David Everett Explained

David Everett (29 March 177021 December 1813) was an American newspaper editor, proprietor, and poet.

Everett was born at Princeton, Massachusetts in 1770,^{[1] [2]} and educated at Dartmouth College where he graduated around the year 1795. He was the editor of a newspaper in some part of the state of New Hampshire in the early part of his life. He was afterwards one of the editors and proprietors of the Boston Patriot.^[3]

He wrote a volume of essays in prose, entitled Common Sense in Dishabille and a work upon the Prophecies. His poetry consists of a few short pieces, and a tragedy calledDaranzel, or the Persian Patriot, which was acted and published at Boston in 1800.^[3]

A number of his poems have been reprinted in collections since his death,^[3]

He died in 1813 in Marietta, Ohio, aged 43.^{[1] [2] [4] [5]}

References

• The text of the first version of this article is based on Specimens of American Poetry, 1829, edited by Samuel Kettell.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=JY8FGC-_mykC&pg=PA41 Early American Plays
2. http://www.princetonmahistory.org/people-groups/residents/david-everett Princeton Historical Society
3. Kettell, Samuel, Specimens of American Poetry volume II (1829) p.113
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40089748 Find-a-Grave
5. https://archive.org/details/englishthcentur01unkngoog The Polyanthus Enlarged