Charles
Apthorp
aka Apthorpe
Born about in England
Ancestors 
Son of East (Apthorpe) Apthorp
[uncertain]
and Susan Ward
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Grizzell (Eastwick) Apthorp
— married
13 Jan 1726 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Grizzel Apthorp, Charles Ward Apthorp, John Apthorp, James Apthorp, East Apthorp, Susan (Apthorp) Bulfinch, Henry Apthorp, Joseph Apthorp, Elizabeth (Apthorp) Bayard, Thomas Apthorp and William Apthorp
Died
at about age 60
in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
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Biography
Charles Apthorp was born in England in 1698, the son of John Apthorp and Susan Ward.[1][2] He received his education at Eton and came to New England after his father's death.[2][3]
On January 13, 1726, he married Grissilda (or "Grizel") Eastwick in Boston.[1][3][4] (alternately, he married Grizzell Eastwicke on that date in 1727 at King's Chapel[5]). Together they had eighteen children, fourteen of whom are believed to have reached adulthood.[2]
Apthorp became one of Colonial Boston's most prominent citizens. A very wealthy and successful merchant, he was also "paymaster and commissary under the British Government of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston."[3] Apthorp helped found King's Chapel, and "in his day he was called the richest man in Boston".[2] His shop was located on Merchant's Row in Boston, near Fanueil Hall and the Old State House.[5]
Apthorp held at least seven enslaved people, and he was actively involved in the slave trade as part of his merchant and business dealings.[5]
He "was one of the first Wardens of Trinity church", and was on the committee that constructed Fanueil Hall in Peter Fanueil's honor. He also gave £1000 to help rebuild King's Chapel.[3]
Charles Apthorp died on September 11, 1758.[1] It is said his death was very sudden. His funeral took place twelve days later at King's Chapel in Boston, where he is entombed.[3][6] His family later had a marble memorial installed in the chapel in his memory.[5]
At the time of his death, Apthorp owned all of Long Island in Boston Harbor. Calf Island was formerly known as Apthorp's Island. A mansion in Brighton, Massachusetts ("the Apthorp place") was still standing as of 1910.[3] The family also had a "country seat" in nearby Quincy. After Charles's death, Grizzel lived at "the site of the Central House, Brattle Square".[7]
Research Notes
- Need to find records of enslaved people held by Apthorp.
- Original Boston marriage record is in Vol. 1646, p. 145.[8]
- This may be Charles Apthorp's christening record.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (The Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., 1879) Vol. 16, Page 386.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bulfinch, E., ed. Life and letters of Charles Bulfinch, architect: with other family papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1896). p. 32-33.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 James Henry Stark. The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution. Salem Press. 1910. pp. 351–352.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-KM52 : 29 November 2018), Charles Apthorp and Grizel Easwick, 1726; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Jennifer Roesch and Faye Charpentier, King's Chapel History Blog, " Mourning and Memorializing a Colonial Anglican Family Member", Feb. 6, 2020.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/39061357/charles-warde-apthorp : accessed 22 June 2021), memorial page for Charles Warde “Caroli” Apthorp (1698–11 Nov 1758), Find A Grave: Memorial #39061357, citing Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Darlina Shaw (contributor 46596730).
- ↑ Samuel Adams Drake. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County. Estes and Lauriat (1879). p. 335.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-KM52 : 29 November 2018), Charles Apthorp and Grizel Easwick, 1726; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.
See also:
- Massachusetts Historical Society, Charles Ward Apthorp Papers.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Apthorp (1748) by Robert Feke.
- FamilySearch ID: M6HV-831.
- Geni.com Record for Charles Apthorp.
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