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Portrait of Maria Franklin Clinton
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Maria Franklin Clinton
Other Name:
Maria Franklin
Gender:
Female
Born:
November 21, 1775
Died:
July 30, 1818
Home Town:
NY
Marriage(s):
Dewitt Clinton (February 13, 1796)
Biographical Notes:
Maria Franklin was the daughter of Quaker merchant, Walter Franklin and Mary Browne of Flushing. She was very beautiful and inherently wealthy. She married DeWitt Clinton in a small ceremony in 1796. Maria gave DeWitt ten children before she died shortly after the birth of their youngest daughter.
Quotes:
Dewitt Clinton wrote in his diary, "She retired to another and better world with characteristic fortitude, leaving an immedicabile vulnus in my heart, which will be felt with the continuance of life."
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- George William Clinton
Son
LLS (1828) - Dewitt Clinton
Husband - Walter Franklin
Father - Mary Browne
Mother
Related Objects and Documents
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Secondary Sources:
Cornog, Evan. The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 138. Print.
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