An American Family History

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.

Two Centuries in the History of the Presbyterian Church, Jamaica by James Madison MacDonald

Whereas at a publick town meeting at Jamaica in Queens County, the freeholders of the said town being duly called & did meet at the County Hall on friday the 21st day of aprill anno: 1738 it was then & there voted by the majority of the said freeholders that Increase Carpenter Just Henry Ludlum & Just Richard Everit should put the Revd Mr Walter Wilmot the present Presbyterian minester of the congregation of Jamaica above said in possession of the parsonage house homestead and all other the laud meadow tenements & hereditements there unto belonging , , ,

Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island ..., Volume 4

Aprill the10th 1758
Wee the Inhabitants of Fosters Meadow Whose Names
Are under Written Do Assent and Consent and Are Willing
that Lentenant George Rierson And Isaac Hendrickson
Should Stop up the Highway that Runs Between their
Land from Fosters Meadow to the Great Plains Commonly
Called Cow Laine Viz . . .Richard Everit. . .