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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
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Author: Michael D. C. Merryman
John Everett/Everitt (1743-1820) P-155721
Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of John Everitt, R3404:
Georgia, Bullock County:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for said County, Mrs. Sarah Everitt, widow of John Everitt, a revolutionary soldier, who, after being first duly sworn, deposes and says that, by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, she cannot swear positively as to the precise length of her husband's service in the war, but according to the best of her recollection, he served not less than five years in the militia of North Carolina. This declarant states her husband, John Everitt entered into the Army about the 30th year of his age; that in the course of the war her husband, John Everitt, was wounded in the shoulder by a rifle ball which remained in his shoulder until the day of his death. After the conclusion of the war declarant's husband emigrated to Bullock County Georgia, in the year 1785 where he resided until the day of his death which happened on the 17th day of November A.D. 1821, in the 70th year of his age. Declarant testifies that she is 95 years of age, and is so old and infirm that she cannot remember all the particulars of her husband’s service. She recollects that her husband went to, and returned from the war a great many times, and that he was wounded in the shoulder at Betty’s Bridge on the Drowning Creek near Pedee, this Declarant thinks in North Carolina; that her husband, the said John Everitt, served under Captain DeJarnic or D’Garnic from North Carolina -- Deponent thinks that her husband served in company with a man by the name of James Pickett, but her memory might have failed her that she is so old she recollects but few of the events of that remote period. -- She remembers distinctly that her husband went to the war frequently -- She has seen him with Colonel Wade whom deponent thinks lived in Anson C. H. in North Carolina. She recollects that Colonel Thomas Wade when the Scotch Army entered the neighborhood, retreated for Virginia and declarant's husband followed Colonel Wade a few miles, intending to retreat with him into Virginia, but that Colonel advised deponent's husband to return and keep peaceable, as he was not able to retreat. In consequence of the great age of deponent, she cannot recollect anything more that might throw light on the subject of her husband's services but she swears positively and is certain that her husband served at intervals throughout most of the war. Sworn to and subscribed this 3rd September 1846 before me.
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Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
John Everett d. 11/17/1820 CANDLER COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served as a private in the North Carolina Militia under Captain Abraham DeJarnett and was wounded in the shoulder at Betty's Bridge on Downing Creek.
Buried: Everett Cemetery.
See: (1) Ancestor Histories of Members of the Archibald Bulloch Chapter, D.A.R., Statesboro, Georgia.
(2) Bulloch County, Georgia Genealogical Source Material, p. 435.
(3) Widow's Pension Application, #3404.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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