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A drawing of Fulton's invention Nautilus. Robert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1765.His father, Robert Fulton, married Mary Smith, daughter of Captain Joseph Smith and sister of Col. Lester Smith, [3] a comparatively well off family. [4]
The house in which Robert Fulton was born was probably built in the mid-18th century. He was born here in 1765, but the family moved soon thereafter to Lancaster. The house was reduced to rubble by a fire in 1822, and was completely rebuilt. It remained a private residence until it was acquired by the state in 1969.
The estate was established by Robert Livingston of the famous Livingston family following the death of his father, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, in 1728; while most of the manor was inherited by the eldest son Philip Livingston, 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) in the southwest corner, later named Clermont, was willed to Robert. The original house ...
His maternal grandfather, Robert Bayard, was Robert Fulton's partner. Cutting and Fulton were brothers-in-law who had married Livingston sisters. Cutting ancestors included members from the Stuyvesant, Bayard, Schuyler and Van Cortlandt families of colonial New York. [5] Cutting attended, studied law and graduated from Columbia College. [1]
Harriet Livingston was born on December 12, 1783, in the family home in Clermont, New York to Cornelia Schuyler and Walter Livingston. [2] Cornelia and Walter's great-grandparents, Alida Schuyler and Pieter Schuyler respectively, had been siblings – making Harriet's parents cousins.
Alexander Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Albert Gallatin, and Robert Fulton are buried in the downtown Trinity Churchyard. [1] The second Trinity parish burial ground is the St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard, which is also located in lower Manhattan (roughly 440 yards (400 m)), six blocks north of Trinity Church. It was ...
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Fulton was born September 26, 1882, to Robert and Margaret Alexina (Harrison) Fulton, a wealthy couple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] She was a niece of the painters T. Alexander Harrison and L. Birge Harrison. [3] [4] The Fulton family eventually moved to Santa Barbara, California. [2] [3]