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John Alsop

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JOHN ALSOP



Continental Congress Delegate




	    __Richard Alsop1
	   |
       __John Alsop1
      |    |
      |    |     __John Underhill4
      |    |    |
      |    |__Hannah Underhill1,4
      |         |
      |         |     __Robert Feake4
      |         |    |
      |         |__Elizabeth Feake4
      |              |
      |              |__Elizabeth Fones4
      |
JOHN ALSOP1
      |
      |     __Joseph Sackett2
      |    |
      |__Abigail Sackett1,2
	   |
	   |     __Richard Betts2,3
	   |    |
	   |__Elizabeth Betts2
		|
		|__Joanna Chamberlain3



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Biography of JOHN ALSOP

 
ALSOP, John, a Delegate from New York; born in New Windsor, Orange County, N.Y., in 1724; completed preparatory studies; moved to New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits and importing; represented New York City in the colonial legislature; one of the incorporators of the New York Hospital, serving as its governor 1770-1784; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; member of a committee of one hundred appointed in 1775 by the citizens of the city to take charge of the government until a convention could be assembled; served as the eighth president of the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1784 and 1785; died in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., November 22, 1794; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Riker, James, Jr. The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York.
       New York:  D. Fanshaw, 1852.  334-336.
   2.  Ibid., p. 344-345.
   3.  Fiske, Jane Fletcher, F.A.S.G., "A New England Immigrant Kinship
       Network," The American Genealogist, 73 (1997):  285-300.
   4.  McCracken, George E., "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial
       America," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 86 (1955):
       132-138, 209-221; 87 (1956):  28-30, 104-110.

 

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