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Robert Livingston the Elder (13 December 1654 – 1728) was a Scottish-born merchant and government official in the Province of New York. He was granted a patent to 160,000 acres (650 km 2 / 250 sq mi) of land along the Hudson River, becoming the first lord of Livingston Manor.
26 apr 2022 · Robert Livingston the Elder (December 13, 1654 – October 1, 1728) was a New York colonial official, and first lord of Livingston Manor. He married Alida Schuyler (widow of Nicholas Van Rensselaer) in 1679. He was the father of nine children, including Philip, Robert and Gilbert.
- Scotland
- December 13, 1654
- Margarita Schuyler, Alida Livingston
- October 1, 1728
Robert Livingston (born Dec. 13, 1654, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scot.—died Oct. 1, 1728, Clermont, N.Y. [U.S.]) was an early American landowner, politician, and merchant who founded the prominent Livingston family of New York state and laid the basis of his family’s material fortune.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In june 1673, Robert Livingston, an ambitious young Scot of nineteen, stepped ashore at Charlestown, Massachusetts, to seek his fortune and find a new home. His choice of destination had probably been influenced by his father, the Reverend John Livingstone, who had twice sought to emigrate to the Puritan Commonwealth.
Although never elected to local office, the first American Robert Livingston probably was the most important person to live in colonial Albany. Born in Scotland in 1654, the fourteenth child of John Livingston and Janet Fleming, he followed his father, a refugee Calvinist minister, to the Netherlands in 1663.
5 nov 2022 · Robert Livingston 1654-1728 and the politics of colonial New York. by. Lawrence H. Leder. Publication date. 1961. Publisher. The University of North Carolina Press. Collection.
Robert Livingston, 1654-1728, and the politics of colonial New York by Leder, Lawrence H., author
