Mary Stevens
(1752-1814)
BIRTH
1752
PLACE
DEATH
March 23, 1814
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
John Stevens
(1716-1792)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Stevens Livingston
(1780-1829)
HUSBAND
Robert R. Livingston
(1746-1813)
CHILDREN
Margaret Maria Livingston
(1783-1818)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Polly
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Stevens Livingston was the wife of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, whom she married in 1770, and mother of Elizabeth and Margaret. Their Hudson Valley home was burned by British troops in 1777. She later shared his Philadelphia household while he directed foreign affairs for Congress, receiving French officials and other guests. Her father John Stevens and inventor brother John linked her to another influential New Jersey family.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Stevens’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 Mary Stevens 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. Mary Stevens died on Mar 23, 1814. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Stevens died on Mar 23, 1814. Mary Stevens Livingston was the wife of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, whom she married in 1770, and mother of Elizabeth and Margaret. Their Hudson Valley home was burned by British troops in 1777. She later shared his Philadelphia household while he directed foreign affairs for Congress, receiving French officials and other guests. Her father John Stevens and inventor brother John linked her to another influential New Jersey family. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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