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Author: Alsop, Richard

Biography:

ALSOP, Richard (1761-1815: ANBO)

One of the “Hartford wits,” he was born in Middletown CT, the eldest son of Richard and Mary (Wright) Alsop. He attended Yale in 1777 but left without a degree. In 1786, at Middletown, he married Mary Wyllys Pomeroy, with whom he had three children. Alsop was independently wealthy and was best known as a satirist and translator. He died suddenly on a visit to relatives in Flatbush, Long Island, in 1815; on 13 July 1821 his widow married Samuel W. Dana, a US Senator, at Boston MA. Alsop's long poem The Charms of Fancy was published posthumously in 1856. (ANBO 29 Aug. 2017; Kettell; ancestry.com 7 Aug. 2025) HJ

 

Books written (5):

Aristocracy. An Epic Poem.

Philadelphia: for the editor, 1795

The Political Green-house, for the Year 1798. Addressed to the Readers of the Connecticut Courant, January 1st, 1799.

Hartford [CT]: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, [1799]

A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, Late President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States. Adapted to the 22d of Feb. 1800.

Hartford [CT]: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1800

The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana. From the Orlando Inamorato . . ..

New York: Isaac Riley, 1806

The Echo.

[New York]: printed at the Porcupine Press, [1807]