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James Clinton
James Clinton | |
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 1861 sketch of Clinton | |
| Born | August 9, 1736 |
| Died | September 22, 1812 (aged 76) Little Britain, New York, United States |
| Spouses | Mary DeWitt
(m. 1765; died 1795)
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| Children | 13, including DeWitt, George, James |
| Parent(s) | Col. Charles Clinton Elizabeth Denniston |
| Relatives | George Clinton (brother) William W Clinton (great-grandfather) James Clinton (grandfather) George W. Clinton (grandson) Ambrose Spencer (son-in-law) |
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Major-General James Clinton (August 9, 1736 – September 22, 1812) was a Continental Army officer and politician who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
During the war he, along with John Sullivan, led the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the British-allied Iroquois. The Americans destroyed 40 villages as well as their winter stores of wheat and other produce. This forced 5,000 Iroquois to flee to British controlled Fort Niagara and caused the deaths of several hundred Iroquois during the harsh winter of 1779–1780.[1][2] He subsequently obtained the rank of brevet major general.[3]
After leaving the army, Clinton was a founding member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati and served as an assemblyman in the New York State legislature and later as a New York State Senator from 1788 to 1792.
- ^ Taylor, Alan (2007). The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-7707-6.
- ^ Calloway, Colin G. (1995). The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521471494.
- ^ Moore, Charles B., "Introductory Sketch to the History of the Clinton Family", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, (Richard Henry Greene at al, eds.), New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1880
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