1. Frederick Eveland was born about 1738 in Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey. He died in 1838 in Waynesville, McLean County, Illinois. He was buried in Fremont Cemetery.
THE STULL FAMILY - Julia Ann Stull (1814-1872) and Her Ancestors, compiled by Wayne V Jones, 1998, page 228+
Fredrick Eveland was born in the log cabin of his parents on the west bank of the North Branch of the Raritan River in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ. The exact date is not known but the fact that he qualified as administrator of the estate of his father on 3 June 1766 in Sussex Co, NJ[24] indicates that he was at least 21 years old at that time. Since his parents were married prior to 15 May 1738[401] he probably was born no later than 1738/39 and could have been born somewhat earlier than that.
He was called "Frederick Eveland Jr" in the estate proceedings and so signed his name. While this would seem to indicate that his father was named Frederick, it appears certain that this was to distinguish him from his uncle, Fridrich Ifland (Fredrick Eveland), who resided in the county and would have been much better known than he. While the elder Fredrich had a son Frederick Jr, he could not have qualified as next of kin in order to be executor and he probably was not old enough to serve.
On 14 Aug 1766 he and Catrina Eveland, probably his wife, but possibly his aunt, Catharina Eveland, were witnesses at the baptism of Catrina, daughter of Jan Van Gorden and Elisabeth Vandemerken, by Rev Romine at the old Dutch Reformed Church at Walpeck, Sussex Co, NJ.[288] While being a witness does not require that he be a resident of Walpeck it seems likely that he was. Also, the fact that his son, Fredrick, was born ca 1762-64 in NJ adds considerably to the likelihood that Catrina was his wife. The Rev John F Eveland account of the family,[231] which is highly unreliable in the part that deals with the ancestry of William C Eveland, son of Frederick Eveland, states that William C Eveland's mother was a Rosecrans, of the same family as General Rosecrans (of the Civil War). There was a substantiated Rosecrans relationship at Walpeck and along the Delaware River northward from there which lends credibility to this statement but a considerable amount of research was unsuccessful in identifying a Rosecrans girl to be his wife. Thus, there is only a possibility that his first wife was Catrina Rosecrans.The next record found of him is in an original "List of Settlers on the Susquehannah, December 1771" made by Zebulon Butler and Stephen Fuller and now in the possession of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society on which he is recorded "Eveland, Frederick - 15th." He was not on a similar list made in September 1771 and the "15th" appears to indicate he had arrived on that date.[302]
The Pennamite-Yankee ConflictThis was a very troubled area into which he had moved. It was claimed by both Pennsylvania and Connecticut and since his land title was from Connecticut he was claimed as a "Yankee." Those claiming from Pennsylvania became known as "Pennamites" and there was frequent conflict between the two groups. In addition, there was frequent trouble with the Indians who, during the Revolutionary War, were encouraged and aided by the British to conduct raids, the most spectacular of which led to the Wyoming Massacre. Also there was conflict with the British themselves and with Loyalist sympathizers. Despite all these problems the Evelands stayed on, fighting and farming.
In the collections of the Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society is an original "List of Settlers at Susquehanna in May 1772."[13] One of the 215 settlers listed was "Eveland, Fred'k."
In the State Library at Hartford, Connecticut is the original of a memorial dated 3 Oct 1772 and addressed to the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut by which the inhabitants of Wyoming (Vasby) requested they be incorporated into a county, attached to another county or that possession be made otherwise in order that the existing disorders might be suppressed. One of the settlers memorializing the Assembly was Frederick Eveland.[138]
In "The town Book of Wilkes Barre," volume I, page 27, it is recorded:At a meeting of Propriators & Settlers Belonging to ye Susquehannah Purchase Legally warned and Held in Wilkesbarre Novr 18th 1772...
Voted - that three Persons that lives in Pittstown shall be their Duty then; and those that lives below Frederick Eveland's in Plymouth is to do their Duty their...[138]
At a town meeting of Westmoreland on 2 Mar 1774, Frederick Eveland was one of the fence viewers shown for the ensuing year.[138]
In Aug 1776, Frederick Eveland was listed as a taxpayer with property in Plymouth District, Town of Westmoreland, valued at 39 Pounds and tax of 1/219.[138][156]
All during this period he was living at Plymouth in the Wyoming Valley of "Connecticut" now in Pennsylvania.Revolutionary War Service
Frederick Eveland served exclusively in the 4th Connecticut Regiment during the Revolutionary War, from the beginning of 1777 presumably to the end of the war although no discharge record has been found for him. There is substantial documentation of his service in the National Archives, these records[300] being set out immediately below.
