Edmond Charles (Genêt) Genet (1763 - 1834)

Born 8 Jan 1763 in Versailles, Île-de-France, France

Ancestors

Husband of Cornelia Tappan (Clinton) Genet — married 6 Nov 1794 in New York, New York, USA

Husband of Martha Brandon (Osgood) Genet — married 30 Jul 1814 in New York, New York, USA

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1834 at age 71 in East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, United States of America

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Edmond Charles Genêt, known by the sobriquet "Citizen Genêt," was the first French ambassador to the United States of America.

Edmond Charles Genêt was born on 8 January 1763 in Versailles, France. He was the youngest child and only son of Edmé Jacques Genêt, first clerk in the ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anne-Marie-Louise Cardon. Among his sisters were:

• Henriette, Madame Campan, lady-in-waiting of Queen Marie-Antoinette, educator, and later headmistress of the first "Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur"
• Adélaïde, Madame Auguié, mother of Aglaé Auguié, Maréchale Ney
• Julie-Françoise, wife of Augustin Rousseau, fencing master

Young Edmond showed and extraordinary talent for learning languages and at 18 was appointed court translator. In 1788 he was sent to the French embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1792 he returned to France, having been dismissed by Catherine the Great. He was then appointed to the post of minister to the United States by the Girondists.

His behavior in the United States led to the Citizen Genêt affair^[1].

In 1794 the Jacobinists rose to power; they asked Genêt to come back to France. Knowing that he would be sent to the guillotine, Genêt asked George Washington for asylum. Washington reluctantly agreed.

On 29 June 1794, Edmond Charles Genêt married Cornelia Clinton, daughter of New York governor George Clinton in New York. They had a son, Henry, born 1800.

Cornelia died in 1810, and on July 30, 1814, Genêt married Martha Brandon Osgood, daughter of Samuel Osgood, the United States' first Postmaster General, at Bloomingdale Church in New York City.^[2] They had several children:

1. Henrietta Campan, born 19 May 1815^[3]
2. Edmund Charles, born 12 November 1816^[4]
3. Samuel Osgood, born 20 May 1819^[5]
4. George Clinton (1824-9 May 1904)^[6].

Edmond Genêt died on 14 July 1834 in his farm, Prospect Hill, in East Greenbush, New York.

Sources

1. ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Edmond Charles Genêt.
2. ↑ Martha Brandon Osgood in the U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 Source Citation The Archives of the Reformed Church in America; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Bloomingdale Church, Records, Consistory, 1805-1913 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
3. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDYQ-D4Q : 12 December 2014), Edmund Charles Genet in entry for Henrietta Campaw Genet, 19 May 1815; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 534,203.
4. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDYQ-6HB : 12 December 2014), Edmund Charles Genet in entry for Edmund Charles Genet, 12 Nov 1816; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 534,203.
5. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDYQ-XYG : 12 December 2014), Edmund Charles Genet in entry for Samuel Osgood Genet, 20 May 1819; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 534,203.
6. ↑ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WXK-HF3 : 20 March 2015), Edmond E. Genet in entry for George Clinton Genet, 09 May 1904; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,051.

• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2X-4YB : accessed 30 December 2017), Edmond C Genet, Greenbush, Rensselaer, New York, United States; citing p. 457, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 35; FHL microfilm 181,389.
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPD-HQX : 29 July 2017), Edmund C Genet, Greenbush, Rensselaer, New York, United States; citing 224, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 105; FHL microfilm 17,165.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 December 2017), memorial page for Edmond-Charles Genet (8 janv, 1763–14 juil, 1834), Find A Grave: Memorial #23891453, citing East Greenbush Cemetery, East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
• Wikipedia: Edmond Charles Genêt