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Jeremiah Evarts

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Name	Jeremiah Evarts
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	3 Feb 1781	Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, United States
Marriage		to Mehitable Prescot Sherman
Death^[1]	10 May 1831	Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Reference Number`^?`		Q6180829^?

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 TRUSTEES. 1778-1830, in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
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1829 Jeremiah Evarts 1837

Son of James Evarts and Sarah Todd;
born, Sunderland, Vt., Feb. 3, 1781;
fitted for college under Rev. John Eliot, East Guilford, Conn.;
Yale College, 1802;
principal of Caledonia County (Vt.) Grammar School, Peacham, Vt.;
studied law with Judge Charles Chauncey, New Haven, Conn.;
lawyer, New Haven;
removed to Charlestown, 1810;
editor of the Panoplist, 1810-21 :
one of the founders of the American Board of Foreign Missions;
treasurer, 1811-22;
corresponding secretary, 1821-31 ;
died, Charleston, S. C, May 10, 1831.
Jeremiah Evarts, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed Sep 2022.

Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831), also known by the pen name William Penn, was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.