A new British administration, friendlier to the United States than the previous one, sent Lord Ashburton to Washington to negotiate directly with Webster, and Everett's role was reduced to acquiring documents from British records, and pressing the American case to the Foreign Office.
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His father was a direct descendant of early colonist Richard Everett, and his mother's family also had deep colonial roots.
Edward Everett Square, in Dorchester, Boston, is an intersection of Columbia Road, Massachusetts Avenue, East Cottage Street and Boston Street, and named after a former Governor of Massachusetts, Edward Everett.
It would be through the intervention of former Harvard president Edward Everett that Tuttle was given a commission in the U. S. Navy and as paymaster.
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He is sometimes confused or conflated with Edward Everett Rose (1862–1939), an American dramatist also known for dramatizing novels, notably Richard Carvel and the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington.