David Everett (29 March 1770 – 21 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 called Daranzel, 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.

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