Richard Everett was a founder of both Springfield, Massachusetts

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 and Dedham, Massachusetts

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 and an ancestor of many notable Americans.

Richard Everett immigrated from County Essex, England. 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. In the next two years he attended town meetings in both Springfield and Dedham, and was listed as a "trader." 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

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, Edward Everett Hale

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, Horace Everett

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, Blair Fairchild

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, Will Bagley

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, Pat Bagley

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, Robert Dean Frisbie

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, Harold Osborn

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, Edward Davis Jones, David Josiah Brewer

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, William Mark Felt, Amos G. Throop

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, Sarah Palin

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, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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, James Olds

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, Tom Seaver

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, Story Musgrave

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, Sam Shepard

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, Bradford Washburn

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, John Forbes Nash

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, Mike Lee, Rex Lee

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, Nicholas Longworth

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, and perhaps Ginger Rogers

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See also

• Springfield, Massachusetts
  Springfield, Massachusetts
  Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...
  
  
• Dedham, Massachusetts
  Dedham, Massachusetts
  Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census. It is located on Boston's southwest border. On the northwest it is bordered by Needham, on the southwest by Westwood and on the southeast by...