Susannah Livingston Symmes
(1748-1840)
BIRTH
1748
PLACE
NAME
Susannah Livingston
DEATH
1840
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Susanna French
(1723-1789)
CHILDREN
William Livingston
(1723-1790)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Susannah Livingston Symmes (1748–1840) was a daughter of New Jersey governor William Livingston and Susanna French. She married judge and land speculator John Cleves Symmes and joined his household at North Bend in the Northwest Territory, becoming stepmother to Anna Symmes, William Henry Harrison’s later wife. Her sister Sarah married John Jay. Sources give a 1780 or 1794 marriage. Her identity is secure; the marriage chronology remains qualified.
EARLY LIFE
Susannah Livingston was born in 1748, a daughter of William Livingston and Susannah French Livingston. She was a sister of Sarah Livingston Jay. The reviewed family material establishes those relationships, but no reliable account of her childhood or schooling was found.
Susannah Livingston married John Cleves Symmes in 1780 and appears in Livingston and Symmes family accounts. No reliable evidence of a separate occupation, professional career, or public office was found in the reviewed material. Her husband’s legal and land-development activities do not establish her own career.
CAREER
DEATH
Susannah Livingston Symmes died in 1840. Susannah Livingston Symmes was a daughter of New Jersey governor William Livingston and Susanna French. She married judge and land speculator John Cleves Symmes and joined his household at North Bend in the Northwest Territory, becoming stepmother to Anna Symmes, William Henry Harrison’s later wife. Her sister Sarah married John Jay. Sources give a 1780 or 1794 marriage. Her identity is secure; the marriage chronology remains qualified. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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