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.
[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.