James CLINTON

Birth:
9 Aug 1736
Windsor, Orange, New York
Death:
22 Dec 1812
Little Britain, Orange, New York
Burial:
Brooklyn, New York
Marriage:
18 Feb 1765
Neponach, Orange, New York
Notes:
                   Nancy Taylor has 1733 as year of birth.
Carol has between 1733-1736.
LDS has August 2, 1737 as date of birth.
Nancy Taylor: place of birth Little Britain, Ulster, New York according to the NY Geneological and Biographical Record, Surrogate's Office of Kingston, New York.
Olde Ulster 1905 has place of birth as Little Britain, year of 1736
Sarah Paget: 9/20/1736.
DePuy: August 9, 1733 in Ulster (became Orange) County, New York.
Lineage of Clinton Family: place of birth as Little Britain, New York.
RootsWeb: 1733.

Old Ulster 1905 has place of death as Little Britain, Ulster, New York.

Montgomery: Little Britain, Orange, New York.

Old Ulster 1905 has rank as Brigadier-General during Revolutionary War and promoted to Major General at the end of the war.

An officer during the French and Indian War for the British. A Major General of the American Army during the American Revolution.
Dawn Wilson: Major General at the close of the Revolutionary War.
DePuy: Soldier in American Revolution, Captain - French and Indian War, Lieutenant-Colonel, brigade received the surrendered British colors at Yorktown, VA.

DePuy: May 1775.
Mary DEWITT
Birth:
5 Sep 1737
Kingston, Ulster, New York
Chr:
9 Oct 1737
Kingston, Ulster, New York
Death:
12 Sep 1795
Little Britain, Orange, New York
Notes:
                   LDS has date as October 9, 1737
Montgomery: Neponach, New York.

DePuy: WFT Est. 1769-1831.
Children
Marriage
1
Alexander CLINTON
Birth:
1765
Death:
1787
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Drowned in his early twenties. (22) Old Ulster 1905

American Army during the Revolution, Lieutenant Lamb's Regiment of Artillery.
2
Charles CLINTON
Birth:
18 Feb 1767
Little Britain, Orange, New York
Death:
20 Apr 1829
New York City, New York, New York
Elizabeth MULLINER (MOLYNEAUX) 
Marr:
1790
Little Britain, Orange, New Yo 
3
DeWitt CLINTON
Birth:
2 Mar 1769
Napanock, Ulster, New York
Death:
11 Feb 1828
Little Britain, Ulster, New York
Notes:
                   Between 1797 and 1828 he held every major elective office in New York: assemblyman,
senator, major of New York City, lieutenant governor, governor.
He was a philanthropist and patron of the arts and science, and as canal commissioner championed construction of the Erie and Champlain canals.

DePuy: WFT Est. 1754-1780.
Museum of History: Little Britain, New Windsor, Orange County, New York.

LDS has Albany, New York as place of death.
Biography: Albany, New York.
DePuy: WFT Est. 1760-1861.
Musuem of History: Albany, New York.

Carol has burial place as Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

In this time of political decline came the crowning achievement of Clinton's life: the building of the Erie Canal which joined the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, the greatest engineering project of the day.

Admitted to bar: 1788.
4
George CLINTON
Birth:
6 Jun 1771
Death:
1809
5
Mary CLINTON
Birth:
20 Jul 1773
Death:
1806
Notes:
                   Montgomery: 1808.
6
Elizabeth CLINTON
Birth:
15 Jan 1776
Death:
1832
7
Katherine CLINTON
Birth:
24 Sep 1778
Death:
1837
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James Clinton - Mary DeWitt

James Clinton was born at Windsor, Orange, New York 9 Aug 1736. His parents were Charles Clinton and Elizabeth Denniston.

He married Mary DeWitt 18 Feb 1765 at Neponach, Orange, New York . Mary DeWitt was born at Kingston, Ulster, New York 5 Sep 1737 daughter of Egbert B. DeWitt and Mary Nottingham .

They were the parents of 7 children:
Alexander Clinton born 1765.
Charles Clinton born 18 Feb 1767.
DeWitt Clinton born 2 Mar 1769.
George Clinton born 6 Jun 1771.
Mary Clinton born 20 Jul 1773.
Elizabeth Clinton born 15 Jan 1776.
Katherine Clinton born 24 Sep 1778.

James Clinton died 22 Dec 1812 at Little Britain, Orange, New York .

Mary DeWitt died 12 Sep 1795 at Little Britain, Orange, New York .