COLONEL 1st CORPS CADETS MA TREASURER REC-GENERAL APTHORP AUTOGRAPH SIGNED 1815!

Description

Here’s an 1815 Document Signed by
JOHN TRECOTHICK APTHORP
(1769 – 1849)
LT. COLONEL OF THE FIRST CORPS OF CADETS
IN MASSACHUSETTS IN THE EARLY 1800s,
11
th
TREASURER and RECEIVER-GENERAL OF MASSACHUSETTS 1812-1817,
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS HOUSE COLLECTOR AT BOSTON
HARVARD-EDUCATED BANKER – PRESIDENT OF THE BANK OF BOSTON and PRESIDENT OF THE SUFFOLK INSURANCE COMPANY.
The
First Corps of Cadets
of Massachusetts formed in 1741. Its motto is Monstrat Viam - "It Points the Way." While it has served in several wars, the sub-unit's primary contribution to Massachusetts and to the United States was as an officer-producing institution for new regiments from the Revolutionary War through World War II.
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HERE’S AN OFFICIAL WAR OF 1812 ERA “
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, TREASURY-OFFICE
” DOCUMENT SIGNED BY APTHORP - A TAX RECEIPT TO CHARLES WHEELER OF LINCOLN, MA FOR , EXECUTED AS THE COMMONWEALTH’S TREASURER,
1p
., DATED JUNE 2O
th
1815.
ON THE VERSO IS WRITTEN A PATRIOTIC VERSE (LIKELY IN THE HAND OF CHARLES WHEELER THAT READS:
“The Soldiers and Patriots, who on the glorious morn of the Revolution at Lexington first kindled the torch of Liberty – God grant that their lives may be forlonged[?] to the very utmost verge of Subluminary enjoyment.
Provenance
: This is the last of an archive of Lexington, Massachusetts documents, many that were signed by Revolutionary War Patriots who faced the British soldiers.
Wheeler was born in 1773 and died in 1848.
The document measures 5” x 4” and is on very fine condition for its advanced age.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN T. APTHORP
First Corps of Cadets Distinctive Unit Insignia
John Trecothick Apthorp
(December 24, 1769 – April 8, 1849) was a banker, Lieutenant Colonel of the
First Corps of Cadets (Massachusetts)
, 11
th
Treasurer of Massachusetts,
and grandson of
Charles Apthorp
.
He became President of the Suffolk
Insurance Company
and Bank Boston, before becoming the
Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts
1812-1817.
Early life
He was born on December 24, 1769 to John Apthorp of Boston and London and his second wife, Hannah Greenleaf, who perished at sea while sailing to Charleston,
South Carolina
. He and his two sisters, Frances Western and Hannah were raised by their maternal grandfather Stephen Greenleaf, the last Royal high sheriff of Suffolk County. He graduated from Harvard University in 1792 and Harvard Law School in 1796. He also had two half-sisters from his father's first marriage to Alicia Mann.
Personal life
He first married Grace Foster, the daughter of William Foster and Grace Spear. She died leaving one child. Next, he married her twin sister Mary Spear. They had nine children. His sister Frances Western married
Charles Vaughn
, son of
Samuel Vaughan
. His sister Hannah married
Charles Bulfinch
. His sister in-law Sally Foster married
Harrison Gray Otis
.
William Foster Apthorp
is his grandson, his nephews were
Thomas Bulfinch
and
Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch
.
Works most widely held in WorldCat libraries
Letter, 1815 Feb 11, to John T. Apthorp
One edition was published in 1815 in English and held by one library. George Cabot, chairman of a committee appointed to respond to Apthorp, treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wrote in connection to a business transaction between the Commonwealth and the bank. Letter transmits five
documents
to Apthorp that the committee deemed necessary for him to examine.
Documents
Numerous indenture documents have survived, including 1791-1822, between Francis Bertody and Charles Bulfinch, Charles Bulfinch and Lucy Watson, and Charles Bulfinch and Benjamin M. Watson ( mixd )
Conveyance of property on Cambridge Street, Boston from Bertody to Bulfinch, 1791 May 5.
Conveyance of same property from Bulfinch to Lucy Watson, 1807 Dec. 29
(on verso) conveyance from Lucy Watson to Benjamin Marston Watson, 1812 July 3.
Agreement of payment that Bulfinch stands bound and obliged unto Lucy Watson for the sum of four thousand dollars to be paid on or before 1808 Dec. 29 (dated 1807 Dec. 29).
Letter, 1822 Nov. 5 by Bulfinch, Washington, D.C. to Benj. M. Watson discharging "the mortgage formerly given by me, upon the house and land in Cambridge Street--to Jno. Apthorp, B. Joy, I.P. Davis and George Storer."
Papers, 1817-1841
Most
items
relate to his duties as collector, U.S. Customs House, Boston.
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