Richard Everett

Not to be confused with Richard Everitt.

Richard Everett (December 11, 1597 – July 3, 1682) was a founder of two Massachusetts settlements, the city of Springfield and the town of Dedham, and an ancestor of many notable Americans.

Everett emigrated from the English county of Essex. On July 15, 1636 he and a party of settlers bought land from Indians on the Connecticut River at Agawan – now Springfield, Massachusetts. A month later he was at the first recorded meeting of the proprietors of Contentment, which the Massachusetts General Court later ordered to be called Dedham.[1] In the next two years he attended town meetings in both Springfield and Dedham, and was listed as a "trader."[2] In later years he was elected constable, surveyor and selectman in Dedham. He died July 3, 1682.

Everett and his wife Mary Winch had six children, and he had five children from an earlier marriage. Notable descendants include Edward Everett, Edward Everett Hale, Horace Everett, Blair Fairchild, Will Bagley, Pat Bagley, Robert Dean Frisbie, Harold Osborn, Edward Davis Jones, David Josiah Brewer, William Mark Felt, Amos G. Throop, Sarah Palin, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, James Olds, Tom Seaver, Story Musgrave, Sam Shepard, Bradford Washburn, John Forbes Nash, Nicholas Longworth, Helen Keller, and perhaps Ginger Rogers.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Everett, Edward Franklin. Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Massachusetts. Boston: 1902, pp. 7-10
  2. ↑ Green, Mason A. Springfield,1636-1886: History of town and City. Springfield, Ma.: 1888, p. 25
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20121011023418/http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I113051. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Everett, pp. 12-20, 222-23

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