DAVID EVERETT, born in Princeton, Mass., March 29, 1770, died in
Marietta, Ohio, December 21, 1813, was graduated from Dartmouth in
1795. Before entering college he taught school at New Ipswich,
studied law in Boston, and wrote for _Russell's Gazette and Farmer's
Museum_, in which his prose papers, _Common Sense in Deshabille_,
became quite popular. They were published in a volume in 1799. He
also contributed to a literary paper called _The Nightingale_ in
1796. In 1809 he edited the _Boston Patriot_, and in 1812 _The
Pilot_, a paper in the interest of De Witt Clinton for the
Presidency. He left Boston in 1813 for Marietta, Ohio, with the
purpose of establishing a newspaper there, but death interrupted his
plans.
DARANZEL; OR, THE PERSIAN PATRIOT. An original Drama in Five Acts;
as performed at the Theatre in Boston; by David Everett,
corrected and improved by a literary friend. Boston, John
Russell, 1800. 8vo, pp. 68.