• General Notes

  WILLIAMSBURG, VA - BIOGRAPHIES - Autobiography of David Meade, II
  Excerpt:
  Sir Richard Everard, when a young man, was a captain in Queen
  Anne's army, and it is probably was with Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the
  British fleet, when he took Gibraltar, as he remained in garrison eighteen
  months, being so long against his inclinations stayed there by his sense of
  honor altogether, he having but recently married a young wife, and he resigned
  his commission immediately upon his return to England.  He was for a few years
  proprietary governor of North Carolina, which position he resigned about the
  year 1730, soon after all the proprietors, except Lord Granville, sold out to
  the crown, not being in any credit at court; for although he had served Queen
  Anne as captain in her army, he was probably no friend to Hanoverian
  succession.  I have heard my mother say the he, as well as several others of
  the Essex Baronets, found it convenient to make himself as little conspicuous
  as possible during the rebellion of 1715, at the beginning of George the
  First's reign.
  
  'The Lords Proprietors were all particular friends of Sir Richard, and it has
  been understood in the family tha this patrimony had been much reduced by
  adventuring in the South Sea bubble, and he accepted from the proprietors the
  government of North Carolina to repair his estate.  At his death, he left his
  dame all the estate of every kind which he possessed in even of her surviving
  their eldest son, as is recorded in her will to be found among my papers.  Her
  will appears to have been written before the death of her eldest son, Richard,
  who, by death of his father, inherited the title of Baronet.  Hugh, the
  younger son, survived his brother, and succeeded to the honors of the family,
  but not the estate, as he was disinherited, for what cause is unknown to the
  family this day.  He was killed in a naval engagement.  His name is still
  continued on the list of English Baronets.  By his death, an ancient family
  became extinct in the male line, and in my person is continued in the female,
  I being the eldest son of the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Everard.
  

Details of Richard's family with Susannah Kidder