Katherine Seaman
(1775-1859)
BIRTH
1775
PLACE
DEATH
September 19, 1859
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Edmund Seaman
(1745-1828)
HUSBAND
Brockholst Livingston
(1757-1823)
CHILDREN
Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright
(1804-1874)
CHILDREN
Catherine Louisa Livingston
(1815–1890?)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Katherine Seaman was the daughter of Edmund Seaman and Hester Van Ranst. She married Captain John Kortright in New York in 1793, then Supreme Court justice Henry Brockholst Livingston in 1812 after Kortright’s death. Children from her first marriage included Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright; she also had children with Livingston. A compiled family genealogy distinguishes her from Livingston’s two earlier wives. Her precise birth and death dates need further confirmation.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Katherine Seaman’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 Katherine Seaman 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. Katherine Seaman died on Sep 19, 1859. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Katherine Seaman died on Sep 19, 1859. Katherine Seaman was the daughter of Edmund Seaman and Hester Van Ranst. She married Captain John Kortright in New York in 1793, then Supreme Court justice Henry Brockholst Livingston in 1812 after Kortright’s death. Children from her first marriage included Nicholas Gouverneur Kortright; she also had children with Livingston. A compiled family genealogy distinguishes her from Livingston’s two earlier wives. Her precise birth and death dates need further confirmation. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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