Alsop, Richard

1761 - Richard Alsop was born in Middletown, Connecticut on the 23rd of January.

1791 - He wrote "The Echo" which is a Federalist verse satire.

1799 - He wrote a popular verse satire that gains a great deal of attention for its Federalist attack on Thomas Jefferson entitled The Political Greenhouse.

1800 - He wrote "A Poem, Sacred to the Memory of George Washington", dedicated to Martha Washington.

1815 - He died in Flatbush, Long Island on the 20th of August.