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Cornelia Tappen

The New Netherland Ancestors of

CORNELIA TAPPEN, the wife of

GEORGE CLINTON



- for George Clinton

Continental Congress Delegate, Governor, State Assembly, United States County Namesake, Vice President





		 __Jeuriaen Teuniszen Tappen2
		|
	    __Christoffel Tappen2,3
	   |    |
	   |    |     __Christopher Davids2,7
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Ariaentje Davids2
	   |         |
	   |         |     __Andries de Vos7
	   |         |    |
	   |         |__Cornelia de Vos2,7
	   |              |
	   |              |__Margritie (__)7
	   |
       __Petrus Tappen2,3
      |    |
      |    |     __Rev. Petrus Vas2
      |    |    |
      |    |__Cornelia Vas2,3
      |         |
      |         |__(__)2
      |
CORNELIA TAPPEN2
the wife of GEORGE CLINTON
      |
      |               __Cornelis Wynkoop6
      |              |
      |          __Evert Wynkoop5
      |         |    |
      |         |    |__Maria Janse Landgendyck6
      |         |
      |     __Cornelis Evertse Wynkoop2
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Jacobus Elmendorf5,8
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Geertie Elmendorf5
      |    |         |
      |    |         |     __Aert Jacobszen Van Wagenen8
      |    |         |    |
      |    |         |__Grietje Van Wagenen5,8
      |    |              |
      |    |              |__Annetje Gerrits8
      |    |
      |__Tjaatjen Wynkoop2,3
	   |
	   |          __Matthys Janszen Van Keulen9
	   |         |
	   |     __Matthys Matthyszen Van Keuren4,9
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Margriet Hendricks9
	   |    |
	   |__Barbara Matthyse Van Keuren2,4,9
		|
		|     __Tjerck Claeszen De Witt1,4,9
		|    |
		|__Taatje De Witt4,9
		     |
		     |     __Andries Luycaszen1
		     |    |
		     |__Barbara Andriessen1,4
			  |
			  |__Jannetje Sebyns1



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Biography of GEORGE CLINTON

 
GEORGE CLINTON, was born in 1739 in New York. He was admitted to the bar at the age of sixteen. He participated in 1758 in a military expedition against Fort Frontenac, and ten years later he became a member of the New York State Assembly. In 1775-1776 Clinton was a delegate from New York to the Second Continental Congress. Clinton was appointed in 1775 brigadier-general of militia, a rank which Congress confirmed in March 1777. In the same year Clinton became governor of New York, a position he held continuously until 1795. Although opposed to the proposed Federal Constitution because he believed in states rights, Clinton, as governor, presided at the state convention that ratified the document. Increasing opposition from the Federalists caused Clinton to decline to stand in 1795 for reelection, but a Republican victory in 1800 returned Clinton to the State Assembly and in 1801 to the office of governor.

Although Clinton had publicly opposed adoption of the Constitution, he was soon reconciled to the new government. During President Washington's residence in New York, New York in 1789 and 1790, the first president, Lady Washington, Governor Clinton and his wife enjoyed friendly social occasions. Clinton received a handful of votes for the vice-presidency in the elections held in 1789, 1793, and 1797, but not until 1804 did Clinton win the office to succeed Aaron Burr, vice-president during Jefferson's first term as president. George Clinton was sixty-nine when he was reelected to serve as vice-president during President Madison's first term. The weary vice-president found presiding for three hours over the Senate to be fatiguing; his mental faculties became impaired, and he died in office in Washington, D.C. on 12 April 1812.

Dunlap, Leslie W. Our Vice-Presidents and Second Ladies. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1988. 24-26.
 


 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Koenig, Dorothy A., "Replies to Queries," New Netherland Connections, 1
       (1996):  35.
   2.  Lewis D. Cook, "Jeurian Teunissen Tappen of Albany and of Kingston, New
       York, and His Descendants." The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 97 (1966):  65-74.
   3.  Wynkoop, Richard, Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America.
       New York:  The Knickerbocker Press, 1904.  113.
   4.  Ibid., p. 28.
   5.  Ibid., p. 18-20.
   6.  Ibid., p. 9-15.
   7.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  466.
   8.  Ibid., p. 1683.
   9.  Ibid., p. 1602.

 

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