Record #:

22429

Author(s):

Haywood, Marshall Delancey

Abstract:

Sir Richard Everard served as governor of North Carolina from 1725 through 1731. Everard was succeeded by the man he replaced, former governor George Burrington, who had been removed by the Lords Proprietors. Everard and his family exerted much influence in the early colony and the family remained prominent in Virginia.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 14 Issue 1, July 1914, p50-61

Subject(s):

Everard, Richard, 1683-1733; North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775