14 Facts About John Alsop

John Alsop's father was a lawyer in New Windsor and later New York City, where he was largely interested in real estate.

John Alsop's parents married in 1718 and were the parents of four children, including his younger brother, Richard Alsop.

John Alsop's great-grandparents were Captain John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake, who was the daughter of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones, a descendant of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

John Alsop was elected by New York County to serve in the Province of New York Assembly.

John Alsop was one of the civic leaders that incorporated the New York Hospital Association and served as its first governor from 1770 to 1784.

John Alsop was active in recruiting militia and in efforts to equip and arm them.

John Alsop favored reconciliation with Great Britain and so resigned as a delegate to the Congress rather than sign the Declaration of Independence.

John Alsop began the year at Philadelphia, in a session of Congress.

John Alsop made several trips between there and New York, acting as an agent of Congress through his business to acquire supplies, and particularly powder for the Continental Army.

John Alsop added efforts to find housing for 8,000 Continental Army troops to his earlier and continuing work on the supply problems.

John Alsop escaped to Middletown, Connecticut, and remained there until the British occupation ended in 1783.

John Alsop was president of New York City's Chamber of Commerce in 1784 and 1785.

John Alsop's nephew, Richard Alsop, was an author who wrote the National and Civil History of Chili, in two volumes, and was one of The Hartford Wits, known as the Connecticut Wits, who were a group of American writers centered around Yale University and flourished in the 1780s and 1790s.

In 1800, John Alsop wrote a monody, in heroic verse, on the death of Washington.