David Everett

{{Short description|American newspaper editor, proprietor, and poet}}

David Everett (29 March 1770{{spaced ndash}}21 December 1813) was an American newspaper editor, proprietor, and poet.

Everett was born at Princeton, Massachusetts in 1770,[https://books.google.com/books?id=JY8FGC-_mykC&pg=PA41 Early American Plays]. Retrieved 31 March 2015[http://www.princetonmahistory.org/people-groups/residents/david-everett Princeton Historical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104728/http://www.princetonmahistory.org/people-groups/residents/david-everett |date=2015-04-02 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2015 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.Kettell, Samuel, [https://archive.org/details/specimensameric00kettgoog Specimens of American Poetry] volume II (1829) p.113

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.

A number of his poems have been reprinted in collections since his death,

He died in 1813 in Marietta, Ohio, aged 43.[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40089748 Find-a-Grave]. Retrieved 31 March 2015[https://archive.org/details/englishthcentur01unkngoog The Polyanthus Enlarged] volume III (1813) p.232