Records of William Cliffton on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Cliffton and the Cliffton Family Tree

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Some Famous People called William Cliffton

William Cliffton

William Cliffton (1771 – December 1799) was a Philadelphian poet and pamphleteer. He is the only identified member of the Anchor Club. He is considered part of the "transitive state" of American poetry.

Born the son of a wealthy Quaker, Cliffton suffered form a blood clot at the age of nineteen, and from then until his death, aged twenty-seven, pursued an almost exclusively literary life, though he took an interest in field sports.

Cliffton was a supporter of William Cobbett. He died in December 1799 from consumption.

Source: William Cliffton, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Cliffton

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