Robert Livingston
(1708-1790)
BIRTH
December 16, 1708
PLACE
Albany, Province of New York
DEATH
November 27, 1790
PLACE
FAMILY
WIFE
Margaret Beekman
(1724-1800)
CHILDREN
Mary Livingston Duane
(1738-1821)
CHILDREN
Walter Livingston
(1740-1797)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Robert Livingston (1708–1790) was the third and last lord of Livingston Manor, a New York landowner, merchant and assemblyman. He inherited the manor from his father Philip in 1749 and developed mills and ironworks alongside farming and commerce. Married to Maria Thong, he was Mary Livingston Duane and Walter Livingston’s father. The master’s Margaret Beekman link belongs to another Livingston household. His career is distinct from Chancellor Robert R. Livingston’s.
EARLY LIFE
Robert Livingston was born on or about an uncertain date in a place not securely identified in the surviving record. The names of the parents are not yet securely established in this database. The surviving evidence represented in this record does not always preserve the details of childhood schooling, household routine, religious instruction, apprenticeship, or youthful travel.
No distinct public profession or office for Robert Livingston is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Robert Livingston was the third and last lord of Livingston Manor, a New York landowner, merchant and assemblyman. Livingston died on November 27, 1790, at the age of eighty-one. He broke the family tradition of leaving the estate to his eldest son and shared Livingston Manor among his five sons and his son-in-law James Duane. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Clermont Livingston vault, St. Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church, 39 Woods Road, Tivoli, NY 12583, United States
GRAVE
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