Gertrude Livingston
(1757-1833)
BIRTH
1757
PLACE
DEATH
1833
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Morgan Lewis
(1754-1844)
HOMES
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Gertrude Livingston Lewis (1757–1833) was the daughter of Judge Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman and sister of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. She married officer Morgan Lewis in 1779. They established Staatsburgh on the Hudson River in 1792; their original home survives within the later mansion. Morgan became governor of New York, and their daughter Margaret married Maturin Livingston. Descendants occupied the estate into the twentieth century.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Gertrude Livingston’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Gertrude Livingston is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Gertrude Livingston died in 1833. Gertrude Livingston Lewis was the daughter of Judge Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman and sister of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. She married officer Morgan Lewis in 1779. They established Staatsburgh on the Hudson River in 1792; their original home survives within the later mansion. Morgan became governor of New York, and their daughter Margaret married Maturin Livingston. Descendants occupied the estate into the twentieth century. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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