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 Clinton,
JAMES, military officer; born in Ulster (now Orange)
county, New York, August 9,
1736; son of Charles Clinton; was well educated, but he had a strong
inclination for military life. Before the beginning of the
Revolutionary War he was lieutenant-colonel of the militia of Ulster
county. He was a captain under Bradstreet in the capture of Fort
Frontenac in 1758; and he afterwards was placed in command of four
regiments for the protection of the frontiers of Ulster and Orange
counties—a position of difficulty and danger. When the war for
independence broke out, he was appointed colonel of the 3d New York
Regiment (June 30, 1775), and accompanied Montgomery to
Quebec. Made a
brigadier-general in August, 1776, he was active in the service; and
was in command of Fort
Clinton, in the Hudson Highlands, when it was attacked in
October, 1777. In 1779 he joined
Sullivan's expedition
against the Senecas with 1,500 men. He was stationed at Albany
during a great part of the war; but he was present at the surrender
of Cornwallis.
General Clinton was a commissioner to adjust the boundary-line
between New York and
Pennsylvania; and was a member of both the Assembly and Senate
of the State of New York. He died in Little Britain, N. Y., |
