Schuyler Livingston
(1772-1809)
BIRTH
September 24, 1772
PLACE
DEATH
July 8, 1809
PLACE
FAMILY
BROTHER
Henry W. Livingston
(1768-1810)
BROTHER
Robert L. Livingston
(1775-1843)
SISTER
Harriet Livingston Fulton
(1783-1826)
SISTER
Gertrude Livingston Cutting
(c. 1776–1864)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Peter Schuyler Livingston (1772–1809), later known as Schuyler Livingston, was a son of Walter Livingston and Cornelia Schuyler. He earned a Columbia degree in 1788, then spent his senior year at Yale at his father’s request. In 1796 he married Eliza Barclay, daughter of Loyalist officer Thomas Barclay, from her aunt’s Westchester home. The couple lived chiefly in Harlem, where he died at thirty-six. He should be distinguished from their son Schuyler, born in 1804.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Schuyler 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 Schuyler 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
Schuyler Livingston died on Jul 8, 1809. Peter Schuyler Livingston, later known as Schuyler Livingston, was a son of Walter Livingston and Cornelia Schuyler. He earned a Columbia degree in 1788, then spent his senior year at Yale at his father’s request. In 1796 he married Eliza Barclay, daughter of Loyalist officer Thomas Barclay, from her aunt’s Westchester home. The couple lived chiefly in Harlem, where he died at thirty-six. He should be distinguished from their son Schuyler, born in 1804. 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.
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