- 

 sition for eighteen years. At the death 

 of his father he took charge of the store, 

 which he has since conducted in connec- 

 tion with his mother. He served as as- 

 sistant postmaster under his father and 

 mother respectively, during the two ad- 

 ministrations of President Cleveland. In 



