Richard Everett (December 11, 1597 – July 3, 1682) emigrated from the English county of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
. On July 15, 1636 he and a party of settlers bought land from Native American on the
Connecticut River at Agawan – now Springfield, Massachusetts.
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 (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarianism, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig Party (United States), Whig, served as United States House o ...
,
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in ''Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union dur ...
,
Bill Everett
William Blake Everett (; May 18, 1917 – February 27, 1973) was an American comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as co-creating Zombie and Daredevil with writer Stan Lee for Marvel Comics. He was allege ...
and
Horace Everett.
[Everett, pp. 12-20, 222-23]
See also
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Springfield, Massachusetts
References
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1682 deaths
People of colonial Massachusetts
People from Essex
Year of birth unknown
Kingdom of England emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1597 births