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He was born on 01 August 1718 at the Livingston Manor in Clermont, Columbia County, New York and his parents were Margaret (Howarden) and Robert R. Livingston, II of Clermont (1688-1775).
Robert Livingston married about 1734 to Margarita "Margaret" Beekman, daughter of Hendericus "Henry" Beeckman and Jannet Livingston, a second cousin to Robert R. Livingston. Margaret was an heir to immense tracts of land in Dutchess and Ulster counties in New York.
Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) was a prominent politician, and a leading Whig in New York in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
He was known as "Judge Livingston" to distinguish him from his eponymous father and other prominent Livingstons.
He was a member of the New York Provincial Assembly from 1759 to 1768.
He served as judge of the admiralty court from 1760 to 1763 and as justice of the colonial supreme court in 1763.
He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, and, in 1775, a member of the Committee of One Hundred, which briefly governed New York City.
He died on 09 Dec 1775 at his estate in Clermont, New York. [1]
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