Third husband of Elizabeth "Betsy" Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole. Betsy learned that her second husband, Joseph Ashburn, died while imprisoned by the British at the Old Mill from John Claypoole, a friend of the couple who was also imprisoned there. Betsy and John married, May of 1783, at Christ Church. Betsy convinced John to abandon his seafaring life. He worked in her upholstery business and then at the U.S. Customs House in Philadelphia. The couple had five daughters (Clarissa Sidney, Susannah, Rachel, Jane, and Harriet, who died at nine months). Shortly after the birth of their second child, they moved to a larger home on Second Street in what was then Philadelphia's Mercantile District. John died, 3-Aug-1817, Betsy never remarried.
John is a second cousin, seven times removed, of mine.
John is a second cousin, seven times removed, of mine.
Third husband of Elizabeth "Betsy" Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole. Betsy learned that her second husband, Joseph Ashburn, died while imprisoned by the British at the Old Mill from John Claypoole, a friend of the couple who was also imprisoned there. Betsy and John married, May of 1783, at Christ Church. Betsy convinced John to abandon his seafaring life. He worked in her upholstery business and then at the U.S. Customs House in Philadelphia. The couple had five daughters (Clarissa Sidney, Susannah, Rachel, Jane, and Harriet, who died at nine months). Shortly after the birth of their second child, they moved to a larger home on Second Street in what was then Philadelphia's Mercantile District. John died, 3-Aug-1817, Betsy never remarried.
John is a second cousin, seven times removed, of mine.
John is a second cousin, seven times removed, of mine.
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