"Frederick Eveland, Corpl & Sergt" appears on "Return of Officers and Men" belonging to Capts Ransom and Durkee's Companies, stationed at Wyoming, who were considered as part of the quota of the State of Connecticut, and have been included in the settlement made in the Line of said State. Commencement of service Jan 1, 1777.[300]
Frederick Eveland, Corp, in the "2d Indpt Co raised in the town of Westmoreland, commanded by Capt Samuel Ransom," 4th Connecticut Regiment (Revolutionary War) appears on a company payroll as being paid 7 1/3 for 1 month service, 1 Aug 1777 to 1 Sept 1777.[300]
Fredrick Eveland, Sergt in the "2d Indpt Co, raised in the town of Westmoreland, commanded by Capt Samuel Ransom," 4th Connecticut Regiment (Revolutionary War) appears on a company payroll as being paid $8.00 for 1 month service, 1 Sept 1777 to 1 Oct. 1777.[300]
Fredrick Eveland, Sgt 2d Independent Co, commanded by Lieut Simon Spaulding from town of Westmoreland, state of Connecticut, 4th Connecticut Regiment (Revolutionary War), appears on a series of company muster rolls,[300] as follows:Roll of 18 Feb 1778 for service in Jan 1778.
Roll of 2 Mar 1778 for service in Feb 1778. Present on duty
Roll of 1 Apr 1778 for Service in Mar 1778. Term of enlistment: DW (Duration of War)
Roll of 4 May 1778 for service in Apr 1778. Term of enlistment: DW
Roll of 2 June 1778 for Service in May 1778. Term of enlistment W (War)
"Frederick Eveland, Serjt" appears in a receipt roll under the following heading: "We the subscribers hereby acknowledge to have received of Wm Adams paymaster to Col Durkee's Regt the sums annexed to our names in full of our wages from the first day of August to the first day of February. Last as Soldiers in the Late Capt Ransom's, now Lt Spaulding's Co."The roll was dated 8 May 1778 and his entry reads "Frederick Eveland Serjt 0.15.0."[300]The above records in the National Archives establish continuous service from 1 Aug 1777 through May 1778 and show that he enlisted I June 1777 for the duration of the war. Other records, detailed below, provide additional documentation of his service.
Working with a roster of Capt Spaulding's Company, which was defective in many respects, Oscar Jewell Harvey, using it and records of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, developed a roster which included Frederick Eveland as a private.[138] Since he was a corporal on 1 Aug 1777, insofar as his status is concerned, this roster must be as of some date between 1 Jan 1777 and 1 Aug 1777.
He suffered losses during the Revolutionary War for which he was never compensated."A Bill of Losses" sustained by the inhabitants of the town of Westmoreland, 3 July 1778 to May 1780, shows that he suffered losses of 90 pounds 6 shillings. After being "carefully examined" by the selectmen of the town it was "lodged in file" in the secretary's office and never was acted upon. 138.[301]
In a "Roll of Capt Spaulding's company, which was formed under the order of Congress of June 23, 1778, uniting the remains of the two independent companies of Wyoming, originally commanded by Captains Durkee and Ransom, who were all of Westmoreland, Conn." Frederick Eveland was a corporal and Nathaniel Evans, father of Frederick's daughter-in-law, Lois Evans, was a private.[297]Capt Spaulding and his company were stationed at Wilkes-Barre from Aug 1771 until Jan 1773, except for two or three brief military expeditions. Wilkes-Barre was supplied by small boats on the Susquehanna, from Sunburn or below, which made for a slow and inefficient supply line. The following note bears on their problem. The original is in the F J Deer Collection of Manuscripts of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania."[139]
Wyoming 16 July, 1780
Sir - the Bearer Sargt Eveland is Directed to find you and Return to me as soon as Possabel Excepting he meets the Boat. I need not mention the necessity of stores being forwarded as you must know the Flower you Left on hand must be gone eight days ago I desired Mr Forsman to muster what wheat he could belonging to you and send it to mill and He did about twenty Bushels and the Flower is Returned and spent we are how Intierly Destitute. Desire you to Forward Flower with all Possabel Dispatch. You'll Please to Dismiss the Barrer and let him return to me as soon as Possabel and let me know what is doing and what stores there is coming on. Relying on your faithful Performance of your Duty I am Sincerely your Humble Serv't [Signed] Zebn Butler, Col Comd.To Mr [Wm] Stewart
On 23 Jan 1781, being faced with an order for the company of Capt Simon Spaulding to transfer to the Mohawk Valley of New York, the company petitioned to be discharged since their houses and families would be left undefended in the frontier area of the company left. The petition is of such great interest that it is quoted in full:Petition of Westmoreland Militia[303]
To the Honourable the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut or in their recess to his Excellency the Governor and Council of Safety for Said State.
