An American Family History

Richard Everett

Everett is also spelled Everet, Everette, Everit, and Everitt.

Richard Everett and Elizabeth Clare

Abraham Everett

Richard Everett

Mary Everett Oxley

George Everett

Hannah Everett van Gelder

Nicholas Everett

Richard Everett was born in 1695 in Hempstead, Queens (now Nassau) County, New York. His parents were Richard Everett and Elizabeth Clare.

His uncle, John Clare, left him land on the south side of the highway in 1720.

Eastern Long Island was settled at Southold by English Puritans on October 21, 1640. Western Long Island was Dutch. The Conklins and other related families owned the entire area in the 17th century. The Dutch granted an English settlement in Hempstead (now in Nassau) in 1644. In 1664, the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam became English and was renamed New York.

Queens County, New York is on Long Island. Jamaica was called Rustdorp by the Dutch. It was originally settled by English settlers from neighboring Hempstead. Hempstead was founded in 1644 by emigrants led by Reverend Richard Denton. Jamaica and Hempstead are now in Nassau County.

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