Susanna Aspinwall

1790 - 1853  (62 years)

• Name	Susanna Aspinwall
  Birth	17 Jul 1790	Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Mar 1853	Brooklyn, Kings, New York   [1]
  Burial	Walnut Street Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I34858	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Lewis Tappan,   b. 23 May 1788, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 21 Jun 1873, Brooklyn, Kings, New York (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	7 Sep 1813  [2]
  Family ID	F20490	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  She was a daughter of William Aspinwall (1743-1823), medical doctor in Brookline, Massachusetts and pioneer of inoculation. His portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart and passed into the possession of his son-in-law Lewis Tappan; when pro-slavery rioters destroyed Tappan's New Haven summer home in 1831, they mistook it for a portrait of George Washington and the painting was spared. (Interestingly, Walter Lincoln Burrage's biographical sketch of Aspinwall in the 1920 American Medical Biographies ed. Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage, calls the people who destroyed Tappan's home "antislavery rioters", which is the exact opposite of the truth, and entirely typical of American historical scholarship of the time, in which pre-Civil-War abolitionists were consistently portrayed as violent maniacs.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S5651] Find a Grave page for Susannah Aspinwall Tappan. [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915.