Humbly Sheweth that your Humble Pititioners whose names are hereafter Subscribed Humbly Beg leave to Say before your Honours this our Present State & Situation. Your Pititioners in the Year 1776 Inlisted in the Cont Service under the Command of Captains Durkee & Ransom by Special Order of the Continental Congress for the Defence of this Place and the frontiers but Contrary to our Expectations were in a few months after our Engagements Call'd away to Join the Cont Army under his Excellency General Washington where we Continued Almost two years which was so great Trouble to us in Leaving our Families Exposed to be ravaged by the Savages that one half of our Companies Died in the Service. In the time of our Being in the Cont Army the enemy made Incursions and in a Most Barbarous and inhuman manner Killed Numbers of our Parents and friends and Destroyed all our Effects and left our wives, families, friends and Parents in the Most Distressed situation. His Excellency General Washington Knowing of the Indians being on the Frontiers orders us back to this place where the enemy were in Actual Possession. When we marched in on the 3d of August 1778 (same time we could get no troops to assist us) attacked the enemy and drove them off where we have Continued since through a Series of Troubles on Account of Different Incursions from the Indians where we have with our Wages and Some little help from the Continent Supported our families. If we Could Stay here we might Support them without any expence to this State. But we are again Ordered to March out and the Garrison to be relieved with other Troops yet what relief Can we Expect as we must Leave our families exposed to be again Ravaged by the Indians and probably all Murdered, therefore Your Humble Pititioners Humble Prays a Discharge from the Service or Prays your Hounours through your Great Wisdom to Advise some other way to Support them. Which Your pititioners is ever Bound to Pray. Dated Westmoreland 23d Jany AD 1781.
Both Frederick Eveland and his longtime friend, Nathaniel Evans, signed the petition. The original Captains, Durkee and Ransom, signed in 1778 because of the Indian threat and were killed in the Battle of Wyoming, more popularly known as the Wyoming Massacre.[303]
After consideration of the matter a committee of the General Assembly of Connecticut recommended that they be discharged. Instead, however, it was decided to garrison Fort Wyoming at Wilkes-Barre with troops of a state not involved in the Pennamite-Yankee dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut. A Company of the 1st New Jersey Regiment under Captain Mitchell was stationed at Fort Wyoming, arriving on 22 Feb 1781. On the 24th Capt. Spaulding's Company was ordered to join Gen Washington's army and on the 25th they departed. There the story ends. No discharge of Fredrick Eveland has been found.It is apparent from the above that he enlisted late in 1776 and served at least until 1781 and very probably for the remainder of the Revolutionary War.
Resumption of the Pennamite-Yankee Conflict
With the winding down of the Revolutionary War, the Pennamite-Yankee War revived and things were not developing as the Connecticut (Yankee) settlers had hoped. As a result, on 12 Feb 1783 Fredrick Eveland, his son, Fredrick Jr, and several others to whom he later became related by marriage, signed a petition to the Assembly of New York asking for permission to settle on lands along the Susquehanna in New York.[139] After considerable delay their request was approved and implemented.
Frederick Eveland remained in the region throughout this period and took part in the Pennamite-Yankee dispute, which colored nearly all important transactions. His presence is attested by several tax records. In Aug 1777 Frederick Eveland, still in the Plymouth District, town of Westmoreland, Connecticut was taxed 1/4/0 on property valued at 24 pounds.[156] On 1 Nov 1778 Frederick "Eucland," undoubtedly a misreading of "Eveland," was taxed 1/4/0 on property valued at 24 Pounds.[156] In the summer of 1781 a tax list for the town of Westmoreland shows Frederick Eveland as owning 1 cow and owing a tax of 3 shillings.[139] He was not on the poll list, probably because he was away serving in the army. On 12 Feb 1783, Frederick was among a large group of "Connecticut Settlers" who petitioned the assembly of the state of New York as follows:
We the subscribers hereby covenant and agree to and with each other, and jointly petition the Assembly of the State of New York for a tract of land situate on the waters of the Susquehanna and within the limits of said State, sufficient for us the subscribers, our familys, and those who were Distressed and Drove from here by the savages in 1778; and also do hereby appoint Obadiah Gore our agent, with full power and authority to apply to the Governor and Senate of said State, or to the General Assembly, or to any Board within and for said State, proper to make applycation to for lands as aforesaid; and in our names and behalf to petition, &c, according to his best Descretion. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands at Westmoreland, this 12th day of February, 1783.
Among the signers were Frederick Eveland, his son, Frederick Jr and his friends, Nathanial Evans and James Frisbie. Under 21, Frederick Evelyn (Eveland) Jr and Jonathan Frybe (Frisbie) also signed.
On 21 Mar 1783 pursuant to their request, the New York Senate passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That Obadiah Gore and his associates shall be permitted to locate on any of the waste and unappropriated lands within this state on the like terms and conditions as the immediate citizens of this state may be entitled to, whenever the Legislature shall determine to grant the lands; and that in the meantime O. Gore and his associates, or any of them, may explore the said lands in order to determine their future choice.The Assembly concurred later that day.[130]
A list, believed to be as of Apr 1783, divided a number of the Wyoming settlers into two groups, those who worked to support the laws of Pennsylvania and those who favored Connecticut. Frederick Eveland was listed under Connecticut, which group was substantially larger than the one favoring Pennsylvania.[305]
On 10 Mar 1783, Obadiah Gore petitioned the New York Legislature[306] as follows:
To the Honble the legislature of the State of New York. In Senate and Assembly met -The petition of Obadiah Gore in behalf of himself and a Number of the Inhabitants of Wyoming on the Susqh river, humbly Sheweth that your honours memorialist and those he represents have been at Great Expense and Trouble in Setling an Extent of Teritory on said Susqh under the Claim of Connecticut with the most honest Intentions & c but being a Frontier and upward of Two hundred of our Ablest men Engaged in the Service of the United States either for During the War of three years whereby our settlements were left weak against the Unexpected attacks of the Savages and Others of more Savage Natures. Whereby we have suffered almost a Total loss of our property by the calamity of War, and the Honb1e board of commissioners appointed to Settle the Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania have given their Opinion in favour of the latter, which renders us still more miserable, having to leave the premises in about one year.
