Everett is also spelled Everet, Everette, Everit, and Everitt.
Earmarks are cuts or marks in the ears of animals made to show ownership.
The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.
Georg Everit his ear marck is two half peneys on the fore aid of the near ear which was his father Richard Everits marck entred January ye 8 1722-3 by me Tho Gildersleeve Clarck (Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island)
He married Sarah Rushmore about 1720. She was the daughter of Thomas Rushmore and Martha Hicks. The Rushmores were Quakers and founders of the English settlement of Hempstead on Long Island.
George and Sarah's children included:
Elizabeth Everett,
George Everett,
Thomas Everett,
Richard Everett,
Rinear Everett,
William Everett (1736, married Phebe Skidmore),
Benjamin Everett (1738, married Mary Skidmore),
John Everett (did NOT marry Jannetie Bergen),
Sarah Everett (1741, married Daniel Skidmore) and
Daniel Everett.
Queens County, New York is on Long Island. Jamaica was called Rustdorp by the Dutch. It was originally settled by English settlers from neighboring Hempstead. Hempstead was founded in 1644 by emigrants led by Reverend Richard Denton. Jamaica and Hempstead are now in Nassau County.
