Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Covert, Benjamin July 10, 1799 - ????
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Source: History of Fayette County, L H Everts and Company 1882, page 652
Author: Franklin Ellis

    The progenitor of the Coverts in the United States was one Abraham
Covert, who came from Holland to the colonies about 1707.  Of his family
nothing is now known except that he had a son Abraham Covert, who raised
a family of eight children-four sons and four daughters.  These four sons
in time became widely separated.
    Abraham Covert remained in the East while the others sought their
fortunes in the West.  John Covert settled north of Pittsburgh.  
Morris Covert first lived in New Jersey and there married a Miss Mary
Mann.  After his marriage he moved to Col Cresap's estate on the Potomac
in the state of Maryland where he resided some years.  About the year 1780
he moved to Fayette county, Penna, and located about three miles west of
Beesontown, now Uniontown, where he purchased a farm of three hundred
acres for eight hundred and fifty dollars, on the old Fort road leading
to Redstone Old Fort.  Here he lived and died and raised a family of
eleven children-six sons and five daughters.  
    The oldest son, Joseph Covert, married Nancy Borer of Harrison, Ohio,
where he lived and died.  
    The second son, Alexander Covert, married Catharine Black, and they
removed to Harrison county, Ohio.  
    The third son, John Covert, married Amy Doney, and lived on the
Monongahela River in Luzerne township, Fayette county, and died in his
ninety third year.  
    The fourth son, Morris Covert, was an intinerant Methodist preacher.  He
married Nancy Purcell of Chesapeake Bay, and died near Clarksburg, West
Virginia, aged about sixty years.  
    Jesse Covert, the youngest son, married Henrietta Gibson, resided
principally in Fayette county, Penna, and died at the age of fifty five.
Benjamin Covert was born on July 10, 1799, on the old homestead, where he
grew to manhood.  He married Abigail Randolph, and removing to Harrison
county, Ohio, in 1820, settled on the Stillwater and there resided until
1830.  To of his children, Richard Covert and Mary Covert, were born
there.  He next removed to a farm on Short Creek in the same county.  There
he remained three years and there his youngest daughter, Elizabeth
Covert, was born.  
    He then moved to a farm in Luzerne township, Fayette county, Penna, which
he purchased from George Custer.  It contained two hundred and fourteen
acres and cost him two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.  Here he
has resided for forty eight years, doing good as the Lord prospered him,
"by helping build churches in the Bend and at the Landing, and sustaining
the ministers of his church, as well as contributing to the support of
others." He has been an ardent Methodist for sixty four years.  His father
and mother were Methodists, as were also his brothers and sisters.  They
are all dead having lived and died meek and humble Christians.  He alone
of the family survives in his eighty third year.  
    His children are: Richard Covert, who resides on the old homestead; Mary
Covert, married to D H Wakefield of Jefferson township, Fayette county,
Penna; and Elizabeth Covert, married to Joshua Strickler of Luzerne
township.  With but little intermission he has held an office in the
church during the entire time of his membership.  His start in life was a
strong constitution.  He has always been noted for his sobriety,
indomitable energy, frugality, and rectitude of purpose.  

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