And whereas there is an Extent of Teritory lying on the waters of the said Susqh river beginning near the mouth of Owego Creek or where the Pennsylvania line Crosses the said Susqh river and Extending up said river (and including the waters of the same) to Onoquaga be appropriated and Survey and a Grant thereoff of five hundred Acres to Each of your honours Memoriallists for an Encouragement to make in Immediate Settlement so soon as the Scituation of the times will permitt (with restrictions of the like nature to Enforce Complyance on the part of your honours memoriallists as a Immediate Settlement of those lands will Open a Door for a large Increase on Inhabitants into this flourishing State. It will add to its wealth and Strength, and Inhance the value of the Other unappropriated Lands &c or we pray that lands may be Granted as in such Quantity and on such Terms as your honours in your wisdom shall think fit and your memoriallist as in Duty bound shall Ever pray. Obadh Gore in Behalf of the inhabitants of Wyoming. Dated at Kingstown, March 10th 1783.
While Pennsylvania showed signs of being willing to work things out, it did not act in timely fashion and 11 Nov 1783 Zebulon Butler and a number of others, including Frederick Eveland, petitioned "The Congress of the United States of America Assembled and Sitting at Princetown in the State of New Jersey." This lengthy petition outlined their acquisition of lands, the establishment of government by corrective cut in 1771-73 and spoke of their "most intollerable sufferings during the late unhappy Warr, Their Houses and other Buildings have been Burned & Their Lands Laid waste, their Cattle killed and Pillaged, Many of their Fathers, Mothers, Wives & children have been Sacraficed by the relentless fury of a Savage Enemy." It further set out that Pennsylvania laid claims to the acres in 1782 and that "They are driven (by the Pennamites) from their Houses and Settlements with their Helpless Families, the Fruit of their Industry, the Last Summe is Pillaged from them; & they are turned Adrift att the beginning of a Long and inclement Winter, without Covering or means of Subsistence and have no where to look for redress & Protection but to your Honourable body."[307]
On 26 Jan. 1784, Obadiah Gore again petitioned the New York Legislature to set aside the lands as they had agreed, in principle to do in Mar 1783.[308]
On 20 July 1784, a detachment of "Yankees" was sent to inspect the growing grain on the Shawnee or Plymouth flats (where Frederick Eveland lived) and were ambushed by a larger group of "Pennamites." Two of the Pennamites, Henry Brink and Wilhelmus Van Gorden, were wounded. Later one Pamela Taylor deposed: That on July 20 she went [to the house of Frederick Eveland] to see Wilhelmus Van Gorden, a man that was wounded by the Connecticut party. Among some discourse she heard the wounded man say to one Thomas Heath Jr that the Yankees fired first. Further, he said that as they were walking along the road he [Van Gorden] spied a dog in the bushes, and was turning towards Henry Brink, who was next to him, to tell him he believed it was a Yankee dog; that, just as he was going to speak, he and Brink were shot; and, looking towards Heath, who was sitting on the bedside, he said: "you are the person that was going to blowout my brains as I was lying there wounded; and you would have done it had it not been for one of your party that struck away your gun and reprimanded you.[139]
While Wilhelmus Van Gordon and Frederick Eveland were on opposite sides of this problem, the two families had lived at Walpeck in Sussex Co, NJ and they probably were friends.The General Assembly of Pennsylvania also had been asked for relief at about the time the New York assembly had been petitioned and appointed commissioners to settle the grievances of the Connecticut settlers but on 25 Sept 1784, some 84 of them, including Frederick Eveland, wrote two of the commissioners, James Read and John Okely, that the other two, Lt Col John Armstrong and John Boyd Esq, were so prejudiced against the Connecticut settlers they should not be allowed to serve.[139]
On 21 Mar 1787, "Frederick Eveland of Shawney, in the County of Luzerne," Pa conveyed to Isaac Benjamin of Shawney, for 30 pounds a lot of land lying in Shawney, Luzerne Co and "formally" the property of the proprietors of Connecticut which was bounded northerly by James Nesbit, southerly in the Publick Lot, easterly on the Susquehannah River and westerly by the Third Division Lots.[298] Thomas Neill and William Hurlbut were witnesses. The deed was not acknowledged until 8 Oct 1787 before James Nisbitt, Justice, and was not recorded until 14 Nov 1795.On 10 Apr 1787, "Frederick Eveland of Plymouth, in the Susquehanna Purchase" conveyed to Benjamin Harvey of Plymouth, certain lands in "Shawnee Flat." The acknowledgment reads:
Wyoming, ss: Wilkesbarre, April 10th, 1787, personally appeared Frederick Eveland, signed and sealed of the above written instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his own act and deed, before me John Franklin, Director.[139]
These two 1787 deeds suggest that he was preparing to move. This thought is born out in Everets' history in Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, NY, in the chapter on the town of Nichols, Tioga County, by the following:
The settlement of the town was commenced by Ebenezer Ellis, Palatiah Pierce, Stephen Mills, and James Cole, in 1787, as stated by both French and Dr Hough in their respective Gazateers. A statement is made by John W Lanning, a son of Daniel Lanning, one of the early settlers, to the effect that John and Frederick Evelin or Eveland as their descendants now spell the name, a Vangorden, and two sons, Leonard and Benjamin and a man named Sullivan, settled near Canfield Corners. An impartial investigation of the matter leads us to credit the information contained in the Gazetteers, as the most reliable authorities agree that none of the last-named six persons arrived prior to 1788-89.[309]
