Editing DeWitt Clinton (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Dewitt Clinton G-W front jeh.jpg|thumb|Clinton Memorial by [[Henry Kirke Brown]], 1855, at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]], Brooklyn, New York]]
Clinton was married twice. On February 13, 1796, he married Maria Franklin, daughter of the prominent New York [[Quaker]] merchant Walter Franklin and descendant of [[John Bowne]] and [[Elizabeth Fones]]. With her, he had ten children, and four sons and three daughters had survived at the time of her death in 1818. Among his children with Franklin was [[George William Clinton]], who served as [[List of mayors of Buffalo, New York|mayor of Buffalo, New York]] from 1842 to 1843.

On May 8, 1819, Clinton married Catharine Jones, the daughter of a New York physician, Thomas Jones and his wife, Margaret (née [[Livingston family|Livingston]]) Jones (a daughter of [[Edward Livingston]]). Catharine's sister, Mary (née Jones) Gelston, was the wife of Deacon Maltby Gelston of [[Southampton, New York|Southampton]], and the mother of [[David Gelston]], [[Collector of the Port of New York]]. Catharine outlived her husband.<ref name="Dwight1874">{{cite book |last1=Dwight |first1=Benjamin Woodbridge |title=The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass |date=1874 |publisher=J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders |page=1067 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghcfAAAAMAAJ |access-date=28 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1813, Clinton became a hereditary member of the New York [[Society of the Cincinnati]] in succession to his brother, Lieutenant Alexander Clinton, who was an original member of the society.<ref name="Schuyler1886">{{cite book |last1=Schuyler |first1=John |title=Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati: Formed by the Officers of the American Army of the Revolution, 1783, with Extracts, from the Proceedings of Its General Meetings and from the Transactions of the New York State Society |date=1886 |publisher=Society |page=177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5YLAAAAIAAJ |access-date=28 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In that same year, he was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1814&year-max=1814&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-02|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

When Clinton died suddenly of heart failure in [[Albany, New York|Albany]] on February 11, 1828, he left his family in poor financial condition. While he was a fine administrator in government, he had handled his own financial affairs rather poorly. As a result, the Clinton family was badly in debt and had no means of support after the governor's death. One creditor alone put in a claim for $6,000. Fearing that he might not get his money, the creditor obtained a judgment that resulted in a public sale of most of the Clinton family possessions. Enough money was realized from the sale of the property to satisfy the judgment, but nothing was left to help the Clinton family through the difficult years ahead. The governor received the grandest of state funerals, but when it was all over, the family had no place to bury him. His widow was completely without funds to purchase a suitable grave site. As a result, Clinton's remains were placed in the family vault of Dr. Samuel Stringer (1735–1817), an old friend and fellow Mason from Albany, in the old Swan Street Cemetery.

Sixteen years later, enough money was collected to provide a suitable burial. On June 21, 1844, a newspaper in Albany printed this small announcement: "The remains of DeWitt Clinton, which had been deposited in the cemetery in Swan Street, were removed to New York for interment under a monument created by the family." Clinton was reinterred at the [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York.