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| Husband: | East Apthorp (1733-1816) | |
| Wife: | Ann Crich ( -1824) | |
| Children: | Sarah Apthorp (1788-1864) | |
| Marriage | 6 Mar 1787 | Saint Mary Le Bow, London |
| Name: | East Apthorp | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Charles Apthorp (1698-1758) | |
| Mother: | Grizzel Eastwick (1709-1796) | |
| Birth | 27 Mar 1733 | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Title | Reverend Dr. | |
| Death | 16 Apr 1816 (age 83) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Burial | 1816 | Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge |
| Name: | Ann Crich | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | John Crich ( - ) | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Will | 18 Apr 1820 | Date of will |
| Will | 17 Sep 1824 | Will proved |
| Death | 1824 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Name: | Sarah Apthorp | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Edmund Paley (1782-1850) | |
| Birth | 30 Nov 1788 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Baptism | 2 Mar 1789 (age 0) | St John The Baptist, Croydon, Surrey |
| Census | 1861 (age 72-73) | Living with son, Francis Henry Paley, Upper Penn, Staffs (widow) |
| Death fact | 1864 (age 75-76) | 1864 Dec Qtr, Wolverhampton, 6b/259 |
| Death | 11 Nov 1864 (age 75) | Penn Vicarage, Penn, Staffordshire |
East Apthorp (1733-1816), Church of England clergyman and author, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, the fifth of the fifteen children of Charles Apthorp (1698-1758), merchant of Boston, and his wife, Grizzel, daughter of John Eastwick, a Jamaica merchant. Entering Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1751, Apthorp took a bachelor's degree in 1753 and was awarded the prestigious chancellor's prize for achievement in classical studies. He was ordained as deacon in 1755.
Apthorp was elected a fellow of Jesus College in 1758, but news of his father's death caused his return home. In January 1759 he was invited to serve as minister to the Anglican congregation of Cambridge, Massachusetts. On 27 August 1761 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Eliakim Hutchinson, niece of the future governor Thomas Hutchinson, and granddaughter of the former governor William Shirley; they had eight children.
On 15 October 1761 Apthorp officially opened Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the sermon he delivered, "The Constitution of a Christian Church", was his first publication. Perhaps it was this sermon, along with the palatial nature of his recently completed parsonage (Apthorp House), that touched off the events that became known as the Apthorp-Mayhew controversy, a pamphlet war with Jonathan Mayhew, the popular and outspoken minister of the Congregational West Church, Boston, which some say predicted the later rebellion. It was Mayhew who first used the phrase "no taxation without representation!".
Apthorp's growing unpopularity prompted his permanent return to England in September 1764. After receiving an appointment to the vicarage of Croydon, he settled into a life of scholarship and domesticity. Following the death of his wife, Elizabeth, he married Anne Crich, a daughter of John Crich, of Thurlow, Suffolk, in 1787.
In 1780, Archbishop Cornwallis awarded Apthorp a DD, along with the rectorship of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London. Apthorp published fifteen books and pamphlets. He was elected to a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1790 and to the prebend of Finsbury in 1793. East Apthorp died on 16 April 1816 and was buried in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dr. East Apthorp married Elizabeth the daughter of Eliakim Hutchinson, esq. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in the Province of Massachusett's Bay.
In his discourse, "The Character and Example of a Christian Woman; a Discourse at Christ Church, Cambridge, on the Death of Mrs. Anne Wheelwright; 1764," in two parts, the Preacher very pathetically laments the loss of 'a most respectable Parent' (Charles Apthorp, esq. died at Boston, Nov. 11, 1758, aged 60); 'an honest and well-natured Brother' (Mr. Henry Apthorp died at Boston, England, Aug. 12,1762, aged25); 'an amiable sister-in-law' (Mrs. Alicia Apthorp, wife of John Apthorp, esq. died in Gibraltar, 20 October, 1763, aged about 24); and 'now, of one endeared to us in all the relations of a Daughter, Wife, and Sister' (who died 18 April, 1764, at the age of 28 years and 3 months).
John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 1814, pages 743-4.