Despite the preceding statement, it appears to the compiler that the Evelands, probably the entire family, moved no later than spring 1788. The 1787 deeds above suggest it and the fact that the 1850 census in Fulton Co, Ill shows that his grandson, Nathaniel, son of his son, Fredrick, was born in New York state between 1 June 1787 and 31 May 1788.Canfield Corners was on the South bank of the Susquehanna River in the area in which the Wyoming settlers had proposed they be settled as early as 1783. It was across the river from "Yates Location," now the town of Tioga Center. It may be that Fredrick Eveland and his son, John, also moved there from Canfield Corners. Whether "John and Fredrick Eveland" at Canfield Corners were Fredrick Eveland and his son, John, or whether they were his sons is uncertain. They probably were the sons and the matter is unimportant since the whole family was there shortly.
On 20 July 1792, "Frederick Eveland in the Town of Owaga (Owego), County of Tioga," NY conveyed for 40 Pounds, to Benjamin Harvey of Salem Twp, Luzerne Co, Pa, three tracts in the town of Plymouth, Luzerne Co[299]:
Undivided 1/2 interest in House Lot No. Six, Middle Tier, containing 5 acres.
Lot No. 36 in the fourth Division in said Plymouth, containing 66 acres.
Lot No. 30 in the fifth Division in said Town, containing 86 acres 120 perches.He was disposing of the rest of his property at Plymouth, probably at bargain rates, presaging another move further afield.
The 1792 deed mentioned above is potentially confusing as to his place of residence. Tioga County was founded in 1791, at which time the town of Owego was located where the town of Tioga now is and the town of Tioga was where the town of Owego now is. In 1813, the Town Council decided to switch the names so that from then on the two towns were located where present day maps show them to be.[344] In 1792, however, the town of Owego had Pope Creek running through it and was across the Susquehanna from Canfield Corners. The part nearest to Canfield Corners was called "Yates Location" and was named for one of the granters, Peter W Yates, the 8,000 acre tract which carried his name. In view of the later confusion among some of his descendants which led to their belief that he settled in Yates County, New York it is probable that when he was of the town of Owego, he also, at the same time, was of Yates Location.
He was not joined by a wife in the 1787 or 1792 deeds suggesting that his first wife was deceased. Conceivably she had been killed in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778.
He moved from Tioga County, New York to what is now Washington County, Ohio but which then was Washington County in the "Territory of the United States northeast of the River Ohio," (Northeast Territory), along with his sons, Fredrick Jr and John, and with Ames Eveland, probably his son but possibly his brother, as well as with his longtime friend, Nathaniel Evans, who for some years had been father-in-law to his son Fredrick Jr. The date of this move is not known but it was after 1793/94 when their grandson Moses was born, and had to have been long enough before 8 Mar 1797 for them to establish residences prior to taking advantage of the offer of the Ohio Land Company to give 100 acres of donation tract lands to any male 18 or over who agreed to carry a gun and protect the approaches to the Marietta settlement from the Indians.
In a large volume, in the office of Secretary of State of Ohio,[316] the names of those who obtained donation tracts an tabulated from the original records and show tracts were taken up by the following:
Little Wolf Creek Allotment: Amos Eveland, Frederick Eveland, Frederick Eveland Sr, Nathaniel Evans
Rainbow Creek Allotment: Frederick Eveland, Jr, John Eveland.In some instances a man received more than one allotment and it would appear from the above that either Fredrick Eveland Sr or Fredrick Eveland Jr received two.
Alternatively Fredrick Sr's tract in Little Wolf Creek was listed twice. Unfortunately, deed records covering these conveyances to them have been located only in the cases of the donation tracts to Amos Eveland and of the two in Rainbow Creek. All three were dated in 1797 and presumably the others also were so dated.
On 15 Mar 1797, Frederick Eveland Sr was married in Washington Co, Northwest Territory by Josiah Munro JP to Nancy Lee, both being residents of Washington County.[313][314] She probably was Anna Eveland, probably either eldest daughter or eldest child of Fridrick IfIand and his wife, Anna Rosina Wolleben. She married William Lee.[288]
In 1800, a census was taken of Washington Co, Ohio which was not a federal census. In "Middletown" and "Waterford," apparently large areas that covered much more than present day Washington Co, were two Fredrick Evelands. While it does not contain details sufficient to identify them conclusively, the first one of Middletown was Frederick Evland, who was Fredrick Eveland. In that list also were Samuel Lee, almost certainly a son of Anna Antje Eveland and her husband, William Lee qv, she being first cousin of Fredrick Eveland. Also at Middletown was William Ross, one of the early settlers in Fulton Co, Illinois, along with John Eveland, son of Fredrick Eveland and grandson of Fredrick Eveland. At Waterford was Frederick Eveland with Nathaniel Lucas and his father-in-law, Nathaniel Evans.
