See also
Husband:
Nathaniel Wheelwright (1721-1765)
Wife:
Ann Apthorp (1736-1764)
Children:
Marriage:
9 Oct 1755
Name:
Nathaniel Wheelwright
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Note:
Nathaniel Wheelwright was one of Boston’s leading businessmen in the early 1760s: a merchant, wharf owner, supplier of specie to the British army, and backer of financial notes for people of all classes. He had married into the wealthy Apthorp family, and was the father of three young sons.
Then, in January 1765, Wheelwright suddenly stopped honoring his debts. There is no clue about what exactly prompted this decision, but its consequences were staggering. Governor Francis Bernard reported to London: "This was like an earthquake to the town; numbers of people were creditors, some for their all. Every one dreaded the consequences; lesser merchants began to fail; a stop to all credit was expected and a general bankruptcy was apprehended for a time."
Eventually this financial crisis caught up several men who might be familiar to Boston readers: William Molineux, John Scollay, John Rowe, and especially Dr. Joseph Warren, whom Thomas Hutchinson as probate judge assigned to administer Wheelwright’s tangled estate. It is argued that the repercussions of that crisis helped to increase Bostonians’ anxieties about the Stamp Act later in 1765.
http://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Nathaniel%20Wheelwright (extracted 25.8.2009)
Birth:
25 Oct 1721
Death:
6 Sep 1765 (age 43)
Guadaloupe
Name:
Ann Apthorp
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
18 Jan 1735/36
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
18 Apr 1764 (age 28)
Name:
Charles Apthorp Wheelwright
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Children:
Birth:
c. 1758
Occupation:
24 Jul 1787 (age 28-29)
Merchant, Newington Green, Stoke Newington
Death:
1812 (age 53-54)
Nathaniel Wheelwright was one of Boston’s leading businessmen in the early 1760s: a merchant, wharf owner, supplier of specie to the British army, and backer of financial notes for people of all classes. He had married into the wealthy Apthorp family, and was the father of three young sons.
Then, in January 1765, Wheelwright suddenly stopped honoring his debts. There is no clue about what exactly prompted this decision, but its consequences were staggering. Governor Francis Bernard reported to London: "This was like an earthquake to the town; numbers of people were creditors, some for their all. Every one dreaded the consequences; lesser merchants began to fail; a stop to all credit was expected and a general bankruptcy was apprehended for a time."
Eventually this financial crisis caught up several men who might be familiar to Boston readers: William Molineux, John Scollay, John Rowe, and especially Dr. Joseph Warren, whom Thomas Hutchinson as probate judge assigned to administer Wheelwright’s tangled estate. It is argued that the repercussions of that crisis helped to increase Bostonians’ anxieties about the Stamp Act later in 1765.
http://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Nathaniel%20Wheelwright (extracted 25.8.2009)