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Jeremiah Evarts was born at Sunderland, Vermont, being the eldest son of James Evarts who married Sarah, daughter of Timothy Todd, of Guilford, Connecticut, of which latter place the Evarts family had been residents since 1630.
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Jeremiah Evarts was born at Sunderland, Vermont, being the eldest son of James Evarts who married Sarah, daughter of Timothy Todd, of Guilford, Connecticut, of which latter place the Evarts family had been residents since 1630.
His father moved to Georgia Township in 1787 and his early education was received at the country school there, but in January 1798 he went to East Guilford, Connecticut, where he was prepared for college by Rev. John Elliott.
Entering Yale College in September of that year, he graduated in 1802 (M. A. 1805), and in April 1803 became principal of the Caledonia County Grammar School at Peacham, Vermont, remaining there for a year.
Deciding however to enter the legal profession he commenced the study of law in Judge Charles Chauncey’s office at New Haven, and was admitted to the Connecticut bar in July 1806.
He practised in New Haven for over three years but did not meet with success.
He had early evinced that somewhat stern puritanical spirit which made him a deeply religious man throughout his life, and a contemporary alleged that he “ever had too much unbending integrity to be a popular lawyer. ”
Abandoning the law, he devoted himself entirely to his editorial duties and missionary enterprise.
As an editor, his articles, distinguished for their forcible though simple style, exhibited great powers of analysis, wide knowledge, and critical acumen.
Among other matters of general interest which he advocated were the discontinuance of Sunday mails and legislation to cope with intemperance.
His Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians (1829), first published in the National Intelligencer under the pseudonym William Penn, presented a powerful indictment of the state and federal governments for their treatment of the aborigines.
His attack and charges were reinforced by articles in the New York Observer and the North American Review, and by the publication of a volume of speeches on the Indian Bill.
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In January 1810 he was induced to assume the editorship of the Panoplist, an organ of the orthodox Congregationalists, published at Boston, and moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he made his permanent home.
Quotations: contemporary alleged that he “ever had too much unbending integrity to be a popular lawyer. ”
admitted to the Connecticut bar in July 1806
He was one of the founders of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, becoming its treasurer in 1811, a member of its prudential committee in 1812, and corresponding secretary and treasurer in 1821. He also became a manager of the American Bible Society and vicepresident of the American Education Society.
Evarts married Mrs. Mehitabel Barnes, daughter of Roger Sherman, in September 1804.
Their son was the nationally known lawyer, William Maxwell Evarts.