In 1810, only three Evelands were recorded, John in Roxbury, Nathaniel in Waterford and Frederick in Wooster. This Frederick could be either Fredrick Eveland or his son, Fredrick Jr but probably was Fredrick Jr.
In 1820 in Windsor Twp, Morgan County, Ohio, listed in succession, with only one intervening name just ahead of Davis, were the Eeland males as follows:
John Eveland, 1 male b 1784-94
Nathaniel Lucas, 1 male b 1784-94, 2 males b bef 1775
Fredrick Eviland, 1 male b bef 1775
Nathaniel Eviland, 1 male b 1775-83, 1 male b bef 1775
Moses Eviland, born 1784-94
David Eviland, born 1775-83This group was Frederick Eveland Jr his son and son-in-law, Nathaniel Lucas. It is highly probable that the second male born 1775 or before in the latter's family was Fredrick Eveland living in the home of his oldest granddaughter, Elizabeth (Eveland) Lucas.
In 1830, the family of Fredrick Eveland Jr is well recorded but there is no Eveland included who was old enough to be Fredrick Eveland. There thus is not positive identification in Ohio of Fredrick Eveland after the 1800 census.
During this period there are many deeds involving Fredrick Eveland in Washington County and, after 1818 when it was formed, in Morgan County. In a few cases he was joined by a wife, Lois, clearly identifying him as Fredrick Jr and, in the judgment of the compiler, circumstantial evidence establishes that all or nearly all of the others also have to do with Fredrick Jr. In no case was he, as grantor, joined by a wife, Nancy or Anna. Considering his age, it would not be unlikely for him to have been living with one of his family. Census indexes, which are not infallible, were studied for 1810-30 for the state of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and the records themselves for all Fredrick Eveland's without finding any trace of him. He either was missed or he was living in a household of which he was not the head.
When next identified he had moved to McLean Co, Illinois and had married a Miss Brock.[140] It is not known whether he married her before or after coming to Illinois. On the basis of present knowledge the most plausible way for them to have met would have been for him to have come to McLean County in 1837 with his grandson, William Eveland, son of his son William C Eveland. On 5 Sept 1837[147] the grandson purchased a farm from James M Harold, described as the SE 1/4 W 1/4 of Section 10 and the E 1/2 NW 1/4 of Section 15, both in Funk's Grove Twp, T21N-R1E and close to and northeast of Waynesville. Today the McLean-DeWitt county line runs between the two tracts.
Undoubtedly, Miss Brock was a relative, probably an aunt of Andrew Brock. Andrew and his wife Hannah (Richards) Brock, had moved from Indiana to Funk's Grove Twp, Tazewell Co, Illinois and in 1830 he entered a 100-acre farm in Sec 19-T21 N-R 1E[155] very close to the farm later bought by William Eveland. In Funk's Grove Twp, McLean (formerly Tazewell) County and later in Waynesville Twp, DeWitt Co, Illinois a William Brock had preceded him to Funk's Grove Twp in 1824[145][146] and likely was his brother.
Fredrick Eveland died at Waynesville, Illinois in 1838,[140] making his marriage to Miss Brock a very short-lived one. He was buried on the Section 10 portion of the farm of his grandson, William, in the area which later became known as Fremont Cemetery.[144] Two years later, the 1840 census shows a woman, aged 80 to 90 years, living in the Andrew Brock home. She probably was the widow Eveland.
In 1919, when Milo Center, secretary of the Central Illinois Historical Society of Bloomington, Illinois, transcribed the stones in the cemetery and found no Eveland stones, the cemetery was on the farm of a younger Andrew Brock and he called it the "Brock Farm Cemetery.[318] In 1975, Eagle Scout Troop 31 of Hayworth, Illinois restored the cemetery to order, dug up and reset some 22 buried stones and put broken stones back together. They found one 1851 Eveland stone but none for Fredrick.[319] Very likely no stone was set for him.
The DAR conducted an investigation into the burial based on data supposedly [140] supplied by Dr John Everest Marvel of Waynesville, a local historian of the early 20th Century. This account describes the cemetery as the "Fremont Cemetery near Funk's Grove on Andrew Brock farm" and identifies the veteran as Fredrick Eveland, "having served in Pennsylvania Troops," born in Pennsylvania about 1760. While the birth data is incorrect both as to date and place, the only Fredrick Eveland to so serve was Fredrick Eveland.
[24] New Jersey Archives, volume 33, page 137. Also files of Archives and History Bureau, State Library, State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ File 103S (Original Bond of Frederick Eveland Jr, administrator of Estate of John Eveland, Sussex Co, NJ).
