Susanna French
(1723-1789)
BIRTH
June 19, 1723
PLACE
New Brunswick, New Jersey
DEATH
July 17, 1789
PLACE
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
FAMILY
HUSBAND
William Livingston
(1723-1790)
CHILDREN
Susannah Livingston Symmes
(1748-1840)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Susanna French Livingston (1723–1789) was the wife of William Livingston, New Jersey’s first state governor. Originally from New Brunswick, she moved with him and their children from New York to Liberty Hall in 1774. Their household included enslaved people whose labor supported the house and farm. Her daughter Sarah married John Jay, while her son Henry Brockholst became a Supreme Court justice. Family papers preserve letters addressed to Susanna.
EARLY LIFE
Susanna French was born on Jun 19, 1723 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 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 Susanna French 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. Susanna French died on Jul 17, 1789 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Susanna French died on Jul 17, 1789, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Susanna French Livingston was the wife of William Livingston, New Jersey’s first state governor. Originally from New Brunswick, she moved with him and their children from New York to Liberty Hall in 1774. Their household included enslaved people whose labor supported the house and farm. Her daughter Sarah married John Jay, while her son Henry Brockholst became a Supreme Court justice. Family papers preserve letters addressed to Susanna. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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