Charles Everett

Dr. Charles Everett, his surname was also spelled Everette and Everard, (ca. 1767–1848) was an American medical doctor and planter from Albemarle County, Virginia. He was a physician to three American presidents, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and James Madison. He was also a private secretary to Monroe. He served twice in the Virginia House of Delegates in the 1810s. He purchased land from Jefferson that had been part of the Shadwell tract that became known as Everettsville. He lived his mid- and later-years on the Belmont Plantation. He owned slaves in the 1800s, and later decided that slavery was a sin. He freed them and his will stipulated creation of a community Pandenarium for them in Pennsylvania, a free state.

Personal life and education Everett was born around 1767. (John Everett was the first Everett recorded to have lived in Albemarle County.) He lived along Moore's Creek until 1788. He then lived in what he called Pleasant Grove, where he tried to establish a town there and ran a tavern. He moved to Cabell County in 1807. One source states that he graduated in 1796,

Everett remained a bachelor throughout his life.

Medical doctor

Pandenarium He began planning in 1837 to free his slaves and provide a community for them. His nephew, Dr. Cutlip Everett, a physician from Philadelphia, led the effort. Dr. Charles Everett died in 1848. Everett emancipated all of the slaves on his plantation through his will. He purchased land in Pennsylvania to establish a community called Pandenarium. Local abolitionists assisted in the project to establish 24 furnished homes set on two acre lots, orchards, wells, and graded roads. A group of 63 people traveled from Virginia and arrived in Mercer County, Pennsylvania in 1854.

Death Everett died in 1848. Besides the stipulations in the will for the community that would become Pandenarium, the rest of the estate went to Dr. Charles D. Everett, his nephew.