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Excerpt from Tribute to the Memory of De Witt Clinton, Late Governor of the State of New-York: Being a Comprehensive Sketch of His Life, Together With the Proceedings of the New-York Legislature, and of Various Corporate and Public Bodies: Also, the Notices of His Death From the Most Distinguished Journals on the United States
DE ivitt clinton, the illustrious subject of this brief biography, who was the third son of General James Clinton, was born in the year 1769, at the family residence, in Orange county, in the state of new-york. After attending to the first rudiments of education, he entered a grammar school, taught by the Rev. John Moffat, a presbyterian clergyman, from which he was transferred in 1782, to a distinguished academy at Kingston conducted by Mr. John Addi son. During the revolutionary war, few good semi naries for education existed, and the reputation of this necessarily drew to it most of the young men of the state of new-york, who were then engaged in their course of studies. In this academy Mr. Clinton remained nearly two years, pursuing the usual rou tine of academical education. After the war, in 1784, he entered the junior class of Columbia College, hav ing been examined in the presence of the regents of the University; and being the first student who e ed that seminary after the conclusion of peace.
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