Family of Charles Apthorp and Grizzel Eastwick
Husband: Charles Apthorp
Wife: Grizzel Eastwick
| Name: |
Charles Ward Apthorp |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Mary McEvers ( - ) |
| Birth |
1726 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death |
May 1797 (age 70-71) |
Bloomingdale, New York |
| Name: |
East Apthorp |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse 1: |
Elizabeth Hutchinson ( -1782) |
| Spouse 2: |
Ann Crich ( -1824) |
| Birth |
27 Mar 1733 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Title |
|
Reverend Dr. |
| Death |
16 Apr 1816 (age 83) |
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Burial |
1816 |
Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge |
| Name: |
Susan Apthorp |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
Thomas Bulfinch (1728-1802) |
| Birth |
8 Oct 1734 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death |
15 Feb 1815 (age 80) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Name: |
Henry Apthorp |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
19 Mar 1736/37 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death |
12 Aug 1762 (age 25) |
Boston, Lincolnshire |
| Name: |
Catherine Apthorp |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Birth |
25 Nov 1742 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death |
1743 (age 0-1) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
Note on Husband: Charles Apthorp - shared note
CHARLES APTHORP was born in England in 1698 and was educated at Eton. He was the son of John Apthorp and Susan his wife, whose maiden name was Ward, of the family of Lord Ward of Bexley.
After the death of his father Charles Apthorp came to New England, and became one of the most distinguished merchants of Boston. He was paymaster and commissary under the British Government of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. On the 13th January, 1726, he married Grizzel, daughter of John Eastwicke. She was born August, 1708, at Jamaica and came to Boston in 1716. Her mother was Griselda Lloyd, daughter of Sir John Lloyd of Somerset, England, who assisted in conveying King Charles II to France after the battle of Worcester.
Charles Apthorp had eighteen children, of whom fifteen survived him and eleven married. He died in Boston suddenly in 1758 at the age of sixty. His funeral took place at King's Chapel twelve days later and his remains were therein deposited. He was reputed as the "greatest and most noble merchant on the continent." He was also characterized as "a truly valuable member of society," and that "he left few equals behind him." A marble monument with a Latin inscription was placed in King's Chapel to his memory by his sons, "which monument covers the tomb of the truly-noble-minded race of Apthorp."
James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, 1910, page 351-2
Charles Apthorp (of Boston, Massachusetts) was the main “money contractor” for the British army, delivering the gold and silver coins it needed to pay its men. Out of each shipment of the army’s money, money contractors got to keep a 2.5 percent commission. For much of the mid-1700s, the British Empire was at war with the French, giving money contractors steady work. When Charles Apthorp died in 1758, his eldest son Charles Ward Apthorp became the firm’s principal, with his brothers and brother-in-law Wheelwright as partners.
J.L.Bell, A Bankruptcy in Boston 1765, in Massachusetts Banker, 4th Qtr 2008, p.14 et seq.