[138] Oscar Sewell, A History of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA, volume 2, (Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1909), pages 715-16, 732, 750-52, 754, 745-95, 877, 945-46, 980-81.
[139] Oscar Sewell Harvey and Ernest Gray Smith, A History of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pa, volume 3 (Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1927), page dealing with 24 Sept 1784 Petition, pages 1214-15, 1277-78, 1280-81, 1312-14, 1388-90, and photocopy of paper dealing with 1787 without page number.
[140] DAR Magazine (November 1972), page 879; and Thirty-Eighth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1 April 1934 to 1 April 1935, page 101. US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1936.
[144] Research Report by Mrs Beatrice Armstrong, Cookesville, Illinois to Mrs Barbara Covey, 30 Nov 1976.
[145] Dr E Duis, "Old Times in McLean County, Illinois," Bloomington (IL) Leader (1874), page 580.
[146] Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois; and Ezra M Prince and John H Burnham, History of McLean County, volume 1, (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1908), page 706.
[147] Recorder of Deeds, DeWitt Co, Clinton, Illinois Grantee abstracted by Mrs Barbara Covey and Mrs Ruth Lacey
[155] Portrait Biographical Album of DeWitt and Piatt Counties. Illinois (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891), page 480.
[156] Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical Society and Geological Society, Volume 5 (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1900), pages 209, 213, 218-31 & 235.
[159] Genevieve E Peters, Know Your Relatives. The Sharps, Gibbs, Graves, Efland, Albright, Loy, Miller, Snodderly, Tillman, and other Related Families. 2nd edition (1972), pages 129-130.
[288] Kerckenboeck Van de Gemaynte Walpeck, printed pamphlet, pages 16, 17 & 20. Also the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, volume 40, pages 268, 271.
[298] Recorder of Deeds, Luzerne Co, Pa, volume 3, pages 313-14.
[299] Ibid, volume 2, pages 148-49.
[307] Robert J Taylor, The Susquehanna Papers, volume VII, 1776-84. (Published by Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pa: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY), pages 320-24.
[308] Ibid, pages 348-49.
[309] History of Tioga, Chemung, Tomkins, and Schuyler Counties, NY. (Philadelphia: Everts and Ensign, 1879), page 149.
[313] Ohio Marriages Extracted from the Old Northeast Genealogical Quarterly. Edited by Marjorie Smith, Heritage House, Rt 1, Box 211, Thomson, IL 61285.
[314] The Old Northwest Quarterly, Volume 3, page 131; and Volume 2, pages 10, 129.
[316] Ohio Land Grant, Office of the Auditor of the State of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio."Tract Book and Entries, US Military District -Congress Lands, Donation Tract, Reverted Lands, Original Proprietors of the Ohio Company Purchase.
[318] Report of the Central Illinois Historical Society on "Brock Farm Cemetery, 4 and 1/2 miles NE of Waynesville." Stones transcribed 27 July 1919 by Milo Custer, secretary.
[319] "Gleanings from the Heart of the Combelt," Proceedings of the Genealogical Society, (Bloomington, Illinois: Bloomington-Normal Genealogical Society), volume 10, no. 3, Sept. 1976, page 63.
[344] Historical Gazetteer of Tioga County, NY, 1785-1888 (Syracuse, NY: W E Gay and Co, 1887), pages 457-61.New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume 60, Oct 1909, page 271, Church Register of the Walpeck Congregation, Catrina, daughter of Jan van gorden & Elisabeth van de merken, baptized 14 Aug 1766. Witnesses, frederick Evelant, Catrina Eveland
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 1, page ?, Frederick Eveland to Benjamin Harvey, Know all men by these presents that I Frederick Eveland of Shawney in the County of Luzerne in the State of Pennsylvania in consideration of thirty pounds Lawful money of the ___ to me in hand paid the receipt whereof I do hereby knowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey to Isaac Benjamins of Shawney who hath paid me the said sum of thirty pounds, his heirs and assigns a certain Lot of Land being in Shawney in the said County of Luzerne and which was formally the property of the Proprietors of Connecticut containing 20 acres. Bounded Northerly by James Nesbits, southerly in the Publick Lot, Easterly on the Susquehannah River and adjoining Westerly the third Division Lots. To him said Isaac Benjamins and his heirs and assigns ___ and their use forever. Subject never the less to charges and payments as may be Demanded by the said State or the Proprietors of Pennsylvania or by any person or persons claiming the said premises under ___y, Title or Tiths Derived from the said State or said Proprietors any of them. but free from the Lwful Claims of all Other persons. In Witness whereof I have herein to set my hand & seal the twenty first day of March one Thousand Sever hundred & Eighty Seven. Frederick Eveland (seal) Signed, Sealed & Delivered in presence of us Thomas Neill, William Hurlbut, Plymouth October 8th 1787 personally appeared before me Frederick Eveland and Acknowledge this to be his Voluntary act and Deed for the use for the within mentioned before me. James Nesbitt Justice. Recd to record March 14th 1795.
