James Livingston (1674)

Born 28 Feb 1674 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, , Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Roos — married 1702 in , , , Netherlands

Descendants

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Biography

Edinburgh parish baptism record for James Feb. 28 1675 gives dob of Feb. 22 and lists parents as William Livingston and Anna Veitch (official ScotlandsPeople OPR ref. 685/1 70 508). Image attached.

James and brother Andrew were officers in the Darien expedition. The Livingstons of Livingston Manor; Edwin Brockholst Livingston; Knickerbocker Press; 1910, p. 52.

Uncle James, in letter to uncle Robert Apr. 1 1700, says Andrew held captive in Carthagina in Colombia (https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/glc0310700539)

Possible account of Andrew’s capture:

https://archive.org/details/disasterofdarien0000hart/page/89/mode/1up

His son’s unpublished ‘autobiography’ says James was in Scotland at a ‘desk job’ during the Darien scheme and moved to Rotterdam later to be a bookbinder.

It is noteworthy that James does not appear in a list of the Company’s administrative ‘establishment’ as of Nov. 1696 that includes even very low-level employees (Darien Papers p. 30).

His grandfather John was exiled to Rotterdam in 1663 and died there in 1672.

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Sources

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• Darien Papers (1849)

Acknowledgments

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