The Family of John Clinton alias Fiennes, 7th Baron Clinton



by William Addams Reitwiesner

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Family of John Clinton alias Fiennes, 7th Baron Clinton
1 Elizabeth Morgan
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[WG2 Cyd. F. 14 (A1)].
m. ... , as his first wife,
John Clinton alias Fiennes, 7th Baron Clinton
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son of John Clinton, 6th Baron Clinton, and of Elizabeth Fiennes.
[NCP III:316]
Their issue includes:



Thomas Clinton alias Fiennes, 8th Baron Clinton [NCP III:317], who married Joan Poynings. Their issue includes:



Edward Clinton alias Fiennes, 1st Earl of Lincoln [NCP VII:690], who married (1) Elizabeth Blount and m. (2) Ursula Stourton. Issue by his first wife includes:
A.       Margaret Clinton m. Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham [NCP XII(2):703]
AA.       Sir Ambrose Willoughby m. Susanna Brooke
AAA.       Edward Willoughby m. Rebecca Draper
AAAA.       Henry Willoughby, bapt. 14 Nov. 1626 at Stewkley, Bucks, emigrated to Virginia around 1675, and d. at Hull's Creek, Rappahannock Co., Va., in Nov. 1685, having succeeded, de jure, as 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham on 9 Dec. 1679 [NCP XII(2):714].


The issue of the 1st Earl of Lincoln by his second wife includes:

B. Frances Clinton m. Giles Brydges 3 B Chandos [NCP III:126]
C. Henry Clinton alias Fiennes, 2nd Earl of Lincoln [NCP VII:693], who m. (1) Catherine Hastings and m. (2) Elizabeth Morison. By his first wife he had, among others:
CA. Thomas Clinton alias Fiennes, 3rd Earl of Lincoln [NCP VII:695], m. Elizabeth Knyvett
CAA. Lady Arbella Clinton Johnson
CAB. Lady Susan Clinton Humphrey, both emigrants to Massachusetts [AR 225:42; MCS 57:18].
Issue of the 2nd Earl of Lincoln by his second wife includes:
CB. Sir Henry Clinton alias Fiennes m. (2) Elizabeth Hickman
CBA. William Clinton alias Fiennes m. Elizabeth Kennedy
CBAA. James Clinton m. Elizabeth Smith
CBAAA.       Col. Charles Clinton, emigrant to New York [NYGBR LI:360-361; LXVI:330-335; LXXIX:227]. His descendants include his son George Clinton (governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S.) and grandson DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York).











SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS




AR -- Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Fifth Edition [Baltimore: Genealogical, 1976]. Numerals refer to lines and generations.

MCS -- Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, Third Edition [Baltimore: Genealogical, 1979]. Numerals refer to lines and generations.

NCP -- G. E. C. [George Edward Cokayne], The Complete Peerage, second edition [1910-1959]

NYGBR -- The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record










William Addams Reitwiesner


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