Everett, David, 1770-1813

Dates

• Existence: 1770 - 1813

Biography

David Everett (29 March 1770 – 21 December 1813) was an American newspaper editor, proprietor, and poet. Everett was born at Princeton, Massachusetts in 1770, 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." 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 called "Daranzel, or the Persian Patriot," which was acted and published at Boston in 1800.

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