Walter Livingston
BIRTH
Nov 27, 1740
Clermont, New York
DEATH
May 14, 1797
New York City, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Robert Livingston
(1708-1790)
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Livingston, Walter
(1740-1797)
Walter Livingston was a New York Patriot official who served in the Provincial Congress and managed military stores and provisions early in the Revolution. He later became the first speaker of the New York State Assembly and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
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WIFE
Cornelia Schuyler
(1746-1822)
Gertrude Livingston Cutting
Robert L Livingston
(1775-1843)
Henry W. Livingston
(1768-1810)
Harriet Livingston Fulton
(1783-1826)
Schuyler Livingston
(1772-1809)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Trinity Church | 89 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 | PARK |
DIED:
New York City, New York
May 14, 1797
Walter Livingston was born on Nov 27, 1740 in Clermont, New York. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Walter Livingston with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Walter Livingston died on May 14, 1797 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.