Mary Livingston Duane
(1738-1821)
BIRTH
October 29, 1738
PLACE
Albany, New York
DEATH
May 6, 1821
PLACE
Duanesburg, New York, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Robert Livingston
(1708-1790)
MOTHER
Adelia Duane Pell
(18th Century-1860)
HUSBAND
James Duane
(1733-1797)
CHILDREN
Sarah Duane
(1775-1828)
CHILDREN
James Chatham Duane (elder)
(c. 1770-1842)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Polly
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Livingston Duane (1738–1821) was a daughter of Robert Livingston, lord of Livingston Manor, and wife of James Duane. They married in 1759 and raised a family that included James Chatham, Adelia and Maria. Her husband represented New York in Congress and became its first postwar city mayor. Their later home was at Duanesburg, where he founded Christ Church. Mary and James are buried beneath that church, preserving a direct link to the family’s residence.
EARLY LIFE
Mary Livingston was born on Oct 29, 1738 in Albany, New York. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Mary Livingston with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Mary Livingston died on May 6, 1821. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Livingston died on May 6, 1821, in Duanesburg, New York, U.S. Mary Livingston Duane was a daughter of Robert Livingston, lord of Livingston Manor, and wife of James Duane. They married in 1759 and raised a family that included James Chatham, Adelia and Maria. Her husband represented New York in Congress and became its first postwar city mayor. Their later home was at Duanesburg, where he founded Christ Church. Mary and James are buried beneath that church, preserving a direct link to the family’s residence. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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