Everts

The patronymic "Everts" evolved into Evertse and then to Evertson in eighteenth century Albany. The family lived first in New York.

Jacob Evertse (1671-1755) raised a family in Albany and was connected with the Lutheran church.

After the home of "cryer" "Hans Egar," two possible Everts-named households in 1756

In 1790, three Everts-named households appeared on the city census.

In 1815, six Everts addresses were listed in the city directory including cordwainer Jacob Evertsen, whose name was italicized in the listing as a "free person of color."

Sources: The guide to the Everts family is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. Dutch church tombstone inscriptions for the family have been placed online. These cover burials during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Evertsons in the index.