#9345, John APTHORP

John went to England and became connected in business with the house of Tomlinson & Trecothick. he married Alicia Mann of Windsor, sister of Sir Horace Mann, many years resident British Minister in Florence. John embarked for Italy with his wife who was in a very hazardous state of health, and who died in Gibraltar, leaving their two daughters under the care of their grandmother in Windsor.

He pursued his travels in Italy, and afterwards returned to Boston, where he married Hannah Greenleaf, born 1744 and died 1773, daughter of Stephen Greenleaf, the last Royal High Sheriff of Suffolk County. He lived about 4 years in Brighton when he embarked, with his wife, from New York for Charleston, SC, to enjoy a warmer winter climate, and they were lost at sea.

The children, one son and two daughters, were left under the care of their grandfather who attended most faithfully to their interests and education. One daughter married Charles Bulfinch and the other Charles Vaughn, son of Samuel Vaughn Esq of London. The son, Col. John T Apthorp married Grace Foster, who lived only one year, leaving an infant. In another year he married her twin sister Mary by whom he had a large family. (Source: John Attfield)