[2][1] In May 1729, Charles, his wife Elizabeth, with two daughters and one son, chartered a ship from Dublin called the George and Anne and sailed for Philadelphia with a group of neighbors and friends from County Longford intending to settle in Pennsylvania.

In October 1729, they arrived at Cape Cod, and after paying a large ransom for their lives, the survivors were allowed to disembark.

Possessed of a well selected library, and endowed with extraordinary talents, he made continual accessions to his store of useful knowledge.

[4]His first appointment was that of a Justice of the peace; he was afterwards promoted to the station of a Judge of the Common Pleas for the county of Ulster.

Together, they had seven children:[5] Clinton died on his farm on 19 November 1773 at the age of 83, just before the revolution in which his sons would play a part.