Nathaniel Evans, born in Philadelphia, Penn., June 8, 1742, died in Gloucester County, N. J., October 29, 1767, was graduated from the College of Philadelphia, and ordained in England by the Bishop of London. As a member of the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, he settled in Gloucester County, N. J., and became noted for his eloquence as a preacher. He wrote some very graceful verses, which were collected and published after his death as Poems on Several Occasions [1772].
An Exercise, Containing a Dialogue and Ode on Peace. Performed at the Public Commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 17th, 1763. Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Stewart, 1763. 8vo, pp. 8.
The Ode was written by Dr. Paul Jackson, of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Also published in Evans's Poems. Phila., 1772.
EVERETT, DAVID
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.
FAIRFIELD, SUMNER LINCOLN
S. L. Fairfield, born in Warwick, Mass., June 25, 1803, died in New Orleans, La., March 6, 1844, entered Brown University, Providence, R. I., at the age of thirteen. He studied so unremittingly, that after a few months he was attacked with a severe sickness. On recovering he was forced to leave college and seek a living as a tutor in the Southern States. In 1825 he sailed for London and wrote his poem, The Cities of the Plain, which appeared in the Oriental Herald. He was received by Lafayette, in France, where he published Pére la Chaise and Westminster Abbey. He returned to the United States in 1826.
Mina. A Dramatic Sketch. Baltimore, Joseph Robinson, 1825. 12mo, pp. 120.
FAUGÉRES, MARGARETTA BLEECKER
Margaretta Bleecker Faugéres, born in Tunkhannock, near Albany, New York, in 1771, died there January 9, 1801, was a daughter of the poetess Ann Eliza Bleecker. In 1791 she married Peter Faugéres, a physician of New York, who dissipated her fortune and died in 1798. She supported herself by teaching until her death in 1801. Her poems are appended to her mother's Posthumous Works, edited by her, New York, 1793.