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 2, page ?, Frederick Eveland to Benjamin Harvey, Know all men by these presents that Frederick Eveland in the town of Owego County of Tioga and state of New York for and in consideration of 40 pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania paid to my full satisfaction of Benjamin Harvey of Salem Township and Luzerne County and Pennsylvania, do give grand and forever quit claim unto him the said Harvey his heirs and assigns three certain pieces or parcels of land situated in the town of Plymouth and County aforesaid in the first place the undivided half of House Lot No 6 Middleton and undivided half of House Lot No via Middle teer Containing ____ acres more or less; the second Lot No __ in the fourth division in said Plymouth containing 66 acres ____; the third lot No 30 in the Fifth Division in said town containing 86 acres and 120 perches more or less. To have and to hold the above claimed premises with all the privileges belonging there to him the said Harvey his heirs and assigns forever. Furthermore the said Eveland, his heirs, executors and Administrations to Warrant and Defend the above Quit claimed premises from all persons claiming by ____ my heirs. As witness my hand and Seal this 20th day of July 1792 and Delivered in presence of Joseph Jamison, John Harvey - FREDERICK EVELAND (Seal) - Luzerne County for before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in for the County aforesaid Personally appeared John Harvey one of the witnesses to the within Instrument and being duly sworn saith that he saw Frederick Eveland the Grantor to the within sign, seal and deliver the within instrument and that he saw Joseph Jamison witness the same and that he witnessed the same himself. Witness my hand and seal this 15th day of December 1792. Lawrence Myres (Seal) To record Dec 15th 1792.
1800 Tax List of Middletown, Washington County, Ohio, Fred Eveland
1803 Washington County, Ohio, US Territorial Census, NARA M1804-1, Fredrick Eveland, Waterford, Washington, Ohio, 1803, White male inhabitants 21 years and upwards.
1806 Tax list of Fairfield County, Ohio, page 022, 057, Frederick Eveland
1808 Tax List of Wooster, Washington County, Ohio, page 96, Frederick Eveland
1810 census of Washington County, Ohio, Page 099, 113, 118, Fred Eveland
1810 Tax List of Washington County, Ohio, Frederick Eveland, 00120-11001-00
US General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Name: Frederick Eveland
Issue Date: 4 Jan 1819
State of Record: Missouri
Acres: 160
Accession Number: MO6160__.052
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Missouri
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 6, 1812: Scrip Warrant Act of 1812 (2 Stat. 728)
Document Number: 15816
Legal Land Description:
Section 27
Twp 56N
Range 20W
Meridian 5th PM
Counties CharitonHistory of Morgan County, Ohio, 1886, by Charles Robertson, MD, page 393, Windsor Twp. Fredrick Eveland and his sons, David, Moses, and John, occupied the site of Stockport.
History of Morgan County, Ohio, 1886, by Charles Robertson, MD, page 401, Windsor Twp. Fredrick Eveland settled where Stockport now is in 1811. He occupied a double log cabin, in one room of which he kept saloon, while his wife, a religious woman, lived and frequently had religious meetings in another room. Neither meddled with the affairs of the other, and they lived harmoniously together. Fredrick's sons Nathaniel, David, Moses and John and several daughters, were also residents of the township.
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
Name: Frederick Eveland
Cemetery: Fremont Cem
Location: Brock Farm, 2 MI SE of Funk's Grove IL 35
Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol 2, p Serial 10000; Volume 2
Frederick married Catrina van Garden, daughter of Hendrick van Garden and Eleanor Dekker, about 1760. Catrina was christened on 5 Jul 1742 in Reformed Dutch Church, Walpeck Center, Sussex County, New Jersey. She died on 23 Oct 1784 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Possibly killed in the Indian attacks on the Wyoming Valley.
They had the following children.
+ 2 M i Frederick Eveland was born about 1762. He died on 10 Dec 1854. + 3 M ii John Eveland was born on 5 Jan 1766. He died on 1 Aug 1829. + 4 M iii William Cours Eveland was born on 18 Feb 1774. He died on 1 Mar 1847. + 5 M iv Amos Eveland was born about 1776. 6 M v Barzilla Eveland was born about 1778 in Westmoreland County, Connecticut now Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
THE STULL FAMILY - Julia Ann Stull (1814-1872) and Her Ancestors, compiled by Wayne V Jones, 1998, page 245, Barzilla Eveland probably was younger than the preceding sons of Fredrick Eveland. In 1800-1805 he worked on the farm of Daniel Swartz, father-in-law of his brother, William C Eveland, in Cayuga Co, NY. While there he made a cane from the heart of a shell-bark hickory log for Mrs Swartz, who was lame. She walked with it the rest of her life and before her death gave it to William C Eveland, who preserved it and gave it to his son, Daniel. In 1949 the cane was in the possession of his son, O H Eveland of Council Bluffs, la.
Barzilla never married.
Nothing else is known about him.
Frederick also married Antje|Anna|Nancy Eveland, daughter of Fridrich Ifflandt and Anna Rosina Wolleben, on 15 Mar 1797 in Washington County, Ohio. Antje|Anna|Nancy was born about 1743 in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Frederick also married Brock about 1837 in McLean County, Illinois.