Mary Alsop King was born on October 17, 1769.   Her father John Alsop was a prominent New York citizen.   He was a prosperous merchant and served as a delegate to the first two Continental Congresses.   When her mother Mary Frogat Alsop died at the age of twenty-eight, little Mary, an only child, was just three years old.  Her father never remarried.   On March 30, 1786, Mary married Rufus King.   She gave birth to seven children, John Alsop (1788-1867), Charles (1789 - 1867), Caroline (1790 - 1793), James Gore (1791 - 1853), Henry (b & d 1792), Edward (1795 - 1836), and Frederick (1802 - 1829).  Mary died on June 5, 1819, not yet fifty years old, and is buried in the Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Jamaica, New York.