Jeremiah F. Evarts was born February 3, 1781 in Sunderland, Vermont. He was a missionary, a reformer, and an activist in the rights of American Indians and the United States Indian Removal policies. Sunderland, Vermont Sunderland is a town located in Bennington County, Vermont. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Indian Removal refers to the nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to relocate American Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. ...

In 1798, Jeremiah's father James was taking Jeremiah to Yale College and stopped by the house of Colonel Seth Storrs of Middlebury. The exchanges which took place between James Evarts and Colonel Storrs during this visit are credited with generating the idea to found Middlebury College. Jeremiah graduated from Yale College in 1802. He was admitted to the bar in 1806. This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... Middlebury Panther Middlebury College is a small, selective liberal arts college located in the small, New England hamlet of Middlebury, Vermont. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... Events January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806 March 23 - After traveling through the...

Jeremiah married Mehitabel Sherman, a daughter of United States Declaration of Independence signer Roger Sherman. Jeremiah and Mehitabel were the parents of William M. Evarts who became the United States Secretary of State. U.S. Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is a document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained their justifications for doing so. ... Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.) = April 30 (N.S.), 1721 - July 23, 1793), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Connecticut. ... William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818–February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman. ... The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. ...

Jeremiah was influenced by the effects of the Second Great Awakening and served the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as its treasurer from 1812-1820 and Secretary from 1821 until his death in 1831. The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. ... Proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the first American Christian foreign mission agency. ... Events January 1 - the Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, the Austrian civil code enters into force in the Austrian Empire February 2 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 - The strongest in a series of massive earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri, est. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Events February 23 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Jeremiah was the editor of the Panoplist, a religious monthly magazine from 1810 until 1820, where he published over 200 essays. He wrote twenty-four essays on the rights of Indians under the pen name "William Penn". He was one of the leading opponents of the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast. He was a leader in the opposition to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law led to the forcible removal of the Cherokees in 1838, known as the Trail of Tears. He encouraged the Cherokees to take their case to the Supreme Court of the United States, which they did in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation) The Cherokee are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau. ... The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a law passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson to facilitate the removal of American Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River in the United States to lands further west. ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Trail of Tears refers to the forced removal of the Cherokee American Indian tribe by the U.S. federal government, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cherokee Indians. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law, including... Cherokee Nation v. ...

He died on May 10, 1831 in Charleston, South Carolina having overworked himself in the campaign against the Indian Removal Act. The moral and religious arguments that Jeremiah used against the Indian Removal Act had later resonance in the abolitionism movement. 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Charleston is an American city located in Charleston County, South Carolina. ... The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a law passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson to facilitate the removal of American Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River in the United States to lands further west. ... This poster depicting the horrific conditions on slave ships was influencial in mobilizing public opinion against slavery in Great Britain and the United States. ...

E.C. Tracy published his Memoirs of Jeremiah Evarts (Boston 1845). His William Penn essays were published as Essays On The Present Crisis..American Indians (1829) and reprinted as Cherokee Removal: The "William Penn" Essays & Other Writings by Jeremiah Evarts, edited and with an introduction by Francis Paul Prucha, (1981, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville).

External References

• Review of From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2082/is_n2_v57/ai_16531303)
• Short biography of Jeremiah Evarts (http://www.famousamericans.net/jeremiahevarts/)
• Where he is buried (http://www.grovestreetcemetery.org/Grove_Street_Cemetery_Chronicle_of_Eminent_People.htm)
• Reference to Jeremiah as a notable Yale graduate (http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_010705_yaleuniversi.htm)
• Story of the founding of Middlebury College (http://www.vermonthistory.org/journal/69/vt693_402.pdf)