John Player Crosby (1785 - 1806)

Born 15 Jan 1785 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Feb 1806 at age 21 in Kingston, Jamaica

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Biography

"John Player Crosby, the elder of the two, was graduated at Columbia College in 1802. At the age of about twenty-one he went to the island of Jamaica to take possession of an estate worth $40,000, which had been left to him by his god-father, John Player, a resident planter and a cousin through the Bedlows. While in Jamaica John was attacked by a fever ending in hasty consumption, of which he died. He left the Jamaica property to his brother William, but the estate was eventually confiscated upon the ground that an alien could not take it. A cocoanut bowl mounted in silver is all that remains of this property; it is now in my possession. There is extant a portrait of John Player Crosby — a little boy playing on a drum — belonging to Henry Ashton Crosby.” ^[1]

Birth and Family

John Player Crosby was born on 15 Jan 1785, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States. He was the son of Ebenezer Crosby and Catharine (Bedlow) Crosby. He was christened on 11 Feb 1785 in Trinity Church Parish, New York, New York, New York, United States.^[2]

Siblings

1. William Bedlow Crosby b. 1786; d. 1865.

2. Henry Rutgers Crosby, b. 1787; d. 1788.

Death and Burial

John Player Crosby passed away on 05 Feb 1806, in Kingston, Jamaica. ^[3].^[4]

Note

His father, Ebenezer Crosby, died in 1788, and his mother, Catharine Bedlow Crosby, passed in 1789. John Player Crosby was raised by Henry Rutgers.

Sources

1. ↑ Crosby, Ernest Howard, The Crosby Family of New York; A brief account of the ancestry and descendants of William Bedlow Crosby, of New York, and of Harriet Ashton Clarkson, his wife (Reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record for October, 1898; January, April, and July 1899), pages 11-14.
2. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2HD-WHW : 20 January 2020), John Player Crosby, 1785.
3. ↑ "At Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 5, John Player Crosby of this city, 21." Source: New York Evening Post, Monday, 31 March 1806.
4. ↑ “Crosby, John Player, late of this city, died at Kingston, Jamaica, on Feb. 5th, of a lingering illness.” Source: New York Weekly Museum, 5 April 1806.

See also:

• New York Genealogical....
• Memorial contains a biography. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181104374/john-player-crosby: accessed 13 June 2023), memorial page for John Player Crosby (15 Jan 1785–5 Feb 1806), Find A Grave: Memorial #181104374; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by steve s (contributor 47126287).