Charles Clinton

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CHARLES Clinton, second son of Gen. James and Mary (De Witt) Clinton and elder brother of Governor De Witt Clinton, was born in Little Britain, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1767; died in New York City April 20, 1829. He studied law and was admitted to practice. He became also an excellent surveyor, and spent more of his time in that profession, which he preferred, than at the bar. He settled at Newburgh, and held various positions of trust in the village and town. He was elected to the Legislature in 1802. On the death of Alexander, his eldest brother, he became the successor to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. In 1790 he married Elizabeth, only daughter of William Mulliner. of Little Britain, and Mary (Denniston), his wife. She was born April 27. 1770; died August 15, 1865, in New York City, and was buried in_ Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. Her mother was a daughter of Alexander Denniston. whose sister Elizabeth married the first Charles Clinton, the American ancestor. The name Mulliner was originally Norman—French, and probably Molinieux. They had issue: Maria (married Robert Gourlay, Jr.), Alexander, Ann Eliza, who married James Foster, Jr.

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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 13-14
edited by Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Harold Minot Pitman, Louis Effingham De Forest, Arthur S. Maynard, Conklin Mann

Ill, 2. CHARLES Clinton, second son of General James, born in Little Britain, February 18, 1767, died in New York City, April 20, 1829, in his sixty-second year.

In 1790 he married Elizabeth, only daughter of William Mulliner, of Little Britain, and Mary (Denniston), his wife. She was born in Little Britain, April 27, 1770, and died in New York City at the residence of her then only son (IV. 2) on August 15, 1865, in her ninety-sixth year, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Her mother was a daughter of Alexander Denniston, whose sister Elizabeth married the first Charles Clinton (ante, vol. i3, pp. 5, 10). Her father was a son of Peter Mulliner (as the name was spelled in Ulster Co.), the younger son of a family of good standing, whose elder brother inheriting the paternal soil by English law, he came to America in 1710 attached to the stafi‘ of Gov. Hunter, and when the latter returned to England or went to Jamaica, he remained and settled in Ulster County. The family by repute was originally Nonnan French, and the name probably Molineux (Wott. Bart., v. 1., x41), pronounced Mulliner. Issue:

IV. 1. MARIA, b. March 26, 1791, who mar. Rob. Gourlay, Jr.

2. ALEXANDER, b. April 7, 1793, M.D., who married Adeline Arden, dau. of Alexander James Hamilton, had seven children, and died at New York City, Feb. 16, 1878, aged eightyfour.

3. ANN ‘ELIZA, b. April, 1795, who mar. Jas. Foster, Jr.

This Charles Clinton studied law, and was admitted to practice. He became also an excellent surveyor; and spent more of his time in that profession, which he preferred, than at the bar. He settled at Newburg, and was employed in various positions of trust in that village, now city, and in the town of Newburg, In 1802 he was a member of the Legislature.‘